Dubai Women’s College (DWC) will hold the first professional development training in the Arab world on Learning Styles to expand the knowledge of teachers and trainers on new ways of learning and teaching.
The training, offered by DWC and Creative Learning Systems, Auckland, New Zealand & Vienna, Austria, will take place on August 24, 2009 at Dubai Women’s College. For over 20 years, DWC has been an HCT flagship institution providing world-class education for women in the UAE. With a mission supported by the ELITE principles: Excellence, Leadership, Innovation, Technology, and Entrepreneurship, DWC has been recognized as being at the pinnacle of higher education in UAE.
The Learning Styles training will gather around 30 DWC participants, including learning facilitators, career counselors and human resources professionals.
Maureen Cocksedge, organizer of the event and DWC Business faculty member, said that people in conventional educational settings may not know how to learn or work in the way their brain naturally prefers. Cocksedge also mentioned that the training course is led by the Barbara Prashnig, the Founding Director of the Creative Learning Systems (CLS) in Auckland, who is also the author of many books such as “Learning Styles in Action” and “Learning Styles & Personalized Teaching” that have been translated into Swedish, Finnish and Norwegian and German.
According to Prashnig, the complexity of learning is an interplay of head, heart and hand, or thinking, feeling and doing. This gives rise to the intricate question of how can young people or professionals learn in a sustainable, successful way. “Everyone has a thinking style, learning style and working style as unique as our finger prints,” she concluded.
About Dubai Women’s College
Dubai Women’s College (DWC), with more than 2,200 students, is part of the Higher Colleges of Technology (HCT). The HCT is one of the leading higher education institutions in the United Arab Emirates with 16 campuses located throughout the country delivering a wide range of quality programs to over 16,500 students. DWC was established in 1989 and offers Bachelor and Diploma degrees in Business, Information Technology, Education, Health Sciences, and Applied Communications. Today, DWC is the quality provider of top-quality National women graduates in Dubai. DWC's mission is to provide a learning environment for young women to “Practice the Future” by developing confidence, professional excellence and an ethical commitment to leadership roles in a rapidly developing local economy.
