Yiannis Laouris
Yiannis Laouris
Courses: MSN 511: Collective Inteligence;Definitions,Measurement,Experimentation
MSN 611: Programming Collective Intelligence of Crowds
MSN 612: Experiments and Programming to Harness Collective Wisdom of Crowds
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Dr. Yiannis Laouris is a social and business entrepreneur, a neuroscientist and systems engineer. He was the main Founder of the Cyprus Neuroscience and Technology Institute and he is founding member and elected Secretary General of the Cyprus Society for Systemic Studies, member of the Board of the Institute for 21st Century Agoras and member of the Board of a number of high-tech companies. He has an MD and a PhD in Neurophysiology from Leipzig University in Germany and an MSc in Systems and Industrial Engineering from the University of Arizona. In the 90's he founded CYBER Kids (www.cyber-kids.com), a chain of franchised computer learning centers, which introduced IT in the lives of over 15,000 children and 10,000 adults in Cyprus. CYBER Kids expanded in 7 countries and received numerous prestigious awards. He promotes the application of broadband technologies and structured dialogue as tools to bridge the digital; economic educational and inter-personal divides in our planet. He pioneered in the application of the Structured Dialogic Design process (SDD) in the Cyprus and the Middle East peace movement and in many pan-European networks; his work was published in several books and many scientific papers and was honored with numerous awards. For the past 5 years, his group is concerned with the development of systems to enable scaling up a participatory dialogic processes to engage asynchronously thousands of participants in meaningful authentic dialogues, thus accelerating institutional and societal change. | ||
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In Education
In Systems and Peace
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Andreas Shoshilos
Andreas Shoshilos
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Christiana P. Karousiou
Christiana P. Karousiou
Courses: RMI 541: Research Methods
Degrees: Ph.D in Education, MSc., MEd., BEd.
Specializations: Educational policy, school reform, continuing professional development, professional identity, leadership, school improvement.
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Office Tel: +357 228899999 Ext:333
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Christiana P. Karousiou has recently been awarded a PhD in Education from the School of Environment, Education and Development (SEED) at the University of Manchester, UK. She received a B.Ed. in Educational Sciences from the University of Cyprus in 2008. She continued her studies at the University of Manchester and she pursued two Master Degrees one in Educational Leadership and School Improvement (M.Ed.) in 2009 and one in Educational Research (MSc.) in 2010. She worked as a Graduate Teaching Assistant at the University of Manchester and was responsible for preparing and delivering high quality teaching and taking a central role in fostering a vibrant student environment by supporting and mentoring the students. She was the keynote speaker in seminars organised by the SEED at the University of Manchester and she presented her work in conferences such as BELMAS International Conference on Education and International Conference on Learning. She is a qualified primary school teacher and she is currently working in schools in Cyprus. Her research interests include educational policy with a particular emphasis upon teachers' professional identities, educational leadership, school improvement and research methods. |
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• Karousiou, C.P. (2013). Lessons learned from investigating teachers' professional identities in changing times. Paper presented at the 20th International Conference on Learning, 11-13 July 2013, Rhodes, Greece. • Karousiou, C.P. (2012). Teachers' professional identity and practice in an era of educational reform: the case of Cyprus. Paper presented at ICE Conference, 5-7 July 2012, Samos, Greece. • Karousiou, C.P. (2012). Teachers' Professional Identity and Practice at a Time of Educational Reform in Cyprus. Paper presented at BELMAS Annual Conference, 20-22 July 2012, Manchester, UK. |
Ilker Yengin
Ilker Yengin
Courses: ESD 622: Programming Future Learning Environments using cognitive artifacts
Degrees: Ph.D in Educational Studies
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Dr. lker Yengin holds a PhD in Educational Studies with emphasis in Instructional Technologies (¬ 2011) form University of Nebraska – Lincoln, a PhD in Digital Design and Human Computer Interaction (2008) from Kyungsung University, Busan/S.Korea, an MSc in Information Technologies (2008) form University of Bahcesehir, Istanbul – Turkey and a BSc in Computer Teaching and Educational Technologies (2005) also from University of Bahcesehir. Since 2011 Dr Yengin is currently a Scientist with specialty in Edutainment Applications at A*STAR, an Institute of High Performance Computing. Dr Yengin is an experienced tutor with specialty in emerging educational technologies. His major research interest focuses in designing technology for creating situations for students to generate deep cognitive processes to develop higher order thinking skills, creativity and motivation. His interests include Collaborative Knowledge Building Technologies, Social Robots for Teaching, Interaction Design (Human Computer/Robot Interaction), Digital Media Design. |
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