{"title":"University of Cambridge Asian, Middle Eastern and Persian studies during\u0000 the pandemic","authors":"Mahbod Ghaffari","doi":"10.14705/RPNET.2021.52.1279","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14705/RPNET.2021.52.1279","url":null,"abstract":"This case study will focus on the COVID-19 lecturers’ experience in the\u0000 Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies (FAMES) at the University of\u0000 Cambridge. After a brief background about how the academic year works in the\u0000 University of Cambridge and an introduction about the situation after the\u0000 outbreak of COVID-19 in the UK, the author will discuss about the measures\u0000 taken by the faculty and the way the teaching was conducted in the FAMES in\u0000 general and Persian language courses in particular. Then, the challenges and\u0000 problems regarding online teaching in Department of Middle Eastern Studies\u0000 (DMES) will be highlighted. Finally, a short explanation about the way the\u0000 examination and assessment were handled in the faculty will be provided. The\u0000 findings show excellent management and steady leadership turned the classic\u0000 classroom-based teaching to remote and online teaching. Also, professional\u0000 collaboration and performance of lecturers along with the ongoing technical\u0000 and training support were the main factors to go through the critical phase\u0000 of the pandemic’s impact successfully. It seems that the language teachers\u0000 have gained valuable experience and skills in teaching languages\u0000 differently, which can be deployed in future post pandemic\u0000 situations.","PeriodicalId":267478,"journal":{"name":"The world universities’ response to COVID-19: remote online language\n teaching","volume":"3 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-05-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126219167","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}