OpenMed Torino Week: Spotlight on Open Education in Jordan

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Spotlight on Open Education in
Jordan

Jordan – General Info
Population (2015): 9,531,712
1.02 Males/Female Ratio (est. 2016)
94% Literacy rate as of 2009
*Source: Jordan Department of Statistics

Jordan – Economy
Mainly Service Oriented
• 86.2% of workforce in services
• 10.1% in industry
• 3.7% in agriculture

Jordan – Service Economic Sectors
• Construction & Civil Engineering
• Trade, wholesale and Retail
• Transport and Logistics
• Hospitality
• Publishing
• IT & Telecom
• Real Estate
• Education

Jordan – Industrial Sectors
• Industries include:
• Mining
• Light manufacturing
• Construction
• and Power
• Product Examples Include:
– Clothing
– Potash
– Phosphate
– Cement
– and Fertilizers

Jordan – Higher Education
• Total of 47000 graduates with bachelors university degrees yearly
• Approximately 4000 graduate yearly with Masters or PhD
• Approximately 200,000 students enroll in Universities each year
12%
20%
68%
Institution Type Split
Public
Universities
Private
Universities
Community
Colleges
47%
53%
Yearly Graduates w/
Bachelor Degrees
Male
Female

Jordan - Unemployment
• Youth unemployment 33%, overall unemployment 13%
• Unemployed holding college degrees 40%

The Case for Vocational Training
• Significant demand for skilled workers in
hotel sector, electronics repair,
agriculture…etc.
• No need for university degree
• Recent regulation allowing exemptions
for secondary degree
• Some Entities Providing Training:
• Government sponsored by vocational
Training Corporation as part of Ministry of
Labor
• Ministry of Education enabled vocational
track in secondary education
• Luminus Group, private sector.

Open Education in Jordan

Roots of Online Open Education in Jordan
• The University of Jordan provided free and open e-
learning courses that can be found without logging into
their Moodle e-learning platform, released on 2010.
• The Jordan Open Source Association successfully
proposed an Arabic Open Educational Resources
Platform which was originally due to be launched in June
2011.
• A MOOC platform was agreed for launch in November
2013 as part of Queen Rania Al Abdullah’s initiatives
under The Queen Rania Foundation.

Open Education in Jordan
• The vision of Open Education in Jordan started based on the
notion that Open Educational Resources (OER) offer
opportunities for systemic change in teaching and learning
through accessible content.
• Through a blended model of teacher-led knowledge and
student-centered sharing processes, most Jordanian
universities developed structures for sharing, accessing and
bringing participants into a more fair level in learning.

OER Movement

OER Movement
‘Open Jordan’ Summit (2014) was the first dedicated event in
Jordan to promote openness for the good of the Jordanian
society and highlighted local initiatives based on collaborative
authoring, crowdfunding and crowdsourcing especially for
educational projects.

Current Challenges of OER
• Regulations and instructions on
institutional and national level.
MOHE approved the blended
model within 25% of program, yet
an alliance of 3 or more Jordanian
universities can establish a fully
online program as well.
• Quality Assurance (QA) constraints:
exams, measurement of learning
outcomes, funding and cultural
perception.

GJU Overview
• A public Jordanian university
founded in 2005.
• Located in Amman, Jordan.
• Modeled on the German
universities of applied sciences.
• Offers over 20 undergraduate
and graduate programs.
• Positioned itself as a leading
institution of higher learning,
known for its leading teaching
and research accomplishments.

Faculty of Computer Engineering
and Information Technology
• Three undergraduate programs:
• B.Sc. Computer Engineering
• B.Sc. Communication
Engineering
• B.Sc. Computer Science
• One graduate program:
• M.Sc. Computer Engineering
• M.Sc. Enterprise System
Engineering

GJU Schools
• School of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology
• School of Applied Technical Sciences
• School of Natural Resources Engineering and Management
• School of Applied Medical Sciences
• School of Management and Logistic Sciences
• School of Architecture and Built Environment
• School of Languages
• Talal Abu-Ghazaleh Graduate School of Business

GJU Practices towards Open Educational
• Providing online educational
courses
• Agreement with Edraak
• One Complete online courses
(National Education)

GJU Online Educational Courses
• All courses at GJU are linked to the online e-learning
system
• The e-learning system is based on Moodle
• Used mainly to deliver the educational matrials

Agreement with Edraak
• In 2016, GJU signed an MoU with
Queen Rania Foundation (QRF) for
Education and Development to
cooperate on developing online
courses
• The courses are offered for
students through Edraak

The National Education Course
• GJU has launched the
online National education
course on Edraak platform
• Students taking the course
could follow-up with the
curriculum online through
the Edraak platform

PSUT Overview

PSUT Overview
Princess Sumaya University for Technology (PSUT),
Established in 1991,

PSUT Overview
Non-governmental, Non-profit, owned by the Royal
Scientific Society (RSS).

PSUT Overview
Non-governmental, Non-profit, owned by the Royal
Scientific Society (RSS).
PSUT's area of specialization is IT, Communications
and Electronics.

PSUT Overview
• King Abdullah II School For Electrical Engineering
Electronics Engineering, Communication Engineering,
Computer Engineering, Energy and Electrical Power.
• The King Hussein School for IT and Comp. Sci.
Computer Science, Computer Graphics and Animation, Software Engineering
• King Talal School of Business Technology
Management Information Systems, Administration of Business, Accounting, Digital
Marketing and Social Media.
• The Queen Rania Center for Entrepreneurship
The Technology Commercialization Program
National Entrepreneurship Diploma

Center Overview
• Establishing new strategies to foster creativity in learning.
• Objective is to manage and develop e-learning experience
at PSUT.
• Help and support to design and implement online courses in
many disciplines, and to promote the OER tools, method
and applications.
• In addition, the center aims to develop the regulatory
function of online learning, game-based learning,
collaborative working and off-campus open resources.

Vision
• The role of Instructional Design:
Optimization of learning resources.
• Two strategy approaches of game-based
and online-based sessions (blended) – with
the usage of virtual labs, VR, MOOCs and
AR applications
• Ultimately: PSUT to develop its own
Learning Management System (LMS)

Current and Future Trends for the Center
• To reinforce the effectiveness of our programs: we
will have more board members from market and
industry to evaluate the content of PSUT online
courses and their match-percentage with business
needs + expanding partnerships with leading
multimedia pioneers like YouTube, Vimeo,
Netsupport.
• Continuous support of OER and use them to help
reducing the gap between theory and practice;
academia and business.

Virtual Lab

Structure of Experiments

Current Study of Effectiveness Using
Interactive Video as OER

Links:
• https://raptmedia.com
• https://quickdraw.withgoogle.com/
• https://www.autodraw.com/
• https://www.circuitlab.com/

Thank You
• A.Tweissi@psut.edu.jo WhatsApp: +1 269 873 6271
• Omar.hiari@gju.edu.jo Number: +962 795420140

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