MSU and OER Africa Host the AgShare Inception Meeting in Nairobi

MSU is demonstrating the impact of Open CourseWare and Open Educational Resources around the world as an integral part of on-the-ground solutions for international development in agriculture and food security. The impact spans the public and private sectors involved in capacity building, training, and applying...

Dr. Cliff Lampe, Assistant Professor and Director of Graduate Studies for MSU Dept. of Telecommunication, Information Studies and Media

Michigan State University had strong representation at the Open Education 2010 conference in Barcelona, Spain. Here are links to presentations and proceedings from MSU folk: AgShare: Building Community and Content with Multiple Partners Presented by Dr. Christine Geith, MSUglobal View: Presentation Slides | Conference Proceeding...

From the USAID/MEAS Press Release: The University of Illinois was selected as the lead institution to undertake the “Modernizing Extension and Advisory Systems” (MEAS) project, granted by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID). This five-year project will involve a strategic analysis of the...

The PowerPoint presentation for the AgShare Inception Meeting in Nairobi, Africa can be downloaded and viewed here [952 MB].

News about the AgShare project is officially out! It is on the homepage of MSU News and covered in external local and national news including the Lansing State Journal, Seattle Times, and USA Today.

The aim of the AgShare planning and pilot project is to create a scalable and sustainable collaboration of existing organizations for African publishing, localizing, and sharing of teaching and learning materials that fill critical resource gaps in African MSc agriculture curriculum and that can be modified for other downstream uses.