ISHS Acta Horticulturae 641: XXVI International Horticultural Congress: The Knowledge Business: Horticulture Education and Knowledge Transfer
RESTRUCTURING A PLANT PROPAGATION COURSE FOR DISTANCE EDUCATION |
| Authors: | S.B. Wilson, M. Thetford, W. Vendrame |
| Keywords: | agricultural education, active learning, web-technology, interactive video conferencing |
| 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. | |
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