Predominantly French educated, Baytiyeh-Naja specialized in the United States, where she enjoyed “the flexibility and level of advisor-student interaction found in the American system of education,” which is “not about the degrees one receives but the way one thinks.”  

With a BS in computer engineering from France in1995, Baytiyeh-Naja returned to the College of Engineering at the Lebanese University to work as a database administrator between 1996 and 2002. Striving to remain updated in her field, she went on to complete an MS in computer science at the University of Balamand in 2004 and a PhD in instructional technology from the University of Tennessee-Knoxville in 2009.

During her studies, Baytiyeh-Naja, as a research and teaching assistant, gave multimedia courses and taught applications for integrating technology in the classroom.

At AUB, Baytiyeh-Naja is teaching Use of Computer Applications in Education and Instructional Media and Techniques to undergrads, and finds that the students have the same mixture, “related to personality and not connected to the place,” of academic abilities and levels of hard work as at any other academic institution.

Aiming to conduct qualitative and quantitative research, Baytiyeh-Naja would like to find new ways of improving techniques to “make learning more accessible and enjoyable.” Her areas of interest include teaching strategies in engineering, on-line learning communities, ubiquitous computing using Free Open Source Software, and the effectiveness of multimedia in teaching and learning.