Design and Implementation of an Online Tutorial on Fish Farming and Production
Chapter One
OBJECTIVES OF THE STUDY
This project is aimed at implementing an e-learning tutorial through the development of a website expected to be published over the internet, a CAL application package that will be installed on a computer, and an e-book in portal document format (PDF); this is to provide different remedy platforms for the shortcoming found in the training, production, and development of fish farming in our nation.
Focusing on the above, the objectives of the study are to develop e-learning tutorial applications that are capable of:
- Provide coherent instruction for the selected section of learning
- Provide media training on the selected section.
- Encouraging individual in different geo-graphical locations who wish to start up fish farming and production, but with no knowledge of it as it will bring to their doorstep a video tutorial on how to start it up.
- Enhancing the student’s practical knowledge and broadening their theoretical knowledge.
- Creating a more interactive way of learning process.
- Overcoming most factors affecting effecting learning such as noise.
- Accommodation of learner’s unrestricted learning schedule as they can access it any time they wish.
- Promoting quick assimilation of information.
- Providing accurate and high-quality content value.
CHAPTER TWO
LITERATURE OF REVIEW
INTRODUCTION
This chapter of this project presentation attempts to consider the various opinions of some scholars and practitioners as regards to the development and implementation of e-learning in the educational sector. It considers the challenges faced by the traditional teaching and learning procedure and how to use tutorial learning procedure as a supportive approach to traditional teaching and learning procedure in the acquisition of knowledge and skills. It also reviews the factors affecting effective implementation of e-learning especially in the under developed and the developing countries. Also the benefit of fish farming, problems and challenges, how to start up the business. Finally, it suggested various ways through which the intending factors to the efficient e-learning procedure could be overcome.
THE REASON FISH FARMERS CRASH IN FISH FARMING
Due to the following reasons listed below, most of those who started fish farming and production ends up to failure are of the following reason.
- Absolutely no Market: Bad fish farmers begin looking for a market for fish when the sea food are ready for purchase. Meanwhile, because they are usually still feeding, the pool attains its maximum running and fish stop growing. The longer the fish stay in the pond after they have got stopped growing, the smaller sized the profit margin two.
- Poor Farm Siting: Including in a place together with inadequate water supply, bad soils for pond building (e. g. may possibly be rocky), far away coming from markets and/or supplies, and many others.
- Poor farm in addition to facility design: Pond dikesnot really compacted properly, leak a good deal, may be too low, and consequently construction in addition to maintenance costs become too high while optimum yields will not be achieved. Poor accessibility to ponds, requiring workers to walk across difficult ground to transfer fish coming from pond to vehicle or maybe vice-versa.
- Don’t employ the right people. Entrepreneurs employ the right people who are qualified for a selected job. Hiring family members who have minimal desire to learn proper fish farming techniques is a liability because most people find it difficult to dismiss them even after they have become apparent that they are the real reason for the poor performance from the fish farm.
- Absentee Owners/Managers: Deal with farms by remote command or telephone. No primary involvement in production in addition to management activities of the particular farm.
- Irregular in addition to improper feeding: This ranges from complete lack of knowledge about the nutritional requirements and feeding of catfish to attempts at lowering costs by using cheap feeds. Some farmers just will not feed their fish given that they think fish will increase as long as there’re in water. They don’t realize that like all wildlife, best performance would be obtained if your fish have a well-balanced dietand that the feed must be palatable, easily digestible and does not disintegrate into the water prior to a fish can consume this.
CHAPTER THREE
RESEARCH DESIGN, METHODOLOGY AND ANALYSIS
INTRODUCTION
This chapter examines the existing system with the aim of identifying its short comings and designing a new system which will enhance its performance and efficiency. Each of the steps involved in the investigations and analysis stipulate the necessary requirements for actualizing this purpose.
FEASIBILITY STUDY FOR A STANDARD FISH FARM
I found the analysis below from Kings Way Agro Services and decided to add it as sample case study you can follow.
“This feasibility study prepared for a catfish farm capacity of 10,000 and fingerlings of high breed catfish where to be stocked. The expenses from pond construction to marketing are considered. The farm is to have 10 concrete ponds of flow through system and each pond is to contain 1,000 stocked catfish.
Cost of constructing each pond is as follows.
Each pond is 3m x 2.5m by 1.4m, each pond consumes 210 blocks and each bag of cement for 30 blocks. Hence 210 x 10 = 2,100 blocks. 2,100/30 = 70 bags of cement needed. 2000 x 70 = 140,000 naira.
4trips of sand used =7,000×4 = N28,000
2trips of gravel = 32,000x 2 = N64,00
Cost of labour = N150,00
Cost of plumbing (inlet and outlet facility) = N100,000.
Cost of bore hole = N150,000.
Cost of treatment = N50,000.
Cost of high breed fingerlings 30×10,000 = N300,000.
Cost of feeding from day one to maturity stage is 200 bags of foreign feed = N1,000,000.
After the average weight of the fish was 1.7kg. And it was sold at 800 naira each. The output was 800×9800 fishes, due to 200 mortality. 800 x 9800 = N7,840,000.
CHAPTER FOUR
IMPLEMENTATION AND TESTING
INTRODUCTION
This chapter stipulates and discusses the necessary development and implementation requirement for actualizing the proposed e-learning system for online tutorial of fish farming, it also describes and explains the necessary procedures to be followed for the development, testing, and implementation of the proposed system and other development and/or implementation related issues.
CHAPTER FIVE
SUMMARY, RECOMMENDATIONS AND CONCLUTIONS
SUMMARY
This project is aimed at this, design and implementation of an e-learning tutorial site where individual or users can get log in and train them self on how to start up a fish farm and production. The objectives of the proposed system the online tutorial e-learning center, generally, centered on development of knowledge and entrepreneurship in the society. In addition, the implementation, the management, and updating of the fish farming tutorial e-learning system will be manned by the administrator of the site – the development and management team.
RECOMMENDATION
As the efficiencies of high speed networks transform the pre digital structure of a place-based academic, we should expect to see many student teams using the kind of synchronous tools to self-manage the more complex learning tasks of higher education. VOIP and application sharing in particular can create in expensive cyberspaces where geo distributed students can perform their learning work through the preferred medium for intense communication talk.
This project workwill render a quality of service with respect to the impacting of knowledge to the users This is based on the perspective that the project, if actualized, will serve as an outstanding example to the community.
CONCLUSION
E-learning is becoming more popular day after day due to the rapid technological advancements made especially in ICT. Disappointedly, the under-developed countries like Nigeria are yet to implement e-learning effectively, for the acquisition of Education, knowledge, skills and training. This is partly because of the inadequacy of the required infrastructure and the improper attention given to its impact.
The virtual classroom and text based E- learning system will go a long way helping any user who wish to learn how to farm fishes and produce it.
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