Scholarship for a 10-day online course on Information and
Communication Technology (ICT) and Design in agriculture and biodiversity issues is
now open for interested candidates, reports NaijaAgroNet exclusively.
A researcher and practitioner in the application of
Information and Communication Technologies for sustainable development, with focus
on agriculture and natural resources management in developing and emerging
regions, Prof. Simone Sala confirmed
this to NaijaAgroNet.
According to him, the course will be delivered
in January 2015 and will be part of a Master to be held in Italy that will
explore how design could contribute to a variety of fields.
He also advised interested and potential
students to be mindful of the deadline which is January 10, 2014, just as some scholarships are still available for the
course.
NaijaAgroNet
also gathered that for instance, part of the course would be Biodiversity 101
which would afford students to learn about the new outputs for the transmission
of know-how through the Massive Online Open Courses system applied to
biodiversity of the XXI century.
“Together with the Mooc Design 101 team and the Faculty of
Agriculture of the University of Milan, students will build a system of
contents for e-learning in light of Expo2015,” he disclosed, stressing that the
teachings will range from videos to other interactive elements and social media
that convey digital content to the mass community.
He also revealed to NaijaAgroNet
that they are partnering with IdLab, a design company specialised in solving
problems of innovation technology. Its variety of competences allows for
imagining and realising complex projects where technologic and procedural
solutions blend with innovative products and services, for example aesthetics,
language, communication, usability, functionality, ambientation, re-use,
information, sharing, innovation simplification, interaction and sustainability.
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