The NDRI Karnal and NARM, Hyderabad have partnered together for offering the MOOC on Commercial Dairy Farming.
Commercial Dairy Farming: MOOC jointly launched by ICAR-NDRI and ICAR-NAARM. Dr B.N. Tripathi, Deputy Director General (Animal Science), ICAR and Dr R.C. Agrawal, Deputy Director General (Agricultural Education), ICAR & National Director, ICAR-NAHEP virtually launched the “Digital Content for offering the MOOC on Commercial Dairy Farming” today. The ICAR-National Dairy Research Institute, Karnal, Haryana and ICAR-National Academy of Agricultural Research Management, Hyderabad have partnered together in developing the digital content for offering the MOOC on Commercial Dairy Farming.
In his address, Dr B.N. Tripathi stressed on the importance of such programmes for reaching the wider audience in the Dairy sector to generate employability. Dr R.C. Agrawal applauded the joint efforts of two ICAR Institutes in complementing each other with the domain knowledge and technology to develop the MOOC content and highlighted its relevance in the wake of the New Education Policy.
Dr M.S. Chauhan, Director, ICAR-NDRI, Karnal, Haryana regarded the occasion to be a great beginning for the new means of knowledge sharing.
Dr Ch. Srinivasa Rao, Director, ICAR-NAARM, Hyderabad highlighted the importance of the Dairy Science Education and the ICAR-NAARM’s role in promoting the digital learning in NARES through its continued efforts in the Technology Enhanced Learning.
Dr S.K. Soam, Joint Director, ICAR-NAARM, Hyderabad shared shard the process adopted by NAARM to succeed in developing MOOC programmes for providing flexi learning and emphasized the importance of such inter-institutional partnerships.
Dr. S.K. Tomar, Principal Investigator, ICAR-NAHEP Project on “Incentivizing Dairy Education through Innovative Learning Approaches” highlighted the importance of the MOOCs as a part of the NAHEP Project initiated by the ICAR-NDRI, Karnal, Haryana.
