Turadg Aleahmad: Curriculum Vitae

Turadg Aleahmad

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Pittsburgh, CA 15217

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Education

Ph.D., Human Computer Interaction, Carnegie Mellon University (2006-present)
B.A., Cognitive Science, U.C. Berkeley (1997-2002)
Diplôme Supérieur d'Etudes Françaises, Université Michel de Montaigne, Bordeaux 3 (2000-2001)

Slotta, J.D. and Aleahmad, T. (2009). WISE technology lessons: Moving from a local proprietary system to a global open source framework. Research and Practice in Technology Enhanced Learning, Vol. 4, No. 2 (2009) 169–189. World Scientiﬁc Publishing Company.
Aleahmad, T., Aleven, V., and Kraut, R. (2009). Creating a Corpus of Targeted Learning Resources with a Web-Based Open Authoring Tool, IEEE Transactions on Learning Technologies, vol. 2, no. 1, pp. 3-9, January-March, 2009. (preprint)

Aleahmad, T., Aleven, V., and Kraut, R. (2008). Open community authoring of targeted worked example problems. 9th International Conference on Intelligent Tutoring Systems. Montreal, Quebec, Canada (pdf)
Slotta, J., Aleahmad, T., and Zimmerman, T. (2005) Scaffolding Interactive Learning: The Case for a Rich Interoperability Framework. Poster session at the annual meeting of the American Education Research Association, San Francisco, CA.
Aleahmad, T., & Slotta, J. (2002). Integrating Handheld Technology and Web-Based Science Activities: New Educational Opportunities. Proc. of 14th World Conference on Educational Multimedia, Hypermedia and Telecommunications (ED-MEDIA 2002). (pdf)

Slotta, J.D., Aleahmad, T., and Bannasch, S. (2008). The Scalable Architecture for Interactive Learning (SAIL) - New tools and communities for research. Workshop presentation at the International Conference of the Learning Sciences (ICLS). Utrecht, The Netherlands
Aleahmad, T., Slotta, J. and van Joolingen, W. (2007). Authoring Frameworks for Integrating Collaborative Learning Technologies. Computer Supported Collaborative Learning. July 17. Rutgers University, New Brunswick NJ
Gobert, Tinker, Horwitz, Slotta, Aleahmad (2006). Authoring, Assessment & Open Source: Implications for Research and Classroom Application. 7th International Conference of the Learning Sciences. June 27. Indiana University, Bloomington IN
Slotta, J.D., and Aleahmad, T. (2005). The Scalable Architecture for Interactive Learning (SAIL) -- Background, design and demonstration. Annual meeting of the Technology-enhanced Learning in Science (TELS) center. July 13-17. State College, Pennsylvania

Slotta, J. and Aleahmad, T. (2009). Toward a technology community in the learning sciences. Computer Supported Collaborative Learning Practices: CSCL2009 Community Events Proceedings.

Aleahmad, T., Kraut, R., & Aleven, V. (2008). Community authoring of worked example problems aligned to content standards. In P. A. Kirschner, J. van Merriënboer, & T. de Jong (Eds.), International Perspectives in the Learning Sciences: Proceedings of ICLS 2008. Utrecht, The Netherlands. Poster.
Aleahmad, T., Balakrishnan, A., Wong, J., Fussel, S., Kiesler, S. (2008) Fishing for Sustainability: The Effects of Indirect and Direct Persuasion. Work in Progress. Proceedings of ACM CHI 2008 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, April 5-10, 2008.
Aleahmad, T. (2002) Video 911. NGI Scholar presentations. Berkeley, CA (paper | slides )

Designing Human Centered Systems (Spring 2009) (CMU 05-391)
Introduction to Cognitive Science (Fall 2001) (UC Berkeley Cog Sci 1)
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