Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: Byrnes2 Document Number: C12337
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Francis C. Byrnes Collection, Pages 336-339 in Borton, Raymond E. (ed.), Selected readings to accompany getting agriculture moving. Volume 1. Agricultural Development Council, New York, NY. 526 p.
Kerry J. Byrnes Collection, In-Service Training Institute Peradeniya, Sri Lanka 19 pages., This study reports the findings of a followup study of 20 of the 33 participants to the Fertilizer Marketing Course, held May 31 to June 10th at the In-Service Training Institute, Peradeniya, Sri Lanka. A primary objective of the course was to train the participants so that they, in turn, could develop training courses and materials for other fertilizer marketing personnel and farmers.
International: Institutional Development and Popular Participation Section, Social Development Division, Department of Economic and Social Affairs, United Nations, Rome, Italy.
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Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: Byrnes5 Document Number: C12459
4 pages., Via online journal., Interactive web-based questions were developed for students to review
subject matter learned in an online plant propagation course. Articulate Storyline
software was used to build nearly 250 review questions with five different testing
styles to ascertain proficiency in subject areas, including the biology of propagation,
the propagation environment, seed propagation, vegetative propagation, micropropagation, and cell culture. Questions were arranged to correspond to the
supporting textbook chapters in Hartmann and Kester’s Plant propagation: Principles and practices, ninth edition. These are open access and available to instructors
and students worldwide. Users received immediate feedback for each question
answered correctly or incorrectly. The system remembers where one leaves off,
which enables starting and stopping multiple times within a chapter. Means of preand posttest responses to nine content knowledge items showed that students
perceived a significant content knowledge gain in the course. These online interactive reviews can be adapted easily to other courses in a variety of fields,
including horticulture, botany, systematics, and biology. They can also be expanded
to overlay multiple objects and trigger events based on user response. Since inception,
the website hosting these online reviews averaged 156 unique visitors per month.
Students have reported this to be a useful tool to prepare them for course exams.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: D02432
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Page 56 - Abstract of a paper presented at the International Conference of the Australasia Pacific Extension Network (APEN), Lincoln University, Christchurch, New Zealand, August 26-28, 2013. 100 pages.
