Extension educators and professionals intuitively understand that we will be called upon to build new models to compete and survive in this new communication and economic order. The question remains: How? What should these models be and how should they function? Part of the answer may lie with open science, which portends the greatest change to scientific inquiry and research since Roger Bacon first began articulating a vision for systematic empirical investigation in the 13th century. A panel composed of several Extension employees with unique professional perspectives will discuss this emerging trend and both its promise and peril for the future of Cooperative Extension.
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