McCaslin, N.L. (author / Ohio State University) and Najjingo-Kasujja, Margaret (author / Makerere University, Uganda)
Format:
Proceedings
Publication Date:
1991-03-28
Published:
Uganda: Association for International Agricultural and Extension Education
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 132 Document Number: C19955
Notes:
Burton Swanson Collection, from "Proceedings seventh annual meeting of the assocation for international agricultural and extension education"Riverfront Holiday Inn, St. Louis, Missouri, March 28-30, 1991
10 pages, Extension faculty are tasked with developing and communicating educational programs to local clientele, and communication skills are a considerable piece of the Extension faculty job. Thus, UF/IFAS Extension included a communication portion to the on-board training for newly hired Extension faculty to develop their design skills so they can more effectively communicate through their educational and marketing materials. We used Rogers’ (2003) innovation-decision process to assess Florida early career Extension faculty’s adoption of design principles after completion of the 2019 UF/IFAS Extension Faculty Development Academy. Thirty-two Extension faculty completed the spring and fall sessions of the Academy. A mixed methods approach was utilized to gather survey data at the immediate completion of the Academy and qualitative, telephone interview data four to five months after completing the Academy. The faculty retrospectively perceived they increased their knowledge about design principles. They had an overwhelmingly positive attitude about learning design principles to better their communication efforts, but they decided not to fully adopt design principles in their work as other information and elements of learning their job took precedent.
Ghana: Association for International Agricultural and Extension Education
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 132 Document Number: C19952
Notes:
Burton Swanson Collection, from "Proceedings seventh annual meeting of the assocation for international agricultural and extension education"Riverfront Holiday Inn, St. Louis, Missouri, March 28-30, 1991
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: D09980
Notes:
From Agricultural Communications Program files, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign., Report of a 10-day workshop for JVASP extension agents - conducted by a team of extension communicators and educators from Washington State University, University of Illinois, and the University of Jordan. Purpose: help Jordan extension agents strengthen their competencies to work with farmers in the knowledge transfer process.
USA: Federal Extension Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Washington, D.C.
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: D08919
Notes:
Pages 3-4 in Lucinda Crile, Review of Extension Studies - January to June 1950, Extension Service Circular 470, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Washington, D.C. July 1950. Summary of findings from a M.S. thesis, University of Wisconsin, Madison. 1949. 123 pages., Effective use of the "various media and tools of communication..., perhaps, is the area of our present training program that needs most strengthening."
