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Internet usage in agricultural economics instruction
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NACTA Journal
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March 1, 2003
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Copyright informationCopyright North American Colleges and Teachers of Agriculture Mar 2003. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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Abstract
According to the popular press, the Internet has fostered a revolution in educational technology. This paper examines the extent of the revolution in agricultural economics instruction. A web crawler is used to locate and categorize online course materials. Forty-five percent of the agricultural economics courses sampled had a website but only 23 percent of the courses sampled used a website to convey course content. Most of the materials found are traditional course documents transmitted over the Internet. These materials substitute directly for "traditional" teaching materials. Economic production analysis indicates that if a new input directly substitutes for an existing input, ...
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