The National University presented its innovation for the agricultural sector

In order for the students of Agronomic Engineering and Agricultural Engineering at the National University of Colombia (Unal) Palmira Campus to face the current challenges of precision agriculture and the use of agricultural inputs, Agripferty was launched, a Virtual Learning Object (OVA).

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According to its creator, Luis Eduardo Lozano Silva, student of the Master’s Degree in Teaching of Exact and Natural Sciences, “This virtual tool allows students and agricultural professionals to rigorously analyze the essential components, sensors, and automation instrumentation of an agricultural machine.”

Thanks to the success they have had, the institution has indicated that it plans to expand its reach to all campuses, even to students from other institutions, since its access is free and intuitive, “which will only be the beginning of an extensive OVA library used for planting, harvesting and other planned field work in the field of agricultural mechanization,” the university highlighted.

The development of Agripferty was based on the LOCoMe methodology (Learning Objects Construction Methodology), a strategy that guides the construction of virtual learning objects effectively, thereby guaranteeing a representation of agricultural machinery. “The tool is on a 1:1 scale, which allows students to take measurements and define very clearly”Lozano highlighted.

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