seeding organic agriculture courses on moodle: the agrimoodle case
DESCRIPTION
Presentation on agriMoodle delivered at the "Life for Agriculture - Agriculture for Life" international Conference. 6/6/2014, USAMVB, Bucharest, Romania. More info at http://agricultureforlife.usamv.ro/index.php/en/TRANSCRIPT
Seeding organic agriculture courses on Moodle: the agriMoodle case
Vassilis Protonotarios (Agro-Know), Andreas Drakos (Agro-Know), Maria Toader (USAMVB-FA) & Anastasios Koutoumanos (CTI)
Agricultural education & learning
Agricultural Education
• Agricultural Education: teaching of agriculture, natural resources, and land management through hands on experience and guidance to – prepare students for entry level jobs or – to further education to prepare them for advanced agricultural jobs.
• Agricultural education can be taught at – elementary level, – middle school level, – secondary, – post secondary and – adult levels.
Distance learning
• Moving from classroom-based teaching & learning to web-based, distance one
Distance learning vs Classroom learning
• Eliminate location barriers;• Minimize time restrictions;• Makes use of online
resources;• Fully-featured online
course management platforms;
• Use of online collaboration tools;
• Based on digital formats;
• Personal contact with tutor;
• No internet connection needed;
• Hands-on collaboration with other classmates;
• Based on traditional formats;
About Moodle
• Modular Object-Oriented Dynamic Learning Environment
• Software for producing Internet-based courses• Serving >71 million users in >7.4 million courses• Released on 20 August 2002, now in 2.3 version• Open Source Software (GNU General Public v.3)
About Moodle
Moodle stats
Moodle features
About agriMoodle
• Extends moodle– with ready-to-use functionality, services, tools– targeted towards agricultural uses
• Links moodle– to existing agricultural information sources & data
• Creates a network of agri-moodle installations– Facilitating location of educational resources– Based on TEL standards– Promoting open access and re-use of resources
agriMoodle
• provides great green/agri- templates and themes
• is linked to interesting sources of green/agri- educational material
• trainers can use tools to import resources from relevant agricultural repositories
• trainers can easily create and export metadata for their courses and resources
• learners can benefit from (automatic) references to useful material
The agriMoodle concept
The agriMoodle components
1. (Organic.Edunet) IEEE LOM editor2. Automatic metadata translation functionality3. OAI-PMH compliance, – exporting Organic.Edunet IEEE LOM metadata
4. OER Finder Widget
1. LOM Editor
2. Automatic metadata translation
3. OAI-PMH compliance
• OAI-PMH: Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting
4. OER Finder widget
• A work in progress– Development by UAH with AK contributions in the
context of the Organic.Lingua ICT-PSP project
Already used in other projects– Herbal.Mednet (
http://www.ieru.org/projects/herbalmednet) – V3DAS (http://www.v3das.com)
• Open Source / Available at Github:– http://agrimoodle.org
agrimoodle development
agrimoodle instances
Next steps
The agriMoodle Hub
Thank you!
http://blog.agro-know.com