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Husain Imtiazuddin, Afzal Mohammad, Rizui Syed Amjad Ali Bahadur — Social Characteristics of the People of Karachi
No full textMartel Laurent. Husain Imtiazuddin, Afzal Mohammad, Rizui Syed Amjad Ali Bahadur — Social Characteristics of the People of Karachi. In: Population, 21ᵉ année, n°5, 1966. pp. 1034-1035
Amjad Ali Mehboob, Chief Executive Officer, Australian Federation of Islamic Councils, 2003 [picture] /
No full textInscriptions: "Amjad Ali Mehbook [sic.], Chief Executive Officer of the Australian Federation of Islamic Councils, 2003, "no. 29" -- in pencil on reverse.; Condition: Good.; Also available in an electronic version via the Internet at: http://nla.gov.au/nla.pic-vn3099469
Retraction Note: Mechanical performance of sustainable high strength ductile fiber reinforced concrete (HSDFRC) with wooden ash
Full text link[EN] The Editors have retracted this article.
After publication concerns were raised that the XRD spectra in Figure 13 are identical. The authors are unable to
provide the original data for examination. In addition, an investigation by the Editors has shown inappropriate
changes in authorship during the review process. The Editors no longer have confidence in the results and
conclusions presented.
Jawad Ahmad, Amjad Ali Pasha and Kashif Irshad disagree with this retraction. Amjad Ali Pasha has stated on
behalf of Mostefa Bourchak that they disagree with this retraction. The Editors were not able to obtain a current
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Effective Design and Organization of Online Classes - Tips from Dr. Amjad Ali
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Effective Design and Organization of Online Classes - Tips from Dr.
Amjad Ali
Amjad Ali
Graduate School of Management and Technology
Published: 0 2003
Category: » Online-pedagogy » Teaching-strategies
Dr. Amjad Ali joined University of Maryland University College (UMUC) as an
adjunct faculty member in August 2000. He was soon named as the Director
of the Technology Management Program in the Graduate School. In addition,
he manages the new Project Management speciality track. He has consistently
received excellent ratings (>4.30) in student evaluations and has achieved
the highest rating (4.53) in student evaluations in the entire department
during Fall 2002 semester. In his role as program director, Dr. Ali provides
guidance to adjunct faculty members on effective design, organization, and
online teaching pedagogy.
He suggests the following strategies for new faculty members to successfully
deliver an online course:
Posting a "Read Me First" file under the course content area can provide a "road map" to help
students locate course material and activities. This single document can help students keep track of the
due dates and location of assignments as well as provides easy access to WebTycho technical support
-- information that some other faculty members may prefer to leave in the syllabus.
1.
Dr. Ali emphasizes that class announcements should be regularly updated, at least once a week.
Every update should be properly dated and previous updates should not be deleted as the semester
proceeds. He suggests that the most recent announcement should always be posted above the previous
ones. The announcements should be kept brief and to the point. This will allow students to keep track
of course activities on a weekly basis, plus it provides periodic updates on the progression of the
course.
The example below is snap shot of Dr. Ali's class announcement area.
2.
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Syllabus: Dr. Ali suggests that all applicable areas of the Syllabus be completed and made available
for students to read. He says that the areas that are not applicable to your course should be hidden
from the students' view. (how to hide a syllabus item (http://tychousa9.umuc.edu/wtdocs/wthelp
/html/syllabusfac.html) ). This will eliminate confusion in the classroom and allows students to find the
needed information more efficiently and easily.
3.
Modules/lecturettes/lecture notes should be posted under the course content area, according to Dr. Ali.
The modules should be made available on a weekly basis. In addition to weekly modules, Dr. Ali
provides feedback on all assignments under the course content area. This keeps students engaged in
course activities on a weely basis.
4.
Conference area in Dr. Ali's courses is used for discussion purposes. Dr. Ali creates a "café"
conference for students to post course-related administrative questions and discuss issues. He also
organizes his conferences into weekly sessions, each one clearly indicated with session dates as part of
the title. After the deadline of a conference passes, he closes that conference by providing his feedback
and closing comments.
The example below a snapshot of Dr. Ali's conference area.
It's very important that faculty "leave tracks" in the conference, he says, by providing brief and
encouraging comments on a daily basis to keep the discussion alive. Dr. Ali has found this presence
very helpful in achieving high ratings in student evaluations. Another tip from Dr. Ali is to use the
conference area to seek mid-course feedback from students and know their final thoughts about the
course and the instructor.
5.
Dr. Ali strongly recommends that 6. faculty members use the WebTycho classroom as the prime mode
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for delivering and communicating course content. The use of e-mail for responding to students'
questions of an individual nature is fine, however, he strongly believes that WebTycho provides an
excellent platform for responding to course-wide questions of generic nature. This enables students to
benefit from each other's experience as in the face-to-face class environment.
In Dr. Ali's classes the Gradebook area is effectively used to collect all assignments. He creates folders
for each assignment in order for students to submit their documents. He uses "Gradebook" area for
providing feedback and to calculate students' overall grade. This provides a complete record of a
student's performance and allows the student to keep track of grades and to see progress at a glance.
This discourages e-mail submissions of assignments and significantly facilitates management of
students' work.
7.
Dr. Ali recommends that faculty refrain from participating in the WebTycho chat feature during their
first semester. It is often difficult for many students to participate because they are in different
geographic regions and time zones or simply because of their personal schedules. In sessions which
involve the instructor, it is easy for students to feel at a disadvantage if they cannot, for whatever
reason, participate. The ability to effectively use the chat without alienating those who cannot
participate comes with experience, finds Dr. Ali.
8.
In summary, he believes that the key to success in the online teaching arena is to keep the course
design simple, consistent, predictable, and user friendly where students can easily find study material
and follow course-related activities. Responsiveness and keeping the discussion alive are also
important aspects of successful online teaching.
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Learning Long Lasting Skills in Current Era
No full textThe need of the information society coupled with the technology advancement created necessary conditions to explore alternatives for lifelong learning. Because knowledge is doubled in every seven the shelf life of degrees is shrinking rapidly, thereby indicating that a worker is supposed to acquire promptly and most accurately, to prove him herself most workmen. Latest advancements in different fields of knowledge and technology have also facilitated the liberalization of economic policies, privatization and globalization. As a result, the industry is motivated for quality upgradation, emergence of collaborations and joint ventures, rigorous training programmes, downsizing of workforce, improving work environment and professional management forcing a worker to be lifelong learner for updating the knowledge and skills. Dr. Syed Azaz Ali Amjad Ali "Learning Long Lasting Skills in Current Era" Published in International Journal of Trend in Scientific Research and Development (ijtsrd), ISSN: 2456-6470, Volume-3 | Issue-5 , August 2019, URL: https://www.ijtsrd.com/papers/ijtsrd26375.pd
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
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