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1. Explain the rationale for agricultural advisory services within the wider agricultural knowledge and innovation system
2. Distinguish different types of innovation relevant to agriculture and explain the role of knowledge and learning in agricultural and rural innovation
3. Identify economic, social, cultural, and psychological factors that affect the uptake of innovation by farm households
4. Understand adult learning processes and the agricultural knowledge and information systems associated with farm decision making in Ireland
5. Be familiar with a suite of advisory education approaches and methods
Understanding the AKIS (Agricultural Knowledge and Innovation System)
Models and approaches to farm family decision making
Rural Sociology - understanding farm families
Succession on farms - links to innovation
Innovation and diffusion of innovation
Adult learning and design of learning programmes
Overview of advisory methodologies
Student Effort Type | Hours |
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Autonomous Student Learning | 40 |
Lectures | 24 |
Small Group | 36 |
Total | 100 |
Not applicable to this module.
Description | Timing | Component Scale | % of Final Grade | ||
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Group Work Assignment: Group assignment using problem based learning. Groups will submit work every week and make a final presentation in week 12 | Week 12 | Graded | No | 50 |
No |
Assignment(Including Essay): Students have a choice of an individual essay or a podcast as their final assignment | Week 14 | Graded | No | 40 |
Yes |
Participation in Learning Activities: Based on class participation and on self and peer assessment for the group assignment | Week 1, Week 2, Week 3, Week 4, Week 5, Week 6, Week 7, Week 8, Week 9, Week 10, Week 11, Week 12 | Graded | No | 10 |
No |
Remediation Type | Remediation Timing |
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In-Module Resit | Prior to relevant Programme Exam Board |
• Feedback individually to students, post-assessment
• Group/class feedback, post-assessment
• Peer review activities
Feedback will be given on a weekly basis to the whole class based on student presentations at early stages of the project Group and individual feedback will be given post assignment
Name | Role |
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Professor James Kinsella | Lecturer / Co-Lecturer |
Dr Tomás Russell | Lecturer / Co-Lecturer |