Mr. Nehmé SAFA
Faculty of Education
Professor
(+961) 1 421 000 ext 5732 nehme.safa@usj.edu.lb
He is a Professor at the Faculty of Education, Saint Joseph University of Beirut. He holds a PhD degree in Education from the University of Leiecster, UK, with an emphasis on curriculum and instruction and educational technology. He serves as the Head of the Scientific Committee at the Faculty of Education . Prof. Safa teaches courses at the graduate level (MA), gives seminars at the post graduate level (PhD), and supervises PhD theses. Additionally, He was appointed by the Lebanese Ministry of Education as a member of the Technical Committee to evaluate and validate the Master's in Education and Teaching Diploma programs offered by private universities in Lebanon. He also serves as a national expert for developing the Lebanese national curriculum framework . Prof. Safa has been appointed at European Training Foundation (ETF) as an international expert and a CNL (Creating New Learning) facilitator of Innovation and Teaching and Learning expert to support, share and validate innovative practices in the South and East Mediterranean (Algeria, Egypt, Palestine, Morocco, Lebanon, Jordan, Tunisia) where he documented and communicated innovative practices by blogging on international community platform, built regional networks, and conducted webinars to support the countries in transforming learning into innovative practices and share best practices. He has been also appointed by ETF as the ambassador of the Community of Innovative Educators in Lebanon. Prof. Safa is the recipient of an award of developing solutions in the field of extended reality (XR) applications for skills development and lifelong learning in the context of “Assessment and Certification”, received in Skills Experts Meeting on the Future of Skills Extended lifelong learning realities, hosted by the European Training Foundation and the International Training Center in Turin, Italy, June 2022. He is an author of articles published in refereed international journals, speaker in national and international conferences, and a reviewer of journal articles published in Springer, Elsevier, and Taylor and Francis.
Highest degree : PHD in Education - University of Leicester- England
+ Teaching at USJ
Quantitative Research Methods, Qualitative Research Methods, Teaching Methodology, Educational Technology
+ Expertise field
Art, Humanities, Religious Sciences
+ Research topics
Teaching and Learning-Educational Technology
+ Publications and communications
§ Kain, H., & Safa, N. (2020). Investigating
the Effects of Online Research Skills Instructions: A Quasi-Experimental Study
. Journal of Education and Practice, 11(33), 63-77.
doi:0.7176/JEP/11-33-11 §
Khaddaj, Z &
Safa, N. (2021). Effects of Single- Sex and Coeducational Schooling on the
Gender Gap in Mathematics Achievement in Public Schools in Beirut-Lebanon. International
Journal of Science and Research, Volume 10, Issue 6, 1573-1584. §
Temsah, L., & Safa, N. (2021). New Approaches to
Simulation-Based Science Instruction to Enhance Reasoning and Communication
Skills in Lebanese Elementary Education. Middle Eastern Journal of Research in Education and Social
Sciences, 2(1), 56-79. https://doi.org/10.47631/mejress.v2i1.180 § Mazeh, N., & Safa, N. (2020). The Effect of
Self Regulated Strategy Development on Persuasive Writing: A Quasi-Exeprimental
Study. Journal of Education and Practice, 11(32), 17-31.
doi:10.7176/JEP/11-32-03 Amanatallah, L.&Safa, N. (2021). Investigating the effects of Active Learning
Strategies on Problem Solving. Journal of
Education and Practice, 12(17), 41-53. Fardoun H., Tesoriero R., Sebastian G. and Safa
N. (2018). A Simplified MbUID Process to Generate Web Form-based UIs .In
Proceedings of the International Conference on Software Technologies -Portugal, Volume 1: IDEE, ISBN
978-989-758-320-9, pages 801-808. DOI: 10.5220/000694390801080 Gallud, J. A., Fardoun, H. M., Andres, F., &
Safa, N. (2018). A Study on How People Use Emojis. Proceedings of The XIX
International Conference on Human Computer Interaction. Palma, Spain: ACM
Digital Library. ISBN 978-1-4503-6491-1. DOI: 10.1145/3233824.3233861 § Delgado, V.A., Collazos, C.A., Fardoun, H.M., & Safa, N.M.
(2017). Collaboration Increase through Monitoring and Evaluation Mechanisms of
the Collaborative Learning Process. Social Computing and Social Media-Human
Behavior- International Conference SCSM (pp 20-31). Vancouver, BC, Canada:
Springer §
Safa,
N. (2004). E-Learning: A New Approach in Teaching. Proceedings of the
International Conference of Global Integration of Graduate Programs. GIGP,
49-57, Amman, Jordan.
§ Safa, N. (2012). Modern and Future E-technology Integration into Teaching and Learning Arabic Language. Proceedings of the First International Conference of Arabic Language, 1089-1107, Beirut, Lebanon