McGraw Hill Higher Education Conference Middle East and Africa - December 2021
Organized under the theme: ‘Higher Education in the Wake of the Pandemic’, this invitation-only event will help facilitate a discussion among leadership from prominent universities in the region to share lessons from the last year and a half and define the way forward.
Duration: 2 hours
Target Audience: Presidents, Provosts, CIOs, CTOs
Target Region: Middle East and Africa
Expected Attendees: 80-100
Platform: Zoom Webinar (link will be provided after you register)
| 4 PM | Opening Address |
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| The conference will begin with opening remarks by Simon who will welcome the attending speakers and guests, setting the stage for the day’s discussions. | |
| 4:10 PM | Panel Discussion # 1: Bridging the Gap Between Higher Education and Workforce Readiness |
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Moderator: Panellists: Dr. Ahmed Yamani, President, Prince Sultan University, Saudi Arabia |
| The opening panel discussion will address the stark misalignment between the talents employers demand and the skills universities prepare graduates for as they enter the workforce. With a host of new job families coming up, universities need to do more than just provide a ‘stamp on the forehead’ and focus on lifelong learning and reskilling through micro-credentialing while working in proximity with the employer market. How can higher education institutes think beyond the traditional 18- to 22-year-old demographic and deliver what industries demand from workers today? | |
| 4:40 PM | Keynote Address: A Data-Driven Approach to Mastery-Based Learning |
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| Many online learning management platforms offer analytics data around student performance and engagement. However, quite often these analytics are underutilized because instructors are too overwhelmed to study them in detail and extract meaning insights that would help them refine their teaching methodology. As a learning science company, McGraw Hill’s data scientists and learning experts have developed proven systems that can turn data into personalized learning plaths for your students. In this session, our experts will use our award-winning adaptive learning platform Connect as an example to showcase key principles that will help you identify the metrics to keep an eye on and how to use it to guide your teaching methodology. | |
| 5:00 PM | Panel Discussion # 2: The Evolving Education Delivery Models Post-Pandemic |
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Moderator: Panellists: Dr. Asli Hassan, Director, Center for Teaching & Learning, Khalifa University, UAE |
| If the current pandemic has taught us anything, it’s that no one can predict the future. And while we’re still not out of it yet, it has become clear that universities need to be agile and flexible enough to be able to switch quickly between different modes of instruction, and teachers need to be adept enough to teach effectively under all circumstances. This session will showcase some of the regional success stories in agile education delivery models, unravel the challenges that come with it, and discuss practical solutions to overcoming them. | |
| 5:30 PM | The Road Ahead |
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| This session will pull some key nuggets of ideas that come out of the panel discussions and connect them together with the overall theme of the conference. She will help us start thinking strategically about the changes we need to make for the coming term and how we can be agile enough to meet the demands of the labor market. | |
| 5:40 PM | Closing Remarks |
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Speaker: Tony Lorin, President International, McGraw Hill |
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