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EASTERN REGION
EASTERN REGION
Welcome Message
This academic year, TA's Eastern Region Chapter (ERC) would like to focus its PD events on academic data gathering practices with online monitoring facilities, along with practical and effective ways of achieving the normal distribution of course grades. The themes of PD events will include the relevance and effectiveness of instructional materials, efficient modes of delivering them to students and test validity. We're planning on having regular discussions of different educational technologies for monitoring collective and individual learning processes beyond normal contact hours, automated marking functions, and student profiling.
By positioning online monitoring facilities for academic data gathering as the strategic direction for PD activities, ERC intends to contribute to current collective understanding of quality in public education. The desired outcomes of such focused collaborative effort can be emergence and dissemination of realistic and quantifiable PD standards in the public educational system of the UAE.
With great appreciation, the ERC team of TESOL Arabia presents the host of its PD events: the Higher Colleges of Technology (Fujairah Men's and Women's Colleges). Last year, participants of PD events enjoyed HCT's high-tech facilities and warm receptions. This year, Fujairah Women's College welcomes participants into its recently extended classroom space, fitted with cutting-edge smart boards.
The management team of the ERC calls for data-driven presentation proposals from material writers, course designers, classroom practitioners, program chairs and policy makers. We hope that our PD conferences will be the venue for solutions to problems in the areas of effective learning management, educational tracking methods, student profiling and action research in ways of achieving normal distribution of course grades.
Apart from its regular PD events, the ERC would like to offer faculty members at different educational institutions free training in designing and managing online courses with Moodle and Blackboard Vista. Faculty will have an opportunity to master online facilities for collective online learning, dynamic (adaptive) instructional materials design, instant-marking assessment, and their monitoring capacities.
Yuri Vedrashko
Eastern Region Representative
Website
The Eastern Region maintains its own website with announcements, local event schedules, and other excellent features. Check it out at http://www.zpdonline.org/moodle/.
Leadership
| Yurii Vedrashko (Representative) |
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