
Khalid BerradaMohammed V University | um5a · FSR - Department of Physics
Khalid Berrada
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Introduction
Khalid Berrada full Professor of physics at Cadi Ayyad University (UCA) of Marrakech. He obtained his PhD on Spectroscopy of conducting polymers in Jean Rouxell Institute of Materials in Nantes. He is now developing research on new topics as well as Open education, e-learning, MOOCs, Distance education, Didactics and Science education. He is also a UNESCO Chairholder "Teaching physics by doing" and leading a Group of research Trans ERIE at UCA.
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December 2015 - February 2020
October 1996 - December 2015
Education
September 1992 - January 1995
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Publications (119)
The COVID-19 pandemic has generated a high degree of uncertainty about the state of education. During this critical period, the entire educational landscape was in need of relevant educational resources that could be shared between and within educational networks. In this regard, open educational resources (OER) and open educational practices (OEP)...
Science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) education is critical to students' future success. It relies heavily on laboratory experiments, which are effective teaching tools to promote greater understanding among students. Many researchers have long urged educators to re-examine technology applications in the laboratory classroom so t...
Public higher education reflects the image of a country's development. The quality of courses and training directly influences access to an increasingly global labour market and the promotion of locally profitable scientific research. In an administrative and technical framework, the Pedagogical Innovation Centres (CIP) of Moroccan universities aim...
The COVID-19 pandemic has had a major impact on all areas, hence the need to think about a mandatory change on almost all levels including educational practices. In order to limit the spread of the virus, distance education was adopted, but faced several challenges. This experience has shown that although digital technology represents a lever for e...
Présentation et compte rendu du projet FormaREL :
- Problématique
- Objectifs
- Phases
- Résultats
- Recommandations
- Prolongements
- Conclusions
Geometry as a subject remains a challenge for most learners from primary school onwards. Indeed, numerous difficulties arise in learners’ learning, such as a lack of motivation, a lack of abstraction and the discontinuity between theoretical and concrete concepts, which directly influence the attractiveness of mathematics courses in general and geo...
Pedagogical innovation tries to transcend this path by collaborating with researchers to develop more effective and efficient teaching practices. In this article, we will explore the field of the development of teaching practices through the implementation of CIP. We describe their objectives, their components, and the benefits they derive from res...
This book presents an overview on ten years of rich experience and innovative development of scientific research around pedagogy, didactics and educative technologies at Cadi Ayyad University. From active learning in traditional teaching to technology enhanced learning, many efforts have been done so far by both researchers and PhD students making...
During the spread of COVID-19, education was interrupted in universities worldwide. This new situation created a challenge in the higher education landscape, where universities were obliged to switch to online teaching for completing the syllabus. Moroccan universities have taken the steps needed to change from face-to-face teaching to distance and...
Efforts toward achieving a quality education system are ongoing. Learning in a laboratory has specific didactic requirements. Not only must learners’ questions be answered at the theoretical level but also learners must be assisted, if necessary, in executing their experiments. In Morocco, some of our universities are witnessing a new era of enhanc...
Massification is a problem affecting universities around the world, given the increase in student enrolments. Teaching in a large classroom containing a huge number of students is a great challenge for teachers. Cadi Ayyad University (UCA) is no exception; like all universities in Morocco, especially open-access institutions, it deals with the phen...
Innovation in science and technology education is important for national development. The challenge is particularly acute in developing countries, which often lack trained teachers and basic scientific equipment. Teaching and learning physics, as well as other STEM disciplines, is challenging for teachers and learners, respectively; hence, integrat...
This introductory chapter presents an overview of all contributions that summarize a decade of scientific research around science education at Cadi Ayyad University (UCA). Several practical cases have been presented and discussed in real situations in our classes, and the results have been taken into consideration. All studies have been quantified...
In medicine, using simulation as a teaching method enables meeting training requirements. These requirements can be technical (gestures, procedures, decision-making) as well as non-technical (communication, collaborations, management). In fact, the different techniques used make it possible to acquire theoretical, procedural and behavioural knowled...
Massive online open courses (MOOCs) based on open educational resources (OER) could be one of the most flexible ways to offer and provide equal access to education. In this context, Morocco has implemented a Morrocan platform named “Maroc Universite Numerique (MUN)” to enable Moroccan universities to develop any form of online courses. MOOCs in dif...
Since their appearance about two decades ago, open educational resources (OER) have become a part of a rapidly growing movement as more nations and institutions adopt the view that educational research and content belong to all people, regardless of their location or financial situation, and that content should be open and accessible to all. This m...
In the era of digitalisation and the emergence of the Internet, universities called for the adoption of innovative pedagogical tools. Massive online open courses (MOOCs) are considered a revolutionary way to provide learning and access to international expertise. This chapter aims to examine the motivations behind the enrolment of Ph.D. students at...
ABSTRACT:
For the past five years, all Moroccan universities suspended the practical work activities of the chemistry subject for the first year due to a decision made by the Ministry of Higher education. This study explores the effect of using a Microcomputer-Based Laboratory (MBL) on students’ performance; investigates the desirability to convert...
In the Higher Education scheme,
The trend of using MOOCs is not the same for all Universities, some are seeking to gain Web visibility while others tend to set effective learning in their curricula.
In recent years, to cope with the constraints of massification (overbooking), the focus is made on how to improve the quality of teaching/learning and...
The purpose of this chapter is to give an overview of Science education in Morocco describing the most important aspects that affect practices and challenges our educational system is currently facing. From historical of Science education in Morocco to the new development of Science educational research we will be exploring current reforms in terms...
With the rapid growth of mobile technologies, the evolution of mobile devices, and the progress in wireless communications and networking technologies, mobile devices have become very popular and have reached a very high spread. Consequently, mobile learning (m-learning) has become a prominent phenomenon and has revolutionized the entire education...
One of the grand challenges of education is to provide free and open access to high-quality educational content, which is addressed by the open educational resources (OER) movement since their first emergence at UNESCO’s 2002 forum. The use of OER is increasingly being recognized as one of the most significant educational movements in the twenty-fi...
One of the grand challenges of education is to provide free and open access to high-quality educational content, which is addressed by the open educational resources (OER) movement since their first emergence at UNESCO’s 2002 forum. The use of OER is increasingly being recognized as one of the most significant educational movements in the twenty-fi...
Dans un laboratoire basé sur l’Expérimentation Assistée par Ordinateur (ExAO), une interface relie un ou plusieurs capteurs à un ordinateur. En utilisant cette technologie, les apprenants peuvent utiliser des sondes (capteurs) pour recueillir, enregistrer et tracer des graphiques à partir de données, et par conséquent aider les constructeurs à mieu...
Abstract: Many researchers have underlined the benefits of student mobility in strengthening their
communication skills. Studying a foreign language and fostering knowledge about behavioural
attitudes are the most common research cases. One of the major issues of mobility, by its very nature,
is that it implies significant travel and accommodation...
Many researchers have underlined the benefits of student mobility in strengthening their communication skills. Studying a foreign language and fostering knowledge about behavioural attitudes are the most common research cases. One of the major issues of mobility, by its very nature, is that it implies significant travel and accommodation costs. Vir...
Laboratory experimentation has a vital role in science education. With the potential offered by information and communication technologies for the educational domain, virtual laboratories have emerged as a valuable alternative to face-to-face, hands-on laboratories. Moreover, the possibility of virtual laboratories opens new perspectives for higher...
In early March 2020, Morocco, like most countries, decided to impose restrictive measures to limit the spread of the SARS-CoV-2 virus. Among these measures, all schools and universities, including Cadi Ayyad University (UCA), have been closed so far, forcing students to take distance learning courses.
Previously, students and professors were reluct...
This work presents the UC@MOOC project as a pedagogical innovation to face the effects of massification that are making Moroccan universities endure many constraints for the past ten years, as well as other African universities. It aims, among its objectives, to cope with the massification factor and to overcome the language difficulties encountere...
Nowadays, it has been clearly approved during the COVID-19 pandemic that the effort engaged by most educational institutions (EI) over the world was necessary to ensure the pedagogical continuity during the school closures so that they allow them to fulfil their role. In this chapter, we will describe how EI have switched in a record time from trad...
Introduction:
As per the beginning of the year 2020, news strokes the world about a new pandemic
that is becoming a serious threat to all humanity. In the early march of the same year,
most countries decided to impose restrictive measures to limit the spread of the SARSCoV-
2 virus[1]. Among these measures and particularly in Morocco, all schools a...
Innovations in educational sciences aim to develop and improve tools that enrich teaching and learning experiences. Making available videos pedagogically designed to student audiences is a way to stimulate their learning appetite. To that end, it is pivotal to take into account the behavioral characteristics of users, when developing and implementi...
Laboratories are commonly included as part of university courses as a way to relate theoretical lectures with experimental processes. They play an essential role in scientific and technical education. Currently, Information and Communications Technology (ICT) facilitates the development of new learning processes, particularly for university instruc...
Innovations in educational sciences aim to develop and improve tools that enrich teaching and learning experiences. Making available videos pedagogically designed to student audiences is a way to stimulate their learning appetite. To that end, it is pivotal to take into account the behavioral characteristics of users, when developing and implementi...
In this chapter, we present an overview of the state of the art concerning the OER in Morocco, throughout some milestones that we consider to be the most significant. After putting into perspective the political and strategic aspects adopted to lead the Moroccan education system toward a more open pedagogy, we present the main achievements concerni...
In this chapter, we present an overview of the state of the art concerning the OER in Morocco, throughout
some milestones that we consider to be the most significant. After putting into perspective the political and
strategic aspects adopted to lead the Moroccan education system toward a more open pedagogy, we present
the main achievements concerni...
L'apprentissage en ligne, seul ou en combinaison avec des méthodes d'enseignement traditionnelles, est devenu une pratique consolidée dans de nombreux pays et a été décrit comme une méthode valide et efficace qui soutient l'apprentissage. À notre connaissance, il n'existe pas de plateforme dont le développement est effectué dans la perspective du b...
At the open access institutions of Cadi Ayyad University the number of the new enlistees exceeds the provided places each year, mainly for the first academic year. Consequently, magistral courses, in the most cases, are provided in disadvantageous conditions which makes learning in face-to-face harder, primarily for the first-year students. This ma...
The increasing number of enlistees claiming their right to enroll in the programs of African Universities and the limited number of Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) were the prime reasons of students overcrowding in classes. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) showed a potential to help limiting the challenges of massification in open access HE...
At the open access institutions of Cadi Ayyad University the number of the new enlistees exceeds the provided places each year, mainly for the first academic year. Consequently, magistral courses, in the most cases, are provided in disadvantageous conditions which makes learning in face-to-face harder, primarily for the first-year students. This ma...
Since their emergence just over a decade, the Open
Educational Resources (OER) have been essential in the
development of educational strategies and policies in many
countries. The first part of this article describes briefly the state
of the art in terms of definitions and applications of OER. Then
we will focus on the adoption of OER at Cadi Ayyad...
__ The educational sector worldwide officially adopts e-learning as one of its basic mode of knowledge transfer in some, if not in the majority of its trainings to the extent of becoming a fashion recently. The impact of using the e-learning has never been proved to push-off backward the learnings in all the research studies in education so far. On...
The project "Development of Open Education in ISESCO member states"
(“ISESCO Open Education”) aims at contributing to the uptake of Open Education practices in Education sector across ISESCO member states, starting from the assumption that educators are the cornerstone for the cultural and practice-based changes that needs to happen if we want to a...
El presente manual es un producto del proyecto EXPERES pretende servir de ayuda para preparar y orientar a los estudiantes a sacar el máximo partido a las experiencias prácticas virtuales en el área de física que se han diseñado. Este manual es también un activo que puede utilizarse para el diseño de otras actividades, tanto dentro del campo de la...
La modernisation des Travaux pratiques (TP) des filières scientifiques et techniques est devenue une demande indiscutable pour l'enseignement supérieur au Maroc. En effet, d'une part elle s'intègre dans la stratégie gouvernementale du pays pour le développement d'un Campus Virtuel Marocain. D'une autre part, elle permet aux universités de palier au...
L'enseignement des sciences physiques en première année universitaire devrait plus se pencher sur la transmission de savoir basée sur les aspects conceptuels. De tels enseignements ont été rendus possibles grâce à l'introduction des méthodes actives en classe, où l'étudiant est engagé constamment, et de manière continue dans des activités pédagogiq...
L'enseignement des sciences physiques en première année universitaire devrait plus se pencher sur la transmission de savoir basée sur les aspects conceptuels. De tels enseignements ont été rendus possibles grâce à l'introduction des méthodes actives en classe, où l'étudiant est engagé constamment, et de manière continue dans des activités pédagogiq...
This article seeks to explore the motives of Moroccan postgraduate degree students to enroll in a Massive Open Online Courses (MOOC) en entrepreneurship. The results show that Moroccan students have enrolled in this MOOC for two main motivations: extrinsic and intrinsic ones. This study gives a starting point to explore entrepreneurship education,...
La massification qu’a connue le système d’enseignement supérieur marocain ces dernières années, concomitante à une quasi-stagnation du nombre d’enseignants pose un énorme défi d’encadrement pédagogique, particulièrement au niveau des établissements à accès ouvert. Ce défi semble insurmontable quand il s’agit d’enseignement nécessitant un encadremen...
À l’université, les travaux pratiques en Sciences physiques en présentiel ne sont plus existants aujourd’hui, malgré leur importance primordiale pour tous les apprenants des filières scientifiques et techniques, ceci est due au problème lié à la massification. En outre, l’intégration des TICE en travaux pratiques reste encore dans un état embryonna...
Open education is one of the most important settings in every society. It grants everyone the right to learn freely. Today, technology is helping to make learning even more open by providing an environment of online education, which plays a remarkable role in shortening distances and encouraging students to learn. At Cadi Ayyad University (UCA) the...
Introduction :
Le programme de formation “Education ouverte : Approches et fondements », produit dans le cadre du projet OpenMed avec le soutien d’Erasmus + de l’Union Européenne, vise à renforcer les capacités des universités des pays du Sud de la méditerrané sur l’éducation ouverte et sur les Ressources Educatives Libres (REL).
Ce programme s'adr...
In a programme aimed at promoting open practices in tertiary education in the MENA region, we will examine how organizational factors, such as leadership, prior social climate and existing efforts to respond to needs, were key in the adoption of educational innovations. We observed that awareness and organizational culture were central processes, a...
تهدف الدورة التدريبية "التعليم المفتوح: أساسيات ونُهج"، التي تم إعدادها في إطار مشروع أوبنمد الممول من برنامج إيراسموس + التابع
لالتحاد األوروبي إلى بناء القدرات في مجال التعليم المفتوح والموارد التعليمية المفتوحة بين الجامعات في منطقة جنوب البحر األبيض المتوسط.
وتستهدف الدورة في المقام األول المعلمين الجامعيين الذين لديهم الرغبة في معرفة المزيد عن...
OpenMed is an international cooperation project co-funded by the Erasmus + Capacity Building in HE programme of the European Union during the period 15 October 2015 - 14 October 2018 involving five partners from Europe and eight from South-Mediterranean countries (Morocco, Palestine, Egypt and Jordan).
The overarching goal of OpenMed is to raise aw...
Higher education presents the metric pH titration as a simple technique for determining the concentration of an acid or base, but the confrontation between theory and practice should not be ignored. The microcomputer-based laboratory will provide the opportunity for students to examine the chemical phenomena from a variety of theoretical and practi...
This paper presents and reflects upon the experience of the creation of the capacity building course “Open Education: fundamentals and approaches”, produced within the OpenMed project with the support of the Erasmus+ programme of the European Union. The course aims to build capacity in Open Education and Open Educational Resources (OER) among unive...
This work presents the UC@MOOC project as a pedagogical innovation to face the effects of massification that are making Cadi Ayyad University endure many constraints for the past five years, as well as other African universities. It aims, among its objectives, to cope the massification factor and to overcome the language difficulties encountered by...
Ce travail constitue le résultat du Lot d'activités WP. 2 du projet EXPERES : Les TICE appliquées à l’expérimentation scientifique. EXPERES est un projet Erasmus plus financé par la Commission Européenne sous la Référence : No 561551-EPP-1-2015-1-ESEPPKA2-CBHE-SP.
Il se présente sous forme d’un manuel sur la conceptualisation et la scénarisation de...
The presentation is about Open Education in South mediterranean conutries and the case of OpenMed Erasmus initiative at Cadi Ayyad University and the Morocco declaration on OER. For more details check the link below:
https://fr.slideshare.net/mobile/openmedproject/relif2017
During two days, 35 experts from 14 countries have been able to share their knowledge and their experiences. Research Institute for Innovation & Technology in Education (UNIR iTED) didn’t want this to be just a Congress but a Workshop, where all the contributions have became into this Open Educational Resource that contains all the pictures, interv...
Presentation of the Morocco declaration on Open Educational Resources in the
Workshop “Key issues to design and implement a National declaration about Open Education” in different countries.
Mauritius, September the 28th, 2017
Nous présentons un aperçu concernant la genèse de l'Uc@Mooc(1). Nous donnerons
également l'état des lieux et les prospectives de l’expérience menée de l’Université Cadi
Ayyad. Cette expérience pourrait constituer une révolution pédagogique et un point de départ
pour un environnement e-learning dans sa vraie dimension pédagogique.
Le Maroc est l'un des pays du sud de la Méditerranée les plus actifs en matière de
production de ressources éducatives libres. Le Ministère de l'éducation nationale a été le
premier à créer le Laboratoire national des ressources numériques, qui produit et regroupe des ressources éducatives numériques, dont certaines sont des ressources libres. Il e...
1) Introduction - Contexte
2) Résultats de l'enquête
3) Conceptualisation - Scénarisation
4) Programmation des e-TP
5) Conclusion
6) Références
TICEF'2017
Les technologies éducatives et les approches pédagogiques, vers de nouvelles formes d’apprentissage à l’université »
K. Berrada
Université Cadi Ayad, Marrakech
Maroc
This work presents the UC@MOOC project as apedagogical innovation to face effect of massificationthat are creating constraints endured at Cadi AyyadUniversity as well as for other African universitiesduringthese five last years. It aims among its objectivesto cope with the massification and to overcome thelanguagedifficulties of students. Through t...
L'Université Cadi Ayyad (UCA) s'est lancée depuis 2013 dans l'aventure des MOOCs. De cette grande révolution du numérique, l'UCA en a constitué son propre modèle Low-cost pour faire face au défi de la massification par rapport à sa capacité d'accueil. En matière de formations continue, l'accent a été mis sur les formats SPOC (Small Private Online C...
Nous présentons dans cet article dans un premier temps, les contraintes que vit notre université comme tant d'autres au Maroc et en Afrique et que l'initiative Uc@mooc vise à atténuer : la massification, les difficultés linguistiques des étudiants et l'échec universitaire. Uc@mooc est une innovation pédagogique, basée sur la mise en ligne de vidéos...
Pour remédier aux effets de la massification sur son système d’enseignement supérieur, l’université Cadi Ayyad (UCA) a été l’un des premiers établissements africains à avoir adopté le modèle des MOOC dans un contexte bien spécifique. Il s’agit en effet d’offrir à tous ses étudiants, à travers à un portail web, un espace libre, ouvert et riche en co...
Parmi les actions structurantes de l’UNESCO qui visent la promotion et la créativité dans la manière dont la physique élémentaire est enseignée, le projet de la Chaire UNESCO en « Enseignement de la physique par la pratique » créée en 2010 au sein de l’Université Cadi Ayyad a mis l’accent sur les formations actives qui associent l’étudiant au proce...
This compendium was created by partners on the OpenMed project and edited by staff at the Disruptive Media Learning Lab at Coventry University, UK, with significant contributions made by expert interviewees in international open education. It is aimed at: (a) Higher education practitioners with involvement or interest in open educational resources...