Information and Communication Technology in Technical and Vocational Education and Training for Sustainable and Equal Opportunity

Reem Khamis Hamdan is an Assistant Professor of management and finance at University College of Bahrain.  Dr. Reem was awarded her PhD from Brunel University London in 2020 in “board gender diversity and firm performance” and MBA degree from Ahlia University, Bahrain. She received Sharjah award for best PhD thesis in the Arab world and Al Owais award for the best research about United Arab Emirates. Dr. Reem research interest areas are “business gender studies”, “Strategy and entrepreneurship” and firm performance. She serves as guest editor in the Strategic marketing journal and has edited numerous books in springer. Allam Hamdan Allam Hamdan is a Full Professor, he is listed within the World’s top 2% scientists list by Stanford University, he is the Dean of College of Business and Finance at Ahlia University, Bahrain. Author of many publications (more than 300 papers, 250 listed in Scopus) in regional and international journals that discussed several accountings, financial and economic issues concerning the Arab world. In addition, he has interests in educational related issues in the Arab world universities like educational governance, investment in education and economic growth. Awarded the First Prize of Al-Owais Creative Award, UAE, 2019 and 2017; the Second Prize of Rashid bin Humaid Award for Culture and Science, UAE, 2016; the Third Prize of Arab Prize for the Social Sciences and Humanities, 2015, and the First Prize of "Durrat Watan", UAE, 2013. Achieved the highest (1st) scientific research citation among the Arab countries according to Arcif 2018-2022.  Appointed an external panel member as part of Bahrain Quality Assurance Authority and National Qualifications Framework NQF as a validator, and appeal committee, General Directorate of NQF, Kingdom of Bahrain. Member of Steering Committee in International Arab Conference of Quality Assurance of Higher Education. Currently leading a mission driven process for International Accreditation for College of Business and Finance  by Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB).  Bahaaeddin Alareeni is an Professor of Accounting and Auditing. He did his PhD’s thesis in Accounting and Auditing on the relative performance of auditors’ going concern ‎opinions and statistical failure prediction models for listed companies in Jordan. His main research interests are in the ‎areas of Auditing, Accounting, the International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS), Internal Audit, Financial ‎Accounting, and financial analysis. He has practical experience in the Accounting profession for more than ten years ‎in different organizations, e.g., banking, NGOs, government sector, and private institutions. He is currently working for the Middle ‎East Technical University (METU) in Turkey – Northern Cyprus Campus, which is one of the top 550 universities in ‎the world based on the QS ranking 2018. ‎ Rim El-Khoury is an Associate Professor of Finance at the Adnan Kassar School of Business at Lebanese American University, Lebanon, with a Ph.D. in International Finance from Sogang University, South Korea.  Prior to joining Lebanese American University, she taught at Hanyang University in South Korea and American University of Technology and served as the Finance Discipline Coordinator and the chair of the assessment of the learning at Notre Dame University in Lebanon. She is the recipient of several awards such as the Outstanding Doctoral Thesis Award (2009), Grand winner for Korea Times Magazine Economic Contest (2007), and The Academic Excellence Award from the Korean Government (2006). She is also a reviewer for several prestigious academic journals, including the International Journal of Emerging Markets, Journal of Applied Accounting Research, and Journal of Financial Innovation, among others. She has guest edited special issues for journals such as Strategic Marketing, Higher Education, Skills and Work-Based Learning, and Development and Learning in Organizations. She edited books, and she published several peer-reviewed articles in top-ranked academic journals such as Journal of International Financial Markets, Institutions and Money, Borsa Istanbul Review, Small Business Economics.

• Chapter 1.  The Impact of Online Learning on Human Resource Management: A Comprehensive Review and Future Perspectives.- Chapter 2. The impact of online learning on students’ outcomes at Gulf University in the Kingdom of Bahrain.- Chapter 3. Online Counseling Services in the UAE: The Clients, Counselors Dimensional Perspectives of Counseling Services.- Chapter 4. Digital technologies for accelerating engagement of newborn firms within an open innovation ecosystem.- Chapter 5. Innovative Leadership in the Digital Age: A Preliminary Research on Digital Leadership in Contemporary Management.- Chapter 6. THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION 4.0 AND DIGITAL LEADERSHIP IN THE PUBLIC SERVICES SECTOR.- Chapter 7. AI and Industry 4.0: A review of applications and contributions.- Chapter 8. Addressing the educational technology divide in India: An analysis of access, adoption and equity in digital learning.- Chapter 9. The use of information technologies in the process of corporate training of employees of milk processing enterprises of Ukraine.- Chapter 10. PalCert: A Blockchain-Based Certificate Attestation and Verification System for HEIs in Palestine.- Chapter 11. ASSESSMENT OF BLOCKCHAIN-BASED ACCOUNTING TECHNOLOGY ON ACCOUNTING REPORT EFFICIENCY AMONG BUSINESS OPERATORS IN JORDAN.- Chapter 12. Predicting Student Retention in Smart Learning Environments using Machine Learning.- Chapter 13. Evaluating Performance of Real-Time IP Traffic Classification in Virtual Private Network using Machine Learning.- Chapter 14. An Unsupervised Machine Learning Model for Discovering the Impact of Social Networks on Students’ Behavior and Health in COVID-19 Case Study.- Chapter 15. Identifying Customer Attitudes toward the Exploitation of Women in Ads using Machine Learning.- Chapter 16. Tweets’ Features and Reactions: Exploring Higher Education Institutions Activities in Abu Dhabi.- Chapter 17. The Importance of Mathematical Thinking in the Classroom: A Theoretical Analysis.- Chapter 18. Comparative Study on Efficiency of using LB-FCN and Contrastive learning for detecting Bone Tumor in Bone Scans.- Chapter 19. THE IMPACT OF LEADER’S EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE ON PSYCHOLOGICAL EMPOWERMENT OF MUNICIPAL AFFAIRS STAFF IN THE KINGDOM OF BAHRAIN.- Chapter 20. Sustainable Leadership: Steering Organizations Toward a Greener Future.- Chapter 21. Spirituality Sustainability Leadership on Human Resource Performance in Islamic Perspective: A Literature Review.- Chapter 22. Digitalization Leading the Way for a Sustainable Future.- Chapter 23. Contribution of CSR for the Attainment of Sustainable Goals – A Study of a Developing Nation.- Chapter 24. Green Banking Practices: An Investigation into the Perception of among the employees of PSUs and Private Bank in Bangalore.- Chapter 25. Exploring Sustainable Green HRM Practices: An Investigation of Employee Perspectives and Organisational Challenges.- Chapter 26. Building inclusive smart city: conceptualization and measurement in Yogyakarta, Indonesia.- Chapter 27. Unveiling the Path to Sustainable Fashion: Women's Attitudes and Buying Behavior towards Green Apparels.- Chapter 28. Transfer Learning for Detecting Fake Images Resulted from Turkey Earthquake.- Chapter 29. Conceptual Framework in Attitude Factors Affecting Yemeni University Lecturers' Adoption of E-Government.- Chapter 30. Work Stress and Organizational Commitment: A Case Study of Al Wasm International School in the Kingdom of Bahrain.- Chapter 31. Employing the Household Basket Method: A Case Study on Estimating Affordability in Municipal Water Tariff Setting in the Gaza Strip.- Chapter 32. Impact of Demarketing strategies on Consumer Behavior towards Unhealthy Products: A Study of the Beverage Industry.- Chapter 33. The Effect of COVID-19 to The Recycling Rates at Universiti Tun Hussein Onn Malaysia (UTHM).- Chapter 34. A CASE STUDY ON THE BEHAVIOUR OF ONLINE CUSTOMERS.- Chapter 35. The Relationship Between the Quality of Work and Employee Performance inA Non-Western Context of Palestine.- Chapter 36. Embracing Disruption: The Intersection of FinTech, RegTech, and Artificial Intelligence.- Chapter 37. Interlocking directorates and sustainability: A bibliometric analysis and research opportunities in fintech.- Chapter 38. The Role of Employee Empowerment on Work Engagement at Telecommunication Sector in Jordan.- Chapter 39. Family business resilience in the time of COVID-19: Evidence from Malaysia.- Chapter 40. The Effect of Dynamic Capability, Innovation and Masculinity Culture on Performance of Micro Enterprise Owned by Women in Kelantan.- Chapter 41. INVESTIGATING FACTORS THAT AFFECT ONLINE SHOPPING INTENSITY DURING PANDEMIC COVID-19: EVIDENCE FROM INDONESIAN CONSUMERS.- Chapter 42. Women's entrepreneurship in India: a barometer for international shifts in start-up activity.- Chapter 43. The Women Leadership: A Catalytic Role of Digital Divide through Digital Ecosystem.- Chapter 44. Board gender and the profitability of insider trading.- Chapter 45. Inequality in employment opportunity.- Chapter 46. Investigation the Relationship Between Socio-Demographical, Job Characteristics and Fatigue Among Offshore Workers.- Chapter 47. Gender Discrimination and its Impact on Employee Performance in Educational Institutions.- Chapter 48. Moderating role of gender in the relationship between financial traits and entrepreneurial intention: A multigroup analysis.- Chapter 49. Significance of Workplace Well-being on Teaching Effectiveness in Arts and Science Colleges in Coimbatore district.