File:Opening Up Education in Jordan Edition 2.pdf

Provenance

This is the second edition of a POERUP report on opening up learning/education in Jordan. The first edition for POERUP was adapted from an earlier market research report on e-learning in Jordan which was made available to the POERUP project.

The report is by Charlotte Doody and Paul Bacsich

Executive Summary

There are interesting developments in distance learning in Jordan, framing the development of open education. Many of Jordan’s universities have begun adopting online portals providing a gateway to online learning. Moodle is widely used as a platform. The University of Jordan is prominent in this and has its own YouTube channel providing troubleshooting information for its portal.

In terms of OER:

• The University of Jordan provides free and open e-learning courses that can be found without logging into their Moodle e-learning platform. How Computers Work is one free course for perusal and Water Science is another.
• A MOOC platform was agreed for launch in November 2013 as part of Queen Rania Al Abdullah’s initiatives under The Queen Rania Foundation.
• The Jordan Open Resource Association successfully proposed an Arabic Open Educational Resources Platform which was originally due to be launched in June 2011. The platform is still yet to launch but it will eventually provide free use of all uploaded learning materials.

This report is being released within POERUP under Creative Commons 4.0, as above. We hope that those familiar with Jordan will add their input to improve future versions documenting the achievements of Jordan in ICT for education, and open education in particular.