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- A Community of Practice around Online Labs in Iraq: Towards Effective Support for Academics and Educational Systems in the MENA RegionPublication . Salah, Razwan Mohmed; Alves, Gustavo R.; Talal, Shamil Kaddoury; Viegas, Clara; Guerreiro, PedroCurrently, the interest for Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics disciplines in higher education has been growing through a quality improvement in curriculae, examining its impact on the educational outcomes, and ascertaining its effect on the continuous quality improvement to staff and students. Hands-on experiments with innovative instructional technologies, such as online labs, built confidence and skills of academics and students by helping them to better understand, especially in engineering and science fields. A community of practice is a group of people informally bound together by shared expertise, a set of problems, or interest in a topic and fulfils goals. In general, a community of practice focuses on sharing best practices and creating a new knowledge to advance a domain of professional practice. It informs about the appropriate activities and instructional technologies that support the education systems by making the universities a better place for developing the skills of teachers and students. The study purpose is to examine how staff and students are interested in using new instructional technologies, namely online labs, to support hands-on labs for completing their tasks. In addition, it illustrates the potential benefit of a community of practice around online labs. However, in order to facilitate the formation of a new community of practice around instructional technologies in Middle East and North Africa several presentations about online labs have been made in different universities in Iraq. Research instrument consisted of a series of questions for collecting data from the respondents by using three techniques: questionnaire, online meeting, and interview.
- A Federation of Online Labs for Assisting Engineering and Science Education in the MENA RegionPublication . Salah, Razwan Mohmed; Guerreiro, Pedro; Alves, Gustavo R.Today, education is considered as a critical factor in the economic expansion and a principal component in any development strategy in third world countries. The main objective of developing education is to shape the students personality and bring them to the twenty-first century and understanding the nature of systems in which they work and live. Experiments in a hands-on laboratory for engineering and science fields are considered an essential backbone to improve students' skills. But actually, there are obstacles in a hands-on laboratory, for example: limitation of time, safety, scarcity of laboratory equipment, cost to setting up a new laboratory, etc. Nowadays, several online labs projects, which are controlled and executed via the Internet, are found to serve the students and the teachers, particularly in electric and electronic engineering subjects. These online experiments are similar to what happens in hands-on laboratories. Additionally, several advantages can be included from using the online labs, for example: safe environment, availability of experiments, and support the educational system. This Ph.D work shows the current status of higher education system in the Middle East and North Africa region and some of challenges that existed in their system. In addition, it highlights the cooperation and collaboration work among the researchers in this region, especially in the online labs fields. The methodology of work is described in this paper as well. Additionally, online labs federation and community of practice are suggested for assisting the higher education system in the Middle East and North Africa countries.
- A Framework for Enhancing Higher Education in The Kurdistan Region of Iraq through A Dedicated Digital Education MoocPublication . Abdulazeez, Dezheen Hussein; Salah, Razwan Mohmed; Alves, Gustavo R.Technology-enhanced learning is utilized to support teaching and learning processes by using technology. ICT has enabled Open Online Learning to become a phenomenon and a prominent feature of higher education in developed countries because it can deliver a wide range of high-quality courses to a massive number of students and increase the collaborative learning experience among learners. It is possible to suggest that the range of pedagogical practices based on open online learning. MOOCs are presently shifting the educational landscape from classical scenarios to digital scenarios where open educational resources are being shared among universities and institutions. In this paper, a framework based on open online learning for serving higher education institutions in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq is proposed. The proposed framework aims to serve teachers and students by providing adapted high-quality contents and scaffolding teaching and learning processes, in a cultural-aware context, in order to improve the existing higher education system.
- IT-Based Education with Online Labs in the MENA Region: Profling the Research CommunityPublication . Salah, Razwan Mohmed; Alves, Gustavo R.; Guerreiro, PedroEducation plays a primary role in developing countries, fostering their economy and augmenting their human potential. It is now easier to learn newest methods and techniques in many fields, particularly in engineer- ing and science, where IT-based educational tools - such as online laboratories - have been instrumental to improve the teaching and learning process. Online laboratories are widely used in several universities around the world, particularly in developed countries. There is evidence that online laboratories have a positive effect on the students’ skills and promote cooperative and collaborative learning by allowing them to work remotely without restrictions. This led to a quality increase of the teaching and learning process. Likewise, students from other countries, namely in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region, could also benefit from using online labs. This paper studies the existing collaboration among the researchers working with online labs, in the MENA region, by reviewing a selection of articles from conferences and journals. The patterns of cooperation and collaboration among them are discussed and analyzed, as well. In the authors’ opinions, the community characterized in this paper should establish more collaboration links in order to strength its capacity of influencing the adoption of online labs, in that region.
- VISIR SYSTEM @ DEUSTO, BTH, ISEP, and UNED institutes: Assisting and supporting a hands-on laboratories to serve higher education studentsPublication . Salah, Razwan Mohmed; Alves, Gustavo R.; Datkiewicz, Beata; Guerreiro, Pedro; Gustavsson, IngvarPractical study is considered a backbone of qualification in engineering and sciences education. It helps to understand the theoretical concepts for university students. Over the last decades, limitation of available lab has become one of encumbrances to some universities and institutions owing to the cost and unavailability of instructors. It led to decline the students’ qualifications in experimentation in engineering and sciences fields. Today, several ideas have implemented to get over the limitation of lab, for example online labs technology, which is refers to “Remote and Virtual Labs”. This technology is become available over Internet, for instance Virtual Instrument Systems in Reality (VISIR). In addition, online labs are proven that they can assist hands-on laboratories and may become the best technology for supporting hands-on ones, regarding to its low cost and ubiquity. This paper presents the number of students (access and users access) who are involved to use VISIR nodes that located at BTH, Deusto, ISEP, and UNED institutions. The filtration that used in this study is to categorize yearly and monthly access of students from those VISIR nodes.
- Why visir? Proliferative activities and collaborative work of visir systemPublication . Salah, Razwan Mohmed; Alves, Gustavo R.; Abdulazeez, Dezheen Hussein; Guerreiro, Pedro; Gustavsson, IngvarOnline laboratories have been increasingly deployed in several universities and institutions around the world. Besides helping to leverage a number of educational developments, they enable teachers and researchers to share their knowledge across institutional boundaries. It has been observed that online laboratories have a positive effect on students' skills acquisition because they promote collaborative work and allow students to perform physical experiments remotely usually 24/7. Today, one can find a wide range of online laboratories in the literature that are supporting many subjects in different engineering and sciences fields, especially in electric and electronic engineering. One such system is VISIR (Virtual Instrument Systems in Reality). VISIR plays an important role in electrical and electronic engineering education by allowing both teachers and students to conduct real experiments with electric and electronic circuits, via the Internet. It also complements hands-on laboratories by serving thousands of students globally, as a result of being spread by several universities and institutes worldwide. Presently, VISIR is installed in eight higher education institutions), in six different countries (Austria, Sweden, Spain, Portugal, India, and Georgia), and is the first remote lab in the world supporting a MOOC (Massive Open Online Course). In addition, a number of experiments in VISIR can be freely accessed, using the guest user mode, depending on the institutions available resources. In this study, we have used the data collection method focused on all scholarly papers that are related to the VISIR system, which allowed collecting references from many resources such as conference proceedings, book chapters, and journals. The objective of the paper is to illustrate the researches activities, developments, and studies that contributed to making of VISIR the best remote controlled laboratory in the world, according to the GOLC (Global Online Laboratory Consortium). Our research included the following dimensions: a) courses and subjects that include experiments done in VISIR, from different universities and institutes; b) the number of scholarly papers and authors related to VISIR, with a reference to the publishing sources; c) the different technologies used to deliver the laboratory experiments; d) the total number (and its evolution) of users who have accessed the several VISIR nodes; e) finally, the collaborative work resulting from the use and share of the VISIR system. To conclude, the paper discusses the impact of VISIR in the role of the laboratory in undergraduate engineering education, in particular in electrical and electronic engineering, and its contribution to the collaborative work observed among the academic staff, researchers and students who used it.