Face to face meeting in Pretoria, January 2015

Objectives

Understanding by participants on the New Extensionist concept and implications for capacity
Get buy-in for the New Extensionist learning materials and competencies for the extension specialist
Validate New Extensionist learning material content for introductory module
Plan contributions to New Extensionist modules
Develop or validate brief on core competencies for extension professionals
Discuss methodology to identify gaps in capacity & research on extensionist perceptions of extension
Discuss proposal on MOOCS – massively open online curricula

Meeting Report (pdf 2.4pdf)

Working group guiding questions (ppt 50KB)

Working Group: Content of the Learning Kit (ppt 51KB)

Working Group: Advocacy (docx 16KB)

Working Group: Tasks (docx 14KB)

Timeline for next steps (ppt 28KB)

Presentations

Presentations

Introduction (ppt 1.87MB)

Agenda (docx 74KB)

The New Extensionist (ppt 735KB)

The New Extensionist Curriculum Development (ppt 993KB)

Learning Kit Outline (ppt 21KB)

Core Competencies Brief (ppt 61KB)

New Extensionist Module 1 (ppt 242KB)

Extensionists Competencies in Chile (ppt 1.3MB)

GFRAS MOOCs Proposal (docx 31KB)

MOOCs Proposal (ppt 126KB)

Research on Extensionist Concepts (ppt 97KB)

Ludemann Big 5 Presentation (ppt 2.4MB)

RAS Professionals Organisation in South Africa (ppt 280KB)

Other Resources

ADMI Course Cover (pdf 192KB)

Indonesia qualification system (pdf 3MB)

Developing a Sustainalbe Environment for Knowledge Management and the Importance of Leadership (ppt 972KB)

Learning Resources for the Assessment of Local Innovation (pdf 5MB)

Multimedia Tool Kit: Lesson 2: Map the KM-friendliness of your environment (docx 236KB)

Multimedia Tool Kit: Lesson 2: Analyse your KM culture (docx 358KB)

Multimedia Tool Kit: Lesson 2: Online Resources (docx 30KB)

Multimedia Tool Kit: Lesson 2: Trainer's notes (docx 39KB)

Links

A temporary home of a video documentation of the course at http://youtu.be/sRw58HETfwI (please do not share the above beyond the group)

The multimedia toolkit guide is available at: http://www.itrainonline.org/itrainonline/mmtk/

Furthermore, there is a good resource 'A MOOC on MOOCs' run by Commonwealth of Learning. The materials are still available until mid March 2015, so register and snoop around to learn about MOOCs.

http://www.mooconmooc.org/

AIAEE Professional Development Materials including webinars: https://www.aiaee.org/index.php/professional-development

A guide by FAO on the development of e-learning materials at

http://www.fao.org/docrep/015/i2516e/i2516e.pdf

A MOOC on MOOCs (you can register and access the course contents until March 2015)

http://www.mooconmooc.org/

The multimedia toolkit guide is available at:

http://www.itrainonline.org/itrainonline/mmtk/

Donald Clark Plan B: Employers see strong potential in MOOCs - new research:

http://donaldclarkplanb.blogspot.com/2014/11/employers-see-strong-potential-in-moocs.html?m=1

Collaborative MOOC 2.0: http://www.universityworldnews.com/article.php?story=20141105144147849

With all debates on pros and cons on MOOCs, this new study has some interesting findings. It shows that MOOC students learned just as much as MIT students who had taken a similar course on the campus! Enjoy the reading!

http://www.irrodl.org/index.php/irrodl/article/view/1902/3009