Presentation on agriMoodle delivered at the "Life for Agriculture - Agriculture for Life" international Conference. 6/6/2014, USAMVB, Bucharest, Romania. More info at http://agricultureforlife.usamv.ro/index.php/en/

1. Seeding organic agriculture
courses on Moodle:
the agriMoodle case
Vassilis Protonotarios (Agro-Know), Andreas Drakos (Agro-Know),
Maria Toader (USAMVB-FA) & Anastasios Koutoumanos (CTI)

2. Agricultural education & learning

3. Agricultural Education
• Agricultural Education: teaching of agriculture, natural
resources, and land management through hands on
experience and guidance to
– prepare students for entry level jobs or
– to further education to prepare them for advanced agricultural jobs.
• Agricultural education can be taught at
– elementary level,
– middle school level,
– secondary,
– post secondary and
– adult levels.

4. Distance learning
• Moving from classroom-based teaching &
learning to web-based, distance one

5. Distance learning vs Classroom learning
• Eliminate location barriers;
• Minimize time restrictions;
• Makes use of online
resources;
• Fully-featured online
course management
platforms;
• Use of online collaboration
tools;
• Based on digital formats;
• Personal contact with
tutor;
• No internet connection
needed;
• Hands-on collaboration
with other classmates;
• Based on traditional
formats;

6. About Moodle

7. • Modular Object-Oriented Dynamic
Learning Environment
• Software for producing Internet-based courses
• Serving >71 million users in >7.4 million courses
• Released on 20 August 2002, now in 2.3 version
• Open Source Software (GNU General Public v.3)
About Moodle

8. Moodle stats

9. Moodle features

10. About agriMoodle

11. • Extends moodle
– with ready-to-use functionality, services, tools
– targeted towards agricultural uses
• Links moodle
– to existing agricultural information sources & data
• Creates a network of agri-moodle installations
– Facilitating location of educational resources
– Based on TEL standards
agriMoodle

12. • provides great green/agri- templates and
themes
• is linked to interesting sources of green/agri-
educational material
• trainers can use tools to import resources
from relevant agricultural repositories
• trainers can easily create and export
metadata for their courses and resources
• learners can benefit from (automatic)
references to useful material
The agriMoodle concept

13. The agriMoodle components
1. (Organic.Edunet) IEEE LOM editor
2. Automatic metadata translation functionality
3. OAI-PMH compliance,
– exporting Organic.Edunet IEEE LOM metadata
4. OER Finder Widget

14. 1. LOM Editor

15. 2. Automatic metadata translation

16. 3. OAI-PMH compliance
• OAI-PMH: Open Archives Initiative Protocol
for Metadata Harvesting

17. 4. OER Finder widget

18. • A work in progress
– Development by UAH with AK contributions in the
context of the Organic.Lingua ICT-PSP project
 Already used in other projects
– Herbal.Mednet
(http://www.ieru.org/projects/herbalmednet)
– V3DAS (http://www.v3das.com)
• Open Source / Available at Github:
– http://agrimoodle.org
agrimoodle development

19. agrimoodle instances

20. Next steps

21. The agriMoodle Hub

22. Thank you!
vprot@agroknow.gr
www.agro-know.gr
http://blog.agro-know.com