Arab Campus e-Learning Factory

1. Arab Campuse-Learning Factory Samir Qasim Fakhro • Professor, IT and Education • Unesco Consultant • Director, Arab Open University- Bahrain

2. ArabCampusE-learningSystem (ACES) Successful marriage between higher education & e-learningindustry Delivering e-courseware using e-learning Factory environment

3. Role of the two parties of joint venture • Industry • Developing learning management system • IT support for the university • Updating LMS upon the feedback and the specifications provided by the academic faculty of AOU • Searching for high quality e-components to be plugged into ACES • Arab Open University • Experimental environment for ACES • E-courseware development • Providing feedback and specifications to update ACES upon the uses of students , instructors, course designers , e-learning standards and LMS SCORM.

4. AOU e-Courseware Factory • AOU teams deliver e-courseware on assembly production lines using: • Qualified instructors specialized in each subject • Instructional design experts • Educational technology specialists • Multimedia designers

5. ACES e-Courseware Factory e-courseware contents is designed jointly with internationality reputed universities to improve e-learning and teaching methods and establish competitive edge for delivered products and services

6. ACES is a cyber environment designed for blended learning • ACES courseware contents helps reduce face to face teaching hours • ACES provides high quality learning culture and therefore achieves effective learning through:

7. ACES is a cyber environment designed for blended learning • accessibility for learning material anywhere anytime • collaborative communication tools used to build an online learning community to share ideas, discussions, solutions, collaborative learning …..

8. ACES is a cyber environment designed for blended learning • assessment: for both formative and summative assessment, measuring learning achievement and self assessment process • management: enabling instructors to guide the learning process, enabling students to manage their learning process

9. ACES use in Training Sessions • ACES can be an effective learning environment for all the theoretical part of training sessions . • Face to face training sessions will focus on practical aspects

10. ACES use in Training Sessions • ACES will provide a rich collaborative environment for sharing information ,best practices , success stories, discussions and consultancy through synchronous and asynchronous communication tools (forums, text ,voice video chat and whiteboard )

11. ACES use in Life-Long Learning • ACES based e-courses are delivered to a wide spectrum of people who feed on life-long learning • Life-long learning courses are produced at AOU by teams including qualified experts in specific fields as well as instructional design and multimedia specialists.

12. ACES use in Life-Long Learning • Learning materials, communication and assessment are available to all learners anytime and anywhere • People will have enjoy learning and communicating with other virtually via audio/video communication tools

13. ACES Community • ACES provides high quality, rich and enhanced environment to build online communities • Organizations builds virtual communities for its members and audiences . • ACES provides appropriate environment to announce organizational activities and their follow up discussion forums

14. ACES Community • ACES provides rich collaborative environment for sharing enthusiastic information, ideas, values, success stories, discussions, online seminars and consultancy through synchronous and asynchronous communication tools (forums, text, voice/video chat and whiteboard )

15. Demonstratione-Courseware delivered at ACES e-learning Factory