Assist. Lecturer Elaf Ayed Jabr, the head of Ibn Sina E-Learning Unit at the College of Medicine, has participated in the third training course held in Beirut, Lebanon as part of FSPI’s projects to accelerate the process of digital transformation in higher education in the Middle East. The course, which was sponsored by the Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research, in cooperation with the French Embassy and the participation of a number of Iraqi universities, concerned with this regard.
The event included a series of workshops that addressed the flipped classroom with its features, patterns and challenges, success factors, resources and activities used in it, the possibility of designing criteria for its evaluation, as well as organizing two other workshops on open educational resources (OER) and the design of learning systems that have been adopted in Arab universities. The University of Baghdad team also held a meeting with the coordinating body of the Organisation internationale de la Francophonie, which included discussing the roles required of the team members, including training at least 240 professors on the application of the flipped classroom strategy, raising training scenarios and designing the scientific content of lectures. The meeting also witnessed the discussion of the grant provided by the Organisation internationale de la Francophonie represented by providing studio and film equipment to deliver virtual lectures, as well as agreeing to hold a subsequent training course on web servers and open source learning systems.
