#04-117
May 10, 2004

By Stephen Snyder

Neale targets hunter education for the Internet

AMERICUS—A Georgia Southwestern State University professor is targeting hunter education for a wider audience.

The Hunter Education Coordinators of the Southeast, GSW associate professor, James R. Neale, III, Ph.D., and the School of Education developed the Internet course.

In the sixth year of the grant, with a budget of over $250,000, the two digital formats of the Hunter Education course are in use by nine Southeastern states: Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Kentucky, Mississippi, South Carolina and Tennessee. There are over 100,000 copies of the CD-ROM version and over 10,000 registered online users since August 2003.

The purpose of hunter education is to develop knowledge, skills, and attitudes necessary to become safe, responsible hunters. Typically, students meet these needs by attending a traditional, instructor led course including classroom lectures and field/range experiences. In today’s society, students have less free time to devote to attending a hunter education course. Alternative delivery formats improve accessibility and allow the student to complete a portion of the hunter education course at home in a more user-friendly environment.

For more information on this course, go online at http://soelab.gsw.edu/huntered.

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