Summer School 2020 - Postponed to 2021

Tue, February 25 at 14:34 pm.

Ph.D. students interested in educational technology participate in the 16th EATEL Summer School.

SMILE Lab is proud to co-organize the 16th EATEL Summer School on Technology Enhanced Learning at Halkidiki, Greece, on May 23-30, 2020.

The summer school provides doctoral candidates with a perspective of state-of-the-art research on Technology Enhanced Learning. The programme includes practical and methodological workshops as well as opportunities for PhD students to develop their research and discuss their doctoral work. Furthermore, it will help doctoral students to build bridges for future collaborations with experts in the field and peers across Europe.

https://ea-tel.eu/jtelss/jtelss2020/cfp/

Thesis Defense

Mon, September 03 at 12:20 pm.

Our team member Zacharoula Papamitsiou successfully defended her Ph.D. Thesis entitled: "Supporting learner's Capacity for Autonomous Decisions using Learning Analytics" on August 29th at the University of Macedonia (IPPS in Information Systems, http://mis.uom.gr).

Her presentation was really inspiring and she has really impressed the examiners and the audience with her outstanding research work.

We would like to wish her every success in her life and her professional career and we are looking forward to celebrating her next professional achievements!

Scientific Mobility

Mon, September 03 at 12:04 pm.

We are extremely proud of our team member Dr. Stavros Nikou to become a Lecturer at the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow (https://www.strath.ac.uk/).

We wish Stavros a very successful career and we will continue our collaboration with him.

Academic Journal Publications

Tue, August 28 at 13:16 pm.

Two new papers published in the prestigious journal: Computers & Education

Our lab members just published the following papers on Mobile-based Assessment and Creativity:(a) Nikou, S. & Economides, A.A. (2018). Mobile-based assessment: A literature review of publications in major referred journals from 2009 to 2018, Computers & Education. Vol 125, pp. 101-119, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compedu.2018.06.006 , and (b) Stolaki, A. and Economides, A.A. (2018). The creativity challenge game: An educational intervention for creativity enhancement with the integration of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs), Computers & Education, Vol. 195, pp. 195-211, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compedu.2018.05.009

Participation of the SMILE lab in the 2018 EDULEARN Conference

Mon, August 27 at 15:00 pm.

Two new papers of our lab members were presented at the EDULEARN conference, Palma de Mallorca, Spain, on July.

More precisely, the following papers examined urgent issues of Openness inn MOOCs, OERs and Open Educations: (a) Economides, A.A. & Perifanou, M. (2018). Dimensions of Openness in MOOCs & OERs. Proceedings 10th annual International Conference on Education and New Learning Technologies (EDULEARN), Palma de Mallorca, Spain, July 2-4, pp. 3684-3693. IATED. ISBN: 978-84-09-02709-5 (b) Economides, A.A. & Perifanou, M. (2018). The many faces of Openness in education. Proceedings 10th annual International Conference on Education and New Learning Technologies (EDULEARN), Palma de Mallorca, Spain, July 2-4, pp. 3694-3703. IATED. ISBN: 978-84-09-02709-5

Academic Journal Publications

Thu, January 11 at 4:42 pm.

The new year started in the most promising way! Two journal papers of our team were accepted for publication!

More precisely, the papers are:(a) Factors that influence Behavioral Intention to Use Mobile-Based Assessment: a STEM teachers’ perspective, The British Journal of Educational Technology (to appear), by Nikou, S. & Economides, A.A, and (b) Mobile-Based micro-Learning and Assessment: Impact on learning performance and motivation of high-school students, Journal of Computer Assisted Learning (to appear) , by Nikou, S. & Economides, A.A.

Participation of the SMILE lab in the 2018 EDUCON Conference

Fri, December 29 at 12:00 pm.

Closing this year in the best way! Three more papers of ours were being accepted as full papers for the EDUCON conference, to be held in Tenerife, Canary Islands.

More precisely, the papers (a) MOOC Affordances Model., by M. Perifanou and A. A. Economides, (b) Motivation related predictors of engagement in mobile-assisted Inquiry-Based Science Learning , by S. Nikou & A. A. Economides, and (c) Recommendation of educational resources to groups: a game-theoretic approach, by Z. Papamitsiou & A. A. Economides, will be presented at the conference.

We are excited that our Smile lab will be there!!