Professional development has become an increasingly important topic among information technology (IT) professionals in higher education, but what does it mean to engage in professional development activities? How does an institution create an initiative that meets broad organizational goals while taking into account the specific needs of the…

Proposes a model, based on the Cooperative Extension Service, for broad cooperative partnerships between universities and local education communities. Explains how the work of education specialists would parallel that of extension agents and how specialists would be the nucleus of cooperative efforts to solve local problems in secondary education.…