Developing Online Web Courses for Distance Education on Tobacco

The purpose of this grant is to request assistance in developing online web courses primarily for extension agent training and professional development. These web modules will be available to the public and will be helpful to senior-level vocational agriculture students in secondary schools, regional agriculture universities, and to producers wishing for more in-depth education on burley tobacco. These web courses will be publicly accessible on the Texas A&M CECP site and will be developed jointly with expertise from the University of Kentucky and the University of Tennessee. These institutions have a strong history of successful collaboration and partnership, both formal and informal.