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Tips and Tricks - Online Learning

To help and guide you to complete your supplemental courses.

  • Treat your online course as you would any other course you are taking.
  • Determine how much time you can set aside each week for the online course and include it in your current course timetable/schedule. If for example you have no classes on Friday morning, slot in your course for Friday morning. That way you ensure that every Friday from 10:00 am to 12:00 noon you will focus on this online course.
  • Stick to the schedule that you set and review your progress against the course curriculum every 2 weeks. Determine if you need to make changes.
  • Do not timetable the online courses for the weekend. As students you want your weekends to study, complete an assignment, party, spend time with family and friends etc.
  • Find a good study space (e.g. the library, study hall etc.) and ensure that you are not distracted.
  • Treat the online course as you would treat any of your other taught courses or ones that are in classrooms.
  • Pretend you have to teach the information you are studying to a class or a group of people. This may allow you to express what you are learning out loud and to try to explain what you are learning as though you are teaching others.
  • Take notes just as you would in a face-to-face class as taking notes helps with retaining information and better understanding of content.
  • Consider engaging with others that are taking the course as this provides an opportunity to share thoughts or even get help in understanding a concept.
  • If you keep getting distracted or zoning out when you are trying to take the course, walk away, take a short break, maybe even have something to eat and drink and then get back to it.
  • Limit the use of social media while taking your online courses. Once you start scrolling through a social media page, you often do not realize how much time may pass.
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AgriConnect Innovation and Difference

AgriConnect promises: 

  • That the technology deployed and the capacity built through the supplemental course content related to value chain development, digital literacy and entrepreneurship in the agricultural sector will drive the impact, scale and interest of youth, women, and differently-abled persons in the agriculture sector, and importantly bridge the digital divide. 

  • To address the urgent need to reduce the extent of labour under-utilisation among youth. 

  • To place focus on education and training to enable youth in agriculture to benefit from new and emerging opportunities in agriculture. The knowledge products that are being designed and disseminated through the devices will be innovative, culturally relevant, and fully aligned with the needs of the labour market and importantly capture the interest and imagination of youth in Ghana. 

  • That the activities and outputs of the Programme will in the near future support the modernization of the agriculture sector by boosting productivity and supporting the development of agribusiness, thereby creating the linkages between farms and plots and other economic activities such as manufacturing and agro-processing. 

  • To be innovative in its approach as the Programme is designed to bring scale and impact by allowing youth, women and differently-abled persons to align their educational qualifications in agribusiness, digital skills and value chain development with dignified and meaningful jobs that will allow them to maximise the potential of their entrepreneurial spirits towards improved and sustainable livelihoods. 

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