Bruce Erickson is the agronomy education distance and outreach
director, working to help deliver Purdue Agronomy’s wealth of
expertise to audiences in Indiana and around the world using a
variety of learning platforms. Bruce’s areas of capability include corn
and soybean production, precision farming, instructional design, and
competency-based education and assessment. He has experience in
building technical, product-related sales and marketing programs to
fulfill individual proficiency needs and to meet business goals, and
then delivering through classroom, field, teleconference, CD, and
Web-based platforms. Bruce is the primary instructor for Agronomy
105, an introductory course in crop production, and also teaches
Fundamentals in Applied Agronomy, an online course offered by the
American Society
of Agronomy. (berickson@purdue.edu)