Faculty and staff

25+ Years of Teaching Experience: Demonstrated a strong commitment to education through over two decades of teaching at the undergraduate level in international universities. I am proficient in tailoring instruction to diverse student populations and various curricula, and I am experienced in teaching various courses in data analysis.

Ph.D. supervision: I am currently supervising doctoral students in the field of mathematics education.
HEA Fellowship: I am a recipient of the Fellowship awarded by the Higher Education Academy, UK in recognition of best teaching and curriculum design practices.

Curriculum Design and Hybrid Learning: I am experienced in designing innovative curricula and course delivery plans suitable for both hybrid and self-paced learning environments, ensuring adaptability to modern teaching methods.

Educational Technology Proficiency: I am proficient in utilizing educational technology to enhance the learning experience. I am experienced in delivering engaging online classes through learning management systems and fostering effective remote learning environments.

Recipient of Outstanding Reviewer Award: I received the Outstanding Reviewer Award from the Information Discovery and Delivery Journal for the year 2022. This is a literati award given by the Emerald Publishing House in recognition of my exceptional attention to detail and ability to provide constructive critique in the review process. It reflects my commitment to upholding rigorous academic standards and contributing to the advancement of research in Information Science and its application in education.

• Ph.D. (Mathematics Education), MSc (Mathematics)
• Google Certified course in Advanced Data Analytics 

• Recipient of the fellowship from the Higher Education Academy, UK.
• Volunteer member of Statistics Without Borders, Women in Analytics

I am a passionate teacher and strongly believe that a teacher should play the role of a facilitator and be always open to communication. I believe that it is important for a teacher to be aware of the current trends in the field of higher education. As technology is developing rapidly; it is being adopted quickly by the younger generation which is changing their expectations about teaching methods. I always use innovative methods in my teaching to meet their expectations.

I believe in a student-cantered learning approach which fosters students’ interest in learning and leads to student success. During my teaching career of 25 years, I have changed my teaching approach from traditional teacher-centric to student-centric teaching. I am proficient in adapting technological tools, such as, the software Camtasia, in which interactive videos can be developed. I am also proficient in using other interactive platforms, such as Nearpod, Bookwidget, and Kahoot.  Using these tools, I design worksheets and quizzes, in which instant feedback is given to students on their attempts.

I adopted the flipped class approach and replaced my traditional lecturing with interactive lectures. In the flipped learning model, students are expected to learn simple concepts before class and learn complex concepts based on them in a face-to-face class. This promotes active participation from students and leads to better understanding.

I conduct learning activities to foster not just critical thinking skills but also to develop meta-cognition. The development of meta-cognition leads to the retention of knowledge and applying it to solve unfamiliar problems. I encourage students to summarize their problem-solving method algorithmically so that they can apply it to solve a wide range of problems.

I will continue to adopt teaching methods and techniques that are appropriate for the course and suitable for my students.

I have done research in the area of data mining and algorithms during my early research career. I have a good knowledge of artificial intelligence methods, such as classification using clustering and binary regression trees.

My experience as a peer reviewer for two prominent journals has strengthened my reviewing and research mentoring expertise. I have supported many of my colleagues and peers in their doctoral research. I have given them support in all stages of writing the thesis, from conceptualization to writing conclusions from quantitative data analysis.   

During my recent employment, I received internal funding for my project on flipped learning. I collaborated with other colleagues on other funded research projects. One of the funded research projects was in collaboration with Dubai Health Authority and the other funded research project was about improving students’ research skills by working on applied research projects. The third research project is nearing completion, in which I am collaborating with a researcher from a medical university. This project examines medical students’ Internet usage patterns and their impact on mental health.

Dani, A. (2024). Utilizing High-Stake Online Assessment Reports To Improve Attainment Of Student Learning Outcomes. Educational Administration: Theory and Practice, 30(6), 3035-3040.

Misra AV, Mamdouh HM, Dani A, Mitchell V, Hussain HY, Ibrahim GM, Kotb R, Alnakhi WK (2024). Understanding the Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Mental Health among a Sample of University Workers in the United Arab Emirates. Healthcare. 2024; 12(11):1153. https://doi.org/10.3390/healthcare12111153

Dani, A., & Al Quraan, E. (2023). Investigating research students’ perceptions about statistics and its impact on their choice of research approach. Heliyon, 9(10).

Vajpeyi Misra, A., Mamdouh, H. M., Dani, A., Mitchell, V., Hussain, H. Y., Ibrahim, G. M., & Alnakhi, W. K. (2022). Impact of COVID-19 pandemic on the mental health of university students in the United Arab Emirates: a cross-sectional study. BMC psychology, 10(1), 1-12.

Solovieva, N., Dani, A., Kane, P., Thomson, S., Hamam, D., & Solaimani, F. K. (2022, November). Developing effective student learning environment: Case study from Sharjah, United Arab Emirates. In Frontiers in Education (Vol. 7, p. 955873). Frontiers.

John, R., & Dani, A. (2021). Influence of Mall Shopping Culture on Online Shopping Preferences: An Emerging Economy Perspective using the Technology Acceptance Model. Transnational Marketing Journal, 9(1), 17-32.

Kausar S., Dani, A. (2020). Do The Reading Skills Of Emirati Students Impact Their Problem Solving Skills? International Journal of Education and Knowledge Management (IJEKM) 3(2): 1-10 (2020) Print ISSN: 2616-5198, Online ISSN: 2616-4698.

Dani, A., & Bărbulescu, A. (2020). Statistical analysis of the water quality of the major rivers in India. In Frontiers in Water-Energy-Nexus—Nature-Based Solutions, Advanced Technologies and Best Practices for Environmental Sustainability (pp. 281-283). Springer, Cham. 

Bărbulescu, A., Barbeş, L., & Dani, A. (2020). Statistical Analysis of the Quality Indicators of the Danube River Water (in Romania). In Frontiers in Water-Energy-Nexus—Nature-Based Solutions, Advanced Technologies and Best Practices for Environmental Sustainability (pp. 277-279). Springer, Cham. 

Barbulescu, A., & Dani, A. (2019). Statistical Analysis and Classification of the Water Parameters of Beas River (India), Romanian Reports in Physics, 71, 716.

El Alfy S., Marx Gómez J., Dani A. (2019) Exploring the Effect of Market Orientation on Environmental Sustainability Performance: A Case Study of a Mobile Company in Egypt. In: Marx Gómez J., Solsbach A., Klenke T., Wohlgemuth V. (eds) Smart Cities / Smart Regions - Technical, Economic and Social Innovations. Springer Vieweg, Wiesbaden 

El Alfy, S. A. H. H., Gómez, J. M., & Dani, A. (2018). Exploring the benefits and challenges of learning analytics in higher education institutions: A systematic literature review. Information Discovery and Delivery.

Dani A. (2017). Learning Mathematics with Intelligent Tutors: Gender wise similarity and differences, International Journal of Information and Education Technology 8 (3), 218-222.

Dani A. and Nasser R. (2016). Use of intelligent tutors in the post-secondary mathematics education in the United Arab Emirates, The Turkish Online Journal of Educational Technology – October 2016, volume 15(4), pp. 152-162.

Dani A. (2016). Students’ patterns of interaction with a mathematics intelligent tutor: Learning analytics application, Journal of Integrating Technology in Education, Vol 5(2), June 2016, pp. 1-10. 

Dani A. (2016). Cluster Analysis of data logs generated by intelligent tutor to determine students’ learning profiles, INTED2016 Proceedings, pp. 2922-2929.

Dani A., (2015). Mining Data-Logs from Intelligent Tutor to Create Learning Profiles of Students, International Conference on Innovative Engineering and Technologies, CAASR-ICIET`15, Bangkok

Dani A., (2015). Investigating students’ attitude towards statistics and mobile learning. In Proceedings of the 11th International conference on Educational Technologies, Dubai, United Arab Emirates, pp. 52-65

Dani A., Getta J.(2006). Modelling Evaluation of Continuous Queries on Sliding Windows, 2006 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM 2006), Hong Kong, China, 18 Dec to 22 Dec, 2006

Dani A., Getta J. (2006). A System of Operations on Sliding Windows, 14th International Conference on Advanced Computing & Communications (ADCOM 2006), Mangalore, India, 20 Dec to 23 Dec, 2006

Dani A., Getta J.(2005). Incremental Computation Of Aggregate Operators Over Sliding Windows, In Proc. 3rd International Conference of Science Of Electronics, Technologies Of Information and Telecommunications (SETIT 2005), 27th – 31st March, Susa, Tunisia. ISBN: 9973-51-546-3    

Dani A.,  Getta J. (2005). Conceptual Modelling of Computations on Data Streams, In Proc.Asia Pacific Conference on Conceptual Modelling(APCCM 2004), Newcastle, Australia, January 30 - February 4, 2005.

Dani A., Getta J.(2004). Computation Of Mathematical Operators On Sliding Windows: In Proc. 5th International Conference on Recent Advances in Soft Computing (RASC 2004), Nottingham UK. 

Popel D, Dani A (2002). Sierpinski Gaskets for Logic Functions Representation. In Proc. IEEE International Symposium on Multiple-Valued Logic, pages 39 - 45, 

Dani A., Popel D, and Tomaszewska A (2001). Minimizing esop expressions using fractals. In Proc. 10th Int. Workshop on Post-Binary Ultra-Large Scale Integration, 2001.

• Volunteer for projects undertaken by Statistics Without Borders
• Peer reviewer for two prominent, Scopus-indexed journals.
• Worked as a peer mentor in completing the Higher Education Academy fellowship. Guided them to complete the portfolio as required for getting their fellowship.