1.4.3: Does your university as a body organise training or programmes to improve access to basic services for all?
Al Maarefa University organizes a range of programs and initiatives aimed at improving access to basic services for all students, with a particular focus on those from disadvantaged or marginalized backgrounds. These programs often include workshops, educational campaigns, and partnerships with local organizations that work to enhance students’ well-being and provide access to essential services like healthcare, counseling, and academic support.
For instance, the university collaborates with local health services to ensure students have access to medical care, both on-campus and through partnerships with nearby clinics and hospitals. They also offer mental health support services, which are critical for students facing challenges in balancing academic pressures with personal issues. Through these services, students are able to access psychological counseling and other mental health resources, which helps them cope with stress and improve their academic performance.
Furthermore, Al Maarefa University regularly provides training programs aimed at enhancing the skills of students and local community members. These programs often focus on areas like digital literacy, language skills, and professional development, all of which contribute to improving access to essential services by equipping individuals with the skills necessary to navigate everyday challenges.
The university’s dedication to improving access to services is also reflected in its initiatives related to sustainability and community outreach. These programs help to ensure that all students, regardless of background, have the necessary resources to succeed in their studies and contribute positively to society.
These activities are consistent with Saudi Arabia’s broader development goals under Vision 2030, which emphasizes the importance of education, health services, and sustainable development.
The National Company for Training & Education Technologies (TETEC)
First, the agreement with TETEC ,The National Company for Training & Education Technologies (TETEC) was founded as an outcome of more than 30 years of expertise in the areas of training and education, during which connections were established with international and local organizations that provides awarding and assessments for qualifications such as CIT the International Certificate in IT Skills.
This is essential qualification for candidates who wish to get a better job. It certifies the candidate’s basic knowledge and skills, according to the latest developments in the computer use. CIT confirms the competence in a wide spectrum of skills which are necessary for the effective use of the various applications of information technology. This certificate helps the community to reduce Digital literacy among elderly people since we live in a technological era.
TETEC works in partnership with a variety of organizations to deliver, develop and award qualifications. Some of the key partners include Cambridge International Examinations (CIE), Cambridge English Language Assessment, Scottish Qualifications Authority (SQA) and Technical and Vocational Training Corporation (TVTC).
TETEC through cooperation with local and international bodies and organizations provides qualifications; supports the recognized centres which deliver specified qualifications to learners and trainers, provides quality assurance for these qualifications and implements online assessment for the qualifications. TETEC has successfully introduced different international certifications with its partners and innovatively promoted them in the Saudi market.
TETEC supervises more than 400 centres across Saudi Arabia while complying with high quality standards which are accredited locally and internationally. Our services are available to all government and private sectors, universities, colleges, institutes, training centres and schools.
E-learning management system
Access to the e-learning management system
Moodle is a learning platform designed to provide educators, administrators and learners with a single robust, secure and integrated system to create personalized learning environments.
Moodle is a learning platform designed to provide educators, administrators and learners with a single robust, secure and integrated system to create personalized learning environments.
Moodle designed to create an interactive learning environment, manage the course content and evaluate the outcomes. It is an open source program used in most of the 532 countries; with total number of courses exceed 7 million and a half course.
Moodle in AlMaarefa Colleges
· Each student has a Moodle account that will be created at the beginning of each semester.
· Students must have an academic email in order to use Moodle Students are enrolled in their courses in Moodle based on their academic schedule.
· Each course has a unified page among all sections.
· The contents of the course are added by the instructor responsible for content management and it will be displayed to all students at the same time.
· The student can only review his/her grades (the grades of the other students will not be shown).
· Assignments and quizzes can be added on the course page and it is required that each student to follow-up updates on the course page and deliver assignments on time.
· Each student has a personal page in the system that shows his courses.
· Instructors can post news on the course page, it is essential to follow the course page for the updates.
Activities
Moodle offers a large variety of activities that are designed to help your learning. When your instructors create activities they will name them. This means that they will not appear as simply Assignment or Wiki etc. on the course page, but will display with a meaningful title as set by your instructor.
Assignments
Moodle provides several ways to track and collect work from students. You can submit files or type into a text box.
Quiz
Quizzes in Moodle are used to evaluate student understanding of material. Moodle quizzes are comprised of a Quiz activity that contains one or more questions from your course’s Question bank.
Discussion forum
Instructors and students can communicate and collaborate using Forums, sometimes called “discussions.” Instructors can create topics or, depending on the Forum type, allow students to originate topics, to which course members can “post” a reply.
Feedback
For creating and conducting surveys to collect feedback
Wiki
Wiki is a web page (or set of web pages) that class members can create together, working directly in the browser without needing to know HTML. A Moodle Wiki starts with one front page.
Project Management Course
Project management course for trainer Nasser Al-Muhaimid at the Diriyah Conference and Business Center.
Qualification of Career Counselors” course
#جامعة_المعرفة , in cooperation with the Human Development Association (Himma), has set up a “Qualification of Career Counselors” course, which aims to help students choose their professional path.
First Aid Principles Course
As part of the community partnership programs #جامعة_المعرفة held two courses on first aid principles in Riyadh Lights Schools and Al-Ibtikariah School.
SPLE exam for interns
The College of Pharmacy is conducting the #جامعة_المعرفة preparatory course for the SPLE exam for interns.
BLS Course
PHTLS Course
SMAV
UM provides access to educational resources for those not studying at the university such as online courses, computer and library as follows:
Library and digital library
The UM library offer the need textbooks and the additional references print/online for the offered academic programs in accordance with the courses specifications that aims at providing the students with the needs knowledge/skills to attains the program/courses outcomes. The library contains thousands of paper/electronic books, journals, periodicals, etc. in the library shelves and/or via the Saudi digital library SDL.
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