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Bihar Agricultural University, Sabour

Bihar Agricultural University, Sabour established on 5th August, 2010 is a basic and strategic institution supporting more than 500 researchers and educationist towards imparting education at graduate and post graduate level, conducting basic, strategic, applied and adaptive research activities, ensuring effective transfer of technologies and capacity building of farmers and extension personnel. The university has 6 colleges (5 Agriculture and 1 Horticulture) and 12 research stations spread in 3 agro-ecological zones of Bihar. The University also has 21 KVKS established in 20 of the 25 districts falling under the jurisdiction of the University. The degree programmes of the university and its colleges have been accredited by ICAR in 2015-16. The university is also an ISO 9000:2008 certified organisation with International standard operating protocols for maintaining highest standards in teaching, research, extension and training.VisionThe Bihar Agricultural University was established with the objective of improving quality of life of people of state especially famers constituting more than two third of the population. Having set ultimate goal of benefitting society at large, the university intends to achieve it by imparting word-class need based agricultural education, research, extension and public service.

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    Instructors’ Motivation, Instructional Quality and Perceived Challenges in Development of MOOCs
    (Department of Extension Education, BAU, Sabour, 2021-03) Anand, Rohini; Datt, Ram
    A Massive Open Online course (MOOCs) is a free web based programme of learning that has unlimited participants. It has been designed for geographically dispersed students. It is a new concept started in 2008 which is now experiencing a wider acceptance. To find the purpose behind offering MOOCs by instructors can be a very new topic under which research can be carried out. The instructional quality and perceived challenges while designing and development of MOOCs can be very interesting topic. This study was conducted on topic “Instructors’ Motivation, Instructional Quality and Perceived Challenges in Development of MOOCs” with the specific objectives 1) To identify instructors’ motivation in development of MOOCs 2) To measure perceived instructional quality of MOOCs for effective teaching 3) To document perceived challenges in development of MOOCs. This study was conducted online through Google form. In India, there are mainly two platforms involved in conducting MOOCs programme namely SWAYAM and agMOOCs portal. The respondents were mainly selected from these two platforms for the study. The result showed that instructors were offering MOOCs because they find it enjoyable and interesting to do so. They were intrinsically motivated and were confident enough to perform this task in a more competent way. They believe in one’s ability to complete their task in a more successful way. The instructional quality is one of the most important function or components in MOOCs. The result of this study revealed that skill development, collective knowledge among the learners and the MOOCs associated with real world problem were most important instructional qualities to be focused on. Coming towards the result of our objective three, the main problem associated with MOOCs designing is content development which can fulfill the demand of learners, engaging learners to stay connected till the end. Other hurdles can be summarized as time limitation of developing MOOCs, technical issues, managing MOOCs platform, getting learner feedback and internet speed. In conclusion, this study recommended that instructors with high self- efficacy are involved in the MOOCs development as it requires a high commitment to tackle all the barriers involved in designing and development of MOOCs.