A Low-Cost Follow-Up Resource: Using the World Wide Web to Maximize Client Location Efforts

The land-grant system was founded on the principle that education and information make a critical difference in people's lives, and that the government plays an important role in providing education and information by funding teaching, research, and extension programs. This mission was interpreted previously as a charge to establish great educational institutions to provide a low-cost, quality education to everyone who applied, to place extension professionals within every county in the nation, and to build massive research centers to provide a continuous flow of new, science-based information to all at no charge. My thesis is that the World Wide Web and other emerging information technologies represent the only solution to the dilemma faced by the land-grant system for providing research-based, high-quality education and information to a growing clientele at a reasonable cost. Aggie Horticulture (http://aggie-horticulture.tamu.edu), a Web server that is modeled on the land-grant principle, will be used as an example of one approach to land-grant programs of the 21st century.

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Follow up of quality of public oriented health information on the world wide web: systematic re-evaluation

BMJ ◽

10.1136/bmj.324.7337.582 ◽

2002 ◽

Vol 324 (7337) ◽

pp. 582-583 ◽

Cited By ~ 44

Author(s):

C. Pandolfini

Keyword(s):

World Wide Web ◽

Health Information ◽

World Wide ◽

The World

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Conditional Branching in Computerized Self-Administered Questionnaires on the World Wide Web

Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Annual Meeting ◽

10.1177/154193120204601401 ◽

2002 ◽

Vol 46 (14) ◽

pp. 1241-1245 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Kent L. Norman ◽

Timothy Pleskac

Keyword(s):

World Wide Web ◽

World Wide ◽

Focus Of Attention ◽

Web Based ◽

The World ◽

Paper And Pencil

Conditional branching is used to direct respondents to skip inappropriate questions or to answer follow-up questions. When surveys are implemented on the World Wide Web, branching can be automated in different ways. Three implementations of conditional branching in Web-based surveys were compared: (a) a manual form which replicated the paper-and-pencil version in a scrollable window, (b) a semi-automatic form which also showed the whole survey but auto-scrolled to the next question, and (c) an automatic form that displayed only one item per screen and implemented all branching. The surveys used involved one, two, or three follow-up questions. The automatic item-by-item implementation proved significantly faster than either the manual or the auto-scrolling versions. Respondents found the auto-scrolling to be disorienting. These results suggest that automatic branching should be used but with graceful jumps that guide the respondents' focus of attention without loosing it.

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Trial Gardening in Cyberspace

HortScience ◽

10.21273/hortsci.30.4.903d ◽

1995 ◽

Vol 30 (4) ◽

pp. 903D-903

Author(s):

Robert D. Berghage ◽

Dennis J. Wolnick ◽

E. Jay Holcomb ◽

John E. Erwin

Keyword(s):

World Wide Web ◽

World Wide ◽

Low Cost ◽

The Internet ◽

Access To Information ◽

Variety Trial ◽

State College ◽

The World ◽

Server Software ◽

The One

The Internet offers many new and unique opportunities to disseminate information. The development of the World Wide Web (WWW) and information browsers like Netscap, Mosaic, and simple-to-use server software like MacHTTP provides means to allow low-cost access to information, including pictures and graphics previously unavailable to most people. The Pennsylvania State Univ. variety trial garden annually tests >1000 plants. Information is gathered on garden and pack performance, and photos of superior plants and varieties are taken. To provide wider access to this information, we have begun development of a Cyberspace trial garden on the internet. This server contains a wide variety of garden trial information developed from trials conducted in State College and Dauphin, Pa.. This server and a similar effort at Univ. of Minnesota are being constructed cooperatively. Hot links are provided between the server in Pennsylvania and the one in Minnesota, providing users with seamless access to information from both servers.

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Selecting Software and Services for Web-Based Teaching and Learning

Web-Based Learning and Teaching Technologies ◽

10.4018/978-1-878289-60-5.ch004 ◽

2000 ◽

pp. 43-59 ◽

Cited By ~ 7

Author(s):

Jane Klobas ◽

Stefano Renzi

Keyword(s):

World Wide Web ◽

Learning Strategies ◽

Teaching And Learning ◽

World Wide ◽

Low Cost ◽

Collaborative Work ◽

Rate Of Change ◽

Web Based ◽

The World ◽

Teaching Learning

As the World Wide Web has developed to be a widespread and reliable communication medium, a wide range of software and services has emerged to support teaching, learning, and collaborative work. These new software and services provide opportunities for supporting and enhancing teaching and learning strategies and practices. There are already many different types of software and services with many providers in each broad category; yet, given the rapid rate of change of the WWW, the specific nature of the software and services, the providers, and perhaps even the categories themselves, will change over time. One issue that teachers face in this new and rapidly changing environment is the choice of software and services to support their teaching and learning activities. Our goal in this chapter is to develop a model and guide for teachers who want to select software and services that support or enhance learning, and in particular collaborative learning, through the World Wide Web. We are concerned here, not with products and services that require significant investment in time, money, or technical resources, but with simple and low cost software and services that might be used in practice by teachers to support ‘every day’ teaching and learning, whether at school or on campus or by distance learning.

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Integrating the World Wide Web into Existing Extension and Educational Technology

HortTechnology ◽

10.21273/horttech.8.3.313 ◽

1998 ◽

Vol 8 (3) ◽

pp. 313-315 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

R. Daniel Lineberger

Keyword(s):

World Wide Web ◽

World Wide ◽

Low Cost ◽

Web Technology ◽

Appropriate Technology ◽

Land Grant ◽

Undergraduate Instruction ◽

The World ◽

American Society ◽

User Friendly

Studies by academic, extension, and private foundation think tanks have reaffirmed the land-grant philosophy as an important component of American society in the twenty-first century. Successful land-grant systems will have more closely integrated educational, research, and extension programs characterized as more accessible, affordable, and accountable than current models. The World Wide Web (Web) will play a key role in this transformation. Web technology is evolving rapidly, necessitating continuous and rapid adaptation by information providers (Lineberger, 1996a, 1996b; Rhodus and Hoskins, 1996). The availability of low-cost, user-friendly Web access through home TVs promises to upset the existing paradigms of extension information delivery through county offices and undergraduate instruction exclusively in the campus classroom. Some land-grant professionals have adopted Web technology as a tool to deliver educational programs and coursework; however, most have not, citing as justification the very steep learning curve and time involved in formatting materials for electronic delivery. We have emphasized the need for lifelong learning to our clientele and students; we must heed our own advice. Faculty must develop the ability to integrate appropriate technology into their own programs, since it is clear that land-grant systems of the future will not provide them with the support personnel to do it for them.

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