Upcoming:
Designed for Impact: The Effective Extension Education Series
Date: February 2025
Location: Zoom
Are you newer to Extension or seeking ways to increase engagement and deepen learning?
If so, learn how to overcome the ‘content coverage’ trap so you can focus on what truly matters in the learners’ lives.
Through this series, you will design a new program or redesign an existing program while:
- Gaining direct experience in outcome-based instructional design
- Increasing your confidence in using learner-centered teaching approaches
- Receiving peer feedback on your new or revised program design
Modules:
Part 1. Writing Powerful Learning Outcomes
Part 2. Creating Assessment Tasks to Assist Learning
Part 3. Designing Learning Activities to Increase Engagement
Part 4. Identifying Essential Knowledge to Deepen Learning
Part 5. Crafting a Learner-Centered Teaching Plan
Part 6. Developing an Evaluation Tool
This professional development series is $75 for CAS Extension faculty and staff and $150 for others in OSU Extension and those without an OSU Extension appointment. Limited class size. To register email Mary Halbleib.
Conference presentations:
Jones, G.J., Halblieb, M.L. and Giordono, L. Problem Selection, Planning, and Program Design: What Should I Work on Next? OSU Extension Annual Conference, Corvallis, OR on Dec. 4 from 3:00-4:15 pm.
Powell, M. and Halbleib, M.L. Engaging with Producers and Community Partners to Increase Climate Stress and Grief Literacy and Resilience. OSU Extension Annual Conference, Corvallis, OR on Dec. 5 from 11:00 am-12:00 pm.
O’Brien, J.P., Powell, M., and Halbleib, M.L. Using Trauma-informed Approaches to Address Climate Change Stress and Grief to Create More Resilient Individuals and Communities. 2024 Oregon State University Engagement Conference, Corvallis, OR on December 6, 2024.
Siegelin, S., Elgeberi, N., Halbleib, M.L., Norze, J., Seo, F., Spears. L., and Robinson, J., Exploring Factors Influencing Organizational Commitment Among Extension Agents, 2025 Association of International Agricultural and Extension Education Annual Conference. April 2025, Inverness, Scotland.
Past conference sessions and presentations:
Powell, M. and Halbleib, M.L. From Grief to Resilience: Finding Purpose and Connection through Climate Change. Cultivating Agricultural Partnerships for Sustainability Conference. Oct. 1, 2024, Salt Lake City, UT. Invited keynote
Powell, M. and Halbleib, M.L. Supporting Farmers and Ranchers with Climate Stress and Grief. Cultivating Agricultural Partnerships for Sustainability Conference. Oct. 1, 2024, Salt Lake City, UT.
Halbleib, M.L. and Dinsdale, B. Planning for Parity: Learning from Past Projects and Increasing Women’s Access to Agricultural Programming in the Future. Association for International Agricultural and Extension Education (AIAEE) Conference. April 24, 2024, Orlando, FL. (15 min) Peer-reviewed
Powell, M. Olcott, C., and Halbleib, M.L. Managing Climate Stress for Farmers, Ranchers, and Agricultural Professionals. OSU Extension Annual Conference. December 5, 2023. (1.25 hr, n = 25) Peer-reviewed
Jones, G. and Halbleib, M.L. Good Enough to Great: What Makes for a Compelling Impact Statement. OSU Extension Annual Conference. December 5, 2023, Corvallis, OR. (1.5 hr, n = 48) peer-reviewed
Jones, G., Halbleib, M.L., and Giordono, L. Impacting Oregon: An Ag and Natural Resources Impact Statement Workshop. OSU Extension Annual Conference December 4, 2023, Corvallis, OR. (3 hr, n = 50) Invited
Jones, G. and Hableib, M.L. Time to Collect the Data: Tools of the Trade for Program Evaluation. OSU Extension Annual Conference December 8, 2022, Corvallis, OR.
Planning for Powerful Impact Statements. OSU 2022 Extension Annual Conference Professional Development Session. Dec. 6, 2022, Corvallis, OR.
Survey Mistakes That Can Ruin Your Data. Extension Foundation Extension Skills webinar. Nov. 10, 2022. Presented online with Najat Elgeberi (University of Nevada) and LaJoy Spears (New Mexico State University) Invited
Engaging with a New Extension Norm Series: Intentional Program Design. OSU 2021 Extension Annual Conference (online). Presented with Christensen, A., Doyle, J., & Philips, A. Dec. 9, 2021. Invited
Writing Measurable Learning Outcomes: Building the Foundation of Your Extension Program Design. OSU 2021 Extension Annual Conference (online). Dec. 10, 2021.
Using Extension Education Design Templates to Increase Learner-Centered Teaching. National Association of Extension Program and Staff Development Professionals: Moving Forward in a New World Virtual Annual Conference. Dec. 2, 2021.
Outcome-Based Extension Education Programs, with Colette DePhelps, University of Idaho Annual Extension Conference In-Service Workshop. April 15, 2021. Invited
Lecturers Anonymous: Starting Down the Road to Active Engagement and Learning Extension Programs, with Cassie Bouska and Gordon Jones, Dec. 5, 2019. Extension Annual Conference, Corvallis, OR. People’s Choice Award-Winning Session
Some Science Behind Learner-Centered Teaching for Extension Education. June 3, 2019. Crop and Soil Science Departmental Seminar, OSU, Corvallis, OR.
Extend Your Teaching and Learning to Enhance Sustainable Agriculture. Winter term, 2019. Ten-week, statewide course taught via Zoom.
High Impact Teaching: Applying Science and Best Practice to Increase Engagement, with Scott Duggan, April 3, 2019. Oregon Agricultural Extension Association Professional Improvement Conference. Bandon, OR.
Path to Success: Evaluating IPM Programs from Planning to Data to Impact Statements, with project team members. March 22, 2018. 9th International IPM Symposium, Baltimore, MD.
