Ahmed Kharrufa

About

I am a Reader in AI for Education at Open Lab, Newcastle University. I lead educational technology research at Open Lab, focusing on the potential and implications of Generative AI on learning and education. My wider interests include the design, development, implementation, and evaluation of processes and technologies supporting learning, school-community engagement, and cultural and language learning. I also lead the development of the learning engine and application of AI at Kinnu Ltd, an educational technology start-up.

Education

• BSc Electronics and Communication Engineering
• MSc Electronics and Communication Engineering
• PhD Computing Science

Selected publications

• LLMs Integration in Software Engineering Team Projects: Roles, Impact, and a Pedagogical Design Space for AI Tools in Computing Education
• Migrants' digital skills development: Engaging with and creating digital cultural activities on the ENACT web app
• The Realities of Evaluating Educational Technology in School Settings
• Precarious Experiences: Citizens' Frustrations, Anxieties and Burdens of an Online Welfare Benefit System
• Generative AI Assistants in Software Development Education: A vision for integrating Generative AI into educational practice, not instinctively defending against it
• Sketching dialogue: incorporating sketching in empathetic semi-Structured interviews for human-computer interaction research
• Supporting Non-Expert Users in Authoring Tasks for Learning Language and Culture: Evaluation Study
• 'Social media is their space': student and teacher use and perception of features of social media in language education
• Cooking as a language learning task: On the internet
• Cooking as a Language Learning task