Prof Alain Senteni is currently Dean of the School of e-Education at the newly established Hamdan Bin Mohammed e-University, in Dubai (UAE). From 2001 to 2008, he has been the first appointed Director of the Virtual Centre for Innovative Learning Te
...MoreProf Alain Senteni is currently Dean of the School of e-Education at the newly established Hamdan Bin Mohammed e-University, in Dubai (UAE). From 2001 to 2008, he has been the first appointed Director of the Virtual Centre for Innovative Learning Technologies (VCILT) and the Chairman of the Lifelong Learning Cluster (LLC) of the University of Mauritius. Alain Senteni received an Engineering Degree, a Ph.D. and an H.D.R. (Enabling to Conduct Research) in Computer Science from the National Polytechnics Institute (INPT) in Toulouse (France). His interests in technology-enhanced education date back to the 1970s, with the Logo community in Montreal (Qc. Canada). He was then appointed as a professor of educational technologies at the Faculty of Education of the University of Montreal from 1989 to 1996. His current work and research interests regard the integration of ICTs in educational systems of developing countries, with an emphasis on intervention strategies, capacity building and ICT-based development. Currently, Prof Senteni chairs the Education Commission of the World Information Technology Forum (WITFOR)whose specific objectives are to find ways of utilising ICT for accelerated development, paying special attention to the needs of developing countries and assisting them in accelerating development through the application of ICT. WITFOR was held succesfully in Lithuania (2003), Botswana (2005), Ethiopia (2007), and Vietnam (2009).
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