Maimoona Humaid Al Abri holds a Ph.D. Education in Learning Technologies Design Research from George Mason University, United State. She is the director of the Educational Technology Department in the Ministry of Education in the Sultanate of Oman since 2013. She has introduced the concept of integrating ICT into k-12 education in the Ministry of Education and has led the establishment of the digital school in Muscat Region. Currently, she is leading the digiting national curriculum project. Also, she led several crucial projects in the Ministry of Education such as developing an e-learning strategy in k-12 and developing the national policy for OER in education. In 2017, she was nominated for Kappa Delta Pi (Education Honor Society), and became a DOER (Designing with OER) Fellow. Maimoona’s research interests include meaningful online learning, open educational resources, open educational practices, open pedagogy, user experience design, design thinking, learning theories, and technology integration in schools. Maimoona's publications include a book chapter and several articles in peer-reviewed journals: “Testing the Intervention of OER Renewable Assignments in a College Course” (Open Praxis); Open Educational Resources: A Literature Review (Journal of Mason Graduate Research); and “Affordance Analysis of Google+ Features: Advancing Teaching and Learning in Higher Education” (Journal of Educational Multimedia and Hypermedia).