University in 4th Place in the Open Education Global Award 2022
King Khalid University, represented by the Deanship of E-Learning, won 4th place with its initiative in the Open Education Global award 2022, Repository / Curation category. The award is organized by Open Education Global organization, which is a non-profit org dedicated to the field of open educational sources.
While the university came in 4th place, the University of California triumphed in first place followed by Taipei Medical University in 2nd place, and France Université Numérique in 3rd place.
The Dean of the E-Learning Deanship, Dr. Adel Qahmish, explained that this initiative is one of many important initiatives engineered by the deanship. He added that the initiative aims to improve regular courses and transform them into open courses based on international E-Courses quality standards in order to provide learning content for everyone.
This experience, Qahmish added, is meant to embody the development process of the courses by transforming them into open video files for the public eye via YouTube. Further, he stressed that the initiative provides courses through Blackboard Learn, in video form along with activities, assignments, quizzes, questions bank, and more tools to ensure learners' interactivity and to break the barrier of time and space. Moreover, the open courses are structured according to the best effective learning strategies.
Qahmish, stressed that this initiative seeks to create educational experiences in order to meet learners' demands by designing comprehensive e-courses in terms of content. It is also built according to quality standards to serve faculty members and students, and to share content within the university and outside of it through university educational platforms and YouTube channels, thus contributing to the dissemination of knowledge, supporting innovation and creativity in developing courses, as well as producing enjoyable and beneficial courses.
It is worth noting that the number of subscribers reached more than 400 thousand and generated 60 million views with more than 8000 educational videos.
