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KVASU to promote One Agriculture-One Science concept in the Country

                       Kerala Veterinary and Animal Sciences University has been identified as one of the members of the Global Education Consortium; One Agriculture-One Science. This will pave way for delivering stakeholder based open online courses as part of Move on to open online courses with a global perspective and will facilitate funding for developing appropriate content and knowledge dissemination process in the University. Moreover it will help to create new generation agriculture scientists to cater the emerging food security issues across the globe.  Global Planning Meeting of the Consortium was held at ICRISAT campus, Hyderabad from 9th to 10th March 2015. Director of Entrepreneurship of KVASU Dr.T.P.Sethumadhavan presented the technology enabled learning, deliverables and initiatives of KVASU in the meeting. Experts from University of Massachusetts, Michigan, California State University, Iowa State University and Oklahoma (USA) and Vice chancellors from different agri and allied Universities participated in the deliberations. The purpose of the consortium is to provide shared access to learning resources, enable education technology delivery platforms, enhance capacity building for agricultural professionals, promote sharing of agricultural curriculum with higher education and extension partners and to enable organisations to expand their impacts and partnerships.
                      The Global Consortium will allow founding members as well as new consortium members to come to an agreement on by-laws of One Agriculture Consortium, Shared access to learning resources/Massive Open Online Courses among and across higher education learning networks, extension agencies and agriculture professionals, Shared access to technology delivery platforms, Operational mechanism and Advisory board and to identify ways to enable organizations to expand their impacts and partnerships and also identify and define concrete areas of action that address emerging challenges and exploit opportunities for onsite as well as technology mediated agricultural education and extension. Moreover among the consortium members KVASU plays a key role in technology enabled learning. This has been formed with the aim to boost agriculture education to address challenges of global food security, accessibility and affordability. The consortium aims at creating more hunger fighters by encouraging and bringing youth into agriculture and to reach out to millions of farmers to embrace new technology to progress into a dynamic sector.