BY OSCAR LOPEZ, Mashable
Modeled on the Oxbridge tutorial system, SyriaScholar gives small groups of students direct one-on-one interaction with tutors. The brothers used available, open-source software to build the website, which includes a platform for video-conferencing, allowing them to run the two-way tutorials online as well as upload powerpoint presentations that the students can follow during the tutorials. The lessons are also recorded. Currently, they are working with students from Al-Andalus University for Medical Sciences in the city of Qadmus, as well as Tishreen University in Latakia, and they’re hoping to expand the program to Damascus University. The tutorial sessions, given in English, provide students like Ahmad with a level of practical, personalised teaching that their own universities simply could not provide right now. “The information from lectures we have had from SyriaScholar, like how to read an [electrocardiogram] or chest X-rays, gave us knowledge that was missed out by our lecturers here,” he said.
http://mashable.com/2016/04/03/syria-scholar-doctors-website/#p4P0LHCIZ8qt
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