Research and Awards

Honor and Awards:

  • Received the Mobile learning Award for 3013, from the International E-Learning Association-USA
  • $1,049,583.00 funded by Qatar Research national Fund (QNRF), of NPRP 6 – 901 – 2 – 370, in cycle 6. Project entitled; “Middleware Architecture for Cloud Based Services Using Software Defined Networking (SDN)”, November 2013.
  • $1,038,241.52 from Qatar Research national Fund (QNRF), of NPRP 5 – 051 -1 -015 in Cycle #5. Project entitled; “PLATE: Problem-based Learning Authoring and Transformation Environment”., June 2012.
  • US $1,049,372.11 from Qatar Research national Fund (QNRF), of NPRP 4 – 029 – 1 – 007 in Cycle #4. Project entitled; “Establishing a Qatari Arabic-English Digital Library Institute”. June, 2011
  • US $917,546.00 from Qatar Research national Fund (QNRF), of NPRP 4 – 125 – 5 – 016 in Cycle #4. Project entitled; “Using Mobile Technology for English Training in the Qatar Workplace”. June, 2011
  • US $49,017.00 from Qatar Research national Fund (QNRF), of UREP 10 – 010 – 5 – 004 in Cycle #10. Project entitled; “m-Learning for Training English at workplace”. July, 2011
  • QR 323,800 from Qatar University for an internal research project; of QUUG-CoE-CSI-08-05. Entitled “e-PBL: An E-Learning Environment Supporting the Problem-Based Learning”, 2009-2011.
  • $40,000 from Qatar Research national Fund (QNRF), of UREP 4-2-15, in Cycle #4. Project entitled; “A platform for Rich Mobile Services”, 2008.
  • $30,000 from Qatar Research national Fund (QNRF), of UREP 4-13-71 I Cycle #3. Project entitled; “QTEL-Cell Broadcast (QTEL–CBC)”, 2007.
  • $24,000 from Qatar Research national Fund (QNRF), of UREP 2-16-6 in Cycle #2. Project entitled; “A mobile service using bar-code for check-in to venue/facility”. 2006.

 

Important Presentations in the Last Five Years:

  • Presentation title “Collaboration between Education and Industry to Innovate Training”, FIFTH QS MIDDLE EAST AND NORTH AFRICA PROFESSIONAL LEADERS IN EDUCATION CONFERENCE AND EXHIBITION www.qsmaple.org Presenting – Main Author QS – MAPLE Doha – Qatar 06/05/2015
  • Presentation title “Ensuring Educational Quality through Self-Assessment”, FIFTH QS MIDDLE EAST AND NORTH AFRICA PROFESSIONAL LEADERS IN EDUCATION CONFERENCE AND EXHIBITION www.qsmaple.org Main author Presenting QS-MAPLE Doha – Qatar 05/05/2015
  • IEEE International Conference- EDUCON, Estonia, March 2015.
  • 22nd International Conference on Computers in education (ICCE2014), Japan, 30 November, 2014.
  • Series of seminars and workshops between 2014 and 2015 at Qatar University on Program Assessments, and Quality Assurance.
  • A seminar in m-Learning, The Innovation and Education Forum at CENG, 2nd December, 2013.
  • Organizing and contributing to a workshop in Problem-Based Learning (PBL) Design Using the PBL Workbench, 3-4 March, 2014.
  • Organizing two workshops during the academic year 2013-2014 on Digital Library, and Problem-Based Learning.
  • UNESCO Mobile Learning Week, Paris-France, February, 2013.
  • The International Conference on E-Technologies and Business on the Web (EBW2013), Thailand, May, 2013.
  • Annual International Conference on Web Technology & Internet Applications WEBTEC 2012 7-8 May, 2012 Indonesia.
  • ABET’s IDEAL Workshop Tuesday, January 03, 2012., South Carolina, USA
  • Education 2011-2021 Summit- Global Challenges and Perspectives of Blended and Distance Learning.15-18 February, 2011, Sydney Australia.
  • 10th International Conference on Innovative Internet Community Systems, 2-5 June 2010, Bangkok, Thailand.
  • International Conference Creating Global Economies through Innovation and Knowledge Management, 29-30 June, 2009, KL, Malaysia.
  • International Technology, Education and Development Conference”, pp 2321-2328, ISBN: 978-84-612-7578-6, March 9-11, 2009, Valencia-Spain.
  • Innovation and Knowledge Management in Business Globalization, Malaysia, July, 2008.
  • Training workshop organized by ABET organization for Program Evaluator (PEV), April, Phoenix, USA.
  • INTED2007. International Technology, Education and Development Conference”, March 7-9, 2007, Valencia-Spain.
  • Workshop organized by ABET organization for Program Assessment, July, 2006 Porto-Reco, USA.