The 3rd Forum of the Arab Association for Research and Communication Sciences opened at the University of Jordan (UJ) on Tuesday under the theme: ''Academic Experience in Communication Sciences in the Arab World".

The Forum is organized by the Association incorporation with UJ and Jordan Media Institute (JMI) under the patronage of UJ President Prof. Azmi Mahafzah.

The 3-day event gathered Jordanian and Arab media experts to discuss a number of topics, including teaching media and communication in theory and practice, educational programs and curricula, training and labor market, modern methods of education, strategies for developing teaching, the problematic question of language in academic experience, issues of training, and academic teaching and labor market.

During the opening ceremony, Prof. Hashim Hassan Al-Tamimi was awarded the excellence shield in recognition of his pioneering research in the Media field.