Articles
RESTRUCTURING A PLANT PROPAGATION COURSE FOR DISTANCE EDUCATION
Article number
641_14
Pages
111 – 117
Language
English
Abstract
The development of strategies to reach students who are place-bound due to their job, families, or community responsibilities is an important opportunity for land-grant colleges.
University of Florida (UF) currently has 13 satellite programs where various undergraduate degrees in agriculture are offered.
The onset of interactive video has created an opportunity to merge the on site and off site classes into one united class and to improve the effectiveness of educational programming.
Although distance education has been around for many decades in different forms, UF is structuring a new concept of bringing the state-wide expertise of faculty and the diversity of students together via interactive videoconferencing and web-based technology.
University of Florida (UF) currently has 13 satellite programs where various undergraduate degrees in agriculture are offered.
The onset of interactive video has created an opportunity to merge the on site and off site classes into one united class and to improve the effectiveness of educational programming.
Although distance education has been around for many decades in different forms, UF is structuring a new concept of bringing the state-wide expertise of faculty and the diversity of students together via interactive videoconferencing and web-based technology.
Authors
S.B. Wilson, M. Thetford, W. Vendrame
Keywords
agricultural education, active learning, web-technology, interactive video conferencing
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