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    Professional Development



    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

    SpeakerProfessor 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

    SpeakerProfessor Mehdi Riazi

    11:00

    -

    12:00

    YouTube Link

    Title: Distance Teaching and Sustainability: Where does it begin?

    SpeakerDr. Mohammad Etedali

     

    13:00

    -

    14:00

    YouTube Link

    Tuesday - December 8, 2020

    Title: English Language Reading Comprehension: Perspectives from a Higher Education Sector  

    SpeakerDr. 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

    SpeakerDr. 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

    SpeakerDr. 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.