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Whether you are a Cooperative Extension agent, educator, faculty, professional staff member or researcher, eXtension offers you unique benefits. Be recognized as a thought leader in your field, grow your Community of Practice and create more mind reach for your individual and/or organizational goals. eXtension ID holders also receive weekly professional development opportunities on the latest Internet trends, collaborative tools and more.
Extension Agents & Educators
Agents and educators have the opportunity to extend Cooperative Extension information development and delivery using the latest technological and collaborative tools. eXtension’s far-reaching appeal helps you engage new and existing customers and clients in exciting new projects, or refine and develop on-going projects.
As a frequent contributor, you can become an eXtension expert in your particular Community of Practice, helping to identify future trends and gaining important peer-to-peer recognition. Furthermore, your work on significant, meaningful and complex public issues can have lasting societal implications.
Extension Faculty & Professional Staff
eXtension helps you reach a much broader national audience than relying solely on traditional publishing avenues. By sharing and collaborating with other Community of Practice experts, you actually improve the quality and depth of your programmatic work (not to mention boosting your promotion and tenure efforts).
eXtension also helps you increase public exposure and university recognition. That’s especially important when you’re searching for financial support for your department, or showing reach and impact to legislators. As a value-added resource for the nation’s 3000+ county Cooperative Extension locations, eXtension helps forge new sponsorship opportunities, public and private partnerships, and much more.
University Researchers
Developed from the grassroots, eXtension lets you dramatically expand the reach and influence of your important work, and bring multi-state research projects, practices, tools and technology to the public. Strict quality and peer review standards add value to complementary journal publications.
Members contribute to a national resource through peer-developed Frequently Asked Questions, Communities of Practice, advisory committees and institutional teams. eXtension’s ever-expanding interactive communities let users turn research into practice. For instance, you may discover that someone else is working on a similar project and has solved that one problem that’s been plaguing you for months (or vice versa).
On-Going Professional Development
Part of our mission is to enhance the continual growth, research and development of our Cooperative Extension members. You can cultivate your own education just by being an active participant in all that eXtension has to offer. After you sign up for your eXtension ID, check out our Schedule of Professional Development Opportunities for instruction on topics such as FAQ orientation, blogging, working in a wiki, designing for Web 2.0 and more. You can even suggest topics for future sessions.
