Md. Saifuddin Khalid

Technical University of Denmark | DTU · Department of Applied Mathematics and Computer Science

The integration of virtual reality (VR) in education, particularly for collaborative activities and feedback, is recently trending with continuous development of technologies. So, this paper reports a pilot study as part of an ongoing E-learning project for address the questions: 1. how can tertiary education design courses adopt VR systems in stud...

The literature on educational technology has been giving significant attention to exploring and addressing the barriers of integration and adoption of information and communication technologies (ICT) in teaching and learning activities. However, the factors influencing the use of ICT as a professional and management tool outside the classroom setti...

Teachers' development of digital literacy (DL) is gaining importance with the increase in the integration and adoption of information and communication technologies in educational contexts. The focus has been predominantly on students and not much on teachers, who require greater attention due to rapid transformation of both school systems and digi...

The rapid advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AI), particularly through Large Language Models (LLMs), has catalysed a technological revolution, leading to the widespread adoption of AI-driven chatbots across industries. OpenAI's customisable generative pre-trained transformer (GPT) offerings have popularised generative AI, enabling organisation...

The advantages of using videoconferencing in education has been reported by several studies, and further emphasized during the covid-19 pandemic where all universities had to shift to online learning. However, despite this attention, it is found that scant studies tried to analyze and understand videoconferencing tools in education based on a given...

This research paper highlights and addresses the lack of a systematic review of the methods used to evaluate Learning Analytics (LA) and Learning Analytics Dashboards (LAD) of Adaptive Learning Platforms (ALPs) in the current literature. Addressing this gap, the authors built upon the work of Tretow-Fish and Khalid (2022) and analyzed 32 papers, wh...

The perceptions of students towards turning on their webcams during online learning are conflicting, where some of them support the idea while others are against it. Particularly, limited insights exist in the literature about how Arab students perceive turning on their webcams while learning. To cover this gap, the current study uses mixed methods...

The restrictions during COVID-19 pandemic resulted in gaining more experience on video conferencing systems (VCS) and continued adoption during post-pandemic teaching scenarios. Designing and installing video conferencing systems in various classroom scenarios are expensive, increase complexity, and reduce interaction opportunities unless the desig...

Background Implementing workplace preventive interventions reduces occupational accidents and injuries, as well as the negative consequences of those accidents and injuries. Online occupational safety and health training is one of the most effective preventive interventions. This study aims to present current knowledge on e-training interventions,...

The restrictions during COVID-19 pandemic resulted in gaining more experience on video conferencing systems (VCS) and continued adoption during post-pandemic teaching scenarios. Designing and installing video conferencing systems in various classroom scenarios are expensive, increase complexity, and reduce interaction opportunities unless the desig...

This study contributes with a case study on redesigning three Learning Analytics Dashboards (LADs) of the adaptive learning platform Rhapsode™ with instructions for pedagogical actions. Applying self determination theory’s elements of competence and relatedness and mental models in a design thinking process, the differences among the teachers perce...

This study contributes with a case study on redesigning three Learning Analytics Dashboards (LADs) of the adaptive learning platform Rhapsode TM with instructions for pedagogical actions. Applying self-determination theory's elements of competence and relatedness and mental models in a design thinking process, the differences among the teachers' pe...

When we apply learning analytics to a context of teaching, we use learner data to construct Learning Analytic Dashboards (LADs). The purpose of LADs for students is to support with students learning strategies, motivation to increase engage with the learning activities, and insights on the understanding of the subjects. Existing literature on LADs...

From a usability perspective, designing and evaluating an adaptive learning system involve complexities associated with adaptivity and the diverse requirements from content designers, educators, and students. Moreover, students and educators are increasing getting subjected to educational quality studies including the evaluation of digital learning...

Course developers, providers and instructors gather feedback from students to gain insights into student satisfaction, success and difficulties in the learning process. The traditional manual analysis is time-consuming and resource-intensive, resulting in decreased insights and pedagogical impact. To address the problems, researchers use natural la...

There is currently no systematic overview of with what purpose Learning Analytics (LA) and Learning Analytics Dashboards (LAD) are evaluated on Adaptive Learning Platforms. This work in progress systematic review provides the preliminary results of this endeavor. The paper establishes an overview of the current research field from two reviews. From...

Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, there was an urgent need to move to online teaching and develop innovative teaching techniques to ensure that student learning outcomes (SOs) were fulfilled. This paper tries to answer the important question of whether an established teaching strategy through a multi-course project-based learning (MPL) approach, along...

Online teaching and assessment in higher educational institutions have become the new normal due to the COVID-19 pandemic. This chapter presents a systematic literature review on various digital assessment activities as the diversity of student assessment and feedback technologies cannot be identified from existing literature. Applying Creswell's f...

There is currently no systematic overview of methods for evaluating Learning Analytics (LA) and Learning Analytics Dashboards (LAD) of Adaptive Learning Platforms (ALPs). 10 articles and 2 reviews are analyzed and synthesized. Focusing on the purposes of evaluation, methods used in the studies are grouped into five categories (C1-5): C1) evaluation...

In the overlapping fields of human-computer interaction and game-based learning, methods for designing with physical movement play an immense role throughout the design and development process. The design of products for physical activities (i.e. exercise, fitness, play and physiotherapy) to the design of aircraft seating arrangements involve a ran...

Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, there was an urgent need to move to online teaching and develop innovations to guarantee the Student Learning Outcomes (SLOs) are being fulfilled. The contributions of this paper are two-fold: the effects of an experimented teaching strategy, i.e. multi-course project-based learning (MPL) approach, are presented follow...

This paper reports recent trends at the intersection of the fields Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) and physical movement through a literature review of eight conference papers from the CHI Play 2017 and 2018 conferences. The selected papers report technology design for physical movement and thereby create new experiences through games. The CHI Pla...

Focus Employability within a teaching context What did you intend the students to learn from this teaching and learning activity? Every discipline involves design, entrepreneurial approaches, and technologies-the sheer complexity in the academic content and project process might be too overwhelming to be able to articulate the knowledge and skills...

Focus Employability within a teaching context What did you intend the students to learn from this teaching and learning activity? The students of the sports and design course should be able to: 1. communicate their considerations about employment contexts and employment roles desired, 2. understand the importance of situated, organizational, and pr...

Focus Employability within a teaching context What did you intend the students to learn from this teaching and learning activity? The objectives were to facilitate the students of sports and design to gain insights on the expectations by prospective employers at the public and private organizations to understand the importance of articulately prese...

Conference Presentation Slides

Card-based design tools have proven useful in both industry and academia in the fields of interaction design, human-computer interaction (HCI), and the umbrella of fields overlapping user experience design. Wölfel and Merritt classified the design dimensions of physical card-based methods into five categories: 1) Intended Purpose & Scope, 2) Durati...

Increased rate of adoption of digital technologies in tertiary education has made the quality assessment of teaching sessions a complex problem. Students feedback on teaching sessions can be associated with technology, pedagogy, content and teachers' interaction and performance. Students motivation and the feedback on classroom activity sessions ar...

This paper reports engagement pattern of the participants, who are mostly either teacher educators or teacher students, in a cross-national blended learning project, within the context of an EU-funded project. The goal of the project was to support teacher educators' professional development to increase the ability in teachers' technological and pe...

Facilitating the acquisition of 21st-century skills for improved employability of the graduates of higher education is a complex process. Andrews and Higson (2008) suggest that higher educational institutions must improve the employability, work readiness, and mobility of their students by including employability activities. Reaching employability...

Bronchiolitis is an acute viral infection of the bronchioles—a common disease that affects millions of children around the world. Clinically, the disease is suspected by observing the signs and symptoms. The signs and symptoms are difficult to measure with 100% certainty, which make suspecting Bronchiolitis inaccurate while suspecting severity leve...

UNESCO has declared Baul songs in 2008 and Traditional Art of Jamdani Weaving in 2013 as ‘Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity,’ stating its importance in Bangladesh as a symbol of identity, dignity, and self-recognition. Bangladesh is one of the next 11 countries in the world with approximately 160 million people is experiencing an exponential...

Cloud Computing (CC) refers to the physical structure of a communications network, where data is stored in large data centers and can be accessed anywhere, at any time, and from different devices. This systematic literature review identifies and categorizes the potential and barriers of cloud-based teaching in schools from an international perspect...

This presentation is part of an interaction design course

Much architecture and design teaching is based on the studio format, where the co-presence in time and space of students, instructors and physical learning artefacts form a triangle from which the learning emerges. Yet with the advent of online communication platforms and learning management systems (LMS), there is reason to study how these technol...

The integration of video conferencing systems (VCS) have increased significantly in the classrooms and administrative practices of higher education institutions. The VCSs discussed in the existing literature can be broadly categorized as desktop systems (e.g. Scopia), WebRTC or Real-Time Communications (e.g. Google Hangout, Adobe Connect, Cisco Web...

There is a need to study the functionalities, pedagogical designs for learning, and barriers to the integration of iPads to support teachers, school leaders, parents, and other stakeholders. This paper systematically reviews existing literature on the use of iPads in classrooms. 17 peer-reviewed articles were included for analysis. The PRISMA check...

This study informs researchers of educational technology, teachers, teacher associations, moderators or admins of online platforms who are interested in knowledge sharing among teachers within online communities of practice (CoP). The continuous professional development of teachers is primarily about teachers sharing knowledge with one another to h...

The integration and adoption of digital technologies have enabled improving the quality of and inclusion in higher education. On the contrary, a significant proportion of the population has either remained or became digitally excluded, who demand greater attention. This systematic literature review elucidates the factors underlying the concept of d...

This chapter regards creative problem solving as a professional identity skill that can be fostered by creative learning environments supported by ICT. A systematic literature review is provided in order to build relationships between creative problem solving, creative learning environments, ICT, and professional identity in higher education. The l...

United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) has declared Baul songs (UNESCO, 2008) and Jamdani saree (UNESCO, 2013) as ‘Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity,' stating their importance as a symbol of identity, dignity, and self-recognition in Bangladesh. The potential roles of social media in the process of preserv...

Mental disorder is a change of mental or behavioral pattern that causes sufferings and impairs the ability to function in ordinary life. In psychopathology, the assessment methods of mental disorder contain various types of uncertainties associated with signs and symptoms. This study identifies a method that addresses the issue of uncertainty in as...

In this paper, the authors draw on methods used in the field of interaction design, emphasizing a user-centred design approach including methods such as usability testing, design metaphors, interview with users, video observations, focus groups, and think aloud sessions. However, a challenge of these methods is that they are designed for adults and...

With an interest in learning that is set in collaborative situations, the data session presents excerpts from video data produced by two of fifteen students from a class of 5 th semester techno-anthropology course. Students used video cameras to capture the time they spent working with a scientist, for one week in 2014, and collected and analyzed v...

Massively open online courses (MOOCs) are one of most recent educational technology development that have become a highly debated issue, polarized among proponents, boosters, skeptics, and resistants. To understand the nature of such evolving technology concepts, the typical methods and techniques in current literature result in the production of s...

iPad, with its Apple platform and interoperability-dependent material conditions, bring complex barriers in its adoption and integration in secondary education system as a learning tool. In the schools’ context, it is an emerging educational technology for its affordances supporting collaborative learning. This systematic literature review on the b...

Mobile devices, especially the integration and adoption of iPads in school classrooms, is gaining emphasis across the research and development forums of academic, policy, organizational, political, and public spheres. In April 2012, the Danish government announced that they would allocate DKK 500 million to develop the use of IT in elementary schoo...

Influenza is a viral disease that usually affects the nose, throat, bronchi, and seldom lungs. This disease spreads as seasonal epidemics around the world, with an annual attack rate of estimated at 5%–10% in adults and 20%–30% in children. Thus, influenza is regarded as one of the critical health hazards of the world. Early diagnosis (consisting o...

Asthma is a common chronic disease that affects millions of people around the world. The most common signs and symp-toms of asthma are cough, breathlessness, wheeze, chest tightness and respiratory rate. They cannot be measured ac-curately since they consist of various types of uncertainty such as vagueness, imprecision, randomness, ignorance and i...

This dissertation presents a holistic approach for exploring, analyzing, solving, and circumventing the barriers to the integration and adoption of ICT in relation to the learning environments of secondary educational institutions in rural Bangladesh. It contributes to the fields of ICT for development (ICT4D) and educational technology in the scop...

Educational institutions in rural Bangladesh face multiple problems and barriers when implementing Information and Communication Technology (ICT) in teaching and learning. The paper reports on an ethnographic action research project set up in rural Bangladesh to induce change in a specific institution and to inform research and practice about the c...

In a rural context in a developing country purchasing a computer and connecting it to the Internet is in itself difficult, even when the lack of money is a minor issue. These issues prevent individuals in rural communities from familiarizing themselves with educational technology and ICT in general. The present study investigates the specific barri...

In the field of educational technology, a decades-long research question is: what barriers exist in integration and adoption of information and communication technology (ICT) in education educational technology? The intensity of integration and the rate of adoption are significantly low and the interdependencies of barriers within the complex educa...

This chapter examines barriers and methods to identify barriers to educational technology in a rural technical vocational education and training institute in Bangladesh. It also examines how the application of participatory learning and action methods can provide information for barrier research and stakeholders in and around the school to pave the...

This paper builds on research directions from ‘activity theory’ and ‘learning design’ to provide ‘facilitation’ for students standing within decision making related to selection of web 2.0 tools and university provided web-based applications for supporting students activities within problem and project based learning. In the area of problem and pro...

This paper builds on research directions from ‘activity theory’ and ‘learning design’ to provide ‘facilitation’ for students standing within decision making related to selection of web 2.0 tools and university provided web-based applications for supporting students activities within problem and project based learning. In the area of problem and pro...

This paper aims to understand how students use technology to enhance their learning in problem-based learning environments. The research methodology is based on both qualitative and quantitative studies. The results are based on students" interviews, a survey and students" reflections in course-related blog posts; they show that students have posit...

This paper reports and analyses quantitative and qualitative data from a study, which seeks a better understanding of how students use various technologies to support their project collaboration activities in a problem and project based learning environment. More generally the aim of the study, and the present paper, is to shed light on students' t...

Telecom boom since 2000 and 'Digital Bangladesh' campaign since late 2008 created significant nationwide hype, resulting rapid increase in the use of digital devices. While studies are being conducted to use the ability of "power users of technology" for reducing digital divide, there is hardly any data available on them in Bangladesh context. A st...

Bangladesh, a developing and third world country, recognized for its microcredit success, has a favourable political environment to achieve 'Digital Bangladesh' by 2021. Government projects, public-private partnership projects, corporate social responsibility (CSR) activities and private initiatives for Information Communication Technology (ICT) fo...

Multiple choice question (MCQ)-based assessment for higher education students can be a solution to reduce workload where teacher-student ratio is significantly high and also in distance learning approaches. Originating from the users problem claiming that "web-based and mobile-based tests are inconvenient and does not allow expected performance", t...

In technology mediated learning while relative advantages of technologies is proven, lack of contextualization and process centric change, and lack of user driven change has kept intervention and adoption of educational technologies among individuals and organizations as challenges. Reviewing the formal, informal and non-formal learning environment...

The objective of this paper is to give an overview of the current practice of rural remittance in Bangladesh and propose an ICT-based up-to-date remittance system. Based on the experience of other neighboring countries regarding the implementation of real time gross settlement systems for faster state of art payment system, the integral modernizati...

Due to the higher affordability of students and greater technological resources availability in academic environment, some private universities in Bangladesh were assumed e-prepared for e-learning. A modified framework for blended learning was proposed, a learning management system (LMS) was deployed and junior students from non-engineering majors...

Considering contribution of Apparel industry to the national economy, the present research focused on its Manufacturing Supply Chain Process utilizing RFID. A mid level Apparel Manufacturer and Exporter is studied and projected with a proposed solution. The case study extracted Return on Investment (ROI) ratio by projecting investment plan and cons...

Cellular phone services billing for per minute tariff plan and 1-second pulse involve floating point division and multiplication operation to calculate per call bill. Monthly customer billing involves addition operations on per call bills, which are floating point numbers. Round-off errors occur due to floating point numberspsila computer represent...

One major difficulty faced by organizations is the protection of data against malicious access. Six security mechanisms, namely, authentication, authorization, access control, auditing, encryption and integrity control are available in Oracle 10g database management systems (DBMS). These are implemented for protecting data. These typical database s...

Application of data mining for web log analysis has received significant attention in finding customers' behavioral pattern in e-commerce and learners' behavioral pattern in e- learning. While hit-counts indicate customers' interest in the product or purchasing behavior, a student's visits to a Learning Management System (LMS) do not necessarily in...

Currently available software requirements engineering processes do not study operational business processes' performances to identify performance specific improvement scopes and do not relate the same to maximise business benefits through optimizing technology capabilities. Business analysts' concept of business process reengineering and software s...

Digital libraries are fast expanding into the role of independent educational entities that aspire not only to complement traditional classroom teaching, but also allow remote access to Learning Objects. Multifaceted roles of Learning Objects can be realized only if the course content and the related content management system are versatile enough t...