DOHA: Texas A&M University at Qatar, in partnership with Education City and Hamad Bin Khalifa University, will host the third annual Technology in Higher Education (THE) conference on April 16 and 17 at Qatar National Convention Centre (QNCC). The theme for the conference is ‘Today, Tomorrow and Beyond: Innovation in Teaching, Technology and Learning.’
THE conference, co-chaired by Dr Othmane Bouhali, research associate professor and director of Research Computing at Texas A&M at Qatar, seeks to encourage attendees to explore how to effectively meet the challenges and opportunities in education practice today while anticipating the possibilities of tomorrow.
The annual (THE) conference is an opportunity for educators, IT professionals, and students to get together and discuss educational and technological advancements. The conference focuses on identifying the shifts, challenges, and opportunities for educators and IT professionals as they explore ways to adapt and innovate their practice in a constantly changing technological and higher education landscape.
It is designed to foster learning, innovation and practice in the use of technologies in higher education and discuss challenges and strategies for technology integration. As a peer-focused conference, THE serves faculty, instructional designers, administrators, librarians, support personnel, technology leaders and enthusiastic users of technology who recognise the need to remain current on technology issues related to the higher education community.
This year, the conference focuses on mobile devices in classrooms, cloud technologies, virtual reality, the next generation of information technology infrastructure and many more topics of today, tomorrow and beyond.
Dr Hamid Parsaei, associate dean of Academic Affairs and professor of mechanical engineering, said: “Technology is reshaping education at all levels, and this conference will be a forum for important conversations about how we can maximise technology’s positive impact on teaching and learning.”
Bouhali noted the importance of THE’s audiences coming together to discuss innovations: “The conference is designed to foster learning, innovation and best practices in the use of technologies in higher education. In a rapidly changing world, especially in information technology, IT professionals and instructors have to constantly adapt to these challenges and keep themselves up-to-date.The Peninsula
