3 hours daily > 81 hours > 27 days | Certificate Fee: $10

HOW TO UNDERTAKE THIS ONLINE CERTIFICATE COURSE

This Online Certificate Course is designed in MOOC 4-Quadrant model. As a learner, you will follow a simple route of learning process and can easily attain knowledge and skills in interesting and easy way.

Developed from the Summer Field School 2021, the Cert-MER is easy and quick to learn the principles and contemporary issues of mountain natural resources. This Short Certificate Course [Cert-MER] requires reading PPTs and other resource material and watching/ listening lecture videos for 3 hours per day. You may complete the Online Short Course in 27 days. However, if you need to complete it in a greater number of days, you can do so. Or, if you need to complete the course in lesser number of days, you can also do so. Once your readings and listening parts are complete, you will undergo an e-Assessment after which the CERTIFICATE will be issued. [In case, you had attended on Zoom the Summer Field School as Learner Participant, you need not to read/listen this course for 27 days; you may directly go to e-Assessment and earn the Certificate].

Although the sequence of your action can be random, reverse or systematic, you are suggested to follow the route as explained below:

Step 1
REGISTER FOR Cert-MER

Either just in the beginning, or in the middle, or in the end of attending this short course, you need to register using the Registration Form online https://forms.gle/iF8Qn18XhuRTur1u8. Better to register before starting the course.

Step 2
e-TUTORIALS + e-RESOURCES

Any time, you may read the e-Resource material [Most of the Lectures are linked with Outline, PPT, Handout, Notes, Bibliography, Other Document], and some have videos too. Likewise, almost all the Lectures and Presentations are linked with Recorded Video (acting as e-Tutorial). For example, when you click a Technical Sessions Group (e.g., https://www.grassrootsglobal.net/mer2020/technical-sessions-group-1.html), you will get 3 sessions of 3 hours each on a particular day. In each of the sessions, you will find 9 symbols in front of each lecture or tutorial. These 9 symbols are linked with one of the items listed above (Outline, PPT, Handout, Notes, Bibliography, Other Document, Recorded Video). The full profile of the Lecturer is also linked with the name of the faculty.

Now you can click sessions organized in 9 different days (9 x 3 = 27):

• Technical Sessions Group-1 (day 1)
  https://www.grassrootsglobal.net/mer2020/technical-sessions-group-1.html
• Technical Sessions Group-2 (day 2)
  https://www.grassrootsglobal.net/mer2020/technical-sessions-group-2.html
• Technical Sessions Group-3 (day 3)
  https://www.grassrootsglobal.net/mer2020/technical-sessions-group-3.html
• Technical Sessions Group-4 (day 4)
  https://www.grassrootsglobal.net/mer2020/technical-sessions-group-4.html
• Technical Sessions Group-5 (day 5)
  https://www.grassrootsglobal.net/mer2020/technical-sessions-group-5.html
• Technical Sessions Group-6 (day 6)
  https://www.grassrootsglobal.net/mer2020/technical-sessions-group-6.html
• Technical Sessions Group-7 (day 7)
  https://www.grassrootsglobal.net/mer2020/technical-sessions-group-7.html
• Technical Sessions Group-8 (day 8)
  https://www.grassrootsglobal.net/mer2020/technical-sessions-group-8.html
• Technical Sessions Group-9 (day 9)
  https://www.grassrootsglobal.net/mer2020/technical-sessions-group-9.html

You may also watch/listen the e-Tutorials Videos directly on the link
https://www.youtube.com/user/grassrootsinstitute/playlists?view=50&shelf_id=1

Step 3
e-ASSESSMENT

When you complete reading/listening the e-Tutorials and e-Resources, you should go for e-Assessment. The e-Assessment is simple QUIZ containing 20 questions. You may attempt this part within 15 minutes. Click the e-Assessment Form https://forms.gle/uFLxLtDDY379PGrq6 and SUBMIT once you fill it completely. Likewise, you are also required to fill in the Feedback Form using the link https://forms.gle/Cu4Sb1HWdR1P9Fjk9. Both the forms (e-Assessment and Feedback) are mandatory to receive a Certificate.

Step 4
e-FORUM

As a participant, your email will be included in Google Group [ggN – Mountain Ecosystems & Resource Management]; hence you will be receiving messages time to time. You may also send SUBSCRIBE message to ggn-mountain-ecosystems@googlegroups.com if you do not receive messages from the group. You should also post your ideas, popular articles, announcements, etc. in this group. Moreover, you should also join the Grassroots Global Network database on the website www.grassrootsglobal.net.

Step 5
EARN THE CERTIFICATE

Once your e-Assessment is submitted, you shall pay the Certificate Fee of USD 10. Click the link https://www.meraevents.com/event/mer2020 and pay using Credit/Debit Card. A ticket will be generated and then our office will match it with your Registration Form and e-Assessment. Subsequently, your Certificate will be sent by email. In case, you do not receive your Certificate after one week of fee payment, you should contact us at fsc@grassrootsglobal.net.

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