University MOOC should be added with farmer interested sections and provide individualized service to adapt to farmer training.

ABSTRACT: Vegetables represent an important agricultural industry in China. New farmers and new technologies for vegetable production have emerged in recent years, which makes farmer training very necessary. On the other hand, massive open online courses (MOOCs) are currently widely used in universities. The purpose of this study is to investigate the importance of different sections of a university MOOC focused on olericulture to farmers with different demographic characteristics and provide a basis to improve university MOOCs for farmer training. The survey results suggest that the age, education level, gender, farmer scale, facility type and profit of farmer learners are important factors determining evaluations of the importance of different MOOC sections, indicating that services customized to

SUBMITTER: Zhang ZP 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10621842 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature