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Looking To The Future ... Distance Education Issues In Nebraska, Nn21 Distance Education/Outreach Action Team
Looking To The Future ... Distance Education Issues In Nebraska, Nn21 Distance Education/Outreach Action Team
Nebraska Network 21: Publications
The Nebraska Network 21 (NN21) Action Team on Distance Education/Outreach has studied a variety of issues related to distance education in order to better serve the people of Nebraska. Distance education has grown rapidly in Nebraska, but is clearly in its infancy. Many important issues still are being identified and are far from understood. The possibilities of distance education are yet to be fully realized. But in a state with a small, spread-out population such as ours -- perhaps in any state -- it would seem that distance education holds great promise for making many forms of education accessible to …
Accomplishments As Of March 13, 2000; Nebraska Network 21, Nebraska Network 21
Accomplishments As Of March 13, 2000; Nebraska Network 21, Nebraska Network 21
Nebraska Network 21: Publications
This report is not all inclusive, but does contain several exemplars exemplars of accomplishments of Nebraska Network 21 to date. Virtually all of the accomplishments in this report are the result of partnerships and collaboration between and among Nebraska higher education institutions and their constituents. NN21 teams and projects are engaging higher education with the public in new and innovative ways. Exemplars described in this report are listed under four major themes: 1) Changing the Campus Culture / Redefining Scholarship and Faculty Rewards 2) Partnerships and Collaboration 3) Engagement and Public Involvement A. New Programs B. New Curricula C. New …
Nn 21 - Scholarship, Evaluation And Rewards Report, Nebraska Network 21
Nn 21 - Scholarship, Evaluation And Rewards Report, Nebraska Network 21
Nebraska Network 21: Publications
Action Team on Scholarship, Evaluation and Rewards: The Action Team on Scholarship, Evaluation and Rewards was a component of the Nebraska Network 21 project, one of 13 projects on the future role of higher education in American society funded by the W. K. Kellogg Foundation. Given its mission, the W. K. Kellogg Foundation focused its initiative on the land-grant mission of higher education and on food systems, broadly defined to range from the communities that produce the food to the communities that consume it. At the University of Nebraska-Lincoln (UNL), the NN21 project has been centered in the Institute of …
My Work And Welcome To It, Stephen Hillard
My Work And Welcome To It, Stephen Hillard
Nebraska Network 21: Publications
“I want to go to graduate school in English," said my student Peter, then blurted out, "and be a professor, like you." I bit my lip not to say something deflating--at the end of the semester I didn't feel my life should be anyone's goal. I knew that he pictured the life of a professor as reading interesting books, talking about them with enthusiastic students like himself, doing research one loves, and serving on a few committees. And being paid for doing this! I didn't warn Peter that the scholarly life he aspires to is seen as a scam by …
New Ag Sciences Magnet School, Valerie Egger
New Ag Sciences Magnet School, Valerie Egger
Nebraska Network 21: Publications
Soon, high school students in Mead, Nebraska will conduct experiments at the nearby 9,500-acre University of Nebraska Agricultural Research and Development Center (ARDC). Students will work directly with local agriculture businesses gaining experiences in applying agricultural techniques.
The agriculture program at Mead High School in Mead, Nebraska has been very successful in teaching agriculture production and agriculture leadership through FFA for many years. They have produced graduates that are highly successful in agriculture production and agribusiness. It is with this tradition in mind that the school reinvented their agriculture education program. The agriculture teachers for the M.E.A.D. program are Joe …
Nebraska Network 21 (Nn21) Visionary Food Systems Curricula Action Team, Lloyd C. Bell, Dick Fleming, Richard Katt
Nebraska Network 21 (Nn21) Visionary Food Systems Curricula Action Team, Lloyd C. Bell, Dick Fleming, Richard Katt
Nebraska Network 21: Publications
What started as two initiatives involving public and private entities in Nebraska has resulted in the development of the Governor’s Task Force on Agriculture and Natural Resources Education. Both initiatives were funded by grants from the W. K. Kellogg Foundation of Battle Creek, Michigan. One went to The Reinventing Agriculture Education for the Year 2020 Project which was coordinated by the Nebraska Department of Education. The other went to the Institute of Agriculture and Natural Resources at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln to establish the Nebraska Network21 (NN21), a group of people working together to creatively meet the learning needs of …