- Al-Awar: We’re dedicated to supporting and empowering PhD college students and strengthening our partnership with the Worldwide Council for Open and Distance Training
His Excellency Dr. Mansour Al-Awar, Chancellor of Hamdan Bin Mohammed Good College (HBMSU), acquired Ms. Torunn Gjelsvik, Secretary Basic of the Worldwide Council for Open and Distance Training (ICDE). The bilateral assembly mentioned the strategic partnership between HBMSU and ICDE aimed to re-launch the World Doctoral Consortium (GDC) utilizing the “Cloud Campus” platform, within the presence of Prof. Moustafa Hassan, Vice Chancellor for Worldwide Cooperation; and Elena Tarasova, Senior Supervisor, Worldwide Relations at Hamdan Bin Mohammed Good College.
The 2 sides mentioned present and potential areas of worldwide collaboration between the 2 establishments with a concentrate on the strategic plan to collectively revive the ICDE World Doctoral Consortium. The venture goals to assist and empower PHD college students endeavor their analysis within the fields of sensible, on-line, open, and distance schooling and facilitate their instructional journey in the direction of a doctoral diploma. By offering the useful resource and communication platform to the consortium, HBMSU will open PhD students entry to distinctive experience and networks. Members may have a discussion board to current their analysis within the fields of revolutionary pedagogy and trainer coaching, EdTech and innovation, design of e-learning and others, and focus on their analysis with friends and school from ICDE member universities. As a key associate of the initiative, HBMSU will contribute its experience in sensible studying to assist PhD students by offering distinctive assets and organizing devoted webinars with main specialists of HBMSU’s College of E-Training and Deanship of Analysis and Doctoral Research.
Dr. Mansoor Al Awar mentioned: “Our partnership with the ICDE is a part of our keenness to share our experience and expertise in laying the foundations of educational, information {and professional} excellence, and strengthening cooperation and coordination with worldwide establishments and our bodies that share us the bold imaginative and prescient to speed up transformation in the direction of a sensible studying system primarily based on know-how and innovation. We stay up for launching the World Doctoral Consortium by way of the “Cloud Campus” platform in cooperation with the ICDE.”
Al Awar added: “We’re happy to maneuver ahead in using the “Cloud Campus” system to empower PHD college students and improve their instructional expertise, and to assist tasks of the ICDE, reflecting our imaginative and prescient primarily based on re-engineering greater schooling consistent with the challenges of the present stage, anticipating the necessities of the long run, and facilitating the entry of learners to the assets and instruments of high-quality schooling. We’re dedicated to advancing the sensible schooling sector globally, particularly within the Arab world, and offering learners with the instruments that enable them to attain educational management and excellence in varied fields.”
Torunn Gjelsvik, Secretary Basic of ICDE, mentioned: “We’re happy to cooperate with HBMSU in re-launching the ICDE World Doctoral Consortium. We additionally specific our appreciation to the College for the assist it supplied. This milestone is a fruit of the partnership between the ICDE and HBMSU, and a qualitative addition to our efforts in empowering PhD college students and using our capabilities to boost their instructional expertise.”
ICDE is a long-standing associate of HBMSU and a strategic associate of the Consortium for Benchmarking Framework for On-line, Open, Good, and Expertise-Enhanced Larger Training initiated by HBMSU to unify the efforts of open and digital universities, greater schooling establishments and high quality assurance establishments globally. ICDE is the oldest international affiliation within the area of Open, Versatile, and Distance Studying (OFDL), with a proud historical past for selling inclusive, inexpensive entry to high quality schooling.
