Hybrid Learning Aided Technology-Rich Instructional Tools - A Case Study: Community College of Qatar

Muhammad Jamal Shehab, Mosa Alokla, Mais Alkhateeb, Mohammad Alokla

doi:10.32038/sem.2021.10.02

European KnowledgeDevelopment Institute

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Hybrid Learning Aided Technology-Rich Instructional Tools - A Case Study: Community College of Qatar

Muhammad Jamal Shehab

Mosa Alokla

Mais Alkhateeb ,

Mohammad Alokla

Studies in Educational Management, Volume 10, Pages 18-33, https://doi.org/10.32038/sem.2021.10.02

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Educational Institutions have an essential role in promoting the teaching and learning process, within universities, colleges, and communities. Due to the recent coronavirus COVID 19 pandemic, many educational institutions adopted hybrid learning (HL), which is a combination of classic and online learning. It integrates the advantages of both, and it is a fundamental factor to ensure continued learning. Technological innovations such as HL are changing the teaching process, and how students, lecturers, and administrators interact. Based on this, the Community College of Qatar (CCQ) focused on researching the structures and elements related to the adoption of HL. Thus, the goal of this research paper is to reveal the impact of HL on the learning process in CCQ, and the effective instructional technology (INST) tools required for a successful HL program. Our research questions for the survey were designed to measure the opinions of the students, instructors, and administrators about the HL program. It is observed from the results that the majority of students, instructors, and administrators showed a positive attitude toward HL, but some had negative views and experienced challenges. The results were analyzed and discussed to better utilize HL to meet the growing demands of the community.

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Hybrid Learning (HL); Technology Integration; Online Learning; Face‐to‐Face (F2F) Learning; COVID‐19

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Muhammad Jamal Shehab

Muhammad J. Shehab (Member, IEEE) was born in Ra’s-Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon, in April 1985. He received the Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) and the Master of Electrical/Communication and Electronics Engineering (M.E.) degrees from Beirut Arab University (BAU), Beirut, in 2007 and 2011, respectively, and the Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) degree in wireless communication from the Department of Electronics and Communication in Qatar University (QU). In 2013, he joined the Department of Information Technology, Community College of Qatar (CCQ), as a Network Engineer and a Lecturer till date. Then, he joined the Faculty of Information Technology in CCQ, Qatar, in 2021. His research interests include 5G, 6G networks, non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA), intelligent reflecting surface (IRS), mmWave, THz, massive MIMO, beamforming, machine learning (ML), deep reinforcement learning (DRL), long range (LoRA), satellite, and sustainability in 5G networks and smart cities. He has actively collaborated with researchers inside Qatar, and abroad.

Mosa Alokla

Prof. Mosa Alokla was born on July 10th, 1979 in Frankfurt, Germany. He received his Bachelor of Computer Science Engineering from Damascus University, Damascus, in 2005, Exchange Program Engineering from University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada in 2008, and Master of Network and Computing Engineering (M.E.) from the Technical University of Freiberg (TU Freiberg), Freiberg, in 2010. Currently, he is preparing for an in-depth PhD. In 2017, he joined the Instructional Technology Department, Community College of Qatar (CCQ), in the position of Director of Teaching and Learning Center (TLC) and the Information Technology department as a lecturer. His current work area includes conducting workshops, faculty training and support, faculty technology skills improvement, course development, enhancement of CCQ's Instructional Technology tools, instructional design, course Management System, and usage of technology in teaching and learning through collaborative curricular innovation, design and development of instructional course content, in addition to maintaining service reliability and consistency. His research interest lies in the area of emerging technologies usage in the academic sector.

Mais Alkhateeb

Dr. Mais Alkhateeb was born on 1979 in Syria. She is a German mathematician, received her Master of Science in Mathematics from the Technical University of Freiberg, Germany, in 2004, and Master of Science in Mathematics and Teaching Methods from Damascus University in 2002. She embarked on graduate studies in Graph theory and received Doctorate of Mathematics in 2012. Dr. Mais contributed to Graph, Code Theory and Discrete Mathematics, she began her career at Damascus University and received many awards and honors in 1999 along her Mathematics research work. More, she moved to a high-profile position, worked as teaching assistant at Damascus University in discrete Mathematics, analysis, and applied Mathematics. Further, she earned a fellowship from Germany DAAD and worked as a lecturer in Applied and Discrete mathematics at Technical University of Freiberg Germany. She was honored with the German Mathematical Society's C5 Graph Theory-Workshop “Cycles, Colorings, Cliques, Claws and Closures” Kurort Rathen, in 2006. She was a fellow at the “Saxony Ministry Society Foundation” Scholarship in Germany, in 2010. After that, she became the head of doctorate student union at Freiberg Germany where she worked to improve the skill of students at this union, as well as being an active member in the volunteering committee at the technical university of Freiberg. Later on, she worked as a visitor Assistant Professor at Qatar University in 2013. Then she joined the Math and science department, at the Community College of Qatar (CCQ), as Assistant Professor in 2016. Currently, Dr. Alkhateeb by Lusail University Qatar as faculty member for mathematics courses as Assistant Professor.

Mohammad Alokla

Mohammad Alokla was born on July 10th, 1979 in Frankfurt, Germany. He received his Bachelor of Science in Information and Communication Technology from Damascus University, Syria in 2005. He joined the Syrian Computer Society (SCS) as a technical support and lecturer in 2007 until 2010, where he taught the substance European Computer Driving License (ICDL), MCSE and CCNA Courses. He received his high diploma degree in Network and Computer Information System (CIS) from Damascus University in 2010. His research interest lies in the area of E-Learning as well as distance and Blended learning, Information Technology and Biomedical Engineering, Neural Networks, Systems Analysis, and Medical Computing.

How to cite this article:

Shehab, M. J., Alokla, M., Alkhateeb, M., & Alokla, M. (2021). Hybrid Learning Aided Technology-Rich Instructional Tools - A Case Study: Community College of Qatar. Studies in Educational Management, 10, 18-33, https://doi.org/10.32038/sem.2021.10.02

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