Seminar on educational resources held at PAU
Author(s): City Air NewsLudhiana, February 23, 2015: The Department of Extension Education, Punjab Agricultural University (PAU) organised a seminar on ‘OER (Open Educational Resources) in Education.’ Dr B.S. Hansra, Professor Emeritus...
Ludhiana, February 23, 2015: The Department of Extension Education, Punjab Agricultural University (PAU) organised a seminar on ‘OER (Open Educational Resources) in Education.’ Dr B.S. Hansra, Professor Emeritus was the chief guest of the occasion. All the faculty and students of the department participated in the seminar.
Dr Hansra discussed in detail about OER and told that these were the teaching and learning materials that were freely available online for use. He further talked about the upcoming projects of ICAR “Farmers First” and “ARYA (attracting and retaining youth to agriculture)”. He told that in a recent meeting of Commonwealth of Learning, it has been decided to start Massive Open Online Courses (MOOC).
Earlier, Dr R K Kalra, Head of the Department, welcomed the chief guest and the participants. Dr Varinder Randhawa, former Head, Department of Home Science Extension and Communication Management; and Dr Prabhjot Kaur, Professor of Extension Education were also present on the occasion.