Metaschool: Introducing Learning Repositories in Agricultural Education

Abstract

Agricultural education can help farmers to increase production, preserve natural resources, and provide nutritious food, thus contributing to a better quality of life. The advent of ICT revolution has provided many ways for supporting successfully the agricultural e-education. To this end, this paper focuses on supporting agricultural education through the use of digital learning repositories and learning objects. Digital learning repositories are used for storing, reusing and sharing learning objects. The deployment of various agricultural learning repositories has stimulated tutors in using them in their educational activities Therefore, training tutors in using these technologies is an imperative need. This paper gives an overview of the METASCHOOL project, a new European initiative for supporting the in-service training of tutors on learning objects and learning repositories. In particular, it presents the training of agricultural tutors in using, sharing and tagging Organic Agriculture and Agroecology resources and enhancing their skills and experience on resource and teaching activity exchange among European tutor communities