<> "The repository administrator has not yet configured an RDF license."^^ . <> . . . "Quenching the Thirst: Open\r\nEducational Resources in Support\r\nof Drought Mitigation at the\r\nInternational Crops Research\r\nInstitute for the Semi-Arid Tropics"^^ . "Drought threatens the economic well-being of hundreds of millions of people\r\nand can have a long-term impact on the ecology in many places across the globe.\r\nRecent inter-governmental efforts reveal that preparedness is more effective than\r\nrelief in mitigating drought’s impact. To foster drought preparedness amongst\r\nrural communities, highly focussed learning and support processes and systems\r\nare required. The International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics\r\nestablished a group of relevant activities under the rubric of the Virtual Academy\r\nfor the Semi-Arid Tropics. These activities are anchored by a set of practices for\r\nlearning content creation that are premised on creating and/or using OER in\r\nthe form of reusable learning objects. The intended groups of learners are rural\r\nwomen whose exposure to the classroom milieu is nil or limited at best. The\r\nprocess of content creation and the support systems for content delivery were\r\ndesigned to accommodate these learners’ requirements. This chapter provides\r\na number of the details of this process, then presents and discusses the results.\r\nWhat emerges is a picture of a value-chain wherein OER from highly regarded\r\ntechnical resources is created for the intended audience, iterated for quality and\r\ndelivered via rural information centres to the learners; these learners become\r\nthe new contact points for hundreds of farmers to consult as sources of expertise\r\nto solve a range of production-related problems in drought situations. Specially\r\ndeveloped techniques involving a geographic information system are also briefly\r\ndescribed."^^ . "2013" . . . "Commonwealth of Learning and OER Asia"^^ . . "Commonwealth of Learning and OER Asia"^^ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . "D"^^ . "Porter"^^ . "D Porter"^^ . . "V"^^ . "Balaji"^^ . "V Balaji"^^ . . "G"^^ . "Dhanarajan"^^ . "G Dhanarajan"^^ . . "W D"^^ . "Dar"^^ . "W D Dar"^^ . . . . . . "Quenching the Thirst: Open\r\nEducational Resources in Support\r\nof Drought Mitigation at the\r\nInternational Crops Research\r\nInstitute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (PDF)"^^ . . . "Dar-balaji-OER.pdf"^^ . . "HTML Summary of #6438 \n\nQuenching the Thirst: Open \nEducational Resources in Support \nof Drought Mitigation at the \nInternational Crops Research \nInstitute for the Semi-Arid Tropics\n\n" . "text/html" . . . "Information Science"@en . .