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ABoLT - Al Baha: Optimising Learning and Teaching

The ABoLT project is a collaboration between the Uppsala Computing Education Research Group (UpCERG) and the Faculty of Computer Science and Information Technology, Al Baha University, Saudi Arabia, with the aim of enhancing the quality of teaching and learning of CS at ABU. This project is, in its turn, a part of a collaboration between Uppala University and Al Baha University

The ABoLT project has a range of goals, which engage with scholarship of teaching and learning at different levels:

  • Locally, at ABU:
    • The students' learning should be enhanced as a result of better teaching.
    • The staff should become recognized for their Computing Education Research.
  • Goals for ABU in an international context include:
    • The Faculty should become a centre for good practice of learning and teaching Computer Science and gain international visibility in research.
    • Al Baha University emerges as leading university in computer science within the GCC countries
  • At a broad level:
    • The project should also contribute to better gender equality in Saudi Arabia.
    • Research-based insights should be gained on teaching and learning of CS in the Arab countries.
    • Academic collaboration between the Arab countriesand Europe should be encouraged.

The project tackles these goals in a number of ways, for example through a staff development course, arranging workshops/meetings/seminars on research in Computing Education, mutual staff exchange, student exchanges at different levels (bachelor, master and doctorate levels), and joint conferences. The underlying idea is that the pedagogical capability in CS education should be enhanced by the project while simultaneously developing a research capability in Computing Education Research in the Faculty of Faculty of Computer Science and Information Technology.

Staff

Principle investigator:
Anders Berglund

Researchers:
Åsa Cajander
Aletta Nylén
Arnold Pears
Neena Thota

Selected publications

Teaching and Learning Computer Science at Al Baha University, Saudi Arabia: Insights from a staff development course. Anders Berglund, Arnold Pears, Aletta Nylén, Farooq Ahmad, Bader Alghamdi, Khalid Alghamdi, Ahmed Alhabish, Abdullah Aljoufi, Eidah Alzahrani, Rami Alzahrani, Ismat Aldmour, Areej Athama, Hamada Shihad AlSadoon, Rahmat Budiarto, Abdul Hafeez, Nadeem Hassan Daupota, Dhafer Faiz, Lubna Abdel Kareim Gabralla, Mohammad Gamar, Abdul Hannan, Bedine Kerim, F. A. Mazarbhuiya, Ahmed Rabea, Muhammad Qaiser Saleem, Nimir Saleh, and Mohamed Shenify. In Proc. 3rd International Conference on Learning and Teaching in Computing and Engineering, pp 1-6, IEEE Computer Society, Los Alamitos, CA, 2015. (DOI, fulltext:preprint).
Pedagogical development in engineering: A collaborative project between Saudi Arabia and Sweden. Anders Berglund and Arnold Pears. In Proc. World Engineering Education Forum, pp 967-968, 2014.
The Development of Cooperation Between Al Baha University and Uppsala University, Sweden. Anders Berglund and Peter Sundin. In International Exhibition and Conference on Higher Education, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, 2014.
Learning to develop learning and teaching of CS: a collaborative example. Anders Berglund, Arnold Pears, Ali Alagla, Nimir Salih, and Mohamed Shenify. In Proc. 2nd International Conference on Learning and Teaching in Computing and Engineering, International Conference on Teaching and Learning in Computing and Engineering, pp 147-148, IEEE Computer Society, Los Alamitos, CA, 2014. (DOI, fulltext:preprint).

Updated  2015-09-20 09:18:17 by Anders Berglund.