Notes on Session II: e-Content
Evaluation of the developing of three different courses at e-learning center of Zagaig University. Dr. Amal Faroud Abdel Gawad
Instructional designers – IDS roles. Team work: using Moodle. Graphic designers role. Course map: nature of course affects what the site looks like. Animated movies had to be created for infectious diseases and geophysical equipment.
E-content developer role: first language is English. But Arabic months it is difficult to use in Moodle. They made it as sound/audio in order to work. They use video for students to be interactive with their instructor. Color changes are applicable in e-content for the physically impaired. The curriculum itself is made by the instructor himself/herself and with graphic designer and e-content people he/she can work together to produce the course.
Ahmed Hassan: e-Learning in the Egyptian public universities – overview and future prospective
Represent the ICTP: information and communication technologies project
Challenges: high student numbers, staffing relevant problems, research and publishing, financing of higher education, governance and management of the higher education system, quality assurance, challenges faced by Middle Technical Institutes [MTIs].
Needed strong infra-structure within universities and inter-universities. Increased bandwidth at universities – we have management information system.
The Egyptian Education Initiative [EEI]: trained 20,000 people on ICT at universities and provided grants through EEI.
Arab open university; mediterranean virtual university.. all were new initiatives. The national e-learning center is a building block within the higher education info center. Primary objective: ‘promote and support the development of the learning content to the highest maturity level.’
video conference systems have been distributed to universities. The infra structure at universities in Egypt must increase and have their own servers. They need to develop Moodle more to suit Arabic students and content.
E-Instruction technology at students in college of the education in light of some variables. Dr. Emad Shawky