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Day 1: Thursday, June 16, 2011 |
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14:00 –15:00 |
Welcome coffee - Registration |
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15:00 –17:00 |
Opening • Professor Antony Chapman, Vice- Chancellor, The University of Wales Institute, Cardiff • Dr. Saleh Hashem, Secretary General of the Association of Arab Universities • Dr. Faeqa AlSaleh, Senior Advisor to Secretary General/ League of Arab States • Dr. AbdelQader AlFantookh, Deputy Minister of Planning and Information, Ministry of Higher Education, Saudi Arabia • CBE Peter Williams, UWIC Governor, former Chief Executive - Quality Assurance Agency in the UK • H. E. Dr. Talal Abu-Ghazaleh, Chairman and Founder of AROQAE Keynotes: • Dr. Gill Jones, Director of Enterprise, Cardiff School of Education, UK "Quality Assurance – Developing the Capability of Academic Staff and Senior Managers”, • Prof. Marco Winzker, Ass.Dean, Bonn-Rhine-Sieg University of Applied Science, Germany "Quality requires Change: Adding Problem Based Learning Modules to an Engineering Curriculum" • Dr. Tariq M. Al-Sindi, Senior Director, Higher Education Review Unit, Quality Assurance Authority, Bahrain “The Impact of Quality Assurance Authority for Education and Training (QAAET) Reviews on the Higher Education Sector in Bahrain”,
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17:00 –17:30 |
Discussions |
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17.30 –19:00 |
Open AROQAE Board Meeting
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19.00 –21:00 |
Reception and Dinner Hosted by The US Naval Postgraduate School |
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Day 2: Friday, June 17, 2011 |
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08:30 –10:30 |
Session 1: Technologies, Standards, and guidelines for quality assurance and accreditation Keynotes: • Mr. Tom Hazard, Naval Postgraduate School – US Partnership for Peace Training and Education Center “Academia as a means for Promoting a Collaborative Approach to Global Security” • Mr. Jack Wills, International Conference, Workshops, and Exhibitions, GmbH, Germany “The learning outcome gap: fostering technological innovation whilst maintaining quality - the potential, the pitfalls and the lessons learned” Papers: • Dr. Elias Chouairi, Lebanese Canadian University, Vice President Lebanon “Quality Assurance in Higher Education: Basic Concepts” • Dr. Abdalmonem Tamtam, Dublin City University - Ireland “Quality Assurance in Irish Higher Education as a Sample” • Dr. Reymon Malouli, Damascus University - Syria:
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10:30 –11:00 |
Coffee break |
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11:00 – 13:00 |
Session 2: Standards and guidelines for quality assurance and accreditation Keynotes: • Dr. Jomana Amara (Chair), Naval Postgraduate School, USA “Capacity Development in Education and Research” • Professor Alfredo Moscardini, UWIC, UK Papers: • Mr. Bassam Zaidan, QMS Resourcing Services, ltd, - UK “Quality management systems with ICT tools” • Dr. Amal Sharara, Alexandria University - Egypt “Curriculum development according to the e-learning system” • Dr. Walid Sami, Mansoura University – Egypt. • Dr. Nabil M. Hewahi, Islamic University of Gazza - Palestine “IT Education in The Palestinian Schools: How Far We are From the Advanced Countries” ,
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13:00 –14:00 |
Lunch |
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14:00 –16:00 |
Session 3: Best practices, implementation strategies, and policies of quality assurance Keynotes: • Dr . Jomana Amara(Chair), Naval Postgraduate School, USA • Mr. Sharon Parkinson -Publisher - Education Journals - Emerald Group Publishing Limited ‘Insiders’ Guide to Getting Published’ Papers: • Ms. Husna Al-Mughairi, Mascat College - Oman “ E-learning & technology interface: challenges of implementing e-learning systems in Oman” • Dr. Allam Mousa, An Najah University – Nablus “The Role of the Quality Assurance Unit at An-Najah National University” • Dr. Ali Hmoud Ali, AlKhortoum University - Sudan “ National standards for Quality Assurance in Higher education: Sudan as sample” • Dr. Sebkhaoui mohamed, Amer Telidji University - Algeria “Arabian Higher Education and Scientific Research under the challenges of the third millennium: Problems and development proposals”
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16:00 – 16:30 |
Coffee break |
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16:30 – 17:00 |
Continue Session 3 - Papers: • Dr. Noureddine Hamed, University of Mohamed Khidr - Algeria “Quality of education as a strategy to develop performance efficiency of the universities” • Dr. Taher Kaddar, Al Baath University , Syria “Student role in quality assurance and improvement of teaching and developing the material”,
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17:00 – 18:00 |
Concluding remarks and Closing |
