The document discusses using MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses) and a flipped classroom model to promote interactive learning in agricultural education. It provides an overview of MOOCs and flipped classrooms. The inaugural pilot program launched the first MOOC for agricultural professionals in India in 2015, which over 900 people enrolled in. Feedback was positive, with 89 people receiving course completion certificates. Moving forward, MOOCs could help address issues like outdated curriculums and faculty shortages in agricultural education by providing flexible, online learning opportunities. They may also lead to changes in learning measurement and accreditation.

1. Guntuku Dileepkumar
President and Founding Director
AgTech Innovation Labs
Iowa State University Research Park, Ames, Iowa, USA
dileep@agtechinnovationlabs.com
“AgMOOCs in Flipped Classroom”:
To Promote Interactive Learning in Agriculture Education

2. Outline
 About AgMOOCs
 About Flipped Classroom
 Learning experiences from Inaugural Pilots
 Moving Forward

3. Evolution of Classroom

4. Next Generation

5. Next Generation

6. Traditional/Onsite Vs Virtual Learning
Class room size: 20-25
No. of courses: 22
Class room size: No limit
No. of courses: 8

7. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOC)
 An online course aimed at large-scale participation and open
access via the internet
 Goals
 Number of web-based platforms provide run time
environment/delivery to MOOCs
o Offer quality education to the most remote corners of the world
o Help people further their careers
o Help people expand intellectual and personal networks with
strong communities

8. Course/Content Modelling
 Short Video lectures (10-20 minutes) recorded specifically for online
- supporting material/hand outs
 Quizzes integrated into lectures
 TA/Professor Moderated discussion forums
 Shared comment/discussion space
 Badges or certificate of completion
 Learning Analytics

9. State of MOOCs: Global Review
Source: http://monitor.icef.com/2015/01/global-review-maps-state-moocs-2014/
The cumulative number of MOOCs scheduled or started, 2011-2015
Source: Class Central
Course distribution by MOOC provider
Source: Class Central
More than 20 million users - 2500 courses

10. State of MOOCs: Global Review
Source: http://monitor.icef.com/2015/01/global-review-maps-state-moocs-2014/
http://monitor.icef.com/2017/01/global-mooc-enrolment-jumped-last-year/
The cumulative number of MOOCs scheduled or started, 2012-2016
Source: Class Central
Course distribution by MOOC provider
Source: Class Central
Very few
Agricultural courses
More than 58 million users - 6850 courses - > 700 Universities

11. July 17-18, 2014, University of Florida, Florida
Oct 16, 2014, World Food Prize Symposium, IOWA
One Agriculture-One Science
• Conceptualized in July 2014
• Subsequent meetings strengthened the initiative

12.  In 1960s, the establishment of Agricultural
Universities in India, on the pattern similar to
that of the Land Grant colleges of the United
States (integration of education, research and
extension), contributed a lot in boosting the
agricultural growth.
 The model has shown a direction in
reorganizing and strengthening the agricultural
education system in India and also helped in
bringing diverse subjects in the course
curriculum integrating provision of hands-on
practical exposure to the student.
 Outdated curriculum,
 Unavailability of good quality
faculty members
 Requirement of reorienting the
agricultural education according to
the changing scenarios at national
and international level etc.
 percentage of students pursuing agriculture as
an undergraduate or a post graduate degree or
PhD, remains amongst the lowest as a
comparison to the other streams (All
India Survey on Higher Education, MHRD).
Reasons…
Inaugural Pilot

13. Virtual Knowledge Series Platform
Knowledge Repository
Classroom without Walls ICT Literacy
(especially on MOOCs)
Partners
Inaugural Pilot

14. Launch of Frist Ever MOOCs for Agricultural
Professionals
https://iitbombayx.in/courses/NVAforIA/PATH372.1x/2015-16/about
“I am happy to announce the launch of this first
ever MOOCs for agricultural professionals – a
timely initiative as knowledge revolution is the
need of the hour,” Dr MS Swaminathan sai - See
more at:
http://www.thecropsite.com/news/17309/indias-
first-free-online-agri-course-
opens/#sthash.3S4WGLl6.dpuf
Starts from February 9 to April 6, 2015
“The course could significantly push the bar for
quality online education to meet the requirements
specifically of India’s agricultural education
system, where available resources are scarce
relative to the extremely large audience – in a
country where more than 70 per cent of the
population is involved in agriculture directly or
indirectly,” Dr MS Swaminathan said while
announcing the opening of the course.

15. Course Structure-Execution-Feedback
Total 903

16. Course Structure-Execution-Feedback

17. Course Structure-Execution-Feedback
Video Lecture
Quiz

18. Course Structure-Execution-Feedback

19. Course Structure-Execution-Feedback
89 people received the course
completion certificate as they
scored more than 50% marks
in all examinations

20. 1. The global seed industry – importance of international trade policies and
regulations
2. Development and seed production of improved crop varieties
3. Seed physiology, germination and seed health testing
4. Post-harvest management of seeds
5. Strategic resource management in seed enterprises
6. Accounting and finance for seed enterprises
7. Information and process management
8. Marketing and selling improved seed varieties
Classrooms without Walls
Sustainable SEED MOOCs

21. What experts and leaders say?
“Technology today allows us to customize our education
according to learning styles – and that this can be done without
harming traditional brick and mortar schools.”
Clayton Christensen and Henry Eyring , Authors of The
Innovative University book

22. Moving Forward
Lower-level courses may turn into
MOOCs to reduce the economic
burden on universities when they hit
hard with budget cuts
Rise of MOOCs in future may
bring changes in the learning
measurement, evaluation and
accreditation
Lower level universities
might become facilitators
for online courses.
California State Senate bill (SB520)
encourages universities to teach
lower division classes as MOOCs
How will WE play a part in the revolution
of learning?