Qatar University launches ‘Your Summer with NCED’ initiative
QATAR University’s (QU) National Center for Educational Development (NCED) has announced its new interactive initiative, ‘Your summer with NCED’, which aims to cultivate the culture of independent and continuous learning among students.
The initiative encourages students to invest their time during the annual vacation period in educational work that is fun and at the same time useful.
At the societal level, the programme seeks to strengthen familial and friendship bonds among students through targeted activities on the one hand and encouraging them to maintain social distancing and stay at home to contain the spread of the global pandemic. The initiative is divided into three subinitiatives: “I complete the story”, “I discover the solution (I am thinking)” and “I am designing my project”. The first initiative includes presentation of heritage or global stories dealing with various questions that enhance students’ three main skills, namely reading, writing, numerical competence and other sub-skills.
The second requires students to discover correct solutions to various puzzles and games while the last initiative is to make them produce and photograph various projects in a fun and entertaining way, giving them new and useful skills and knowledge.
The centre has announced that those wishing to participate can send answers to story questions or project videos with their data and personal photos to the e-mail address ncedqu20 gmail.com for a specialised committee to review the validity of the answers and the suitability of the videos. The names and photos of the participants who provide correct answers will be published on the centre’s multiple platforms and they will also be honoured at a special ceremony to be held in the first semester of the academic year 2020-2021.
It is worth noting that this initiative comes in line with the ‘Support for Qatar’ and the ‘Aid for Qatar’ campaigns that the centre launched earlier this year, and the successes they achieved in supporting the distance learning process. It is in response to the requests received by the centre to continue to introduce new initiatives in light of the coronavirus pandemic (COVID-19).