Open Education: from OERs to MOOCs

Dr. Mohamed Jemni is a Professor of Computer Science and Educational Technologies at the University of Tunis. Currently and since 2013, he is the Director of ICT at Arab League Educational, Cultural and Scientific Organization (ALECSO). He is a Senior member IEEE and member of the Executive board of IEEE Technical Committee on Learning Technology. His research projects involvements during the last 25 years are tools and environments of e-learning, high performance and grid computing and accessibility of ICT to people with disabilities. He published more than 200 papers in international journals.Dr. Kinshuk holds the NSERC/iCORE/Xerox/Markin Research Chair for Adaptivity and Personalization in Informatics, funded by the Federal government of Canada, Provincial government of Alberta, and by national and international industries. He is also Full Professor in the School of Computing and Information Systems and Associate Dean of Faculty of Science and Technology, at Athabasca University, Canada. Areas of his research interests include learning analytics; learning technologies;, mobile, ubiquitous and location aware learning systems; cognitive profiling; and, interactive technologies.Dr. Mohamed Koutheair Khribi is a researcher and program manager in the ICT department at Arab League Educational, Cultural and Scientific Organization (ALECSO). He received his PhD in computer engineering and computer science from the University of Sfax, Tunisia. His research interests include technology enhanced learning; educational recommender systems; adaptivity and personalization; open education; learning analytics and knowledge; and mobile and ubiquitous computing.