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Alan Weber

Weill Cornell Medicine Qatar
Verified email at qatar-med.cornell.edu
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The role of education in knowledge economies in developing countries

AS Weber - Procedia-Social and Behavioral Sciences, 2011 - Elsevier
Education and universities, along with biotechnology, intellectual property and ICT
development, are often mentioned without in-depth critical analysis in discussions of modern …

[BOOK][B] E-learning in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region

AS Weber, S Hamlaoui - 2018 - books.google.com
In the last decade, due to factors of ICT infrastructural and broadband maturation, rising
levels of educational attainment and computer literacy, and diversification strategies, e-learning …

[PDF][PDF] Inclusive education in the gulf cooperation council

AS Weber, E City - Journal of educational and instructional studies in …, 2012 - academia.edu
Although special needs schools (schools for the blind and deaf) have existed in the MENA
region since the 19th century, special needs education has only recently been introduced in …

[PDF][PDF] Considerations for social network site (SNS) use in education

AS Weber - International Journal of Digital Information and …, 2012 - Citeseer
Social Networking Sites (SNSs) such as Facebook, Google+, Myspace, LinkedIn and Twitter
have now become commonplace in international virtual space. Approximately 75% of all …

Education, development and sustainability in Qatar: A case study of economic and knowledge transformation in the Arabian Gulf

AS Weber - Education for a knowledge society in Arabian Gulf …, 2014 - emerald.com
… For example, the Biomedical Training Program for Nationals, whose curricula was partly
developed by the author of this chapter Alan S. Weber, trains 10–15 Qatari scientific managers …

[PDF][PDF] Politics of English in the Arabian Gulf

AS Weber - FLTAL 2011 proceedings, 2011 - eprints.ibu.edu.ba
The number of American, English and Australian branch campuses in the Middle East and
North Africa (MENA) region almost doubled between 2000–2007 from 140 to 260, and Qatar …

Systematic thematic review of e-health research in the Gulf cooperation council (Arabian gulf): Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and United Arab Emirates

AS Weber, R Turjoman, Y Shaheen… - … of telemedicine and …, 2017 - journals.sagepub.com
… e-health applications in medical education, research and patient care in Qatar 27 and
Weber et al. carried out the first comprehensive credibility study of GCC health … Alan S Weber

Cloud computing in education

AS Weber - Ubiquitous and mobile learning in the digital age, 2012 - Springer
The increased use of public cloud computing for business, government, and education now
seems inevitable. Primarily due to lower cost and greater ease of access and use, wikis, …

Cloud computing in education in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) Region: Can barriers be overcome?

AS Weber - Conference proceedings of» eLearning and Software …, 2011 - ceeol.com
Interest in Cloud Computing (IaaS, PaaS, SaaS) in the e-learning arena is growing due to
potential greater cost savings from scalable architectures and open source products, and the …

Women's early modern medical almanacs in historical context

AS Weber - English Literary Renaissance, 2003 - Wiley Online Library
This article examines the prophetical and medical almanacs of two female authors of
seventeenth century England, Sarah Jinner of London and Mary Holden of Sudbury. Their works …