Screening the Undergraduate Courses for Developing Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) in Agricultural Education: Application of Paired Comparison Method

The transformation of how education is imparted from the physical books of the distance education to self-learning tools in the form of e-learning courses to the recently introduced Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) have provided immense opportunities for the students. The paper takes into consideration the existing strength of the agricultural content available for the students and the expected courses desired by the teaching community. A paired comparison test was used to determine the difference between the two courses suitable for MOOC development arranged in pairs. The results reveal that the non-credit courses (R scale value= 1.174) offered by the agricultural universities need special consideration for the development of MOOCs. The findings imply the current development of content in agricultural education, which should be more focused on the non-credit courses being interdisciplinary and offered to the postgraduate students.