During the period between 30 January 2023 and 19 May 2023 Dr. Judith Babbitts, Senior Fulbright Scholar and a professor at the University of Massachusetts-Boston in the United States conducted a four-month professional development and teaching workshop on ‘The Role of Technology in Teaching and Learning in Higher Education’ ‘The Role of Technology in Teaching and Learning in Higher Education’ for the teaching staff of the Translation and Philology Faculty and Pedagogical Faculty of Foreign Languages at Kazakh Ablai khan University of International Relations and World Languages.
Upon the completion of the course, a certificate of participation was awarded to 62 teachers. During her stay at the university, Dr. Judith Babbitts devoted 15 hours per week to improving the intercultural communicative competence of 15 groups of students. In addition to this, she actively attended cultural and educational events with teachers and students both at the university and in the city of Almaty.
