I visit the RIT Dubai Facilities and they are…

…..spectacular! RIT Dubai President Dr. Mustafa (as people seem to call him) went with a modern design scheme that is colorful, fun, advanced tech-wise and very very cool.  Look at the smile on my face when I saw the familiar RIT style so far from home!

This new University is very much a startup.  They were still finishing installations as I arrived, but this is seriously a great environment for teaching and learning! Fast (1GB) data connections in the lab, Laptop-friendly spaces in the hallways, and best of all the Promethean boards! Dr. M trained me on the first day to use them and I never looked back. Writing on the board captures your scrawl forever. Do you want to move the equation you just wrote? Use your pen to drag it somewhere else. Or change its color, resize it, or undo a part of it, or erase it, or turn on character recognition to convert it to computer type.  At the end of the day you can export everything to a PDF (or other formats) so the students can have it as an archive. Crazy good.

The building itself is part of the headquarters for our partner Dubai Silicon Oasis and is very recognizable (Michelle called it the pineapple) from its desert surroundings. This is fortunate because the Lexus-driving service from the Grand Hyatt frequently got lost on the way.

Tags: RIT Dubai

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