On May 6, 2020, at 15:00 pm Khazar University Development Department organized a Virtual Conference on the Challenges of Online Teaching and Learning. An international conference involved speakers from around the World: UK, Spain, Hungary, Finland, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan and Azerbaijan, who shared their experiences with 10 minutes presentations on the challenges of online teaching and learning during COVID-19 and how Higher Education Institutions have addressed the challenge.

Conference consisting of 3 plenary sessions began with the speech of Raziya Isayeva, Director of the Development Center. Associate Professor Irada Khalilova, Rector of Khazar University, greeted the audience and speakers of the conference. Further on, Professor Hamlet Isakhanli, the Founder of Khazar University and Chairman of its Board of Directors and Trustees, delivering speech, talked about the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on our country, students and teachers, as well as on the research projects.

At the next stage, Javier Orozco, a representative of the Polytechnic University of Valencia, delivered presentation in which he spoke about the current situation in the education system in Spain. Eldar Ayanbayev spoke about distance education in Kazakhstan and the Moodle platform which they are using.

Razim Aliyev, a representative of Ganja State University talked about the education system of the university and shared the results of the survey “Attitudes of students and teachers to online education”.

At the second stage of the virtual conference Dr. George Dafoulas from Middlesex University, Dr. Gábor Erdei from Debrecen University, Mr. Makhmud Kurbonov from Uzbekistan and Zarina Aslanova from Azerbaijan University of Languages delivered their speeches.

On the 3rd plenary session Elena de la Poza from Valencia Polytechnic University, Kati Clements and Saana Mehtälä from Jyvaskyla University in Finland and Aida Jalilzadeh from Nakhchivan State University shared their experiences on the current situation and how problems are met and solved.

At the end of the presentations, the speakers answered the questions from the audience.

Conference concluded with the speech of Raziya Isayeva, Director of the Development Center of Khazar University, in which she expressed her gratitude to the participants.