(MENAFN- Muscat Daily) Muscat- Bayan College conducted a Media and General Foundation Programme symposium organised under the auspices of the college's Research and Consultancy Centre (RCC).
The symposium that attracted both presenters and participants from different colleges and universities in the sultanate ran under the theme 'The Role of Technology in Education and Media'.
Presenting a paper on 'The transition from conventional teaching to technological interaction; a case of Sultan Qaboos University (SQU),' Dr Ali Hussein al Balushi, assistant dean for Training and Community Service and assistant professor of Applied Linguistics at SQU, said that teachers need to adopt teaching methodologies that incorporate the use of technology in creating interactivity between the teachers and the students.
'We have to develop a concept or strategy on online forum where there is interactivity between students and their instructors,' added Dr Balushi.
Other topics that attracted debate during the symposium include Effective use of ICT for education, knowledge and research, Significance of Technology in Modern Education and Learner Autonomy. According to the chairperson of the organising committee for the symposium who is also the head of Department for the General Foundation Programme, Dr Mohamed Swafat, the symposium was intended to provide a platform for researchers to exchange information and identify research needs in the area of Media Studies and Foundation disciplines.
Acting dean Dr Nader Samy Fahim said that education and technology integrate to promote human life. Both serve each other; without education there's no technology, and without technology, no education.
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