Professor SMILE Leads the Way to a New Dawn for Information and Communication Technology Education

摘要

Enormous motivation is required from students just to cope with the material, let alone learn from Traditional IT courses. It was not surprising, therefore, to find in four classroom studies in UGRU that only 3 7% students want to learn IT using traditional methods. Understanding the situation, in spring 2005 UGRU introduced a new ICT program. Still it is not enough. Different students have different styles and strategies of learning. Recognising this fact, we strongly believe that simulations can be an effective counter to many of the aforementioned issues while also providing equal opportunities to men and women in higher education in the Arab World. Professor SMILE (SiMulated Integrated Learning Environment), an intelligent, critical and creative thinker, can help the future generation learn ICT effectively.