Volume
62
Issue
4
DOI
10.34068/joe.62.04.16
Abstract
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.
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Recommended Citation
Willbur, J., & Burns, E. (2024). Potato University: An Interactive Framework to Engage and Educate Industry Stakeholders in Potato-Related Research. The Journal of Extension, 62(4), Article 16. https://doi.org/10.34068/joe.62.04.16
