Showing posts with label IJCRP. Show all posts
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Wednesday, November 11, 2020

Peer teaching approach helps learners become WeRise experts


West Nusa Tenggara, Indonesia – “I hear and I forget, I see and I remember, I do and I understand.”  
Studies have shown that learning retention is better when students teach what they have learned. Peer teaching is a strategy used by the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) - Japan Collaborative Research Project (IJCRP) in its capacity-building program for agricultural extension workers (AEWs) to deliver timely and accurate information to rainfed rice farmers through the use of the Weather-rice-nutrient integrated decision support system (WeRise).