eLearning Center

AVC E-learning Center Strategic plans

Our teaching and learning methods for professors and students at SU, which includes the following:

•  Lectures in power point presentation
• Lectures in Prezi presentation
• Lectures in animation technology
• On line learning by using M-Learning Technology
• Mobile facilities for Student-centered activities
•  M-Learning & Computer Technology M-Learning Assisted activities, such as classroom dialogue, homework assignments, group and panel discussions, and classroom assessment techniques
• Group M-Learning workshop

1. ICDL (International Computer Driving License)

Granting International Certificates (ICDL), International Computer Driving License Project.
In order to develop the skills and qualification in the society, this project is proposed to Salahaddin presidency by Prof. Dr. Qaysar Salih Mahdi in 2015. It is essential to train professionals, workers, teachers, all the society individuals etc. on (ICDL) programs, which has many phases. These phases will be described at the end of the completion of the phases and performances. The attendances skills will be enhanced and they will receive certificates to allow them take more than one opportunity in the business markets as e-skills. This project needs to be applied to all universities, departments, establishments, and societies in Kurdistan and to be supported by the ministry of higher education and scientific research. In addition, this project will be recommended in our future plans.

2. MML (Multi Media Lab.) Project

This project was proposed and submitted to the SU presidency and has been approved and requires the budget to provide all technical equipment’s (text, video, etc.)

As technology advance hardware and software improve, it because much more feasible to integrate multimedia directly into classroom activities and cone curriculum. Understanding why, when and where multimedia appropriate and beneficial is the first step toward successful implementation multimedia activities into the classroom requires careful planning, MM is hot topic in education because it represents the latest technology and into introduces into the class room and gives new way of thinking about curriculum, interactions with students its look like interactive cafe and it is the most promising technology in education. the main model can be illustrated in S-DDD-E or decide design, develop and Evaluate and lastly we can say that MM activities encourage students to work in groups, express their knowledge in multiple ways, solve problems, revise their own worker in group, and construct knowledge.

3. Video and Audio Conference

Video conferencing provides educators and businesses with the opportunity to learn, share and interact across distances. Video conferencing technology utilizes both the telephone and a video camera. The camera is often connected to a laptop or desktop computer. Video conferencing improves productivity and reduces travel time. Individuals using video conferencing can share data with each other and transfer information such as photos or documents in different ways. Video conferencing can be used in different ways, such as training employees, conducting meetings and conducting employee appraisals. The video conferencing software helps agencies operationally by improving efficiency and meeting logistics. Video conferencing technology enables students to attend classes remotely. Some colleges and universities offer full degree programs completely online. This offers greater flexibility to students and professors. Students and lecturers can meet individually through video conferencing and lecturers can hold classes online. Students with video cameras can see the professors and other students equipped with similar video equipment.

This project was proposed by Prof. Dr. Qaysar Salih Mahdy and Assist Prof. Dr. Ismail Musa Murad the director of AVC E-learning center in 2014. It has been approved by the University of Salahaddin. In order to offer the facilities in E-Learning center, it is necessary to open the multimedia between students, teachers, researchers, departments and colleges in Kurdistan region and over the world. This project will remove the gap of time and speeds up the conversation and facilitates the interaction between the students and teachers. It is in the installation phase and waiting to complete the required multimedia equipment.

4. Virtual Labs

Virtual laboratory project was proposed by technical staff in May 2015. This project will upgrade the second phase of the e-courses project, proposed by UNESCO, and will shape the production of complete e-courses. It will complete the theoretical and practical units for the students along 4 years in order to fulfill the requirements of getting B.SC bachelor’s degree. This project needs the support from the university and colleges and ministry of higher education and scientific research.

5. E-School Project Training Course for Ministry of Education 

The director of the center (Dr. Ismail Musa Murad) in June 2015 through the Presidency of Salahaddin University, proposed the establishment of electronic schools (e-schools) for the Ministry of Education in the region. These kinds of schools do not replace the traditional ones but support and develop the level of education by integrating new technology such as the internet, video conferencing, electronic posts and videos. This, in turn, enhances the students’ ability to figure things out and study for them. The ministry of education has shown their interest to send their IT experts to AVC center for training courses. This plan is hoped to be implemented in the near future.

6. E-learning Course Process at (College of education, basic education, education in Shaqlawa)

Proposing for the College of Basic Education with their approval for training and educating their (Morning and Evening Study for the fourth year students at all departments) junior and senior students in the academic year (2015-2016) on how to develop and produce e-courses and materials for their future students (state basic schools) upon their graduation. The same process is recommended for the College of Education in Erbil and Shaqlawa.

7. IPAD Project

This project was proposed by Assist. Prof. Dr. Ismail Musa Murad in August 2015, to use the IPAD facilities, in order to improve the teaching style for the Nursery and Kindergarten schools in Erbil City. 

The Apple iPad is an 8- by 10-inch touch screen tablet computer that combines the features of a smart phone, a laptop, an iPod and a gaming console. First released in April 2010, there are two iPad editions: wireless and wireless with 3G; the latter makes the device usable wherever the user has cell phone access. Due to its portability and simplicity the iPad is so fantastic. The iPad is lightweight, slightly smaller than a magazine, it has a familiar feel and is easy to transport. The extended battery life of up to 10 hours works even for extended airplane trips. Apps are the heart of the iPad. With many thousands of apps to choose from, the iPad can meet the needs of almost any user. GPS apps use your location to pinpoint local information to your iPad; for example local weather forecasts, news and even the closest pizza restaurant. Portability, Battery Life, Convenience, Easy To Use For All Ages, Allows For More Interaction Picture Perfect.

 

8. Training for trainers

It is the ambition of the e-learning center at SUE to improve and enhance the professors and all tutors in salahaddin and academic institutions of Kurdistan region, to have a bright future, which starts with a good e-learning process. Within the framework of “Training for Trainers in Teaching Education to Sustained Quality Assurance” project and UNESCO’s activities to enhance teacher education in Kurdistan. UNESCO is supporting both Iraqi and Kurdistan Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research towards the development of the Avicenna Virtual Campus in Iraq (AVCI) to enhance the quality of teaching processes as well as to strengthen the quality of teacher training at all levels.

9. Continues Education on Training Courses

Promotion of E-Learning Technology and curriculum in teaching methods course No.4 on 7/2/2018 Salahaddin University through the initiative of Avicenna E-Learning center, launched the E-Learning course in the teaching methods.

124 M.SC. and Ph.D. holders attended the E- course production and gained the information and knowledge of the following topics:

• Introduction to E-Learning and M-Learning and history
• E-course curriculum design
• E-course management and organization of the university website
• E-course uploading to the university website
• Audio &Video production process
• E-Assessment
• AQAS (Avicenna Quality Assurance System)
• The AQAS cycle process

A well-designed schedule is covering of( 9) hours of each group (A and B) and each group has 62 attendees self-designed activity from each trainers to produce the presentation in the Avicenna center studios which encores and upgrades their knowledge and skills to words the e-lecture production.

The produced e-lecture will be evaluated by the Avicenna center experts and then will be uploaded to salahaddin university web site.

10. Project for Hawler Paitaxt Technical Institute

For Teachers and students at AVC E-Learning Center. According to AVC E-Learning center this plan program of 2017-2018 , verified very interesting workshop to the 5th and 4th year students of Hawler Computer Institute (Paitaxt).

The goal of this project is to upgrade the skills and experience of the computer science and IT students to the new technology of the Virtual Campus project and on line university.In this project, the introduction to the UNESCO virtual campus project in Iraq is presented with the center history and facilities by Assist. Prof. Dr. Ismail Musa Murad, the director of the center.The principles and technology of the E-Curricula and E-Courses in addition to the e-lecture production and publication is presented by the technical team manager of the center. Also practical of the on line lecture and the E- Assessment is presented.The students are very interesting and very willing to understand and discuss this new technology.

11. Project on E-learning practicing training course on Prezi software

The word Prezi is the short form of "presentation" in Hungarian. Prezi is an interactive non-linear alternative to power points and other presentation software. Prezi is a presentation tool that can be used as an alternative to traditional slide making programs such as 3Ps. This project is aimed at advanced practitioners, e-learning staffs, staff developers and other people supporting effective practice with e-learning and to add new aspect for learning and education. They are intended to develop the skills and understanding in the area of pedagogic design for the university instructors. The project also enable participants to try out tools and resources developed by the E-Learning and pedagogy program and to consider how these could be used in their own work.

12. Project on using animation in education and learning

The main purpose of this project is to fulfill a cognitive function. In this role, animations are intended to support students’ cognitive processes that ultimately result in them understanding the subject matter. Animation can be used to make very exciting and fun animations into which education and training can easily be incorporated. Instructors can also use animation to demonstrate things and concepts visually exactly how they want to since they have control of every aspect of the animation, so our AVC e-learning at SU intend to achieve university plan and aim for an effective learning tool that attracts attention, engages the learner, and sustains motivation aspect. Such effective animation training is not focused on facilitating comprehension of any academic subject matter itself and often portrays activities that are interactive, creative, fun and motivational.

13. Project on Cloud Computing in Education

Cloud computing is an umbrella term used to refer to Internet based development and services.
The “flexibility and elasticity” allows these systems to scale up and down at will utilizing the resources of all kinds of CPU, storage, server capacity, load balancing, and databases. The “pay as much as used and needed” type of utility computing and the “always on, anywhere and any place” type of network-based computing. The advantages of Cloud Computing can be summarized as follows:

• No need for high quality equipment
• Easy to use
• Provides dependable and secure data storage center
• Reduces run time and response time

14. The IPad in Education:

What benefits does this technology have for education? What does students and teachers do with their IPADS every day?

This technology helps teachers, students, principals, parents, educator, and other education stakeholders use the IPads for learning in more reflective and educational way. The main key to successful integration of the iPad in education is there for to provide teachers with proper training. Among the main benefits of using Touchpad in class we found the following benefits for students:

1. Increase motivation
2. Facilitate access to manage an event of and sharing information
3. Fast student learning and performance
4. Improve the reading experience

15. Project on Mobile Learning Technology

Mobile learning or m-learning is a new paradigm in the educational scene with opportunities and challenges in the expansion of distance learning. This new paradigm opens up a range of possibilities for teaching and learning processes. The possibilities for the use of m-learning are many and varied and need to be investigated. The main objective of this project is to improve learning through the use of mobile devices and to encourage collaborative work. We want to achieve an innovative methodology of collaboration and communication with mobile technology. Suggestions for further development of this project will be discussed in the future.  Mobile learning is a relatively new tool in education which enables teachers and students to create new environments for present and distance learning.

16. National University Ranking Project

In order to increase the national university ranking in our center, we have mainly depend on the following items:

1. to choose the quality academic staff and the directors
2. Out put research and their activities
3. to facilitate all the facilities and infrastructure for all colleges
4. looking for recruitment and employability for the graduated students and teachers
5. to make contract with different number of international staff
6. sharing with the local international conference, symposium and workshops

17. E-learning Project for Computer Science

18. E-Library Project at SUE

As we know that the traditional libraries are places designed to serve all people in a society. The needs of libraries change depending on the sizes of these constructions that include printed books and publications. Traditional historical libraries limited in number are our important sources of information today. The need for preserving the printed sources by transferring them to future generations has accelerated the change in libraries. Since ancient times, libraries have been used in different ways as a storage center that provides information. With the developments in print technologies, libraries have become not only a center of mass production of books but also an environment for information storage. The increase in audio and visual media has led to the development of such storage tools as magnetic tape and CD-ROM. For the history of digital libraries is the discovery of the Internet  since 1950s, both the development of computer and Internet technologies and the capability of network technologies to allow digital access from a single point to quite far places have provided. Today, it could be stated that mostly universities provide people with library services. Therefore, each university has a library with traditional structure.  University libraries constitute an important part of university education and research. Historically, universities differ not only with respect to their faculties and but also with respect to whether they are undergraduate or postgraduate students.

19. E-learning Project for the Blinded Teachers

Since Information and communication technologies (ICTs) offer opportunities to learners who are blind to engage in interaction with others and with learning Materials. This enables active communication opening both social and learning Opportunities due to that e-learning has the potential to progress people with disabilities from different edges of educational innovation. This project focuses on very rare issues related to the e-learning and the blindness in order to distinguish between a blind person and the sighted one to carry out the modern way of learning. This plan came about when the director of e-learning of AVC was engaged in teaching the last methods of training course for the trainers at SUE and one of the participants was blind.

 

 

20. Kurd Genocide Project from Darcim to Shingal

21. Recording E-learning Course about Kurd's Affairs

• Barzani Namr's Life

Mullah Mustafa, was a Kurdish nationalist leader, and one of the most prominent political figures in modern Kurdish politics. Barzani, historic leader of Kurdish peshmerga resistance fighters, gestures toward the oil-rich city of Kirkuk , in 1946, he was chosen as the leader of the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) to lead the Kurdish revolution against Iraqi regimes, although at times he also allied himself to the Iranian government. Barzani was the primary political and military leader of the Kurdish revolution until his death in March 1979. He led campaigns of armed struggle against both the Iraqi and Iranian governments.

• Mam Jalal's Life

Talabani was the founder and secretary general of one of the main Kurdish political parties, the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK). He was a prominent member of the Interim Iraq Governing Council, which was established following the overthrow of Saddam Hussein in the 2003 invasion of Iraq. Talabani was an advocate for Kurdish rights and democracy in Iraq for more than 50 years. Apart from his native Kurdish, Talabani was fluent in Arabic, Persian, and English He was also able to speak French to a good proficiency. Talabani undertook numerous diplomatic missions, representing the Kurdish leadership at meetings in Europe and the in 1976, he began organizing an armed campaign for Kurdish independence inside Iraqi Kurdistan During the 1980s, Talabani sided with Iranand led a Kurdish struggle from bases inside Iraq until the crackdown against Kurdish separatists from 1987 to 1988.

• Newroz

The Kurdish New Year (Newroz) and March have been the symbol of success for Kurds, bringing light to the Kurdish nation, Newroz marks the coming of Spring and the start of a new year. For the Kurdish people, Newroz is an event which symbolizes the revolution and struggle of Kurds throughout history.“The people of the Kurdistan Region should reach its sovereignty and be able to make decisions on its future and life. Newroz is the Kurdish celebration of the Persian New Year holiday “Newroz.” Kurdish Newroz coincides with the Spring Equinox, and is a festival celebrating the beginning of spring. Over the years, Newroz has come to represent new beginnings, as well as an opportunity to support the Kurdish cause.

• All Referendum in Kurdistan

With an estimated global population of between 30 and 40 million, the Kurds are one of the largest ethnic groups without a state. Under the post-WWI Sykes-Picot agreement of 1916, Kurdish lands were divided between Turkey, Iran, Iraq, and Syria. Kurds in all four parts of what is known as Greater Kurdistan have faced persecution, discrimination, and genocide, and have fought at times for greater rights, autonomy, and independence.
The new Iraqi constitution that came into effect in 2005, after the US-led invasion of 2003, recognized the Kurdistan Region as a federal region with its own legislature and armed forces, the Peshmerga.

• Archived Project for Books of SUE Professors

With the increasing use of instructional designers as pedagogical experts for eLearning activities within institutions of higher education, it is important we learn as much as possible about designing and developing effective instructional design across the disciplines. In the area of eLearning we concludes that without a team of instructional design experts, facilitation of effective eLearning is highly unlikely. For example, given the wide variety of Internet communication technologies and social software available (i.e., computer conferencing, podcasting, blogs, learning management systems, audio/video technologies, email, instant messaging, social bookmarking, peer-to-peer networks, non-immersive virtual reality, etc.), most academics will need to consult with instructional designers to ensure that the technologies they choose and use will teach the concepts effectively and meet their students’ needs.

 

• Kurd Genocide and Anfals

 

22. E - learning by Bus

Since the technology revolution is beginning to have a transformational impact on teaching and learning in schools, institutes and universities, so we planned to use vehicle to be used for this technology. The Bus will be fully equipped with all electronic accessories with internet facilities to be served for products on e - courses for country side.