ADEC Development Grant Awards
Feeding Young Children in Group Settings
Erik Anderson, Laurel Branen, and Janice Fletcher
University of Idaho
The multi-mode distance education course focuses on feeding young
children in group setting. This proposed course expands on an
Ag*Sat sponsored satellite-delivered course (Feeding Young
Children in Group Settings) that was offered live in 1994, to
include Web-based instruction. The potential audience for the
course is childcare providers, early childhood educators, Head
Start teachers, dietitians, WIC educators, and undergraduate
nutrition and child development majors. This course will be
accessible to students at the time and place of their choosing.
This course encourages students to study feeding children in
group settings using an integration of food safety, nutrition,
and child development theory, research, and practice.
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Master Gardener Botany Training
Bob Rost and Ann Marie VanDerZanden
Oregon State University
In Oregon, the Extension Service Master Gardener training program
is enjoying more success than it can handle. For the past
several years the number of learners desiring to take the
training has exceeded the number of places in the traditional
classrooms where the training has been delivered. Making the
training available via distance delivery (video teleconference
and the World Wide Web) will dramatically increase learner access
to the program and (in the case of Web delivery) provide the
instruction to learners free of time and place constraints. The
Oregon State University Extension Service intends to redesign the
Master Gardener training course for distance delivery. The first
instructional component developed will be the basic botany
portion of the training course. An added benefit of delivering
this information to learners via the World Wide Web is the access
that Extension Service Master Gardener training programs in other
state will have, along with the millions of casual learners
surfing the Web for general interest information about home
gardening.
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NutriSyst
John Lea-Cox and Ellen Varley
University of Maryland, College Park
NutriSyst will be a Web-based instructional system that will
integrate up-to-date course material in nutrient management
strategies for growers in the Green' Industry and students in
Nursery crop production and Greenhouse management. The Green'
Industry overs such diverse professions as field, container and
greenhouse growers, landscape contractors, landscape architects
and master gardeners. The nutrient management legislation
recently passed by the State of Maryland mandates the training of
Certified Nutrient Management Consultants who will write nutrient
management plans for nurseries, and the training of growers who
apply nutrients to operations with more than 10 acres. Many
nurseries utilize a number of complex cultural (growing) systems.
The program delivery system will be modular in design and will
consist of three knowledge-based asynchronous learning resources
(ALRs), which will be integrated into problem-based case studies.
This course will be delivered on the World Wide Web using Web CT
courseware and will be fully time and place independent.
The ultimate goal of this course will be to enable growers to
adopt and implement practices to reduce nutrient runoff from
nurseries into the Chesapeake Bay system.
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ADEC Development Grant Awards
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