deanship of development and distance learning

اليوم العلمي تحت عنوان "التعليم الإلكتروني في الجامعات الأردنية بتاريخ  17/04/02013

مؤتمر "التعلم الالكتروني والتعليم المدمج: خيار استراتيجي للجامعات العربية"

عقد مجموعة من الدورات التدريبية لتنمية وتطوير العاملين في الجامعة للهيئة التدريسية والإدارية خلال الفصل الاول 2018-2019

دورات تطبيق التعليم المدمج للطلبة واعضاء الهيئة التدريسية في الفترة ما بين 1/11- 1/12/2018

الاعمال المنجزة

Philadelphia University
Deanship of Development and Distance Learning
P.O.Box (1), Philadelphia University
19392, Jordan 

The Avicenna Center for e-learning was established in 2003 with the participation of UNESCO and with the support of the European Commission and fifteen universities distributed among fifteen Mediterranean countries, namely Algeria, Cyprus, France, Britain, Egypt, Italy, Jordan, Lebanon, Malta, Morocco, Palestine, Spain, Syria, Tunisia and Turkey. Philadelphia University is the sole university in Jordan to host such a center. 

The Avicenna Center  project is one of UNESCO's main projects. The Executive Council and the General Conference of UNESCO supported the idea of extending the Avicenna  project to Africa. The Avicenna project in Iraq is an extension of the Avicenna network in the Mediterranean region.

UNESCO has adopted Philadelphia University for training in production and development of electronic courses for neighboring countries.

E-learning Platforms

 Moodle platform: Modular Object Oriented Design Learning Environment:  (http://moodle.org)  

E-courses Produced by Philadelphia University

List of e-courses which are equivalent to one (1) Credit Hour:

    Faculty of Engineering
        Electrical Circuits
        Statics
        Engineering Skills
        Signal Analysis and Processing
        Mechatronics Systems
    Faculty of Information Technology
        Introduction to Information Systems and Technology
        Fundamentals of Telecommunications and Computer Networks
        Fundamentals of Databases
        Software Analysis and Design
    Faculty of Administration and Financial Sciences
        Financial Management
        Information Systems Analysis And Design
        Administrative Commercial Statistics
    Faculty of Pharmacy
        Pharmaceutical Medicinal Chemistry-1
        Pharmaceutics (I)
    Faculty of Law
        Introduction to Commercial Law
    Faculty of Nursing
        Physical Examination - Theory
        Principles of Scientific Research
    Faculty of Arts
        National Education
        Introduction to Psychology
    Faculty of Science
        Genetics
    Language Center
        ​English Skills (1).
        English Skills (2).

List of e-courses which are equivalent to three (3) Credit Hours:

    Language Center
        Remedial English Skills.
    ​Faculty of Information Technology
        Pre-Computer Skills.

In consistency with Philadelphia University strategic plan 2018 – 2022, the strategic aims of the Deanship of Development and Distance Learning are classified under four headings:

First Strategic Aim:

Developing and enhancing an engaging teaching/learning milieu, through the creation of an innovative interactive infrastructure. Also the competencies of the faculty, staff, students, and graduates. 

This can be achieved through the following objectives: 

1. Enhancing capacity building of faculty, staff, students, graduates and local community. 
2. Internationalization of education, and building cooperative relations with local, regional and international universities.
3. Technical support by establishing smart classrooms, new online, blended and ubiquitous pervasive learning software.
4.  Creation of a teaching/learning environment conducive to effective learning.
5.  Embedding suitable capacity building services to the local community, and organizing supporting courses for the students.
6. Fostering faculty capacity to recruit financing for research projects.

Second Strategic Aim:

Developing awareness of ubiquitous pervasive interactive e-learning, and the innovative technologies in the digital age. 

This can be achieved through the following objectives: 

1. Fostering e-learning, blended and pervasive education. They should be developed to be more effective in collaboration with all stakeholders. 
2. Conducting special training courses on innovative modes of learning.
3. Providing new teaching material to keep up with the technological progress in teaching methods.
4. Embedding capacity building training and technical support to improve performance of both students and faculty.
5. Establishing an e-learning platform that motivates off-campus students to study at PU.
6. Initiation of partnerships with local and regional universities in the field of e-learning.
7. Starting new programs in blended e-learning through activating partnerships with local and international universities.
8. Initiation of motivating regulations in search of sustainable excellence according to local and international norms
9. Fostering quality and performance indicators in e-learning according to the local and international standards and norms.

Third Strategic Aim:

Contribution to scientific research processes, outputs and marketing at university level, through training relevant to its strategies and ways to deploy international projects.

This can be achieved through the following objectives: 

1. Making available relevant databases of refereed accredited journals to be utilized by faculty.
2. Encouragement of human networking and cooperation among faculty members in the realm of scientific research.
3. Sufficient faculty training in the field of scientific research, originality and plagiarism.
4. Fostering supporting programs in research, like statistical programs, monkey search, and training faculty how to use.

Fourth Strategic Aim:

Advocating the internationalization of education through cooperation with international universities, initiation of joint programs and facilitating the exchange of faculty and students.

This can be achieved through the following objectives: 

1. Implementation of all agreements and memos of understanding with universities and other industrial and service institutions
2. Training faculty on methods of proper submission of applications for project support grants, like (Erasmus +).
3. Implementation of cooperation with international universities.
4. Encouraging the utilization of scientific conferences in human networking with distinguished scholars from other universities.
5. Proposed Projects of Cooperation:
   • ​Joint programs and activities to be organized at PU.
   • Delegation of experts on three-day faculty training missions at PU.
   • Provision of Smart Classrooms.
   • Exchange of online material produced by prestigious universities, institutions & Organizations.
   • Exchange of faculty and students in certain programs.
   • Adoption of good practices in international universities.