http://ocw.usu.edu Utah State attracted more than $186 million in research revenue in the year 2005, so in addition to producing high quality courses for their students, faculty members are also engaged in producing instructional resources used outside the classroom. This area will highlight a few of those resources. daily 1 2008-02-01T01:33:14Z http://ocw.usu.edu/Other_Educational_Resources/Intro_to_Instructional_Design Instructional technology is a systematic way of designing, developing, implementing, and evaluating the processes of learning and teaching with specific objectives based on research in human learning and communication. It employs a combination of human and nonhuman resources to bring about more effective instruction. Instructional technology includes aspects of instructional design, product development, interactive learning technologies, multimedia, distance education, and library and information literacy. Each aspect of the field has unique contributions to make to the teaching-learning process. admin introduction instructional design 2008-03-11T18:02:15Z Course text/html http://ocw.usu.edu/Other_Educational_Resources/Westen_Rural_Development The Western Rural Development Center (Utah State University) and the RUPRI Rural Poverty Research Center (Oregon State University) co-sponsored a one and a half day poverty conference. Agenda topics included framing poverty in the west; poverty and tribal communities; networks and policy; natural resource dependent communities and poverty; and Latinos and poverty. Researchers presented papers and speakers and attendees alike participated in important discussions that will help develop community and state/national policies on reducing rural poverty. admin development rural western 2008-03-11T18:02:19Z Course text/html http://ocw.usu.edu/Other_Educational_Resources/deVos_lines_a.jpg Image courtesy of Kees de Vos admin 2008-02-01T03:59:46Z Image image/jpeg