The project aims at modernization of Higher education methodologies with cooperation of EU experiences, by establishing well equipped center, which engage technology with teaching process and it will be used to train Professors, Lecturers, Trainers whom already exist in Partner countries and Trainees in best practices of ICT in education. The project aims to ensure that universities in Jordan and Palestine are placed in a position to offer quality education compatible with European standards in order to graduate professional leaders who can meet market needs of the country. Its direct aim is to share, collaborate and enhance the capacity of both Jordanian and Palestinian partner universities to modernize educational programmes with state-of-of-the-art educational technologies.That will be achieved through the following activities:• Training and follow up with lecturers/professors on how to develop, share learning objects, and collaborate their e-courses on the portal.• Establish a well-equipped national center in both Jordan and Palestine interested in modernizing higher education and moving toward knowledge-based economy.• Create a hub of competences aims to improve quality of teaching and learning by building the capacity of the PC universities how to evaluate, develop and design e-curricula. As well hosting a portal for sharing these experiences. • Enhance the cooperation with EU partners through mutual visits to develop strategies how to move from teaching to learning and develop scalable sustainable solutions. • Create a pool of experts and clusters of targeted disciplines (Engineering and science) to be as a critical mass toward moving to knowledge based economy and 21st century skills.
METHODS is a 3.5-year project that entitled "Modernization of Teaching Methodologies in Higher Education: EU Experience for Jordan and Palestinian Territory", started on the 15th October 2015 and is co-funded by the Erasmus+ programme of the European Union. It is coordinated by The University of Jordan (UJ) with 14 partners from Jordan, Palestine and European countries. The project aims at improving the quality of teaching and learning at the partner universities with cooperation of EU-experience through incorporating technological tools in consistence with pedagogical best practices and by building the capacity of the universities to evaluate, develop and design e-curricula. The main aim of the project will be achieved through Establishing a national centers in both Jordan and Palestine interested in modernizing higher education to be as a hub for utilizing best practices in ICT in education, and for hosting a portal for sharing these experiences; Implementing smart class rooms in partners' universities; Developing the capacity of the staff at the partners' universities from diverse discipline, to be responsible for developing learning objects built in best practices in utilising ICT in education; and also through Cooperation with EU partners through mutual visits to develop strategies for moving from teaching to learning and develop scalable sustainable solutions. Internally, partner universities will hold the capacity to develop, design and evaluate e-enabled curricula for their courses. The project achieved a wide impact in the partner countries' universities.