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 Research
Experience 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)
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innovations (also improving efficiency

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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
Computer Science
Social Sciences

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
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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.
The Wiki Book!

Image Source: http://www.contrib.andrew.cmu.edu/~sct/wiki_web_C.jpg

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
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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!

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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: hend@ccis.edu.sa