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Activating E-Learning Platforms at UOB During the Study Suspension Period
Activating
E-Learning Platforms at UOB During the Study Suspension Period
Due to the current conditions, the University of Bahrain
(UOB) has finished activating its e-learning platforms, and announced that
Wednesday, 11th of March 2020, shall be the first official day for
e-learning and interaction between students and their professors to benefit in
the study suspension period.
The Director of the E-Learning Center at UOB, Dr. Fay
Abdullah Al Khalifa, stated that the Microsoft Teams and Blackboard platforms
offer the possibility to download the scientific material for the course and
share it with the students registered in the course, as well as allowing
communication between students and faculty members, whether through discussion
rooms or the live broadcast provided by the platform.
Also, she confirmed that UOB started using the Blackboard
platform since 2009 to download teaching materials and for communication
between students and their professors, and this platform is available to be used
for e-learning purposes along with the Microsoft Teams platform.
Furthermore, Dr. Fay Al Khalifa explained that at the
current time, all theoretical courses can be offered through these two
platforms, and theoretical courses are those courses that do not require
laboratories, workshops or halls, indicating that these two platforms are
linked to the student information management system to facilitate their use and
handling.
For her part, the head of the Computer Engineering
Department at the College of Information Technology, Dr. Aisha Fuad Bushager,
said that she started presenting her lectures to her students using electronic
platforms and described the experience as “wonderful,” noting that
the students “interacted with the new teaching method, which allows the
professor to write on the whiteboard.”, and that students can choose to
“raise their hand” to inquire or question or participate and
intervene,” referring to the wide possibilities offered by e-learning with
its advanced platforms.
