PROFILE

Innovative and creative, Eli Ghazel has been involved in education and the development of the learning design concept for nearly 30 years. He is now directing and managing the Center for English Language at the Ministry of Education in Saudi Arabia. He has followed a career of innovation from the beginning seeking to improve on the status quo, he has worked to improve the system. His many accomplishments in this regard speak for themselves. He is a renowned text book author and editor in subjects ranging from Science and Health to English as a second language working with publisher McGraw Hill and the U.A.E. Ministry of Education. He has also designed curricula and trained thousands of teachers for the Ministries of Education in the UAE, KSA, Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, and Japan, along with private international schools. Mr. Ghazel is most well-known for his TEDx event entitled “Here Comes The Learning Designer” in which he outlined a model for learning and assessment. The talk is available at the following link: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=L1W4SlXpoEU. In the role of Academic Director for the 21st Century Academic Forum, Eli Ghazel has given numerous talks and was a featured speaker at TESOL Arabia in 2008 and the keynote speaker at the First Annual Conference on Curricula in Yanbu, Saudi Arabia in 2012. Most recently, Mr. Ghazel has given talks on technology-aided learning at Harvard University Conferences, and a talk on new assessment models for the 21st century as a keynote speaker at Berkeley CA, USA. He is a life-learner himself, and has made it his goal to inspire quality learning for the better enrichment of students into the future.