Online Teaching at UOB Starts Officially on Wednesday

Online Teaching at
UOB Starts Officially on Wednesday

11 March 2020

After resuming the work of the
academic and administrative cadres at the University of Bahrain (UOB) based on
the directives issued by the Coordinating Committee headed by His Royal
Highness Prince Salman bin Hamad Al Khalifa, the Crown Prince, Deputy Supreme
Commander and First Deputy Prime Minister, the University completed the
activation of its e-learning platforms, and announced that Wednesday, 11 March
2020, will be the official start for e-learning and interaction between
students and their professors to benefit from the study suspension period due
to the current situation.

The Director of the E-Learning
Center at UOB, Dr. Fai Abdullah Al Khalifa, said that the Microsoft Teams and
Blackboard platforms offer the possibility to download study material for
courses and share it with students registered in that course, and they allow
communication between students and faculty members as well, whether through the
platform’s discussion rooms or live streaming.

Moreover, she confirmed that UOB
had started using the Blackboard platform since 2009 to download teaching
materials and allow communication between students and their professors, and
that this platform is available to be used for e-learning purposes along with
the Microsoft Teams.

Also, Dr. Fai Al Khalifa
explained that at the present 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
students can choose to “raise their hand” to inquire or question or
participate and intervene”, pointing to the wide possibilities offered by
e-learning with its advanced platforms.

 

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