Design & Development Of Information Training Course For Farmers In New Village

As the development of social information and technology, information-driven agriculture as well as promoting agriculture by applying scientific technology is discussed a lot. In the background of development of information and technology, how to improve the farmers'information acquisition ability, especially the computer knowledge and technique ability is the urgent problem that needs to be solved.The writer studies the farmers as research object, makes research on the farmers' need to learn computer knowledge. Based on the learning features of the farmers and the theories of instructional design, instructional message design, adult education, and instructional media and technology, the writer designs a computer knowledge ABC textbook the farmers.The textbook is tried out in the A village and the learners have 7 days to learn by themselves. Then there are tests for the learners to evaluate their knowledge about the computer ABC and operation skills, and there are questionnaire survey and interview with the farmers on the practicability, applicability and validity of the textbook. The formative evaluation results show that the textbook is easy to understand, learn and imitate, and has high practicability and applicability, but the results also show that the textbook has not much content and the contents order is not well designed. The writer revised the textbook according to the formative evaluation results and tried out it in the A village again. According to the interviews with the farmers after the try-out, the learners are more confident in the learning computer knowledge and also have strong interest in it.