Free Live Webinar
Teach Lessons That Stick With the Understanding by Design Framework
Tuesday, July 22nd 2025, 4 PM Dubai | 8 PM Singapore
In today’s dynamic educational landscape, teaching with clear goals and intentional planning is more important than ever. Understanding by Design (UbD) offers a powerful framework to help educators focus on meaningful learning outcomes and design curriculum “backward”—starting with the end in mind.
Join us for an engaging webinar where we’ll explore the core concepts of UbD and how they can be applied across in-person, online, and hybrid learning environments. Whether you're new to UbD or looking to refine your approach, this session will offer practical strategies, real-world examples, and expert insight to help you plan more effectively and teach with greater purpose.
- How to identify and address students' social, emotional, and academic needs
- Strategies to reduce disruptions and improve student participation
- How to create a classroom where every student can thrive
- Gives students agency over their learning
- Provides students and teachers with immediate, detailed, and legible feedback
- Accurately measures what each student knows, doesn't know, and are ready to learn
- Ensures a mastery rate of more than 90%
- Has helped more than 20 million students at thousands of schools globally
Tuesday, 22nd July, 2025
4:00 PM Dubai | 8:00 PM Singapore
SPEAKER
Dr. Anwar Kawtharani is an esteemed educator and academic leader, serving as the Dean of the School of Education at the Lebanese International University (LIU) since 2011. He also holds the position of Director of International Relations at LIU and is a Board Member at UNIMED. As the CEO of Advanced Knowledge International, Dr. Kawtharani has made significant contributions to curriculum development and quality assurance in Lebanon, the MENA/NENA regions, West Africa, and Europe. He is a certified Lead Evaluator from Cognia and an Anchor Items Measurement observer for Early Childhood Development (AIM-ECD) for the World Bank.
Since 2001, he has been a prominent member of the official committee for English language exams in Lebanon. Dr. Kawtharani is a regular guest on educational episodes on local TV stations, in addition to his notable achievements, which include supervising PhD theses, publishing research in education and TESL, co-authoring academic books, and providing expert analysis on European leagues and World Cups as a football analyst and guest on both local and international TV platforms.
SPEAKER
Dale P. Johnson is the director of digital innovation for the University Design Institute at Arizona State University. He works with university leaders to develop and implement digital solutions to enable student success. Those efforts have earned him the 2016 Sally M. Johnstone Award from WCET recognizing his thought leadership, excellence in practice, and demonstrated leadership capabilities. In 2018, he was honored by the IMS Global Learning Consortium with an outstanding service award for his leadership of the adaptive courseware community of practice.
Mr. Johnson has spoken on the topic of digital innovation in higher education at more than 30 conferences in the USA, Rwanda, Brazil, South Korea, Singapore, Germany, Mexico, Russia, Norway, Kazakhstan, Portugal, and Vietnam, and led workshops on the subject at numerous universities. He has a bachelor of science in design degree from ASU and a master in public policy degree from Harvard University.
SPEAKER
Dale P. Johnson is the director of digital innovation for the University Design Institute at Arizona State University. He works with university leaders to develop and implement digital solutions to enable student success. Those efforts have earned him the 2016 Sally M. Johnstone Award from WCET recognizing his thought leadership, excellence in practice, and demonstrated leadership capabilities. In 2018, he was honored by the IMS Global Learning Consortium with an outstanding service award for his leadership of the adaptive courseware community of practice.
Mr. Johnson has spoken on the topic of digital innovation in higher education at more than 30 conferences in the USA, Rwanda, Brazil, South Korea, Singapore, Germany, Mexico, Russia, Norway, Kazakhstan, Portugal, and Vietnam, and led workshops on the subject at numerous universities. He has a bachelor of science in design degree from ASU and a master in public policy degree from Harvard University.
SPEAKER
Dale P. Johnson is the director of digital innovation for the University Design Institute at Arizona State University. He works with university leaders to develop and implement digital solutions to enable student success. Those efforts have earned him the 2016 Sally M. Johnstone Award from WCET recognizing his thought leadership, excellence in practice, and demonstrated leadership capabilities. In 2018, he was honored by the IMS Global Learning Consortium with an outstanding service award for his leadership of the adaptive courseware community of practice.
Mr. Johnson has spoken on the topic of digital innovation in higher education at more than 30 conferences in the USA, Rwanda, Brazil, South Korea, Singapore, Germany, Mexico, Russia, Norway, Kazakhstan, Portugal, and Vietnam, and led workshops on the subject at numerous universities. He has a bachelor of science in design degree from ASU and a master in public policy degree from Harvard University.