Volume
38
Issue
3
Abstract
Pennsylvania Extension educators adopted an innovative distance education workshop approach based upon satellite downlinks to Farm Service Agency borrowers for up to 26 locations in Northeast states (1995-99). After 2 years of training experience, the use of satellite downlinks was found to be associated with technical difficulties, rigid scheduling, and higher costs than permitted in a self-funded training program. Subsequently, satellite downlinks were eliminated in favor of pre-taping instructor presentations. However, a continuing problem with multi-year use of pre-taped videos is that they tend to soon become dated. For future distance education workshops, educator use of the Internet may soon provide a more flexible and cost-effective alternative to both satellite uplinks and pre-taped videos. Until that technology becomes widely available and familiar to Extension staff and their clientele, however, pre-taped videos will likely remain a mainstay.
Recommended Citation
Hanson, G. D., & Parsons, R. L. (2000). Satellite Uplink vs. Videotape in Borrower Training. Journal of Extension, 38(3), Article 3. https://doi.org/10.66752/1077-5315.7934