Boulus Shehata

Beijing Normal University | bnu · Smart Learning Institute

History of education in Egypt in the 21st century including background of reform and development, basic structure of the education system, and pioneers in the innovations and educational throughs that shaped Egypt today.

I presented a proposal on designing an app to use the Blockchain Technology to save credentials of course completion as well as NFTs to serve Higher Education universities/collages/and institutes. It involved highlighting the benefits of Blockchain in providing increased transparency, accountability through using smart contracts, and an incentives...

This paper analyzes the proceedings of 13 international conferences on Artificial General Intelligence AGI, that are part of the lecture notes in artificial intelligence. The motivation for this study is to explore the publication networks and areas where AGI could be useful to Information & Communication Technology ICT in education. SPSS and Micro...

Abstract Artificial intelligence (AI); chatbots; ChatGPT; conversational agents; diffusion of innovation; technology awareness. By increasing technology trend awareness, individuals can leverage novel and groundbreaking technologies to complete mundane activities and buy time to focus on other projects. This article presents an overview of why ther...

The rise of short video applications such as TikTok has brought new opportunities to maximize student learning experiences in online learning environments. Meanwhile, literature that explores its potential to foster student engagement is scarce. To understand the effect of short video applications on students' learning engagement, we take Douyin (t...

Despite the importance of Student-Centered Learning (SCL), limited information exists in the literature on how SCL can be facilitated by various educational technologies. This study, therefore, explores the literature to investigate the role of educational technology in supporting SCL. Particularly, it builds on the American Psychological Associati...

Textbooks use images, in addition to text, for delivering knowledge, thereby convey attitudes and values of students including those on gender bias. The gender bias presented in textbook images affects in subtle ways the students’ learning outcomes, career choices, and how they perceive science. However, prior research has relied on explicit inform...

Design Thinking (DT) has the potential to enhance products, services, and processes as a human-centered approach and has been recently used in education. While most of the literature on design thinking is dominated by English-published papers, and has a 'Western' perspective, it does not identify the state of research in other cultures. This system...

Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies have been progressing constantly and being more visible in different aspects of our lives. One recent phenomenon is ChatGPT, a chatbot with a conversational artificial intelligence interface that was developed by OpenAI. As one of the most advanced artificial intelligence applications, ChatGPT has drawn muc...

To solve the existential educational crisis and adapt to the learning needs in the new era, it is imperative for researchers, educators, and policymakers in education to devise more practical and effective innovations and reforms to safeguard the futures of education—seek new breakthroughs in educational design. Motivated by these challenges, we ar...

The Metaverse has been the centre of attraction for educationists for quite some time. This field got renewed interest with the announcement of social media giant Facebook as it rebranding and positioning it as Meta. While several studies conducted literature reviews to summarize the findings related to the Metaverse in general, no study to the bes...

During the pandemic of 2020 brought about by Covid-19, many teachers, students and pupils found their learning environment had to move on-line at very short notice. This proved harder than some people might have expected and involved changing some practices, most importantly increasing the importance of pupils and students doing more work on their...