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A Federation of Online Labs for Assisting Engineering and Science Education in the MENA Region Ph.D STUDENT Razwan Mohmed Salah (UAlg- PORTUGAL) (UoD- KURDISTAN REGION-IRAQ) SUPERVISORS Pedro Guerreiro (UAlg- PORTUGAL) Gustavo R. Alves (ISEP- PORTUGAL) Technological Ecosystems for Enhancing Multiculturality TEEM'15

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Page 1: A Federation of Online Labs for Assisting Engineering and Science Education in the MENA Region

A Federation of Online Labs for Assisting Engineering and Science Education in the

MENA Region

Ph.D STUDENTRazwan Mohmed Salah

(UAlg- PORTUGAL)(UoD- KURDISTAN REGION-IRAQ)

SUPERVISORS Pedro Guerreiro (UAlg- PORTUGAL)Gustavo R. Alves (ISEP- PORTUGAL)

Technological Ecosystems for Enhancing Multiculturality TEEM'15

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STRUCTURE

• CONTEXT AND MOTIVATION

• STATE OF THE ART

• PROBLEM STATEMENT

• RESEARCH OBJECTIVES

• RESEARCH APPROACH AND METHODOLOGY

• RESULTS TO DATE AND VALIDITY

• DISSERTATION STATUS

• CURRENT AND EXPECTED CONTRIBUTIONS

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CONTEXT AND MOTIVATION Middle East and North

Africa (MENA)• Education System

– Francophone, Anglophone, Arabic Education System

• Several Courses (French and English)

• Several International Universities Branches – New York University (UAE) and

Carnegie Mellon University (Qatar)

• Challenges– Education Quality is Unequal– Unemployment (World Education

Blog)

• Proposals– Developing Students' Skills– Cooperation Work among

Researchers, Teachers and Students

– Using Modern Technologies

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STATE OF THE ART

• Education and Higher Education System.

• Online Learning and Online Labs

Planning the Review

Reporting the Review

Conducting the Review

Identification specifying the

research question

Identification of research and

data synthesis.

Identification of research and

data synthesis.

Systematic Literature Review

Web Technology

increasing the interaction

collaborative work

positive impact in the education

Online Learning

Offered Different courses

Pervasive HE Students

Increasing the Collaboration Work

Online Labs

Limitations of Labs

Useful Alternative

Example: VISIR

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PROBLEM STATEMENT• Education System in the MENA region:

– have still not adapted education systems with new technologies.– “Quality of primary education in the MENA region is still below the standards in

developed nations”. – “MENA countries can learn firsthand through the best practices of these other

countries that transparency of higher education systems is critical to increasing the quality of higher education in the region”.

– Comparatively low quality.

– Capacity of workers to innovate or adopt new technologies.– Lack a strong collaboration and cooperation work which would allow them to

share experiences, ideas, resources.

• Research Question : "Why is the cooperation and collaboration in the MENA region so weak,

especially in the sector of engineering and sciences fields in higher education?"

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RESEARCH OBJECTIVES

1. Help to characterize the higher education system in the MENA

region, especially in the engineering and sciences fields.

2. Determine the degree of collaboration and cooperation in the

MENA region in online labs fields.

3. Create a federation of online labs for serving the MENA region in

engineering and sciences fields.

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RESEARCH APPROACH AND METHODOLOGY

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RESULTS TO DATE AND VALIDITY

Date Event Name Event Place Result(s)

12-15, March 2013 EDUCON13 Conference Berlin, German

Met some researchers from MENA region and other world regions who work in online labs fields.

1-5,July 2013 iCEER13

Conference [3]Marrakech, Morocco

- Served in the committee program.

- Published paper

26-28 February 2014 REV14 Conference [1] Porto, Portugal

- Published paper- Served in the local

organization committee.- Reviewed papers

May, 2105

IJHCITPJournal [22]

Ostfold University College, Norway - Published paper

6-8, July 2015 EDULEARN15Conference [23] Barcelona, Spain - Published paper

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DISSERTATION STATUS (1/2)

Planned work directions

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DISSERTATION STATUS (2/2)

Direction One: (100%) Study VISIR

• Why VISIR?• Activities VISIR• Visualize System (UML)

Direction Two: (65%-70%) Online Labs Federation

Direction Three: (35%-40%)Community of Practice around

Online Labs

Online Labs Federation

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CURRENT AND EXPECTED CONTRIBUTIONS (1/2)

• W’s and H Ideas: Why, Who, What, Where, When, and How?– Why does the higher education

system in MENA region need to reshape?

– How can we assist the higher education system in the MENA region?

– When will the MENA region be able to begin to reshaping their education system?

– Where must we start to use the new technologies? Which fields are more priority?

– What kind of technologies can be used for assisting higher education students? for what purpose?

– Who is going to benefit from use the online laboratories technology?

Where do ideas come from?

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CURRENT AND EXPECTED CONTRIBUTIONS (2/2)

Expected Contributions• Overall Goal: Students are performing more experiments relevant to their

field of study.

• Online Labs: – Save time and money;– Allow students to develop the technical skills necessary for their jobs in the future;– Contribute to the quality of higher education in the MENA region.

• Online Labs Federation: – It can help to improve their education systems by using online laboratories technology.

• Community of Practice: – Share the experiments and resources;– Collaboration and cooperation work among MENA researchers.

• Finally, the goals are simple but ambitious.

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