Jad Najjar

Dr. Jad Najjar Email: jnajjar(at)wu(dot)ac(dot)at   |           Jad(at)najjar(dot)be Institute for Information Systems and New Media WU Vienna, Austria Mobile:+32 4 850 54 057 (Belgium)

I'm currently a senior researcher at Institute for Information Systems and New Media, WU Vienna. I'm working on iCoper project, workgroup on learning outcomes (knowledge, skills and competencies) development.

I was a post-doc (and before a doctoral) researcher at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, in the Computer Science Department, HMDB (Hypermedia and Database) research unit. 

My research interests are:

• Attention metadata, competency metadata models, eportfolios, metadata of learning objects, empirical analysis on actual use of metadata and learning objects, interoperability, metadata application profile
  
• Human Computer Interaction, user studies, usability engineering
  
• Web engineering
  
• Conceptual modeling
  

I'm a co-author of the Contextualized Attention Metadata (CAM) specifications; a schema and framework for tracking and managing data about user attention and interest across systems and contexts.

I'm also co-ordinating the CAMA international workshop on contextualized attention metadata. Furthermore, I'm also involved in the MACE, MELT and iCoper eContent+ projects.

I serve as program committee member on:

• IEEE International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies
• e-Learning Excellence in the Middle East
• International Conference on e-Democracy
• IADIS e-Learning conference
• IADIS International Conference Web Based Communities

also on:

• Competency Data Management
• CEN/ISSS WS-LT Project Team (PT) working on Agricultural Learning Resource Metadata Application Profiles