Massive Open Online Courses or MOOCs enable thousands of learners to access high quality

education in a single offering. India is a nation with a massive need for upgradation of

skills and knowledge at various levels from landless workers to professionals in a large

number of sectors. MOOCs seem to be very appropriate to meet this need.

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 agMOOCs

has been created to address a part of this challenge.

Information and communication technologies (ICT) have become fundamental to the

functioning of our society, quite like electricity and roads. There are a variety of

ways agriculture domain harnesses the power of ICT. In order to appreciate how ICT can

be used in agriculture, it is important to understand the basic concepts in this space,

their functionality and their limitations.

This course on ICT Basics will cover the fundamentals of ICT. It will deal with how

information is gathered from the real world, stored in the machines, transmitted from

machine to machine. It will talk about how the system figures out your location and your

identity. Management of servers and services over the Cloud is another fundamental

ability, which will be discussed.



Who should attend this course?

Being a basic course this should be of interest to everybody who use Cellphones,

Computers and various computer based services. In particular, they should be useful to

Students of Agriculture Universities
Faculty of SAU
Agriculture Scientists in ARS
NGOs in Agriculture


Course content

The course content will cover the basic aspects of ICT, especially with a view to their

application in agriculture.
Voice and Data Communication Data and Content Management
Location Recognition Knowledge Representation
Identity Management Data Analytics
Parameter Sensing Social Networking
Internet Technologies Cloud Computing

At the end of the course, a participant should know about

Website, Web Application
Read/write Web, Semantic Web
Server Side: Web servers, Search Engines
Client side: Browsers, Apps
Basics of Cloud Computing
Access Devices: Desktop, Laptop, Tablet, Smart Phone
Communication Technologies: Voice and Data, 2G, 3G, 4G, GSM, CDMA
Identity and Location: Who are you and where are you, GPRS, Cell towers, Wifi
Data Storage: DBMS, Content management, Knowledge representation and storage


Certificates

agMOOCs are offered under the umbrella of NPTEL. Participation certificate and

Competency certificate will be given to qualifying students based on their engagement

and performance.

Duration
6 Weeks
Course Team


Start Date
Tuesday, March 17, 2015

Register here: http://opportuniti.org/?p=433