Continuing Education for the Professional.

Overview & Synopsis

University education for the practicing or aspiring professional-practitioner should be considered the beginning or extension of lifelong learning, a continuing educational requirement. University Extension programming at the University of Wisconsin covers a wide range of professional, farming, and other areas. Efforts are underway to redesign curricula on a more relevant basis than that of the logic of the structure of knowledge, the typical organizing structure. Curricula at the Minnesota Metropolitan State College and at the Kellogg Agricultural Extension Center of University College, Dublin, are competency-based. Students qualify for a degree by demonstrating their competence in five areas. (KM)