Prof. Mona Barakat, the Dean of the Faculty of Tourism and Hotel Management, convened an online meeting with the academic faculty staff members about e-learning on Zoom educational platform for virtual classroom. This was held on Sunday, 12 April 2020. The aim of the meeting was to discuss the e-learning process and motivate the academic staff to exert all possible endeavours to help students overcome any obstacles could be encountered. Prof. Mona Barakat started this meeting by thanking all academic staff for all the endeavours they have exerted during this period to create effective e-learning. The meeting also discussed the following points:
- Stressing the importance of establishing direct communication between academic staff members and students via electronic means in order to provide the students with academic and emotional support and maintain lines of communication in this critical time.
- Emphasizing the necessity of abiding by the class schedule being set from the beginning of the second semester and creating effective communication on the educational platform provided by the university.
- Discussing the students’ graduation projects, not assigning any tasks to the students that require leaving their homes and keeping contact with them only via internet due to the latest global coronavirus outbreak. This procedure is taken for the sake of the students’ safety and to slightly alleviate their burdens.
- Academic advisors should write reports about each student in each curriculum and the nature of problems they may encounter.
At the end of the meeting, Prof. Mona Barakat wished good health and success to all academic staff and students.
