Global seminar on science communication
2005 Impact statement- Lewenstein, Bruce Voss
abstract
This project delivered a course on science, environmental, and health communication distance learning to developing countries.
submitted by
- Lewenstein, Bruce Voss | Professor
issue being addressed
People in developing countries have deep needs for good, science-based information on water quality, health care, food quality, energy production, and other topics. But there is little infrastructure for educating the communicators who can reach populations with this information.
response
Building on workshops and lectures in South Africa, the United States, and Brazil in 2002, 2004, and 2005, we designed and pilot-tested 8 instructional modules for science communicators in developing countries, delivering them via interactive distance-learning technologies.
impact assessment
Project leaders in South Africa, Brazil, and South Korea have implemented changes to their locally-based curriculums, to strengthen the science communication training they provide. The modules delivered by distance learning reached 40 people in South Africa and 20 people in Brazil.
topic description
science, environmental, and health communication
funding source description
Other Federal non-USDA (e.g., NSF, NIH, DOA, DOD)
key personnel
- Luisa Massarani
- Marina Joubert
- Marina Joubert
- Andrew Pleasant
department, unit, division
- Center for Nanoscale Systems (CNS) | research center
- Communication (COMM) | Cornell department
- Media and Society Research Group | research program
- Science and Technology Studies (S&TS) | Cornell department
mission focus
- extension/outreach | project type
- research | project type
- teaching | project type
submitted as part of CALS annual faculty reporting, February 2006