(MENAFN- The Peninsula) Doha: Qatar University's National Center For Educational Development (NCED) held an international virtual conference entitled 'COVID-19: A Game Changer in Education: Reconnecting Virtually, with the participation of 3,500 experts, educators and those interested in educational issues from Qatar and abroad.
The conference discussed the effects of the coronavirus pandemic on the educational process at the local, Arab and international levels, and laid out some practical solutions to the problems associated with those effects by researchers, practitioners and science students in their postgraduate studies.
The conference also highlighted topics related to teachers, students, parents and all those interested in educational issues in accordance with the conferences multiple core themes.
Educational issues were raised with a number of decisionmakers and educational policymakers as well as various educational experiences during the time of the pandemic in the United States, Europe and the Arab world.
In a speech on the occasion, President of Qatar University Dr. Hassan bin Rashid Al Derham noted the consequences of the coronavirus pandemic on the educational field at the global level.
He said that such educational forums give the opportunity for educators to clearly identify the situation at their educational institutions and with their students, in addition to the challenges they are facing the ways to overcoming them, in accordance with best practices and research-supported applications.
Dr. Al Derham noted that the quality of conferences and forums in this exceptional circumstance is being judged by the practical solutions they offer and the possible practices for educators, far from theories or inapplicable recommendations.
He underlined the importance of this conference as it allocated an important space to monitor, study and analyse the reality of the response of educational policymakers and decision-makers to the effects of the pandemic on the educational systems in university and pre-university education.
He explained that monitoring and tracking the educational reality in light of the coronavirus crisis allows for making possible deliberate changes to the curricula of the educational institutions and the methods of learning, noting that there are international, Arab and local education systems or institutions that have succeeded in absorbing the shock of the pandemic and quickly restoring balance to their educational system.
For his part, Director of the National Center For Educational Development Dr. Abdullah Abu-Tineh said that the conference included nine virtual rooms discussed 75 research papers on the educational policies in light of the COVID-19, parent participation, blended learning and distance learning, special needs learning, e-learning challenges, various strategies in evaluating distance learning students, teaching strategies and classroom management, as well as the practices, prospects and professional development in light of the COVID-19.
The conference also included seven other virtual rooms that included 14 workshops in themes dealt with teaching strategies for mathematics teachers, classroom interaction, interactive educational applications, student participation in online learning, blended evaluation and remote evaluation, achievement files and electronic tests, and various strategies in evaluating distance learning students.
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