Volume
39
Issue
2
Abstract
A survey of county Extension staff was used to explore the potential for using distance education technologies for in-service training. County staff cited time- or travel-related reasons as the most common factors preventing them from attending specific in-service programs within the past 12 months. Given a choice about where Extension in-services should be held, they preferred regional locations over any other, though they were receptive to having some county-level in-service programs delivered by distance education. As a result of the survey responses, in the fall of 1997, Penn State Cooperative Extension began a pilot program of quarterly satellite in-services.
Recommended Citation
Kelsey, T. W., & Mincemoyer, C. C. (2001). Exploring the Potential of In-Service Training Through Distance Education. Journal of Extension, 39(2), Article 14. https://doi.org/10.66752/1077-5315.9128