scholarly journals ICT Experiences in Two Different Middle Eastern Universities

10.28945/3036 ◽  
2006 ◽  
Author(s):  
Abdallah Tubaishat ◽  
Arif Bhatti ◽  
Eyas El-Qawasmeh
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
United Arab Emirates ◽  
Middle Eastern ◽  
Arab Countries ◽  
Adoption Of Technology ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
Impact Of Technology ◽  
Religious Reasons ◽  
Motivation And Confidence ◽  
The Impact

This research explores the impact of technology and culture on higher education in two Arab countries. In western countries where higher education is common, individuals regardless of their gender can meet, communicate, and collaborate at anytime at any place of their choice. This may not be true in Arab countries due to the social, cultural, and religious reasons. We argue that adoption of technology could provide a comparable learning environment to students in these countries. We present results of a case study based on surveys conducted in two universities, Jordan University of Science and Technology (JUST) in Jordan and Zayed University (ZU) in United Arab Emirates (UAE). Survey results show that adoption of technology has (a) improved the motivation and confidence level of students, (b) improved their communication and technical skills, (c) encouraged students to collaborate using Information and Communication Technology (ICT) tools, and (d) allowed students to be more independent. These improvements would not have been possible without technology in a gender-segregated society.

Interdisciplinary Pedagogies in Higher Education

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Debora DeZure
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Problem Solving ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Interdisciplinary Learning ◽  
Professional Students ◽  
Online Tools ◽  
Interdisciplinary Problem Solving ◽  
The Many ◽  
Impact Of Technology ◽  
The Impact

“Interdisciplinary Pedagogies in Higher Education” explores the increasing integration of goals for interdisciplinary learning in American higher education. The chapter begins with working definitions of interdisciplinary learning and the many factors that have led to its proliferation. It then reviews the elaboration of new methods to teach and to assess interdisciplinary learning, emerging models of interdisciplinary problem-solving, and practice-oriented resources and online tools to assist undergraduate, graduate, and professional students and their instructors with interdisciplinary problem-solving and communications in cross-disciplinary and interprofessional contexts. The chapter concludes with the impact of technology, for example, e-portfolios and other digital and technology-enabled tools, and evidence of an emerging body of scholarship of teaching and learning focused on interdisciplinary learning.

E-Transformation in Higher Education and What It Coerces for the Faculty

2019 ◽  
pp. 355-378
Author(s):  
Ela Akgün-Özbek ◽  
Ali Ekrem Özkul
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Faculty Development ◽  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Digital Age ◽  
Development Programs ◽  
Global Trends ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
The Impact

With the phenomenal developments in information and communication technologies, higher education has been facing an unprecedented challenge that affects all the stakeholders. Faculty is no exception. The authors synthesize the demographic, economic, and pedagogical factors that lead to a paradigm shift in higher education and the global trends in digital technologies that impel digital transformation in higher education. They then provide a snapshot of how higher education institutions respond to this challenge and change, and the impact of these factors on the roles and competencies of faculty that need to be covered in faculty development initiatives in the digital age. Finally, examples of faculty development programs and initiatives that address the digital competencies of faculty are provided along with a summary of faculty development models for teaching and learning in the digital age.

Role of Corporate Universities in Higher Education

2015 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 30-43 ◽  
Author(s):  
Neeta Baporikar
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
United Arab Emirates ◽  
Global Economy ◽  
Middle Eastern ◽  
Corporate University ◽  
Learning And Development ◽  
Corporate Universities ◽  
Knowledge Based ◽  
Current State

Learning and development has become increasingly challenging, critical, sophisticated and vital in knowledge based global economy. This trend is now accelerating in the rest of Asia and the Middle East. Corporations such as Infosys in India, Huawei in China, Singapore Airlines in Singapore and Etisalat in the United Arab Emirates have well-established corporate universities/learning centers. Other Asian and Middle Eastern corporations, both large and small, are following suit and allocating huge resources to strengthen their learning and development function. As corporate universities make new waves, the days of viewing them as training departments with fancy names are gone. Besides, the corporate university movement has become truly global in scope with them becoming sophisticated and highly visible world over. Using published research and the author's own work, this paper explores the current state of the corporate university and role of corporate university in higher education.

scholarly journals United States Economic Sanctions on Iran and Their Impacts on the Middle Eastern Art Market

Arts ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 132
Author(s):  
Ahmad Rafiei Vardanjani
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
United Arab Emirates ◽  
Middle Eastern ◽  
Art Market ◽  
The United States ◽  
Online Marketing ◽  
Regional Market ◽  
Middle Eastern Art ◽  
Networked Economy ◽  
The Impact

The United States’ sanctions on Iran have limited the Iranian art market’s connections with the international art network. Galleries try to compensate for such limitations through online marketing and exhibition. Thus, the sanctions not only impact the form of marketing exerted by dealers but also directly influence the type of artistic production. Such changes also reshape the art market in the Arab states. The transition from tangible to intangible has become a strategy for the regional market to bypass the sanctions and develop business with the global collectors and institutions. A quantitative analysis was used to demonstrate the impact of the sanctions on the art market in Iran and the United Arab Emirates. This analysis examined all exhibitions in 12 commercial galleries in Tehran and Dubai from 2009 to 2019, statistically assessing the index of changes over this period and calculating the variations, particularly during the years of intensified sanctions. The study indicates how the propensity of galleries for a digitally networked economy is becoming a solution to reduce the impacts of the sanctions in order for the galleries to maintain their clientele of international collectors and dealers.

scholarly journals Information and Communication Technologies in A Postgraduate TESOL Program: A Human Capital Investment

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Manal AlMarwani
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Capital Investment ◽  
Faculty Members ◽  
Ict Integration ◽  
Postgraduate Students ◽  
National Education ◽  
National Education System ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
The Impact

With the global advancements in Information and Communication Technology (ICT) and the national and international demand for well-developed ICT skills and competencies, academic programs at higher education institutions need to make necessary adjustments to content and processes. This study reports on the current ICT integration practices in a TESOL postgraduate program at a Saudi Arabian university, addressing viewpoints at administrative, faculty, and postgraduate student levels. Three different questionnaires were used to answer the following questions: What are the TESOL postgraduate students’ practices of ICT integration, and how do they perceive their professors’ practices? What ICT integration practices do faculty members use, and how do they perceive the merit and desirability of their practices? And ‘How is ICT integration tackled at the administrative level with respect to policy and procedures, infrastructure, training, and technical support? The findings indicate that ICT integration practices in this program are lagging expectations. This is not a matter of attitude, potential, and challenges in the current situation, but is related to understanding the national ICT policy and developing sustainable strategies at an institutional level to guide and support faculty members’ practices. Since the impact of such changes will go beyond higher education to the broader national education system, much more attention needs to be dedicated to teacher education and professional development programs, including TESOL postgraduate programs.

scholarly journals Digital Technology Education and its Impact on Traditional Academic Roles and Practice

2010 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 24-41
Author(s):  
Jennifer Sappey ◽  
◽  
Stephen Relf ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Traditional Teaching ◽  
Work Identity ◽  
Learning And Teaching ◽  
Labour Process ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
The Impact

This paper explores the interface between digital technologies and the teaching labour process in Australian higher education. We develop an adaptation of the seminal Clark (1983, 1994, 2001) and Kozma (1991, 1994) debate about whether technology merely delivers educational content unchanged – technology as the ‘delivery truck’ – or whether education is changed as a result of using different technologies – education as ‘groceries’. Our adaptation is an extension of this metaphor to include the academic teacher as the driver of the grocery truck. With the implementation of new educational technologies, the human resource management aspects of job design, motivation, skilling and work identity are often overlooked, with critical debate about the impact on the teaching labour process seldom considered. In this argument, we will unpack the Clark-Kozma dichotomy of the education/technology interface by looking beyond the embedding of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) in Australian higher education to examine more broadly the changes to the traditional academic role as the creator, developer and delivery agent of the educational groceries. This has been reinforced by the marketisation of the sector and the concomitant reconfiguration of the traditional teaching process. All this has led to changes in the sense of work identity for academics (McShane, 2006). While we embrace ICT as a potential benefit for both students and academic teachers, we seek to ensure that the ‘truck driver’s’ evolving role is acknowledged in scholarly debates and included in models of learning and teaching if long-term sustainable work practices are to be achieved. One such model is offered.

scholarly journals THE IMPACT OF E-LEARNING TECHNOLOGIES ON QUALITY OF HIGHER EDUCATION

PRIMO ASPECTU ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 50-65
Author(s):  
Elena A. GORBASHKO ◽  
Natalia Sh. VATOLKINA
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Global Education ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Digital Transformation ◽  
Learning Technology ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
E Learning ◽  
The Impact

Digital transformation of society and economy led to the rapid spread of information and communication technologies (ICT) in higher education, which became a new driver of development for global education and for the emergence of the phenomena of e-learning and blended learning, introduction of new types of educational resources, and increased diversity of information and communication technologies in higher education, which also led to a rise in the number of publications in this field. The article considers the essence and offers a classification of technical tools of e-learning. The authors conducted a comparative analysis of approaches to the formation of models of quality of electronic services and information technologies, as well as specific models of e-learning quality. This allowed the authors to propose a model of e-learning quality and determine the set of consumer properties of e-learning technology. The reported study was funded by RFBR, project number 20-010-00571 "The Impact of Digital Transformation on Improving the Quality and Innovation of Services".

scholarly journals The Future of Undergraduate Education: Will Differences across Sectors Exacerbate Inequality?

Daedalus ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 148 (4) ◽  
pp. 108-137
Author(s):  
Daniel I. Greenstein
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Undergraduate Education ◽  
Technology Innovation ◽  
Educational Innovation ◽  
Public Funds ◽  
The Past ◽  
Recent Trends ◽  
Impact Of Technology ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Innovation In Higher Education

This essay looks at how different sectors of U.S. higher education are funded, the students they serve, and the outcomes they deliver for those students. It raises serious policy questions about whether the distribution of public funds across this highly segmented industry both reflects and contributes to growing inequality in this country. It also asks whether recent trends in educational innovation and the impact of technology innovation in higher education will exacerbate or ameliorate that inequality. While the evidence is disturbing, the essay concludes optimistically. The past, it suggests, need not be prologue in higher education. The path forward for our industry, while highly constrained, can as yet be shaped through thoughtful, conscious, and analytically driven choices at individual, institutional, and state and federal policy levels.

The Impact of Technology on Assessment and Evaluation in Higher Education

2011 ◽  
pp. 222-235 ◽  
Author(s):  
James P. Van Haneghan
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Classroom Assessment ◽  
Assessment Practices ◽  
Organizational Assessment ◽  
Assessment And Evaluation ◽  
Summative Assessments ◽  
The Social ◽  
Technological Tools ◽  
Impact Of Technology ◽  
The Impact

This chapter explores the impact of technology on assessment and evaluation in higher education. The impacts on classroom, program, and organizational assessment are discussed. Both formative and summative assessments in classrooms have been impacted by emerging technologies. However, the impact of many of the technological tools developed by measurement specialists has not been as widespread as one would expect given the age of many assessment technologies. Nevertheless, there remains a great potential for new measurement technologies to significantly improve classroom assessment practices. Technology for organizational assessment has continued to boom in light of the dual push for both accountability and continuous improvement by accreditors. The social impacts and burden of organizational assessment and evaluation are discussed. Overall, it is concluded that in order to evaluate the impact of technology, attention needs to be paid to the consequences of both classroom and organization assessment.

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