TECHNOLOGY FUTURING WORK AND RATIONALE
Dr. Jerold Thomas, Ohio State University Rose Hayden-Smith, PhD, Extension Foundation Education Technology Fellow
We are delighted to bring you Digital Technology in Extension Education. This publication originally appeared as a website. We are delighted to make it available in a flipping book forma. Extension Foundation publications provide a platform for aggregating content, tools, and engagement, and are available to all professionals in Cooperative Extension. The emergence of COVID-19 has required Cooperative Extension professionals to respond quickly to quickly changing needs. Many of us are working out of our homes and working hard to find ways to use technology to serve our communities. We are facing unprecedented challenges and we are learning. This publication provides timely content that we hope will help Cooperative Extension professionals consider the role of technology in our work, and perhaps increase our adoption of technology. The information in the publication provides both food for thought and practical information that will enable you to apply what you’ve learned and t o take action. This publication is closely connected to visioning work underway at the Extension Foundation. To help determine developing technologies that may impact Cooperative Extension through 2025, the Extension Foundation developed a futuring panel to explore future options. The panel was led by Ohio State University's Leadership Center's Extension Futuring Team. The project's goals were to:
Identify key emerging technologies that may impact Cooperative Extension; Provide a context about how they may impact Cooperative Extension; and Recommend policy and professional development options for Cooperative Extension.
The panel produced a report - the “ Extension Foundation Report on Emerging Technologies Impacting the Cooperative Extension System” - which was released in July 2021. The work was supported by funding from the New Technologies for Agricultural Extension (NTAE) project.
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