Rozali Badaoui honored at IEEE ETECOM 2025

Already holding a master's degree in management, it was her passion for teaching that motivated Rozali Badaoui to undertake an interdisciplinary doctoral thesis in education and management sciences.

What are the most effective technologies to implement in higher education for optimal classroom management? This is the question that Rozali Badaoui has chosen to tackle in her thesis, co-supervised by Nicolas Jullien from IMT Atlantique and Klara Kövesi from ENSTA, within the SPIN doctoral school. To answer this question, Rozali Badaoui examines the impact of new technologies on engineering education in her doctoral research.

Her doctoral research focuses on the challenges and opportunities associated with the integration of new technologies in higher education. She analyzes how non-technological, low-tech, and high-tech solutions can be combined in a complementary way to improve classroom management. Classroom management is a key issue, as it encompasses all the strategies and practices implemented by teachers and institutions to create an effective learning environment that encourages student engagement (time management, communication, student interactions, etc.).

Her research aims to provide teachers with practical guidelines enabling them to make informed pedagogical decisions regarding the choice and use of technological solutions. Based on the results obtained, she aims to propose operational recommendations for the effective integration of these tools, while taking into account issues of confidentiality, security, and ethics.

In the article she presented at the IEEE ETECOM 2025 conference, she focused on the issue of protecting students' personal data, a subject that raises questions about the technological choices made by academic institutions, but also about the behavior of the students themselves.

“Students are the primary actors in the protection of their personal data, and they have as much responsibility in this matter as the institutions in which they pursue their studies,” confirms Rozali Badaoui.

But academic institutions obviously play a structural role in this issue through their choice of technologies and the amount of data collected. In the age of big data, learning method analysis has very effective tools for measuring learner and teacher engagement, detecting difficulties and identifying areas for improvement, but at the risk of infringing on everyone's privacy.

“The challenge is to find a balance between cognitive and emotional engagement and respect for privacy,” continues Rozali Badaoui.

Currently in her second year of her PhD, buoyed by this initial recognition, Rozali is fully committed to continuing her research on the integration of advanced technologies in engineering education.