Ÿ Undergraduate & Postgraduate students of

Agriculture

Ÿ Faculty members of State Agriculture

Universities & Agriculture based NGOs

Ÿ Professionals in State Department of Agriculture

Ÿ Agriculture scientists in ICAR

Ÿ Agricultural Marketing and Cooperation

professionals

Ÿ Specialists working in KVKs

Ÿ Progressive farmers

Certificates

Participation and Competency certificates will be issued by the Centre for Continuing Education (CCE), IIT Kanpur, India and

Commonwealth of Learning (COL), Canada to qualifying students based on their involvement and performance.

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Agriculture is a critical sector on which India's well-being is built. It is also the

sector where the need for improved skills is the greatest and most massive. The

Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur and Commonwealth of Learning (COL)

have come together again to address this challenge through agMOOCs.

agMOOCs is an online platform designed to help students, professionals and

organizations to acquire and enhance knowledge and skills in the agriculture

domain. The platform provides free access to numerous high quality courses

offered online by renowned faculty from the premier institutes of the country. You

can learn them on your own schedule and receive a certificate as well on

completion.

START DATE

PREREQUISITES

REGISTRATION

October 15, 2019

None

Open and free of charge

Who should attend the courses

agMOOCs

https://www.agmoocs.in

Ÿ Detection of plant pathogens

Ÿ Conventional diagnostic techniques

Ÿ Advanced and Molecular diagnostic

techniques

Ÿ Recent advances in diagnostic techniques

Ÿ Special applications of plant disease diagnosis

Ÿ Diagnostics in plant disease management

Duration: 6 Weeks

Faculty Incharge : Prof. B. K. Sarma

BHU, Varanasi

Ÿ Basics of Communication and ICT

Ÿ Journey of ICT applications in extension

service

Ÿ Concepts for better understanding and

making e-Extension practical

Ÿ Means of achieving e-Extension

Ÿ Practical application of e-Extension

Ÿ e-Extension initiatives of institutions

Duration: 6 Weeks

Faculty Incharge : Prof. Basavaprabhu Jirli

BHU, Varanasi

Courses

Ÿ Introduction to design thinking

Ÿ Product characteristics

Ÿ Design thinking models

Ÿ Empathize and define

Ÿ Ideating

Ÿ Prototyping and testing

Duration: 8 Weeks

Faculty Incharge : Prof. J. Ramkumar

IIT Kanpur