Shifting from Outreach to Engagement: Transforming Moi University’s Response to Current Development Trends in Agricultural Research and Training in Eastern,Central and Southern Africa
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The RUFORUM funded Outreach Project of Moi University
aims at enhancing interaction between university faculty,
students, farmers and other stakeholders concerned with
agricultural production and developing teaching programs for
effective learning. A series of meetings have been held to discuss
and analyze current training at the faculty of agriculture and
propose changes to ensure farmers adopt technologies
developed at the universities. Through experiential learning
methodologies, it is envisaged that universities will produce
graduates with skills to communicate effectively with farmers.
Experiential learning may require additional set of resources in
the faculties in terms of additional capital investment or additional
student and faculty time. Because of the changing marketing
trends and the new crop of students that are more social and
interactive, it is time that teaching in curried out in an experiential
learning platform to maintain interest and motivation of the
students and meet the changing market trends.
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