AgShare: Building community and content with multiple partners
| Published | September 2010 |
| Conference | UOC, OU, BYU |
| Region | Africa |
ABSTRACT
Michigan State University and OER Africa are creating a win-win collaboration of existing organizations for African publishing, localizing, and sharing of teaching and learning materials that fill critical resource gaps in African MSc agriculture curriculum. By the end of the 18-month planning and pilot initiative, African agriculture universities, faculty, students, researchers, NGO leaders, extension staff, and farmers will participate in building AgShare by demonstrating its benefits and outcomes and by building momentum and support for growth.| Keywords | Agriculture · curriculum · higher education · Open Educational Resources |
| Published at | Barcelona |
| Language | en |
| Rights | by-nc-nd/3.0 |
| URL | http://openaccess.uoc.edu/webapps/o2/bitstream/10609/4862/6/Geith_editat.pdf |
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