ICESCO Holds Training Session on Distance Education Strategies in Tripoli
15 March 2021
A training session on “Distance Education Strategies: Flipped Education as a Case in Point” kicked off today, in Tripoli, Libya. The Islamic World Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (ICESCO) and the Libyan National Commission for Education, Culture, and Science Co-organized the session in coordination with the General Center for Training and Education Development at the Libyan Ministry of Education. The session is held under the theme “Towards a deeper and broader education” and will continue over three days.
Twenty specialized teachers, officials in charge of developing distance education programmes, experts, and teachers attended the session, hosted at the headquarters of the General Center for Training and Education Development in Tripoli.
Dr. Abdulmunem Emhemed Abulayha, Secretary General of the Libyan National Commission for Education, Culture and Science, supervised the organizational aspects of the session. The training aims to develop participants’ knowledge and hone their skills about flipped education strategy and ways to enhance it to ensure quality education and guarantee the continuity of the educational process through ICT use in educational institutions across Libya.
The Secretary General of the Libyan National Commission, in his opening address, appreciated the efforts of ICESCO and its unstinting programme support to educational and scientific institutions, especially during the COVID-19 pandemic which affected countries, with the education sector bearing most of the brunt of this pandemic.