Foundation Program Virtual Academic Excellence Days Fall 2020
7 - 9 December 2020
Foundation Program Academic Excellence (AE) Days is a bi-annual professional development event organized by the QU Foundation Program Department of English, Deanship of General Studies. This event aims to enrich the faculty's knowledge of academic content and broaden their understanding of instructional techniques for the purpose of increasing student achievement. The AE professional development sessions will be held virtually for the second time in a row. It provides a platform for all faculty to share best practices in education inside and outside Qatar.
To download the program schedule and presenters' profiles, click here.
Monday - December 7, 2020 |
Session | Time
(Doha Time, +3 GMT) | *YouTube Live Link |
Title: "It won't work here": Revisiting Learner-Centered Education Speaker: Professor David Nunan | 9:30 - 10:30 | YouTube Link |
Title: English for Academic Purposes (EAP): What can we learn from the published articles in terms of research focus and theoretical orientations Speaker: Professor Mehdi Riazi
| 11:00 - 12:00 | YouTube Link |
Title: Distance Teaching and Sustainability: Where does it begin? Speaker: Dr. Mohammad Etedali
| 13:00 - 14:00 | YouTube Link |
Tuesday - December 8, 2020 |
Title: English Language Reading Comprehension: Perspectives from a Higher Education Sector Speaker: Dr. Nima Nazari Link: Click here to join the meeting
| 11:00 - 12:00 | YouTube Link |
Title: Opportunities and Techniques for Increasing Student Engagement in Learning Speaker: Dr. Dudley Reynolds Link: Click here to join the meeting
| 13:00 - 14:00 | YouTube Link |
Wednesday - December 9, 2020 |
Title: Individual vs Institutional Responses to Emergency Remote Teaching Speaker: Dr. Mick King & Sid Mohammadi Link: Click here to join the meeting
| 11:00 - 12:00 | YouTube Link |
Title: Strategies for Better Time Management Speaker: Dr. Jonathan Aubrey Link: Click here to join the meeting
| 13:00 - 14:00 | YouTube Link |
*Certificate WILL NOT be issued to attendees who join via YouTube live streaming.