Responsive innovations in MOOCs for Development: A case study of AgMOOCs in India

In this episode, Balaji Venkataraman, Director for Technology and Knowledge Management, Commonwealth of Learning, Canada and Tadinada V. Prabhakar, Professor, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur (IITK), India, explore how teachers in developing countries, with minimal familiarity with online learning, participate in design and delivery of MOOCs. They will discuss a series of case studies involving MOOCs in food and agriculture in India and parts of Africa using MobiMOOC technology as the platform. Their findings reveal that innovative deployment of messaging systems and opportunities to access content offline can increase engagement in the learning process. This project is sponsored by the Commonwealth of Learning (https://www.col.org/) in Burnaby, BC, Canada.