Jad Najjar Email & Phone Number

Leuven, Belgium

The main aim of the Eummena is to increase awareness, advance, open up, transfer and exchange research and development practices on the use of standards and expertise around learning technologies and digital media between the EU and the neighboring Mediterranean, Middle East and North Africa (MENA) cultures. The overall goal is to support better research and use of technology and digital media (content) for superior human experience in education, training and lifelong learning.

Al-Riyadh Governorate, Saudi Arabia

- Advise on analysis and development of digital educational technologies business- Support on building strategies and roadmaps on digital transformation in education and human capabilities

Teaching

The main responsibilities of the development for innovation department include:- Help students and young researchers develop business plans of their innovative ideas.- Support the building and incubate competitive teams (multi-disciplinary) for the successful implementation of the incubated spin-off. - Build a network of entrepreneurs who will advise and guide the growth and expansion of the new business.- Train the young researchers on interpersonal skills needed for the… Show more The main responsibilities of the development for innovation department include:- Help students and young researchers develop business plans of their innovative ideas.- Support the building and incubate competitive teams (multi-disciplinary) for the successful implementation of the incubated spin-off. - Build a network of entrepreneurs who will advise and guide the growth and expansion of the new business.- Train the young researchers on interpersonal skills needed for the professional formation of future spin-offs.- Arrange the placement and internships of recent graduates in industry, towards producing skilled team members Show less

Saudi Arabia, Riyadh

- Leading work on Digital Education strategy- Initiating several innovative initiatives in education technologies and human digital capabilities

Brussels Area, Belgium

- Setup and manage development and evaluation work-groups across 22 EU countries.- Guide development of user requirements, use cases, interaction designs of innovative UX aware prototypes and applications.- Design and conduct usability sessions (filed, lab and remote) of prototypes and applications across different channels (content management systems, intranet and mobile-applications).- Lead work group on learning outcomes (knowledge, skills and competencies) development.-… Show more - Setup and manage development and evaluation work-groups across 22 EU countries.- Guide development of user requirements, use cases, interaction designs of innovative UX aware prototypes and applications.- Design and conduct usability sessions (filed, lab and remote) of prototypes and applications across different channels (content management systems, intranet and mobile-applications).- Lead work group on learning outcomes (knowledge, skills and competencies) development.- Manage work groups for online collaborative modelling and design of data models, interface sketches and functional applications, e.g, use CMap Tools. Show less

- Manage project activities including developing plans and assigning tasks and tracking progress.- Develop scenarios, use cases, data models (e.g., ER, UML, ORM), personas and prototypes for innovative customer and competency-based content/learning management systems.- Guide and adopt styles for conception and development of application across diverse technologies and channels; widgets, ePortfolio, HR, training and social tools.- Design methodologies and guidelines for adoption and… Show more - Manage project activities including developing plans and assigning tasks and tracking progress.- Develop scenarios, use cases, data models (e.g., ER, UML, ORM), personas and prototypes for innovative customer and competency-based content/learning management systems.- Guide and adopt styles for conception and development of application across diverse technologies and channels; widgets, ePortfolio, HR, training and social tools.- Design methodologies and guidelines for adoption and evaluation of standardized data models of metadata and relevant conceptual and technical schemas that support interoperability of information across channels and tools. - Organize training events to train stakeholders and promote UX aware application development and evaluation. - Conduct and coordinate UX studies- Develop and customize personal development programs to enlarge knowledge about usability, interoperability and content management.- Identify new approaches of usage of content management tools, design of appropriate process and data models that will have significat impact on user experience and adoption of applications Show less

- Conduct and coordinate iterative quantitative and qualitative evaluation, usability studies of content/learning management systems and digital libraries (repositories), using different protocols and techniques like contextual and lab testing, remote testing, think-aloud, participatory-evaluation, paper-prototype evaluation, expert walkthroughs, screen recording, surveys, Google Analytics, database records (SQL, XQuery) and log files, etc.. Ability to combine different techniques and sources… Show more - Conduct and coordinate iterative quantitative and qualitative evaluation, usability studies of content/learning management systems and digital libraries (repositories), using different protocols and techniques like contextual and lab testing, remote testing, think-aloud, participatory-evaluation, paper-prototype evaluation, expert walkthroughs, screen recording, surveys, Google Analytics, database records (SQL, XQuery) and log files, etc.. Ability to combine different techniques and sources of data to discover usability flaws in applications and have full understanding about the way users really perceive and use application.- Capture metadata about the way users interact with applications, so to improve their future interactions, experience and satisfaction. Developed a European wide adopted schema for collecting user actual usage (attention) metadata - Contextualized Attention Metadata (CAM) schema; CAM and its application profiles are used in many projects around Europe and Worldwide.- Organize training programs to increase importance and awareness of user experience and usability within the organization and with other potential stakeholders.- Lead expert work groups (international) around tracking usage and attention metadata, using online group management tools like Google and Yahoo groups.- Develop mapping schemas towards interoperable data models, standards and applications. Show less

- Design applications and databases (MS Access, Oracle) for managing information of academic staff.- Collect, analyse and disseminate data and results of personnel performance data using statistical packages like SPSS. - Give training sessions on SPSS to employees and data entry team.- Coordinate and produce interactive reports on institution facts and figures.

Phd, Computer Engineering

Msc, Computer Science

Bs.C, Computer Science