Under the patronage of Dr. Abdul Rahman Al Asimi Rector of SAU, and within the activities of the e-learning month, Deanship of IT and Distance Learning has organized an international workshop titled “a Futuristic Outlook for Global Models Towards a Strategy for E-Learning”. The workshop was held on Wednesday 23, 6/1435H on the main training hall at the University City. A number of experts and specialists in e-learning technologies participated in this event. The experts are as follows:
• Dr. Mohammad Saeed Al-Kahtani Dean of IT and Distance Learning at SAU.
• Dr. Yassin Qandil Professor of education technologies, Consultant of Vice-Rector of Development and Quality and Supervisor of Academic Education Development Office.
• Prof. Ray Hassell- expert and speaker in e-learning training- Vice President International, Sonic Foundry.
• Eng. Hani Shadily –expert in developing work solutions and development, and expert consultant in education technologies.
Dr. Al- Kahtani said that Rector is eager to keep-up with the latest technologies and methods that support the educational process, in order to achieve the university’s vision distinguishability in this field. Then, he assured that SAU has a distinct system and faculty members were trained on such systems. Dr. Al- Kahtani added, the activities of this day is a part of awareness training program. Besides that, Deanship has launched YouTube Channel contains more than 250 interactive videos in both languages (Arabic and English). This channel is addressed to the students and faculty members in order to help them to benefit from the available resources in the e-learning portal.
It is worth mentioning, this channel is available for everyone as a contraption of SAU to enhance the educational march in the Saudi and Arab Universiies.
At the end of the workshop, Rector has honored the speakers and then he handed faculty members, who participated in the earlier course of e-learning award certificates.