QOU organizes a Workshop entitled Mobile Devices and Designing Education

QOU organizes a Workshop entitled Mobile Devices and Designing Education

Continuing Education and Community Service Center, in cooperation with PICTI, organized a workshop entitled Mobile Devices and Designing Education in Ramallah City and under the auspices of Prof. Younes Amr, the President of the University.

The Workshop was held following the Conference of Smart Learning for Community Service that was organized by QOU previously. The Vice President for Academic Affairs Prof. Sameer El-Najdi, welcomed the guests and initiated the workshop with a speech, in which he praised the efforts of CEC for organizing a workshop that tackles an important topic.

The Director of CEC, Mr. Mahmoud Hawamdeh explained that the workshop demonstrates the use of Mobile devices in education. Mr. Maher Alawneh from PICTI stated that the cooperation between the two institutions aims at benefiting the community and addressing rising conventional topics around the world.

The main speaker of the Workshop is Prof. John Traxler, an expert in Mobile learning at University of Wolverhampton, who presented a research paper that tackled a number of challenges facing using Mobiles in education, the most important one is that smart learning is not up to date with the surrounding environment. He added that smart learning is not utilized in the most optimal way to have a real impact on education. Moreover, smart learning can’t be applied in many areas around the world. He later proposed some recommendations for the challenges, stating that smart learning can be connected with the needs of the community through adopting new technologies and enhancing the quality of life from social, economic, agricultural, and healthy wise. He further stated that smart learning can have a lower cost than conventional education and it’s more flexible as it can be available in more areas.