Dr. Omar Al Ansari, Vice President for Academic Affairs at QU.
Doha: The Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning (CETL), under the Office of the Vice-President for Academic Affairs at Qatar University (QU), recently held its 13th Excellence Day conference with the theme ‘Education through the pandemic and beyond.’
The conference brought together faculty members from across Qatar University to exchange experiences that would increase students’ learning opportunities.
Dr. Omar Al Ansari, Vice-President for Academic Affairs, opened the conference and the keynote speaker Dr. Hessa Al Thani, Assistant Dean for Academic Affairs at the College of Education at QU gave a presentation entitled “Educational Innovation towards a Good Life”.
The forum discussed other topics related to the main topic, such as mix education and learning - flexible mixture, augmented and virtual reality, lessons from the epidemic, the future of education and learning, partial certificates - learning Partial, open education.
The conference was attended by Dr. Tamer Khattab, Director of CETL and members of QU academic staff. The forum was also hosted (remotely) by Professor Josh Bookin, Director of Instructional Support and Development at Harvard Graduate School of Education, where he reviewed the lessons Learned in Harvard classrooms during the pandemic.
In a statement, Dr. Omar Al Ansari, Vice-President for Academic Affairs at QU, said: “The university is currently developing some courses to be held remotely to keep pace with the emerging requirements in education after the COVID-19.
To carry out this task efficiently, the university has already created a new center for E-learning and distance education.”
For his part, Dr. Khattab stated that the university provides activities and courses for faculty members to develop their expertise in education in accordance with the university’s strategic plan, to shift to a learner-centered education based on research and experiment in a creative framework.
