Published - 31 December 2021 By Gavin Beever A Great Learning Opportunity – The APEN Hybrid Conference, Feb 9-11 The APEN Conference theme for 2022 is: “Facilitating Change and the Opportunity for Disruption”. This biennial conference can be attended in person in Melbourne or … Read More APEN, Conference, Extension planning, Professional development Home, Methods & Tools, Resources, Theory
Published - 26 November 2021 By Gavin Beever Assessing Extension Professionals Like all professions, the field of extension has some key competencies that are required to ensure proficiency. Extension officers must be effective at being an intermediary … Read More Evaluation, Extension planning, Professional development Home, Methods & Tools, Resources, Theory
Published - 28 October 2021 By Gavin Beever Impact Evaluation Impact is often a key evaluation need. It aims to understand the longer term outcomes that are generated through interventions, projects or programmes, that often … Read More Evaluation, Extension planning, Impact evaluation Home, Methods & Tools, Resources, Theory
Published - 30 September 2021 By Gavin Beever Farmer Learning Capacity to adapt to successfully manage change is linked to our ability to learn. Assisting and engaging with farming businesses in their adaption, management and … Read More Extension planning, How Farmers Learn, Learning, Learning styles, Practice Change Home, Resources, Theory
Published - 29 August 2021 By Gavin Beever Case Studies in Extension Case Studies can be an excellent means to demonstrate and field test practices under circumstances that farmers are familiar with. They are also excellent for … Read More Case studies, Demonstration farm, Extension, Extension planning Home, Methods & Tools, Resources
Published - 27 July 2021 By Gavin Beever Podcasts in Rural Extension Podcasts are now a recognised and accepted way to reach rural audiences. As online connectivity has improved and rural audiences have become much more familiar … Read More Online tools, Podcast Home, Methods & Tools, Resources
Published - 16 June 2021 By Gavin Beever Consolidating Targeted and Practical Extension for Australian Farmers and Fishers This was a project, completed in 2017, that was established to address the national issue of fragmentation in the Australian agricultural extension system. Which affects … Read More Extension, Extension planning, Extension Principles Home, Resources, Theory
Published - 27 May 2021 By Gavin Beever Running Effective Webinars Webinars have been a key tool for Agricultural Extension during the COVID pandemic, but in reality they have been around as a tool for decades. … Read More Extension planning, Online tools, Webinar Home, Methods & Tools, Resources
Published - 26 April 2021 By Gavin Beever Showcasing the Leading Australian Agricultural Research, Unique Technologies and Commercialisation Opportunities in One Spot Find all the information on Australian agricultural research projects, researchers and research organisations all in the one location on growAG. Department of Agriculture, Water and Environment … Read More GrowAG, Research, Researcher Home, Methods & Tools, Resources, Theory
Published - 31 March 2021 By Gavin Beever Action Learning Cycles Extension is often about encouraging people to take action to achieve desired outcomes. Understanding that action learning cycles most often are involved, can help extension … Read More Action learning, Action learning cycle, Extension planning Methods & Tools, Resources, Theory
Published - 26 February 2021 By Gavin Beever A Process for Targeting Outcomes and Evaluating their Achievement Documenting extension program outcomes, monitoring progress and evaluating performance is typically complicated and difficult to achieve in extension – TOP is a proven process that … Read More Evaluation, Extension planning, Moni Home, Methods & Tools, Resources, Theory
Published - 27 January 2021 By Gavin Beever Practice Change The emphasis for many extension programs is around enabling some form of practice change in particular rural community target markets (groups of people that the … Read More Extension planning, Extension Practice, Practice Change Home, Methods & Tools, Resources, Theory
