Sofia Mougiakou is a Computer Science teacher in secondary education since 1996. She holds a B.Sc. in “Informatics and Telecommunications” (November 1994) from the Department of Informatics and Telecommunications of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece, a M.Sc. in “Electronic Automation” (June 1998) from the Department of Informatics and Telecommunications, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece, as well as a M.Sc. with distinction in e-Learning from the Department of Digital Systems, University of Piraeus, Greece (June 2020). She has two years of administrative experience as a high school principal and 10 years as Head of the Center of Informatics and New Technologies of the Directorate of Secondary Education of Piraeus. She has 15 years of teaching experience as a computer science teacher in secondary education. She participated as a member of the Education Committee in two co-funded European projects for teachers’ professional development, as well as in the Learn2Analyze project (Erasmus+ Knowledge Alliance Program). She has several conference publications regarding the exploiting of blended learning using the Moodle Learning Platform at the high-school level. Currently, she is a Ph.D. Candidate at the Department of Digital Systems, University of Piraeus, Greece.
Dimitra Vinatsella holds a B.Sc. in “Informatics & Telecommunications” (2003) and a M.Sc. in ”Communication Systems and Networks” (2007) from National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. She started to work as a Product Development Manager in Vodafone Greece responsible to act as an overall project manager for the planning, development, roll out and post launch monitoring of retail
commercial Value Added Services and Products. In 2007, she joined the Greek Ministry of Education, Research and Religious Affairs, as Computer Science Teacher and since 2012 she has been working in a cross-functional team in the Center of Informatics and New Technologies of the Directorate of Secondary Education of Piraeus. She has a long experience in e-Learning utilizing innovative technologies and learning management systems and she has participated successfully in several scientific research European programmes, including the Learn2Analyze project. Currently, she is a Ph.D. Candidate at the Department of Digital Systems, University of Piraeus, Greece.
Demetrios Sampson is a Professor of Digital Systems for Teaching and Learning at the Department of Digital Systems, University of Piraeus, Greece since 2003. He has been a Professor of Learning Technologies and Director of Research at the School of Education, Curtin University, Australia (2015-2017) and Senior Research (1999-2003) at the Information Technologies Institute of the Center for Research and Technology – Hellas (CERTH).He is the co-author of 350 articles in scientific books, journals and conferences, and the editor of 90+ books, special issues in academic journals and international conference proceedings books. He has received 10 times Best Paper Award in International Conferences on Learning Technologies. He has been a Keynote/Invited Speaker/Lecturer in 100+ International/National Conferences and/or Postgraduate Programs around the world; project director, principle investigator and/or research consultant in 70 Research and Innovation projects with external funding at the range of 16 Million€. He has supervised 180+ honours and postgraduate students to successful completion since 2003. He has developed and delivers the first Massive Online Open Course (MOOC) on the use of Educational Data Analytics by School Teachers (Analytics for the Classroom Teacher), offered by the edX platform (a Harvard and MIT led global initiative) which has attracted more than 25.000 participants from 180 countries around the world since October 2016. He lead an international University-Industry Consortium (Learn2Analyse) that promotesd professional development in EducationalData Literacy for Online Education & Training Professionals and Higher Education students, co-funded by the European Commission (Erasmus+ Knowledge Alliance Program, 2018-2021). He is the recipient of the IEEE Computer Society Distinguished Service Award (July 2012) and was named a Golden Core Member of IEEE Computer Society in recognition of his contribution to the field of Learning Technologies. He is also the recipient of the Golden Nikola Tesla Chain Award of the International Society for Engineering Pedagogy (IGIP) for "International outstanding achievements in the field of Engineering Pedagogy" (September 2018).
Zacharoula Papamitsiou (she/her) is a Research Scientist at the Department of Technology Management, SINTEF Digital. Dr. Papamitsiou holds a Ph.D. degree from the University of Macedonia, Thessaloniki, Greece, in adapting and personalizing assessment using Learning Analytics. Her research interest is on learning analytics, user modeling, autonomous learning,d
