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Tools For Managing Design And Development Of A Twenty-First Century Technology Base, James W. King, Richard Cornell
Tools For Managing Design And Development Of A Twenty-First Century Technology Base, James W. King, Richard Cornell
Department of Agricultural Leadership, Education, and Communication: Faculty Publications
This article describes what is involved in future projections for technology-based learning, and highlights the importance of the management of educational technologies. It looks at various organizational models, as well as models of personal vision.
Analysis Of Laboratory Management Competencies In Nebraska Agricultural Education Programs, Neal J. Schlautman, Thomas A. Silletto
Analysis Of Laboratory Management Competencies In Nebraska Agricultural Education Programs, Neal J. Schlautman, Thomas A. Silletto
Department of Agricultural Leadership, Education, and Communication: Faculty Publications
Laboratory learning has long been associated with the educational process. The use of school and community laboratories in which students “learn by doing” is an integral part of agricultural education programs (Sutphin, 1984). Effective scheduling and management of the agricultural mechanics laboratory is a must for carrying out an effective instructional program (Shinn, 1987; Bear & Hoemer, 1986). The ability to manage laboratory learning was rated as a highly important ability for agriculture teachers by first-year agriculture teachers (Barrick and Powell, 1986). Agriculture instructors must be prepared so they possess and practice laboratory management competencies in order to maximize the …
Deterrents To Female Enrollment In Secondary Agricultural Education Programs In Nebraska, Lloyd C. Bell, Susan Fritz
Deterrents To Female Enrollment In Secondary Agricultural Education Programs In Nebraska, Lloyd C. Bell, Susan Fritz
Department of Agricultural Leadership, Education, and Communication: Faculty Publications
“Scientific and professional expertise in the food and agricultural sciences is a national resource critical to the continuing security of this Nation.” This renewable resource, however, is being depleted by an annual employment shortfall of ten percent. Approximately 4000 employment opportunities go unfilled because of too few new college graduates with expertise in agriculture, natural resources, veterinary medicine, and closely aligned fields (Coulter, 1986). Students usually equate a career in agriculture with farming or ranching only, rather than with the science or business of agriculture which leads to a pervasively negative opinion of pursuing a career in agriculture (Orthel, Sorensen, …