Samaa Haniya

Samaa Haniya is an Assistant Professor in learning technologies at the Graduate School of Education and Psychology at Pepperdine University in California, USA. She has many years of experience designing, implementing, evaluating, and researching e-learning practices both in small and large-scale learning environments, such as MOOCs. Her research interests focus on humanizing education practices through digital transformation and innovative pedagogies to foster mastery learning for all learners. To achieve this goal, she examines user experience, instructional models, and learning behaviors taking place in different online courses and e-learning platforms in relation to learner differences. Her research has been published in well-known national and international journals, books, and conference proceedings, such as ACM, E-Learning and Digital Media, Routledge, and IGI Global.

Publications

Integration of Multimodality and Critical Clinical Thinking Approaches in Medical Education: A Futuristic Perspective
Integration of Multimodality and Critical Clinical Thinking Approaches in Medical Education: A Futuristic Perspective
Samaa Haniya, Richard Tapping, Duncan C. Ferguson. © 2023. 27 pages.
Despite many recent technological advances, the convenience of lecture-based teaching has remained the norm in higher education settings, including medical education. Following...
Conceptualizing Recursive Feedback in Digital Learning Spaces: Reflection, Inquiry, and Epistemic Depth
Conceptualizing Recursive Feedback in Digital Learning Spaces: Reflection, Inquiry, and Epistemic Depth
Jen Story Whiting, Samaa Haniya, James R. Evans. © 2023. 13 pages.
Feedback is one of the seven affordances of the new learning theory developed by Cope and Kalantzis, and is significant to any learning environment, even more specifically in...
Scaling for Meaning Making and Cultural Inclusivity
Scaling for Meaning Making and Cultural Inclusivity
Samaa Haniya. © 2021. 12 pages.
With the rapid growth of the global movement and technological advancements, learners are becoming more diverse than ever before. Diverse learners come from different...
The Development of Massive Scale Learning and Its Implications for the Digital Learner
The Development of Massive Scale Learning and Its Implications for the Digital Learner
Samaa Haniya. © 2020. 14 pages.
With the proliferation of technology advancements and the popularity of digital media applications we witness every day, the architecture of knowledge communication of...