Project Narrative Summary
The NTAE project, under the leadership of Oklahoma State University, will continue to build upon the strengths and capacities of the Extension Foundation, including its experience providing technology tools for Cooperative Extension professionals and catalyzing professional development innovation in Year 4. NTAE funding allows OSU and its partners to advance the Strategic Goals and ECOP Program Priorities. Additionally, the NTAE project is designed to achieve the objectives of the New Technologies for Ag Extension initiative and to align with USDA FY22 Priorities which are: A. Addressing Climate Change via Climate Smart Agriculture & Forestry
B. Advancing Racial Justice, Equity and Opportunity C. Creating More and Better Market Opportunities D. Tackling Food and Nutrition Insecurity
Key Strategies: Technology Learning and Networking Platform NTAE Competitive and NIFA NTAE Preselected Projects
The key strategies for achieving project objectives and strategic goals include the following:
❖ Technology for CES : Partnering with Eduworks and North Carolina State University (NCSU) to enhance existing functionalities to increase the amount of content available and improve access to content. The most significant enhancement involves building Artificial Intelligence into Extension’s Ask Extension tool. The current version, Ask an Expert, is a searchable repository of more than 500,000 questions posed by the public and answers supplied by 2,600 Extension educators is now replaced by Ask Extension. In addition, image recognition capability for things like plants and insects will be available. A chatbot is being developed to increase the impact of human experts by directing users to answers for common questions in existing resources most applicable to their location, season, and conditions. ❖ National Program and Asset Registry: Another significant accomplishment is the National Registry of Cooperative Extension Programs and Assets launched to house searchable program information and resources such as presentations, information sheets and evaluation tools for CES. This tool was developed with a CDC/NIFA program called
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