Suggesting a Prescriptive Model for Online Agricultural Education

Abstract

Online education became mandatory for all institutions throughout the country during the pandemic situation. Higher Educational Institutes adopted this for the completion of degree programs. Agriculture is one of the most professional degrees which require more practical exposure. It is not known whether the online education provided by the State Agricultural Universities (SAUs) in the COVID-19 pandemic was effective or not from the student and teacher perspectives. Previous studies investigated student perception, acceptability and challenges of online education. So far, the prescriptive model has not been suggested in the agriculture stream, considering both students and teachers. At this point, it is need of the hour to prescribe the effective model for online education from both student and teacher perspectives. This model will rectify the errors and correct it in future. A prescriptive model has been suggested for promoting online agricultural education by SAUs in future. This model includes suggestions to government/policy makers, suggestions to institution and suggestions to students.