
UIN Antasari Banjarmasin Sent 5 Lecturers to Institute of Oriental Studies, Leipzig University
UIN Antasari Banjarmasin as one of the Islamic Higher Education Institutions that always continues for improving its quality and grade, particularly for its lecturers’ quality. One important aspect to make it happens by improving the proficiency of foreign languages skill, in this case is Arabic. Therefore, Antasari State Islamic University of Banjarmasin sent 5 lecturers to join the training on e-Teaching and e-Testing of Arabic at Institute of Oriental Studies, Leipzig University. Those five lecturers are Dr. Akhmad Sagir, Dr. Ahmad Muradi, Fathullah Munadi, MA., Mukhlis Ansari, M. Pd., And Muhammad Arabiy, MA. Alongside the lectures of Antasari State Islamic University of Banjarmasin, this activity was also followed by four other State Islamic Universities of Banten, Lampung, Jambi, and Surabaya.
The activity of this Training of Trainer were held for 4 days, from Monday, 26 of March to Thursday, 29 March of 2018 and had several sessions of activities. On the first day, the activity was the introduction of the history of the Oriental institute, the development of Arabic e-learning and preliminary test. On the second day, the activity was a meeting of 5 State Islamic Universities with Prof. Schulz who talked about MoU signing, first test results, training on e-tests, and working on the second test. On the third day, the activity was reviewing the test results and doing the third test with A2 level, and the meeting of 5 State Islamic Universities of Indonesia in the framework of the MoU. Finally, the fourth day was reviewing of A2 test result and MoU signing of 5 State Islamic Universities of Indonesia with Institute of Oriental Studies, Leipzig University.
On the sidelines of this ToT activity, MoU signing between 4 Islamic Universities with Oriental/ Arabiyya Institut of Leipzig University including
UIN Antasari Banjarmasin as one of the Islamic Higher Education Institutions that always continues for improving its quality and grade, particularly for its lecturers’ quality. One important aspect to make it happens by improving the proficiency of foreign languages skill, in this case is Arabic. Therefore, Antasari State Islamic University of Banjarmasin sent 5 lecturers to join the training on e-Teaching and e-Testing of Arabic at Institute of Oriental Studies, Leipzig University. Those five lecturers are Dr. Akhmad Sagir, Dr. Ahmad Muradi, Fathullah Munadi, MA., Mukhlis Ansari, M. Pd., And Muhammad Arabiy, MA. Alongside the lectures of Antasari State Islamic University of Banjarmasin, this activity was also followed by four other State Islamic Universities (UIN) of Banten, Lampung, Jambi, and Surabaya.
The activity of this Training of Trainer were held for 4 days, from Monday, 26 of March to Thursday, 29 March of 2018 and had several sessions of activities. On the first day, the activity was the introduction of the history of the Oriental institute, the development of Arabic e-learning and preliminary test. On the second day, the activity was a meeting of 5 State Islamic Universities with Prof. Schulz who talked about MoU signing, first test results, training on e-tests, and working on the second test. On the third day, the activity was reviewing the test results and doing the third test with A2 level, and the meeting of 5 State Islamic Universities of Indonesia in the framework of the MoU. Finally, the fourth day was reviewing of A2 test result and MoU signing of 5 State Islamic Universities of Indonesia with Institute of Oriental Studies, Leipzig University.
On the sidelines of this ToT activity, MoU signing between 4 Islamic Universities with Oriental/ Arabiyya Institut of Leipzig University including Antasari State Islamic University of Banjarmasin. Meanwhile, UIN Sunan Ampel (UINSA) Surabaya has already cooperated with Leipzig University. Thus, UINSA was trusted to be the coordinator of e-Teaching and e-Testing of Arabic for Islamic Universities in Indonesia.
The MoU signing was done earlier than the expected schedules, the third day of March 28th, 2018 at 14:15 local time. In this MoU signing, the first party was UINSA which was represented by Prof. Dt. Abd A’la as the Rector, second party was Arabiyya Institute represented by Prof. Dr. Eckehard Schulz as Director and third party was represented by Dean of Faculty of Da’wa and Communication Science, Dr. Akhmad Sagir.
Many advantages obtained through this MoU signing, among them are the learning activities and Online Arabic Language Test of Leipzig University with relatively low tuition fee, gradual test-learning and so on. The outcomes of the above activities are expected to keep up the quality and grade of the Antasari State Islamic University of Banjarmasin in the field of Arabic language in order to compete in the international arena which is in line with its motto “having locally –based and globally horizon”.
Meanwhile, State Islamic University of Sunan Ampel (UINSA) Surabaya has already cooperated with Leipzig University. Thus, UINSA was trusted to be the coordinator of e-Teaching and e-Testing of Arabic for Islamic Universities in Indonesia.
The MoU signing was done earlier than the expected schedules, the third day of March 28th, 2018 at 14:15 local time. In this MoU signing, the first party was UINSA which was represented by Prof. Dt. Abd A’la as the Rector, second party was Arabiyya Institute represented by Prof. Dr. Eckehard Schulz as Director and third party was represented by Dean of Faculty of Da’wa and Communication Science, Dr. Akhmad Sagir.
Many advantages obtained through this MoU signing, among them are the learning activities and Online Arabic Language Test of Leipzig University with relatively low tuition fee, gradual test-learning and so on. The outcomes of the above activities are expected to keep up the quality and grade of the Antasari State Islamic University of Banjarmasin in the field of Arabic language in order to compete in the international arena which is in line with its motto “having locally –based and globally horizon”.