Cihan University – Erbil Organizes a Training Course Named “Gamified Interactive Flipped Classroom” for Its Academic Staff
For the purpose of developing the skills and capabilities of academic staff in various departments, Cihan University – Erbil organizes a training course under the title “Gamified Interactive Flipped Classroom”.
With the participation of twenty staff members, the training course, which lasts for 6 days, started on Monday, 7/6/2021, in one of the laboratories in department of Computer Science, Cihan University-Erbil.
(Lect. Dr. Hasan Fahmi) and (Assist. Lect. Alyaa Asaad), two academic staff of Computer Science department participate in the organizing of the training course. This training course covers a well-known pedagogical education model named flipped classroom, which is an education model that reverses the typical elements of lecture and homework.
This course aims at introducing the model and some useful tools for applying it in order to deliver lectures to students efficiently. For this purpose, Adobe Captivate application, which is a powerful multilingual application for creating E-learning projects, was used during the course. At the end of the course in 23/6/2021, participants will be able to create interactive lessons and tutorials containing graphics, audio and video components to support learning process.
Annually at Cihan University – Erbil, several scientific courses are held for all academic staff and employees of departments in several fields, for the purpose of developing their skills and abilities using modern scientific methods and achieving success in the field of higher education.