Organizing a Joint Workshop between the Center for Excellence in Learning and Teaching and the Quality Assurance Unit on the Evaluation in Higher Education Institutions
Thursday, 13 October, 2011
As part of the joint activities between the Center for Excellence in Learning and Teaching and the Quality Assurance Unit at An-Najah University a special workshop was organized about evaluation in higher education institutions. The event was administered by Dr. Christopher Naber from Queen’s University in Canada, and Professor Robert Canon from the University of Adelaide in Australia, in addition to Dr. Allam Mousa, An-Najah University President Assistant for Planning and Development.
The workshop aimed to discuss the evaluation forms of the programs and faculties, follow-up on the evaluation results, measure the level of satisfaction among the graduates regarding the performance level of the different academic programs, build the performance indicators system for An-Najah University, and finally introduce the events and services that the Center for Excellence in learning and Teaching offers that seek to facilitate shifting to the student-centered education.
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Organizing a Workshop about Strategic Planning at the Level of Faculties and Academic Programs
February 13th & 15th, 2012
In cooperation with the Office of the University President for Graduate Affairs at An-Najah, the Center for Excellence in Learning and Teaching organized a workshop about strategic planning for faculties and academic programs at the University. Participants included Deans of Faculties and Heads of Departments of the Faculties of Arts, Islamic Law, Educational Sciences, Physical Education, Information Technology, Science, Engineering, Medicine and Health Sciences, Graduate Studies and Hisham Hijjawi College of Technology.
In the first day, the participants discussed the elements of the strategic plan of the faculties which emanates from the strategic plan of the University with respect to the objectives, strategies and related activities, in addition to the availability of the necessary resources to execute these activities.
On the second day, the participants discussed the expected outcomes of the objectives that have been developed in the first day. They also discussed the performance-measurement indicators, and the expected impact of these objectives; the activities have been linked to a realistic time-frame through which the activities related to the fulfillment of the strategic objective are accomplished.
At the end of the workshop the strategic plans were collected, reviewed and distributed on the participating faculties so as to form a source for objectives that can be used when formulating the full strategic plan for the participating faculties.
The meeting was administered by the Director of the Center for Excellence in Learning and Teaching, the University President Assistant for Planning and Development, Professor Gregory Light and Dr. Denise Drane from the Searle Center for Teaching Excellence at Northwestern University in the United States.
