HBMSUs Smart Campus wins first place in Middle East Regional Awards category of 2015 Wharton-QS Stars Reimagine Education Awards
Hamdan Bin Mohammed Smart University commemorated the winning of its 'Smart Campus' effort at the 2015 Wharton-QS Stars Reimagine Education Awards, a prestigious worldwide award that recognizes the world's best higher education innovations and ensures learning and employment. HBMSU's 'Smart Campus' bagged first place under the 'Regional Award Middle East' classification throughout an honorary event that just recently happened on the sidelines of the 2015 Reimagine Education Conference in Philadelphia, USA. The event saw the participation of 520 universities and educational institutions from 50 countries from around the world-- contending throughout 22 different classifications. The award was established in the structure of the partnership between the QS Organization for the classification of universities and the Wharton Center at the University of Pennsylvania to ensure innovative projects in higher education.
HBMSU's Smart Campus, which was amongst the 520 individual projects in the competition, was consulted with broad favorable reaction from leading decision-makers and representatives of instructional, scholastic and technical organizations and universities at the 2015 Wharton-QS Stars Reimagine Education Awards event. It was applauded for its innovative method to efficiently take advantage of contemporary technology to enhance the level of smart knowing in the Arab World. The award represents the culmination of HBMSU's firm commitment in supporting the instructional procedure in the UAE and the Arab world. The university always seeks to adopt the best global practices and take advantage of the most recent technological innovations in the field of smart learning and distance learning.
Talking about HBMSU's acknowledgment at the 2015 Wharton-QS Stars Reimagine Education Awards, Dr. Mansoor Al Awar, Chancellor, HBMSU, said, "Winning among the most prestigious recognitions in the field of college is the fruit of the many years of commitment to support the learning procedure in the UAE and the Arab World, following an approach that is based upon global finest practices and the use of the latest technological developments to offer smart and distance learning services in accordance with the highest requirements of performance, quality and comprehensiveness. This brand-new achievement places another excellent responsibility upon us, which is to continue the effort towards developing a high-level instructional system that has the ability to build a knowledge-based economy and society, in line with the goals of the UAE Vision 2021 National Agenda. We are positive that the 2015 Wharton-QS Stars Reimagine Education Awards will be a springboard to raise global awareness on the quality of the educational system in the Arab World in general and the UAE in particular.".
HBMSU's Smart Campus seamlessly incorporates various applications and advanced systems to fulfill the needs of students, professors, and administrative personnel. It is a virtual school and electronic one-stop-shop that offers a vast array of smart services that provide users with access to virtual classes, academic records, registration, access the courses, submit assignments and register for evaluation exams, viewing grades and academic record and submission of proposals and suggestions through the utilization of smart tools. The Smart Campus represents great importance as it is a bulk of the HBMSU agenda of leveraging modern-day innovations to raise the bar of wise learning and re-shape the future of education in the Arab World to suit the requirements these days's era of knowledge.
