Role of MOODLE in Agricultural Education in India - A Decade Old Successful Story

Abstract

This study outlines a decade long experience of adopting, implementing and training on MOODLE in agricultural education in
India by ICAR-NAARM, an academy of excellence in capacity building in agriculture. The strategies adopted in developing capacity building plans to train the manpower in MOODLE implementation not only helped to improve educational quality in agriculture but aided in developing a rich E-course repository for graduate level education in all agriculture and allied courses. MOODLE was further innovatively designed to offer MOOCs in agriculture related short duration programmes, which registered
a completion rate as high as 53 per cent with inbuilt provision for online assessment and certification.