ISU Distance Education News

Behind the scenes with Flora, Lawrence, Wolt, and Hurd

This month’s Asynchronous Learning Academy (ALA) features faculty sharing their experiences teaching at a distance. ALA is an informal group of College of Agriculture faculty and staff who meet to learn about and discuss distance education.

The meeting is noon to 1:30 p.m. Thursday, April 20 in room 13 Curtiss Hall. Box lunches are provided by the Brenton Center for Agricultural Instruction and Technology Transfer. Gaylan Scofield, interim center director, welcomes anyone who wishes to attend. If you plan to attend, contact Carrie Brus by Monday, April 17 at 294-1862 or cbrus@iastate.edu.

Faculty members will talk about experiences with their courses.
Sociology 325: Agriculture in Transition/Sociology 544: Sociology of Food and Agricultural Systems
Jan Flora, Professor of Sociology
Delivery: online with supplemental CDs containing video clips

Economics 235: Introduction to Agricultural Markets
John Lawrence, Professor of Economics
Delivery: online

Agronomy 570X/ Veterinary Diagnostic and Production Animal Medicine 570X: Risk Assessment for Food, Agriculture and Veterinary Medicine
Jeff Wolt, Professor of Agronomy working in the Biosafety Institute for Genetically Modified Agricultural Products
(BIGMAP), and Scott Hurd, Associate Professor of VDPAM
Delivery: online (experiment with Microstudio)

The Brenton Center for Agricultural Instruction and Technology Transfer mission is to deliver quality credit and noncredit education, provide reliable services, and ensure exemplary support for technology use and distance education efforts of the College of Agriculture.
--Lynette Spicer, communications specialist