Reshaping higher education systems in the MENA region: The contribution of remote and virtual labs

Salah, Razwan Mohmed; Alves, Gustavo R.; Guerreiro, Pedro

doi:10.1109/rev.2014.6784265

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“…Online Laboratories can be categorized as Remote and Virtual Laboratories (Brinson, 2015). A Remote Laboratory is an experiment that is set up in another laboratory (Real components) for students to access physical equipment through the Internet at any time and any place (Salah et al, 2014;Jong et al, 2014). A Virtual Laboratory is a simulated lab environment typically implemented as a software program that allows the students to perform their experiments.…”

Section: Online Laboratories Impact On Educationmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Impact of Virtual Learning Environments on the Digitalization of Higher Education in the Kurdistan Region-Iraq

Salah¹

2022

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Virtual Learning Environments (VLEs) are open space that allows teachers and students to share resources and interact among learners. Implementing VLE such as Virtual/Augmented Reality and Online Laboratories in higher education systems are become positively valued in educational environments by providing huge applications and experimentations to science and engineering students for increasing their skills by conducting authentic investigations of the physical world through overlaying visual components over physical things and conducting real experiments via the Internet 24/7. Those innovations have enhanced students' enthusiasm and assisted them in developing more vita investigative abilities. Therefore, VLEs applications are becoming necessary to include in the higher education system in Kurdistan Region-Iraq now to allow educators and students and know more about the potential benefits of VLEs in higher education. For that, this paper shows the status of the Higher Education System and universities in Kurdistan Region-Iraq and how the widely modern technologies (e.g. Online Laboratories and VR/AR Technology) can impact educational approaches to enhance and modernize the quality of Higher Education in the Kurdistan Region-Iraq, digitalization Education system, and elements that can be impacted.

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Section: Online Laboratories Impact On Educationmentioning

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The Impact of Virtual Learning Environments on the Digitalization of Higher Education in the Kurdistan Region-Iraq

Salah¹

2022

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“…In addition, it is important to say that for reshaping higher education system in several developing countries there must be a focus on supporting and empowering human resources (e.g. Researchers, Academic Staff, Research Center Group), rather than depending only from Natural resources (Mahmud, 2013;Salah, Alves, & Guerreiro, 2014). This can help developing economic achievements as well (Mahmud, 2013).…”

Section: The Higher Education System In Iraqmentioning

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“…MOOCs) can be considered one of the most innovative technological developments over the web, similar to Online Labs and Virtual Reality (Spyropoulou, Pierrakeas, & Kameas, 2014). Open online learning has made a crucial revolution in the learning experience process which supports different essential activities such as Interaction and cooperation among learners (Sallam, 2017;Salah et al, 2014).…”

Section: Courses Beyond Borders: Open Online Learningmentioning

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A Framework for Enhancing Higher Education in The Kurdistan Region of Iraq through A Dedicated Digital Education Mooc

Abdulazeez

Salah

Alves

2020

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Technology-enhanced learning is utilized to support teaching and learning processes by using technology. ICT has enabled Open Online Learning to become a phenomenon and a prominent feature of higher education in developed countries because it can deliver a wide range of high-quality courses to a massive number of students and increase the collaborative learning experience among learners. It is possible to suggest that the range of pedagogical practices based on open online learning. MOOCs are presently shifting the educational landscape from classical scenarios to digital scenarios where open educational resources are being shared among universities and institutions. In this paper, a framework based on open online learning for serving higher education institutions in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq is proposed. The proposed framework aims to serve teachers and students by providing adapted highquality contents and scaffolding teaching and learning processes, in a cultural-aware context, in order to improve the existing higher education system.

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“…As a result, higher educational systems in the MENA region are in the low-level scale, when compared to other world regions. We quote from [12]:…”

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A Community of Practice Around Online Labs in Iraq: Towards Effective Support for Academics and Higher Educational Systems in the MENA Region

Salah¹,

Alves²,

Talal³

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The growing interest of society in science and engineering disciplines has lead to a quality improvement in curricula; a more careful definition of the educational outcomes; and; an increased concern with the continuous improvement of student learning and the quality of teacher training programmes. Hands-on experiments with innovative instructional technologies (e.g. online labs) built confidence and skills of academics and students by helping them to better understand, especially in those disciplines. A community of practice is a group of people informally bound together by shared expertise or an area of interest in a topic. It focuses on sharing best practices and creating new knowledge to advance a domain of professional practice. In addition, it shares the appropriate activities and instructional technologies that support the higher educational systems. This study aims to examine how teachers and students are interested in using online labs to support hands-on labs for completing their educational tasks and illustrates the potential benefit of a community of practice around online labs. Consequently, in order to facilitate the formation of a new community of practice around instructional technologies in the Middle East and North Africa, several presentations about online labs have been made in different universities in Iraq

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Reshaping higher education systems in the MENA region: The contribution of remote and virtual labs

Cited by 16 publications

References 15 publications

The Impact of Virtual Learning Environments on the Digitalization of Higher Education in the Kurdistan Region-Iraq

The Impact of Virtual Learning Environments on the Digitalization of Higher Education in the Kurdistan Region-Iraq

A Framework for Enhancing Higher Education in The Kurdistan Region of Iraq through A Dedicated Digital Education Mooc

A Community of Practice Around Online Labs in Iraq: Towards Effective Support for Academics and Higher Educational Systems in the MENA Region

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