Design outreach to address farmer preferred learning style

• Emphasize experiential learning and farmer knowledge

Individual 
The learning experience: Can be adapted to individual differences in learning strategies and approaches.
The learning experience: Relates to personal interests and provides for personal choice and control. (the learning experience is “learner centered”)
The learning experience: Enables the learner to link new knowledge to their existing knowledge in meaningful ways.

Class or Group 
The learning experience: Is based on and shaped by some form of needs assessment and use of a planning model (such as the logic model)
The learning experience: Values lifelong learning.

Citation: Grudens-Schuck, N. (2000). A qualitative study of the influence of farm leaders’ ideas on a sustainable agriculture education program. Paper presented at the 27th Annual National Agricultural Education Research Conference, San Diego, CA.
Citation Type: Research