The Department of Educational Sciences on the campus of the Arab American University in Ramallah hosted the expert in the field of e-learning, the Canadian Professor Michael Barbar from Touro University California in the United States of America, to present an online lecture via Zoom platform for Ph.D students in educational administration, as part of the course “Integration of Technologies in Education" under the supervision of Dr. Hiba Abu Zayyad.

During the lecture, he examined the role of theory in e-learning at the basic, upper elementary, and secondary school stages). He also introduced students to the history of distance education, showing the responses of academic institutions to the emergency transformation toward e-learning during the Corona pandemic and beyond.

Professor Barbar touched upon several theories, especially in e-learning for the school stage, and demonstrated the importance of applying them to reach a high-quality educational learning process in the electronic environment, including the participatory community theory model, the transactional distance theory, and the social presence theory.

It is noteworthy that Professor Michael Barbar enriches our students with his experiences through lectures he gives in this field. He gave a lecture to students of the course of "Integration of Technologies in Education" last semester.