About the Ibn Sina unit in the Institute of Genetic Engineering
Ibn Sina unit is one of the new units that are interested in supporting the activities of e-learning and training the use of modern technologies, if it seeks to spread the culture of e-learning in the Institute and support faculty members to produce and convert your courses to electronic courses, the unit also seeks to provide courses, workshops and seminars for members of the teaching committee and supervise the Institute’s website and update it on the Internet as well as supervise the sites of the scientific departments in the Institute and develop and update it on the Internet as the unit is interested in helping members Faculty on the preparation of CVs and their electronic positions (create an e-mail, create an e-mail)
Tasks of Ibn Sina Electronic Editing Unit
- Training and assisting teachers to use the Google Classroom educational platform.
- Training graduate students to use the Google Classroom educational platform.
- Direct supervision and follow-up of electronic and in-person lessons.
- Identify the problems suffered by e-learning at the Institute.
- Providing the university and the ministerial team with a report on the educational process.
- Work on the introduction of teachers in special educational courses in e-learning.
- Providing the university with statistics on the number of students, whether in e-learning or attendance, as well as the number of passers, repeaters, complements, digitizers, and vaccinators.
- Preparing electronic tables to calculate the capacities and grades of students.
- Holding seminars and an introductory workshop on modern technologies and educational platforms such as Reasearsh gate, orcidal.
- Coordination with the departments of the Institute regarding the teaching of study courses remotely in light of the Corona pandemic.
- Addressing the Electronic Computer Center to offer to provide students with the university ID in order to enter the Google Classroom platform.
- The contribution of the Ibn Sina unit with the continuous learning unit to establish workshops, courses and electronic seminars.
- Contribute to the preparation of electronic tables and send them to the Ibn Sina Center for the purpose of following up the position of the Institute by the university and the Ministry.
- Photocopying lectures.
- Virtual Library.
The e-learning system can be compared to a virtual college, where administrative and educational tasks and activities are carried out, as well as monitoring, evaluating the performance of both the teacher and the student. The educational content in the Moodle system varies to serve the student and the teacher with the least cost, effort, and highest quality of results. The website includes a detailed curriculum plan enhanced with behavioral and skill-based objectives for each teaching unit, as well as detailed educational objectives for each lecture. The following are the types of activities and applied resources:
- Lectures, which are presented in various formats, including pdf and PowerPoint, as well as interactive audio lectures.
- Discussion forums that enhance communication between the teacher and the student.
- Scientific research, where the website facilitates the process of collecting research from students and presenting it to professors for evaluation, as well as preparing and guiding students and providing them with the necessary sources and information to write research.
- Surveys and feedback, which are essential activities that teachers resort to in order to evaluate lectures and teaching units, as well as to evaluate teachers by students.
- Online exams remain the most commonly used and effective means, as each unit includes an exam that measures the student and teacher’s strengths and weaknesses in understanding the curriculum.
- Diverse sources of electronic scientific books, journals, websites, and videos.
- Workshops and other interactive activities.
The number of Students participating in e-classes 141 and the number of professors participating in e-learning 38