Research on E-Learning and ICT in Education

Ioannis Kazanidis is Assistant Professor in the Department of Informatics and Director of the international masters program in immersive technologies at the Democritus University of Thrace, Greece. He is a founding member of the International Association for Blended Learning (IABL). His research interests mainly focus on Educational Technology and on the adoption of innovations in different fields of study such as educational technology, e-learning, AR/VR in education, mixed reality environments, learning analytics, and tangible user interfaces.Tsinakos Avgoustos is Professor and Director of Advanced Educational Technologies and Mobile Applications (AETMA) Lab in the Department of Informatics at Democritus University of Thrace, Greece. He has been Coordinator (or member of the Coordination Team) in over 32 programs related to Immersive Technologies, Distance Education, and Technology Enhanced Learning. He collaborates scientifically with several Universities in USA, Spain, Canada, the Netherlands, and China but also with government bodies such as the Prosecution of Electronic Crime in Greece.

• Part I: Teacher Education, Digital Competence, and Pedagogical Practices. Chapter 1: Investigating Greek Teachers’ Training Needs in Digital Competence: Validation of the DigCompEdu Check-In Scale Using Structural Equation Modeling. Chapter 2: Teachers’ beliefs and pedagogical thinking about flipped learning. Chapter 3: Computational Thinking in Early Childhood Education. Significance, approaches and challenges ahead. Chapter 4: Teaching Fractions to Third-Grade Students Using Enriched Books – A Case Study. Chapter 5: Directed AI: the future of AI for instructional design. Chapter 6: TSM-SGP: Taxonomy of Support Methods in Serious Games for Programming. Chapter 7: Serious Games design for Higher Education: Aligning Bloom’s Taxonomy, Cognitive Theory of Multimedia Learning, and Gamification for effective learning. Chapter 8: Insights from Pre-Service Teachers Designing Location-Based Game. Part II: Inclusive and Immersive Technologies in Education. Chapter 9: Augmented Reality Affordances in Physics Education for Students with Intellectual Disabilities. Chapter 10: Enhancing Participation of Students with Autism in Inclusive Educational Robotics: An Action Research. Chapter 11: Augmented reality educational games for disaster management and preparedness. The case of Virtual School.