Prof. Alain Senteni, Dean

School of e-Education

Hamdan Bin Mohammed e-University

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Prof Alain Senteni is currently the Dean of the School of e-Education at the newly established Hamdan Bin Mohammed e-University, in Dubai (UAE).

From 2001 to 2008, Professor Alain Senteni  was 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. 

Prof 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 seventies, 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. 

Prof Senteni is a member of IFIP TC3 (Education). From 2001 to 2004, Prof Senteni was a member of the executive board of the IEEE Learning Technologies Task Force (IEEE-LTTF).  He is also the initiator and the programme chair of the International Conference on Open and Online Learning (ICOOL), held in Mauritius (2003), South Africa (2005) and Malaysia (2007). He curently chairs the Education Commission of the World Information Technology Forum (WITFOR), in which he was also involved as co-chiar in Botswana (2005) and Ethiopia (2007).