Title: Agricultural informatics: emphasising potentiality and proposed model on innovative and emerging Doctor of Education in Agricultural Informatics program for smart agricultural systems

Authors: Prantosh K. Paul; R. Rajesh; Perdoor Sreeramana Aithal

Addresses: Department of CIS, Raiganj University, Raiganj, WB, India ' Rohini College of Engineering and Technology, Kanyakumari Main Road, Near Anjugramam, Palkulam, Anjugramam, Tamil Nadu 629401, TN, India ' Srinivas University, Srinivas Nagar, Mukka, Surathkal, Mangalore – 574146, India

Abstract: International universities are changing with their style of operation, mode of teaching and learning operations. This change is noticeable rapidly in India and also in international contexts due to healthy and innovative methods, educational strategies, and nomenclature throughout the world. Technologies are changing rapidly, including ICT. Different subjects are developed in the fields of IT and computing with the interaction or applications to other fields, viz. health informatics, bio informatics, agriculture informatics, and so on. Agricultural informatics is an interdisciplinary subject dedicated to combining information technology and information science utilisation in agricultural sciences. The digital agriculture is powered by agriculture informatics practice. For teaching, research and development of any subject educational methods is considered as important and various educational programs are there in this regard viz. Bachelor of Education, Master of Education, PhD in Education, etc. Degrees are also available to deal with the subjects and agricultural informatics should not be an exception of this. In this context, Doctor of Education (EdD or DEd) is an emerging degree having features of skill sets, courses and research work. This paper proposed on EdD program with agricultural informatics specialisation for improving healthy agriculture system. Here, a proposed model core curriculum is also presented.

Keywords: agriculture ICT; ICT in agriculture; educational degrees; agricultural informatics; Doctor of Education; EdD; DEd.

DOI: 10.1504/IJENM.2024.142409

International Journal of Enterprise Network Management, 2024 Vol.15 No.4, pp.417 - 443

Received: 16 Feb 2023
Accepted: 24 Jun 2023
Published online: 29 Oct 2024 *

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