KEYNOTE Future of Higher Education in Jordan Prof. Dr. Mohammed Taleb Obaidat President of Jadara University, Jordan [email protected] In Leave from: Jordan University of Science and Technology (JUST), Jordan [email protected] Former Minister of Public Works and Housing, Jordan Abstract COVID-19 pandemic opens a new era in higher education in Jordan. The higher education council who is leading new strategic vision for higher education polices took numerous decisions to adapt the current situation. The most important and urgent one was to teach through online system and consider it as equivalent to face-to-face teaching methodology. Moreover, their decision of using the protocol of blinded and hybrid teaching system was timely and crucial. The online teaching methodology is recent in Jordan; even though some universities launched online teaching platforms before. Moreover, the Commission for Accreditation of Higher Education Institutions and Quality Assurance took the lead to standardize these decisions in order to control these decisions and their future impact on quality assurance and universities out product control. These decisions amidst the independence of universities governance decisions were very synchronized in order not to affect the reputation of higher educational system in Jordan. The purpose of this paper is to investigate the platforms, teaching methodologies, challenges, and advantages of the experience of online teaching in Jordanian universities. Moreover, the decisions took by the governance councils' effect on quality of graduates and output will be highlighted. The experience of Jadara University, Jordan to adapt the online teaching system will be presented as a case study. The developed platform for teaching and evaluation will be tackled. The protocol of training of students and academic staff members will also be highlighted. The online working methodology for employees will be presented. A successful story of online teaching will be presented taking into consideration all its aspects of pros and cos. The future of higher education system in Jordan will also be discussed in terms of using it regularly as an option to face-to-face teaching and not only for emergency or pandemic situations. Of course, new legislations are required to coop with the online teaching system and develop an online infrastructure and superstructure environment suitable for future polices including network, wireless environment, protocols, legislation, training programs, teaching protocols, evaluation models, and more.
تاريخ النشر
20/07/2021
الناشر
Future of Higher Education in an online environment.At: North American University- Houston- Texas-USA
معالي الأستاذ الدكتور محمد طالب عبيدات | HE PROF. Moh’d Taleb Obaidat | 7133