ERIC Number: EJ1457447
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2024
Pages: 9
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Potato University: An Interactive Framework to Engage and Educate Industry Stakeholders in Potato-Related Research
Jaime Willbur; Erin Burns
Journal of Extension, v62 n4 Article 16 2024
Understanding how farmers prefer to learn is critical for the development and delivery of successful extension programming. Therefore, Michigan State University Extension specialists conducted an interactive hands-on demonstration workshop (Potato University) addressing pressing issues to Michigan potato production at the Michigan Winter Potato Conference. The new session format emphasized alternative, hands-on research presentation formats and promoted small group interactions between researchers and stakeholders. Overall, we developed an alternative framework to deliver information in a novel format by highlighting research activities in an approachable format for stakeholders that better aligned Extension teaching styles with the learning styles of the potato industry.
Descriptors: Stakeholders, Industry, Extension Education, State Universities, Experiential Learning, Preferences, Cognitive Style, Agricultural Occupations, Agricultural Production, Conferences (Gatherings), Small Group Instruction, Nontraditional Education, Teaching Styles, Research Utilization, Information Dissemination, Kinesthetic Methods
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive
Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Michigan
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