Location, Dates, Time: |
TBA |
Enrollment: |
Limited to 16 participants |
Audience: |
Cooperative Extension faculty and staff
and other interested parties
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Prerequisites: |
At least one year's experience with Cooperative Extension |
Time Commitment: |
Approximately 20 hours over a 2 1/2 month time period, enabling you to pursue in greater depth, adult learning content and resources. Designed for your convenience and learning, you'll participate with colleagues across the state without leaving your office. Work at your own pace, apply the concepts to your extension work through reading, journaling, viewing video resources and interacting via WisLine Web, WisLine and Desire2Learn (D2L).
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Description: |
To be an effective extension educator, it's critically important that our focus begins with adult learners. What do we know about them? How can we better facilitate their learning?
Through the use of distance learning technologies, including
WisLine Web, WisLine, the Desire2Learn web site and a custom-created
compact disk, participants and facilitator will interact
with each other and with a rich array of adult learning
resources, to enhance their ability to:
- Understand adult learners and adult learning
- Recognize different ways in which learning occurs
- Facilitate more meaningful learning
- Clarify their own beliefs and values as an adult learner and an adult educator
- Consider new ways of using technology to facilitate learning
Participants will select and explore in-depth, one of the following content areas of particular interest and relevance to them:
- Guidelines and principles related to adult learning
- Learner context and characteristics
- Multiple intelligences and learning styles
- Race, class, gender and learning
- Learning and the brain
- Self-directed learning
- Teaching from the heart
- Critical and reflective thinking
- Adult learner motivation
- Diversity and motivation
- Learning environments
Participants will also be engaged in assessing the effectiveness of the technologies and format used in this seminar, and the applications these technologies might have for their own teaching-learning needs. |
Advance Preparation for the session: |
Participants will be asked to:
- Clarify their learning goals for this seminar. What do they hope to learn?
- Prepare and email a PowerPoint slide about themselves, for getting acquainted with their colleagues
- Familiarize themselves with the advance-mailed materials, and consider which content area they might like to examine in detail
- Ensure that they have simultaneous access, in a quiet room, to an Internet-connected computer containing a CD drive, and a telephone with a speaker or headset, for the five course dates/times.
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Continuing Education Units: |
1.6 CEUs |
Travel and Program Costs: |
Costs for the compact disks, copyrighted
resources, telephone bridging and WisLine Web expenses
are assumed by the UWEX Program Development and Evaluation
Unit.
Participants are responsible for:
- Their long distance telephone charges for five 120
minute WisLine calls.
- Costs of two books (Learning in Adulthood by Sharan
Merriam and Rosemary Caffarella; and Teaching from the
Heart by Jerald Apps) totaling about $54. Participants
are responsible for ordering/purchasing their own copies.
- Costs
related to printing (i.e. paper) the learning resource
files from the compact disk and from the Desire2Learn
web site.
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| Registration Process: |
While there are no program charges for this program
for UW-Extension faculty and staff, the estimated value
of this session is
$100.00 per participant.
Advance registration is required for all professional workshops and courses presented by Program Development and Evaluation. Be sure to meet the registration deadlines noted in each course listing. There is no charge for these workshops for UW-Extension faculty and staff. Other attendees should contact pderegistration@uwex.edu for specific information. FUTURE WORKSHOP DATES (requires a UWEX NetID and password)
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| Questions:
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If you have questions about your UWEX NetId please contact the Central IT Service Center:
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| Cancellation Policy: |
If you are unable to attend the session, please cancel as soon as possible.
We may have a waiting list and your timely cancellation may make it possible for one of your colleagues
to attend the session. All cancellations should be directed to: Liz DeVos at 608-265-3232 or pde@registration@uwex.edu |
