The Department of English, AIUB organized a webinar titled ‘Pedagogic shift in learner engagement, interactions and assessment in the context of online classes’ on 30th July 2020, Thursday at 7 pm for faculty members of Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, AIUB. The resource person was Dr. Syeda Farzan Sultana (PhD, University of Rochester). The webinar was conducted via MS TEAMS platform. It was an interactive webinar where the Faculty members exchanged their experiences with the resource person making a very positive contribution to the effectiveness of the session among the participants. Dr. Syeda Farzan Sultana has been in Rochester, USA for last eight years while she procured her PhD and at the same time she worked as an English language teacher in various institutions in the region. She has been involved in online English language teaching from the very inception of the COVID 19 cases in the USA. She has achieved vast knowledge on different types of tools and mechanism of taking online classes effectively. In the webinar she has shared her experiences and her reflections from her experiences in teaching English online in the USA. Prof. Dr. Tazul Isalm, Dean of the Faculty inaugurated the session. Dr. Islam tagged the webinar as “a very intellectually engaging and interactive webinar session”. By the help of this webinar, the participants received various information and developed a good knowledge for making the online classes at AIUB a great success.
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