Achievements

Below are some published or accepted for publication research investigating the impact of NVAR on the educational process and community development

• Loay Abu Shmseieh, Allam Mousa, “Assessing the Impact of Accepting Virtual Reality Technologies and their Impact on Motivation in Vocational Schools in Palestine”, Accepted, An-Najah University Journal for Research - B (Humanities), Feb. 2024.
• Kifaya Ahmed Sabbah, Fayez Mahamid, Allam Mousa, “Role of Augmented Reality Learning in Enhancing Palestinian University Students' Motivation and Reflective Thinking”, accepted, Journal of Social Studies Education Research.
• Zuheir N. Khlaif, Allam Mousa, Mageswaran Sanmugam, “Immersive Extended Reality (XR) Technology in Engineering Education: Opportunities and Challenges”, Technology, Knowledge and Learning https://doi.org/10.1007/s10758-023-09719-w, published on line 18 January 2024.
• Bara Hakawati, Allam Mousa, “Smart energy management in residential buildings: the impact of knowledge and behavior”, Scientific Reports, Springer Nature, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-51638-y, published on line 18 January 2024.
• Zuhei N. Khlaif, et al., “The Potential and Concerns of Using AI in Scientific Research: ChatGPT Performance Evaluation”, JMIR Med Educ 2023 Sep 14;9:e47049, URL: https://mededu.jmir.org/2023/1/e47049, DOI: 10.2196/47049, 14 Sept. 2023
• Kifaya Sabbah, Fayez Mahamid, Allam Mousa, “Augmented Reality Based Learning: The Efficacy on Learner’s Motivation and Reflective Thinking”, International Journal of Information and Education Technology (IJIET), Vol. 13, No. 7, July 2023
• Several other research papers have been submitted to highly-ranked international journals.

• Ongoing projects like;
  • Revolutionizing the Workforce:
  • Climate Futures Exchange
  • Creating a Smart Campus.
• Submitted projects;
  • Several projects were submitted to potential donors, in various areas where VR is used to improve the quality and enhance the performance.

NVAR has participated in several webinars on immersive technology and related issues like the following; 

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c43Lw19BCvk
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xrMYXo9_DgU

Various activities within ANU and with external partners and stakeholders 

More than 300 staff members across all disciplines of the university have been trained. Below are some training sessions for staff members from the Faculties of Tourism, Sharia, and Engineering on VR and AI-related issues.

More than 1500 students from different faculties at ANU have been trained on VR-related issues

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More than 4000 lessons have been generated by the students across the university (using the VR platform). Hundreds of these lessons were approved and published on the platform for the use of the other learners. Many other different lessons are still pending to be approved for sharing.

Students work at the center using Spatial meetings and Avatars.

https://www.facebook.com/NVARANU/videos/3066671173628604

Sample of the graduation projects where VR is used as a tool.

https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=1202301697182579

Participating in the First International Conference and Expo on Innovation and Sustainability in Engineering & Technology (14th June 2023).

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fully furnished and started to extensively use the VR lab at the Department of Dentistry and the Department of Medicine and in Nursing training courses.

https://nn.najah.edu/news/Alnajah/2023/01/10/440361/

• One of our recent projects has been selected as one of the 29 finalists globally in the "UN Metaverse Think-a-Thon 2024: Virtual Worlds Revolutionizing Smart Sustainable Cities & Communities."
• The submission of some recommendations on Integrating AI in the teaching and learning process. A competition by the Ministry of Education-Palestine-2024.

Several Ph.D. and Master thesis on the implementation and effect of using immersive technology in education and on the industry; examples are;

• The efficacy of integrating augmented reality in education on learners ‘motivation and reflective thinking among university students.
• The effectiveness of using virtual reality in vocational education
• Examining the readiness of the Palestinian local market to adopt to the extended reality technology via academic-industrial partnership.
• Many other theses are running now.