scholarly journals Effectiveness of the Conceptual Change Approach in Improving Teachers’ Conceptions of Assessment at the University of Bahrain

2016 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 233-256
Author(s):  
Numan M. Al-Musawi
Keyword(s):  
Conceptual Change ◽  
Conceptions Of Assessment ◽  
University Of Bahrain ◽  
The University ◽  
Conceptual Change Approach

scholarly journals Exploring Effective Practices in Managing Distance Learning for Teaching Art and Design in Bahrain

2021 ◽  
Vol 20 (6) ◽  
pp. 66-87
Author(s):  
Sama’a Al Hashimi
Keyword(s):  
Distance Learning ◽  
Focus Group ◽  
Online Teaching ◽  
Descriptive Analysis ◽  
Effective Practices ◽  
Art And Design ◽  
Hands On ◽  
Digital Environments ◽  
University Of Bahrain ◽  
The University

As universities move to virtual learning, the need to explore the most effective practices for remotely teaching art and design students became very critical. It is very important to examine the strategies universities are using to efficiently transfer skills and knowledge and meet the needs of students through an online learning environment. Art and design classes involve hands-on activities and requirements that cannot easily be met in digital environments. Therefore, the study aims to investigate the creative approaches that art and design educators adopted to transition to remote teaching. The study involved conducting an online focus group with eleven art and design educators at The University of Bahrain to investigate the experiences, perceptions, and the challenges they faced while teaching art and design remotely during the Covid-19 Pandemic. The focus group engaged the educators in a semi-structured discussion in order to gather qualitative data that would allow for a descriptive analysis of their online teaching experiences and the most effective approaches they implemented. Thus, the study is undertaken to determine the most effective practices that can be employed by educators to engage students and enhance the distance learning process in an art and design online environment. The findings suggested that the main challenges that are peculiar to art and design distance learning include difficulty in clearly seeing the value of the colors in a student’s artwork on screen and the unavailability of features that support art and design remote teaching in the currently available learning management systems.

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