Hend S. Al-Khalifa, PhD Information Technology Department CCIS, KSU Riyadh
Short Bio. • • • • •
Assistant professor Technology Writer Consultant @ MHE 45+ research publications Areas of Interest: – – – –
Web Technologies & Semantic Web, TEL, Arabic and Computers, and Computers for people with special needs.
Overview
TEL My Experience
Research Themes
Talk Outline
Overview Part (1)
Needs for Enhancement of Learning • Complexity of the society • Need to learn more things and different things from yesterday • Increased diversity of the content where people learn (workplace and university)
D ef in i ti on
…… to provide socio-technical
innovations (also improving efficiency and cost effectiveness) for learning practices, regarding individuals and organizations, independent of time, place and pace. (Wikipedia) The field of TEL therefore describes the support of any learning activity through technology.
Education
TEL Cognitive and Social Sciences
Computer Science
Multidisciplinary Research Domain
Why TEL? • To increase the efficiency of learning for individuals and groups. • To facilitate transfer and sharing of knowledge in organizations. • To contribute to a deeper understanding of the learning process by exploring links between human learning, cognition, and technologies.
TEL World-Wide Movement • The NASA Learning Technologies Project (LTP) is NASA’s educational technology incubator (Interest in Interactive Environments, Virtual Presence and Immersive Technology Experience.) • The 6 and 7 EU Framework Program for Research and Technological Development, 2002-2013.
Research Themes Part (2)
Main Research Stream! • • • • • •
E-Learning Systems (LMS, LCMS, CMS, etc). Adaptive Hypermedia and ITS. Interoperability and Standards. Learning Objects, OER. M-Learning. Web 2.0 – – – –
Blogs and Wikis Social networks Virtual worlds etc.
Cloud Computing • The cloud is the term for networked computers that distribute processing power, applications, and large systems among many machines.
Geo-everything (i.e., geo-tagging, geo-location)
The personal web • The personal web is a term coined to represent a collection of technologies that confer the ability to reorganize, configure and manage online content rather than just viewing it. – Personalization – Smart Agents – Recommender Systems
Semantic-aware applications Computers are very good at returning keywords, but very bad at understanding the context in which keywords are used.
Smart objects • Smart objects are the link between the virtual world and the real. • A smart object “knows” about itself — where and how it was made, what it is for, who owns it and how they use it, what other objects in the world are like it — and about its environment.
My TEL Experience Part (3)
Blograma! The Quiz was Hard!
@#$!!
Can you delay the HW? Nice!
Al-Khalifa, H. S.(2008). Leveraging Course Communication using Weblogs: a Report on Students’ Satisfaction. The Sixth Annual Symposium on Learning & Technology, Jaddah, April 26-27
Twittering the Students!
Al-Khalifa, H. (2008). “Twitter in Academia: A Case Study from Saudi Arabia“, eLearn Magazine. ACM.
Image Source: http://www.contrib.andrew.cmu.edu/~sct/wiki_web_C.jpg
The Wiki Book!
Al-Khalifa, H. S.(2008). Wikis in Classroom Participation: Results From Preliminary Experiment. the first International Conference on Technology, Communication and Education (i-TCE), Kuwait, April 7-9
Behind the Dungeons of JUSUR
Al-Khalifa, H. S. (2009). JUSUR: The Saudi Learning Management System. In Proceedings of 2nd Annual Forum on e-Learning Excellence in the Middle East, Dubai, UAE
Second Life: I was there
Al-Khalifa, H. S. (2009). Second Life for Technical and Vocational Training. In the Proceedings of the Fifth Saudi Technical conference and exhibition. Saudi Arabia, Riyadh. In Arabic
My Students Projects!
My Students Projects!
Snapshot Response System!
“Classroom Response System using Mobile Phones and 2D barcodes," in The International Conference on Technology, Communication & Education,Kuwait,2008
My Students Projects! w A r ) e t e s o lac P t P s Be hird E (T E IE
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Conclusion Part (4)
IEEE Transactions on Learning Technologies • Learning environments – – – – – – –
Educational games Learning via discovery Fieldwork learning Virtual labs Educational simulations Nomadic learning environments Virtual and augmented reality
IEEE Transactions on Learning Technologies • E-learning tools – – – – – – – –
Web lectures and notes Learning management systems Lecture notes Discussion forums Instructor interfaces Homework support systems Automatic assessment tools Self-assessment technologies
IEEE Transactions on Learning Technologies • Social Technologies – – – – – – –
Social learning techniques Collaborative learning tools Social networking Knowledge sharing Peer tutoring Peer reviewing User generated learning content
IEEE Transactions on Learning Technologies • Adaptive and intelligent educational systems – Intelligent tutoring systems – Adaptive Hypermedia – Personalized E-learning
• Standards and interoperability – – – – –
E-learning standards Learning objects Ontologies Web services Authoring tools
IEEE Transactions on Learning Technologies • Devices for learning – – – – –
Mobile and personal devices Tablet PCs Classroom feedback systems Multitouch devices Large screen interaction
TEL is not an Education Research Discipline! It is Also for you CS/IT Specialist So Enjoy
Thank you! My Blog: www.tech2click.net Official Website: www.hend-alkhalifa.com E-Mail:
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