Show & Tell: SMARTlab Seminar Series 4 June 2010

Technology-enhanced Learning:
Key Research Challenges
Demetrios G Sampson, Senior Member IEEE
Associate Professor, Department Digital Systems, University of Piraeus, Greece
Director, Advanced Learning Technologies and Services for Education and Learning (ASK) Research Unit
Chair, IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Learning Technology
Co-Editor-in-Chief, Educational Technology & Society Journal
Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Learning Technologies
General Chair, IEEE International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies 2010

When: 4 June 2010; 5:00pm - 7:00pm

Where: SMARTlab Digital Media Institute, KD1.21 Knowledge Dock, UEL

Abstract

During the past years Technology-enhanced Learning has attracted the interest of
both the research and the educational community. The field has developed from the
early scattered works in Educational Technology to a grounded and structured
research area. In my short presentation I will give a brief overview of the main key
research challenges in the field of Technology-enhanced Learning as they emerge
from the current state-of-the-art worldwide.

Short CV

Demetrios G Sampson holds a Diploma in Electrical Engineering (1989) from Demokritus University of Thrace and
Ph.D. in Multimedia Communications (1995) from University of Essex, UK. He is an Associate Professor at the
Department of Digital Systems of the University of Piraeus, and the Founder and Director of the Advanced Learning
Technologies and Services for Education and Learning (ASK) Research Unit (ASK). His main research interests
are in the areas of Technology Enhanced Learning. He is the co-author of more than 215 publications in scientific
books, journals and conferences with at least 660 known citations (h-index 16). He has received 4 times Best Paper
Award in International Conferences on Advanced Learning Technologies (August 2001, Madisson, USA), (August
2004, Joensuu, Finland), (July2007, Niigata, Japan), (July 2009, Riga, Latvia). He is a Senior Member of IEEE and
the elected Chair of the IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Learning Technologies (LTTC). He is Co-
Editor-in-Chief of the Educational Technology and Society Journal, an international journal with Impact Factor 0.904
on the Thomson Scientific 2008 Journal Citations Report. He is also a Member of Editorial Board of (16)
International Journals, including the IEEE Transactions on Learning Technologies and Guest Co-Editor in (15)
Special Issues of International Journals. His participation in the organization of international/national scientific
conferences involves: General Chair in (7) International Conferences, Program Committee Chair in (12)
International Conferences and Memberships in (182) Program Committees in International Conferences. He has
been a Keynote/Invited Speaker in (16) International and (14) National Conferences.

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