Student engagement and academic advisement model : an initial journey of excellence at the University of Buraimi

Joint Authors

Majd, Hisham A. E.
al-Ghufri, Ali Salim

Source

الندوة الإقليمية : تطوير الإرشاد الأكاديمي في الجامعات العربية و المؤسسات التعليمية، الجامعة العربية المفتوحة-فرع سلطنة عمان 22-23 أبريل 2014.

Publisher

Arab Open University

Publication Date

2014-04-30

Country of Publication

Kuwait

No. of Pages

7

Main Subjects

Economy and Commerce
Educational Sciences

English Abstract

Academic Advising is considered to be a vital tool in higher education institutions and at the University of Buraimi where higher education is considered a journey of exploration, empowerment, and skill and knowledge acquisition.

Academic advising is intended to provide students with different skills such as problem solving and decision making skills, challenge them to develop a systematic way of thinking, and allow them to gain a clearer insight into their own goals and career perspectives.

However in order to develop the students skills further in term of the job market requirements, institutions of higher education must go beyond academic advisement to enhance the learning process and competencies that are required in today’s environment.

Therefore the only way to enhance students learning process and competencies is through student engagement as a tool for skill and competency development.

Based on this the University of Buraimi has recently introduced a student engagement and academic advisement centre to facilitate learning and engagement and to provide positive psychological conditions for students by assisting them to acquire knowledge, perception, and enablement.

The Student Engagement and academic advisement Center (SEAAC) at University of Buraimi aims to provide opportunities for students to integrate their abilities, talents, emotion, culture and social experiences with their academic programs.

Also, it offers students the chance to explore new interests, address personal challenges, and develop talents and leadership skills.

Through involvement in the provision of many academic, psychological and activities and programs include counseling, outreach, advisement, consultation, training, workshops, competency assessment, and education.

With the engagement of students with the centre, students can develop their abilities, skills, competencies, achievement and become more knowledgeable, and enabled to empower them to take full advantage of their academic and individual experience which can be shared with others.

The purpose of this paper is to provide and share the University of Buraimi approach that was adapted in implementing the student engagement and academic advisement center model in support of the student learning process journey and some of the challenges that were faced during the initial implementation phase and some potential were identified to overcome some recommendations of the identified challenges.

Data Type

Conference Papers

Record ID

BIM-765186

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