The director of the "Badri" Academy, Dr. Mona Al Ali, confirmed that the academy was able to find technical ways to continue its work and its important role in society, as it continued to provide its free knowledge courses.
In response to the current conditions imposed by the spread of the new Corona virus to the world, the "Nama Foundation for the Advancement of Women", through the Padre Academy of Knowledge and Capacity Building, was keen to stand by all members of society, by providing them with the opportunity to exchange knowledge and optimal investment in their personal capabilities. Professionalism and strengthening solidarity among them, in light of the transformations we are experiencing, have created new methods of learning. Since the start of the quarantine, a group of workshops and training courses have been presented, all of which fall into the field of skills development and knowledge development.
The director of the “Badri Academy”, Dr. Mona Al Ali, spoke about the free courses, which numbered nine, were presented online, and enabled the participants to obtain certificates, among which was a course entitled “The Right Mindset to Become a Novel”, and said: The courses are electronically offered for women and men, and they were launched due to the current situation and solidarity with people under the title (Padre for Virtual Knowledge Sharing), as workshops were being organized that hosted experts in specific fields and people participated in them, more than one workshop was held that dealt with a lot of Topics, including the importance of e-learning, and how they choose the appropriate material to develop themselves, and there was a workshop on how to maintain mental and emotional health in light of the Corona pandemic, while business experts also spoke about how to open projects at this time ».
Dr. Mona stressed that the stone period raised the level and number of participants in the courses and workshops, because they were presented across the site, which means that the time and place barriers can be broken, in addition to providing them remotely allowed a number of trainers who were difficult to provide workshops in the academy because they are outside The state, to provide workshops online, and Dr. Mona pointed out that education all over the world will change after the end of the “Corona” crisis, because the process of collecting information via the Internet has become simpler and easier, in addition to the importance of being responsible for education and development, these are two important things in Around the world, and there are a lot of institutions that used to put large sums for the courses, I put them in these conditions for a small fee, to show solidarity with people and offer them interest for free.
She stressed that the academy is concerned with the development of skills and abilities, which is the educational arm of the "Nama for the Advancement of Women" foundation, and there is the electronic academy that is part of the "Padre Academy", and there are approximately 59 educational subjects, and additions are made to the courses according to the needs and skills of women, the courses The programs focus on women, but with the introduction of e-courses, it was discovered that there was a group of men participating in courses from all over the world. She noted that the participants focus on the important basic skills, especially for those who graduate recently, in order to obtain the foundations for building a career in the job, or building their own business.
Dr. Mona put these free courses, which are offered by educational and academic institutions, within the framework of social responsibility, because in the beginning it promotes the principle of cooperative learning and support for social participation, and in the end education is the simplest right of any person, and it is available in many forms and places, and has Institutions and individuals went to offer their skills for free during this period, and the research side has risen in the current period, as people have become able to carry out academic research, and they publish and talk about them, so after the pandemic, academic research can emerge and highlight how the educational situation has changed.
Various courses
The training courses and workshops offered in "Badri" varied in light of the Corona pandemic, and among them was a workshop entitled "Tomorrow's Success Begins with Today's Steps: Career Planning for Ambitious Women", and was provided by the expert in the professions of women, trainer and assistant professor at the American University in the Emirates, Dr. Sherine Shaya, during which she focused on the main decisions and basic skills a woman needs, whether she is looking for a new job or developing her skill in her current job.