Turadg Aleahmad: Curriculum Vitae

Turadg Aleahmad

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Pittsburgh, PA 15213

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Education

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. (pdf)
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)
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)

Bonsignore, E., Hansen, D., Galyardt, A., Aleahmad, T., & Hargadon, S. (2011). Power of Social Networking for Professional Development. In T. Gray & H. Silver-Pacuilla (Eds.), Breakthrough Teaching and Learning: How Educational and Assistive Technologies are Driving Innovations (1st ed.). Springer.

Aleahmad, T. (2011). Automatic Rating of User-Generated Math Solutions. Classification Society Annual Meeting, Pittsburgh, PA, June 16, 2005.

Aleahmad, T. (2010). Democratizing Authoring through Computer-Supported Review. Proceedings of the Workshop on Computer-Supported Peer Review in Education, 10th International Conference on Intelligent Tutoring Systems. Pittsburgh, USA (pdf) (slides)
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. Proceedings of the 9th international conference on Computer supported collaborative learning - Volume 2, International Society of the Learning Sciences, 12-14. (pdf)

Aleahmad, T., Koedinger, K., and Zimmerman, J. (2012) Computer Support for Studying at the Right Times. Paper presentation in SIG-ATL at the annual meeting of the American Education Research Association, Vancouver, Canada. (slides)
Aleahmad, T., Kraut, R., & Aleven, V. (2010). Automatic Rating of User-Generated Math Solutions. In Baker, R.S.J.d., Merceron, A., Pavlik, P.I. Jr. (Eds.) Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Educational Data Mining. (abstract).
Aleahmad, T. (2010). Presenting QCommons, an open question bank. Connexions Conference 2011, February 9, 2011. Rice University, Houston, Texas.
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.
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. (2002) Video 911. NGI Scholar presentations. Berkeley, CA (paper | slides )

Protoyping User Interfaces (Fall 2010) (CMU 05-433-A / 05-633-A)
Designing Human Centered Systems (Spring 2009) (CMU 05-391)
Introduction to Cognitive Science (Fall 2001) (UC Berkeley Cog Sci 1)
teaching assistant and lectured