DDE Silver Jubilee Celebrations - Webinar by Prof. Suliman Hawamdeh, USA
Channel: Pondicherry University DDE
Date: 2022-02-25

DDE Silver Jubilee Celebration 2022

25th Feb 2022 @ 10 am IST Webinar on "Information Equity and Knowledge Transfer in Distant Education: Can the Past Inform the future?” by Prof. Suliman Hawamdeh, University of North Texas, USA.

About the Webinar:
The advances in information and communication technologies has made it possible for people to communicate, exchange and share information and knowledge across multiple platforms. With the familiar quote “knowledge is power” information has become the foundation for everything we do. Access to information has become the key to better education, better health, and higher standard of living. Yet half of the world population is still have no access to electricity, Internet and information. In this presentation, we discuss information equity and the right to fair and just access to information. We also discuss the role of information in distance education and impact of misinformation and social noise might have on the quality of education, knowledge transfer and wealth generation.

Biography:  
Prof. Suliman Hawamdeh is a Regents Professor in the Department of Information Science, College of Information, University of North Texas. He founded and created several academic programs including the Master of Science in Knowledge Management at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore and the Master of Science in Data Science at the University of North Texas. He served as the Information Science Department chair from 2010 to 2018 at University of North Texas and directed the directed the interdisciplinary PhD program in Information Science. Dr. Hawamdeh is the editor in chief of the Journal of Information and Knowledge Management (JIKM) and the editor of the book series on Innovation of Knowledge Management Published by World Scientiﬁc. He has an extensive industrial experience and worked as the managing director of ITC Information Technology Consultant from 1992 to 1998. Dr. Hawamdeh served in the capacity of chair and founding chair of several national and international conferences include the International Conference on Knowledge Management (ICKM). In 2020, he received ALISE Award for Professional Contribution to Library and Information Science Education and in 2021, selected as distinguished member of ASIS&T.


Organised by,
The Directorate of Distance Education, Pondicherry University, Puducherry-14.
https://dde.pondiuni.edu.in