Smart Agriculture
Welcome! Ready to join the online learning community of the #1 Agricultural University in the world? So if you are interested in online courses about agriculture, livestock breeding, sustainable food production, you have come to the right place! We offer MOOCs and complete online programmes for all those eager to address the serious challenges we face, like how to feed 10 billion people in the world. Join us and study agriculture online.
What is a MOOC?
A MOOC is a Massive Open Online Course. It's a course, open to anyone and easily accessible from all over the world. If you want, you can obtain an edX® certificate from Wageningen University & Research after completion, for a small fee. More than 800.000 learners already enrolled in a MOOC.
Why should you join an online course at Wageningen University & Research?
- You study at the #1 Agricultural University in the world
- More than 1 million learners followed a MOOC
- You study at your own pace, online from wherever you are in the world
- You will join an amazing online community addressing world’s biggest challenges.
- All MOOCs are taught by our own top professors and are based on the latest scientific evidence
Want to follow a MOOC?
You can access the MOOC from all over the world. You study in your own time, whenever you want. Discover which course is best for you:
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MOOC Sustainable Food Security: The value of systems thinking
- Learn how to apply systems thinking to improve the environmental sustainability of food production systems in this course. This online course is... -
MOOC Sustainable Food Security: Crop Production
- How to feed the world without depleting our planet’s reserves? Learn the basics of crop production. This online course is offered as a MOOC, and... -
MOOC Drainage in Agriculture: controlling water and salt levels in the soil
- Get prepared for heavier rainfall and the increasing demand for food! The #1 Agricultural University of the world will teach you how to design and... -
MOOC Agricultural Water Management: Water, Society and Technology Interactions
- Would you like to meet the increasing food demands around the world by contributing to optimisation of water governance and technologies? At... -
MOOC Genetic Models for Animal Breeding
- Understand the genetic and statistic principles that enable responsible animal breeding. Learn how to set up a breeding programme and apply genetic... -
MOOC Plant Based Diets: Food for a Sustainable Future
- When you hear of the enormous global challenges we face, don’t you wish you could actually do something about it? Well, you can! Grab an apple... -
MOOC Evaluating Animal Breeding Programmes
- Learn how to evaluate an ongoing breeding programme in terms of both genetic progress and genetic diversity, and how to translate that genetic... -
MOOC Climate Action in Biodiverse Landscapes
- There is no planet B. It’s time to take effective climate action for which collaboration and innovation are key. This online course will boost... -
MOOC Landscape Governance: Collaborating Across Sectors and Scales
- Join this open and online course and find local solutions to global challenges by relying on collaboration and innovation. Get the knowledge and... -
MOOC Landscape Leadership: Catalyse Sustainable Development in Landscapes
- Learn how to become a landscape leader! Get the skills to mobilise resources, manage and resolve conflict and facilitate and motivate stakeholders to...