Online Learning Update

December 8, 2013

5 Missouri universities join together to offer more agriculture classes online

Filed under: Online Learning News — Ray Schroeder @ 12:05 am

By HEATHER HOLLINGSWORTH, Associated Press

One university in the farming state of Missouri has expertise in cotton and another in dairy. Forget it, though, if an agriculture student at one school wanted to learn about the other school’s specialty. But that’s about to change through an experiment, touted as a first of its kind, in which five of the state’s public universities are working together to share some of the agriculture courses that make them unique. Starting in fall 2014, some of these specialty classes will be offered through a combination of online instruction and two-way video feeds that allow instructors to communicate in real time with students at different campuses. Students might even make the occasional weekend trip to the campus teaching the course for some hands-on instruction, said Mike Aide, chairman of the Department of Agriculture at Southeast Missouri State University.

http://www.therepublic.com/view/story/bdaaaa615c9442e98e2c0aa7e9556be0/MO–Agriculture-Coursework-Partnership

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