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Workshop on online teaching at AUS

The workshop is a part of AUS-Unesco efforts to promote online teaching and learning. The opening ceremony will be held on March 9 at the Lecture Hall B of AUS main building.

It will be attended by AUS Chancellor, Dr Winfred Thompson, director of the Unesco's Cairo office, and academic and education officials.

Conducted by a team of American experts, including Dr Iris Stovall, Director of the Online Learning Programme at University of Illinois, the workshop will provide hands-on training to some 25 faculty members from the UAE and AGCC institutions of higher education.

It will provide participants with the knowledge needed to create, manage and teach high quality, interactive, fully online or Web-enhanced courses. Learning activities include presentations, discussions of important issues, exploration of example online courses and hands-on training.

To help maximise the benefits derived from these workshops, a fully interactive training kit on the topics covered by the Online Teaching and Learning Workshop is also being developed.

A public panel discussion will be held at 5.30pm on March 10 in the Lecture Hall A of the AUS main building and is open to everyone.

In this panel, US experts alongside professors from UAE universities (AUS, UAE University, and Zayed University), will speak on "Online learning: challenges and benefits."

Online teaching and learning represents a novel educational area of growing importance worldwide as well as in the region.

Many universities, as is the case of AUS and other institutions in the UAE and the Gulf, where IT infrastructure is excellent, have either already adopted this approach in their modes of education delivery or are in the process of doing so.

To help prepare faculty in this region for this innovative teaching and learning scheme, the Unesco's Cairo Office, which oversees the regional educational development programmes, has chosen this area for its training workshops.

The workshop is co-sponsored by the Arab Fund for Economic and Social Development, the OPEC Fund, and the Agfund.

A photo exhibition, "Picturesque Expressions," by Jean Boisvert, a faculty member of the School of Business and Management at AUS, will open on March 8 at 7.30pm in the main building.

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