Design of a cross-border course in newsroom management based on blended learning strategies

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1 Dean, Faculty of mass communication, Ahram Canadian university, Egypt

2  Assistant professor, Faculty of mass communication, Ahram Canadian university, Egypt

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This paper aims to design a cross-border course in newsroom management, making use of the online solutions to open the areas of sharing experiences between newsrooms from different Arab countries and make that available for students depending on blended learning strategies. The results outline a structure of a graduate course including its objectives, content, learning and assessment methods depending on the qualitative results of analyzing fifteen available courses and eleven modules from twenty-six media schools and four focus groups of media academics and practitioners from nine Arab countries. The paper makes use of the speed up of digital readiness in the region during Covid-19 pandemic when media educators experienced the remote teaching as the only solution under the lockdown, but they also explored the untapped opportunities of communicating borderless. The targeted impact of the paper is to design a course in a practical field issue that witnessed different experiences across newsrooms and make it available for media educators to create cross-countries / cross - regions versions, to open a door for a collaborative methodology of course design that bridge the gap of education quality.
 

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