Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies

The innovative use of open content to improve food safety in developing countries has earned a team of Michigan State University (MSU) faculty and staff an effective practice award from the Sloan Consortium (Sloan-C). The award recognizes practices that are innovative and advance the goals of access, learning effectiveness, faculty and student satisfaction and scalability.

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. Leslie Bourquin, Professor and Food Safety Specialist for MSU Dept. of Food Science and Human Nutrition

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...

With the increasing demand for safe food and the growing globalization of food production and manufacturing, there is a great need for no-cost, accessible training and educational resources for food safety professionals, especially those working in developing countries where such access is not readily available....

This past July, WorldTAP hosted their annual International Short Course on Food Safety. At this week-long event, food safety professionals from 17 different countries congregated in East Lansing, MI to learn from MSU experts on various food safety topics. MSUglobal partnered with WorldTAP to experiment...

The Food Safety Knowledge Network (FSKN) is a collaboration between the Global Food Safety Initiative and Michigan State University.

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.

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. Kristin Janka Millar, Associate Director of MSU's Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies

Carolina Rossini, a Fellow at the Harvard University Berkman Center for Internet and Society and Coordinator of the Brazilian Open Educational Resources Project, will be on the MSU campus to give a presentation on the Implications of Open Educational Resources (OER) in Higher Education.

Latin America Learning is a project of the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies at Michigan State University.