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Trends and Barriers on the Fusion of Mobile Apps in Higher Education Where to Next and How?
Ferial Khaddage; Jesús Hernández Cosío
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2014 (Mar 17, 2014) pp. 903–909
Mobile applications (apps) can be seen as an added opportunity in education. Currently it is hard to imagine a better device that can grant students easy flexible and on demand access to learning content than each student having in their hands a...
Topics: New Possibilities with Information Technologies, Mobile Learning, Information Technology Diffusion/Integration
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Mobile Gamification in Education Engage, Educate and Entertain via Gamified Mobile Apps
Ferial Khaddage; Christoph Lattemann; Ricardo Acosta-Díaz
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2014 (Mar 17, 2014) pp. 1654–1660
Digital games are very popular amongst the digital natives; they use them for entertainment engagement, enjoyment and fun. With the emergence of the internet and mobile apps edutainment and gamification is also becoming increasingly important in the ...
Topics: Games & Simulations, Mobile Learning, Information Technology Diffusion/Integration
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MOOCs to SIMMs: M-learning around the world
Melda Yildiz; Ferial Khaddage; Miri Shonfeld; Christoph Lattemann; Adalheidur Reed; Sagini Keengwe; Gregory Shepherd
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2014 (Mar 17, 2014) pp. 1145–1151
Will massive open online courses (MOOCs) and mobile technologies improve education or endanger it? In this panel discussion, panelists from six different countries and five continents discuss the power of MOOCs and mobile technologies in the...
Topics: Mobile Learning, International Education
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Research-informed Strategies to address Educational Challenges in a Digitally Networked World: The EDUsummIT 2013 Action Agenda
Joke Voogt; Gerald Knezek; Mike Searson; Kwok-Wing Lai; David Gibson; Ferial Khaddage
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2014 (Mar 17, 2014) pp. 1022–1023
EduSummIT is a global community of policy-makers, researchers, and educators working together to move education into the digital age. EDUsummIT 2013 took place in Washington DC and resulted in an action agenda for researchers, policy makers and...
Topics: New Possibilities with Information Technologies, Information Technology Diffusion/Integration, International Education
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The iPad Global Embrace!Are we Branding Mobile Learning?
Ferial Khaddage
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2013 (Mar 25, 2013) pp. 3234–3240
Mobile computing is taking the educational institutions into a new era of instruction. Educational institutions globally are opting for new mobile devices to integrate, and it seems that the vast majority are integrating the iPad without even...
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Community-Based Learning (CBL) via Facebook Mobile“It is Time to BYOD (Bring Your Own Device)
Ferial Khaddage; Adalheidur Reed
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2013 (Mar 25, 2013) pp. 3220–3224
The penetration of social networking platforms such as Facebook is becoming pervasive in education, along with mobile applications (apps) and mobile devices. Students are using these technologies and apps to organise their learning material. Social...
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iTeach We Learn Via Mobile Apps "a Case Study in a Business Course"
Ferial Khaddage; Christoph Lattemann
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2013 (Mar 25, 2013) pp. 3225–3233
Mobile smart phones and Mobile applications (apps) can be seen as an added opportunity for education and for teachers in particular, this can be true if educational institutions are willing to enable this type of delivery mechanism. With the recent...
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Mobile Computing and Educational Innovation in Japan
Eric Bray; Ferial Khaddage
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2013 (Mar 25, 2013) pp. 3470–3472
Japan is well known for it economic and technological development but lags behind other industrialized countries, e.g. USA, Britain, South Korea, Singapore, etc. in its use of IT in education. Over the past 20 years there have been various...
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The Teacher Education Evolution: The Shift from Online to Mobile Learning in Curriculum, Assessment and Delivery
Ferial Khaddage; Gerald Knezek; Dina Rosen
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2013 (Mar 25, 2013) pp. 3936–3942
: Most teacher education programs have online applications. Increasingly teacher education programs are expanding their distance education applications with mobile learning, or m-learning. Although related to online learning, m-learning focuses on...
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Is this an iPad Revolution or Mobile Learning Revolution?A Global Perspective across Countries: “ iWorld, iLearn”
Ferial Khaddage; Miri Shonfeld; Melda Yildiz; Christoph Lattemann; Adalheidur Reed; Eric Bray
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2013 (Mar 25, 2013) pp. 3505–3513
This evolution of mobile technologies and application integration in education across the world has provided a shift to a new learning environment via various mobile platforms.Educational institutions globally are missing to identify specific mobile ...
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Rising to the Challenge The Changing Nature of Education in the 21st Century! “Lebanon Case”
Ferial Khaddage
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2012 (Mar 05, 2012) pp. 1532–1536
ICT and mobile learning technologies and applications are shaping the future of education, and are becoming pervasive in today’s society. We believe that the Lebanese education curriculum needs to be amended to incorporate ICT and mobile...
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The Emerging Force in Education: Cloud Spaces for Mobile Web Applications
Ferial Khaddage
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2016 (Mar 21, 2016) pp. 19–22
Mobile devices are becoming cheaper and access is becoming affordable and global. Recently the rapid development of the emerging cloud computing has triggered educators to rethink the ubiquities learning environment. Cloud computing is one of the...
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Facebook as a Dynamic Educational Tool in a Mobile Learning Environment
Ferial Khaddage; Eric Bray
World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2011 (Jun 27, 2011) pp. 3791–3798
Facebook is a worldwide phenomena and a popular multi-user social platform. It has evolved into a dynamic powerful social multimedia platform, and currently it is the most popular among users of all ages. Facebook is evolving at a rapid rate...
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Device Independent Mobile Applications for Teaching and Learning: Challenges, Barriers and Limitations
Ferial Khaddage; Gerald Knezek
Global Learn 2011 (Mar 28, 2011) pp. 1–7
Mobile applications for teaching and learning are becoming an increasingly popular method of content delivery. Universities are being confronted with a rapid surge in the penetration of mobile devices amongst students. The challenge that...
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The Good the Bad the Ugly of Artificial Intelligence & Why It Matters in Education
Ferial Khaddage; Walid Safi
EdMedia + Innovate Learning 2019 (Jun 24, 2019) pp. 1791–1796
The world is changing at a rapid speed, smart data gathering, data mining systems, powered by intelligent systems, natural language processing (NLP), virtual reality, cloud computing, mobile applications and artificial intelligence (AI) are already...
Topics: Innovative online learning and educational programming, Mobile teaching and learning technologies, Education for sustainable development
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Opportunities for Mobile Applications to Empower Informal Learning in University Environments
Ferial Khaddage; Gerald Knezek
World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education 2011 (Oct 18, 2011) pp. 236–243
The integration of mobile applications, mobile social networking platforms and other mobile technologies has become pervasive in teaching and learning. This rapid development has empowered informal learning, and is now leading to the exploration of...
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Introducing a Novel Hybrid Algorithm for a Client-Server Mobile Learning System
Ferial Khaddage; Ashley Chonka
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2012 (Mar 05, 2012) pp. 2893–2899
This paper is based on previous publications and work by the same authors during the implementation of a client-server mobile learning system called Image Indexing for Mobile Phone (ID4MP). The system has a good feature of efficiency, accuracy and...
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Towards an Innovative Approach for Teacher Education: Training Teacher to Train (TTT) Model
Ferial Malaeb-Khaddage; Helen Crompton
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2018 (Mar 26, 2018) pp. 1608–1612
The world is now connected virtual and mobile, it is currently going through a fundamental transformation in the way we humans work, perform tasks and activities. Automation and ‘thinking machines’ are replacing basic human tasks and jobs, and...
Topics: Mobile Learning, Teaching and Learning with Emerging Technologies
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Water, Food, Shelter and a Mobile Phone Mobile Learning Despite Crises Syrian Refugees’ Case Study
Ferial Malaeb-Khaddage; Helen Crompton
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2018 (Mar 26, 2018) pp. 768–770
This panel describes the refugees’ crisis and its impact on school age children. The focus is on the Syrian children refugees in Mount Lebanon, an area that is usually forgotten. The United Nations offers schooling to primary school children in...
Topics: New Possibilities with Information Technologies, Mobile Learning
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Mobile Apps Integration for Teaching and Learning. (Are Teachers Ready to Re-blend?)
Ferial Khaddage; Christoph Lattemann; Eric Bray
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2011 (Mar 07, 2011) pp. 2545–2552
The challenge of experimenting with new mobile technological innovations for teaching and learning is a constant factor for teachers at universities. This paper examines some important features that mobile phone Apps can bring to the learning...
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ICT in the Middle East: Looking at Mobile Technologies
Miri Shonfeld; Ferial Khaddage; Melda Yildiz
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2012 (Mar 05, 2012) pp. 1606–1609
In this panel, we will draw a picture relating to ICT in education of three countries in the Middle East: Turkey, Lebanon and Israel, with a focus on mobile technologies. Currently these tools are developing rapidly and can be seen as the promising...
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If Not Now! When? A Mobile Badge Reward System for K-12 Teachers
Ferial Khaddage; Rowland Baker; Gerald Knezek
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2012 (Mar 05, 2012) pp. 2900–2905
Badges can be an effective method to publically recognize and reward individual achievement in certain areas of expertise. Badge recognition systems are on the rise in business, social networking environments, and most recently, in education. The...
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Towards a Persuasive Design Pattern for a Gamified M-Learning Environment
Ferial Khaddage; Christoph Lattemann; Helen Crompton
E-Learn: World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education 2016 (Nov 14, 2016) pp. 1340–1349
New innovative technologies create opportunities for persuasive engagement. Persuasive technology is all about software, systems and applications designed to hook, reinforce, change and shape the attitudes of the learners without using coercion or...
Topics: Content Development, Tools & Systems, Designing, Developing, and Assessing E-Learning
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Image Indexing for Learning Content via a Mobile Phone
Ferial Khaddage; Ashley Chonka; Wanlei Zhou
Global Learn 2010 (May 17, 2010) pp. 187–194
Mobile devices and especially mobile phones are being seen as an added opportunity for learning. Few problems are being faced today with content presentation on a mobile phone, as some mobile phones have limited capabilities and have small screen...
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Tools for Mobile Apps Development in Primary Schools “A Fourth Grader Case Study”
Ferial Khaddage; Johannes Magenheim; Melanie Margaritis
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2015 (Mar 02, 2015) pp. 2425–2428
Mobile apps are becoming the main tool/technology to handle, manage and organize information on a mobile device. During this roundtable we attempt to describe a method/approach on how to introduce mobile app design and development in primary school. ...
Topics: New Possibilities with Information Technology Education, Middle School Education, Mobile Learning, Elementary Education, Early Childhood Education
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Smartphones as Learning Devices in Primary School:A Case Study from Singapore
Ferial Khaddage; Gerald Knezek; Cathie Norris; Elliot Soloway
E-Learn: World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education 2014 (Oct 20, 2014) pp. 980–986
Smartphones are fusion devices; they are currently being used in our daily activities--social, work, education and communication. Smartphones provide rapid and easy access to information and facilitate communication anytime, anywhere. The main focus ...
Topics: research, Implementation Examples & Issues, Social & Cultural Issues
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A Case Study of Student’s Attitude Towards the Adoption of Educational Apps and Mobilization as Teaching and Learning Tools at a Historical Black College (HBCU) in the Southeastern Part of the United States
Pramod Jasti; Albertha Lawson; Moustapha Diack; Ferial Khaddage
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2015 (Mar 02, 2015) pp. 1644–1649
Mobile application is a software application designed to run on Smartphones. Because of the significant advancement in mobilization technology (use of mobile technology to deliver online learning using mobile devices), how these devices are...
Topics: Software, Standards, Attitudes, Mobile Learning, New Possibilities with Information Technology Education
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Barriers and Limitations of Mobile Device Integration: The Case of Nan Chiau Primary School (Singapore)
Ferial Khaddage; Gerald Knezek; Cathie Norris; Elliot Soloway
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2015 (Mar 02, 2015) pp. 2420–2424
Mobile devices are being used as learning tools for grade three and grade four students at Nan Chiau Primary School in Singapore. This is part of the WeLearn Project initiative by the University of Michigan, Microsoft and Nokia, the aim of this...
Topics: Integration, Research & Evaluation, Administration, New Possibilities with Information Technology Education
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Digital Divide: Will Mobile Technology Lead the Change?
Miri Shonfeld; Ferial Khaddage; Melda Yildiz; Adalheidur Reed; Asmaa N. Ganayem
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2015 (Mar 02, 2015) pp. 723–726
In this panel, we redefine the "digital divide” from a global point of view. We bring examples from K-12 and higher education institutions highlighting Turkey, Israel, Iceland and Australia. This panel not only focuses on the access to ICT resources,...
Topics: Computers, Literacy, Digital Divide, Equity & Social Justice, Information Literacy Education (Library & Media Science)
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Technology Enhanced Quality Learning for All
Joke Voogt; Gerald Knezek; Ferial Khaddage; Therese Laferriere; Paul Resta; Peter Albion; Punya Mishra; Petra Fisser; Mike Searson; Mike Spector; Kwok Wing Lai; David Gibson
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2015 (Mar 02, 2015) pp. 1312–1314
EduSummIT is a global community of policy-makers, researchers, and educators working together to move education into the digital age. The fourth EDUsummIT in 2015 will take place in Bangkok, Thailand, in close connection with the UNESCO Bangkok....