Information Communication Technologies in Education

			Contact details email: koutro@primedu.uoa.gr Tel.: +30 2103688505 Postal address:  Ippokratous 20, 10680, Athens, Greece. Personal website: https://koutromanos.gr/en/

Education

• Postdoc in “Digital Games in Primary Education”. Department of Primary Education, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece.
• PhD in Information Communication Technology in Education. University of London, King’s College London, Department of Education and Professional Studies, Faculty of Social Science and Public Policy.
• PhD in Information Communication Technology in Education. Department of Primary Education, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece.
• MSc Computers in Education. Department of Primary Education, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece (Part of the studies was conducted by “SOCRATES-ERASMUS” programme at King’s College London, University of London).
• Bachelor’s Degree in Education (B.Ed). Department of Primary Education, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece.
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Scholarships & Awards

• State Scholarships Foundation (IKY)
• Ryoichi Sasakawa Young Leaders Fellowship Fund (SYLFF)
• A. G. Leventis Foundation
• Principal support, King’s College London, University of London
• Socrates-Erasmus programme
• Best Reviewer Award at the 21st IEEE International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies (ICALT 2021).
• Award Committee 2021-2023 – IEEE Technical Committee on Learning Technology (TCLT) https://tc.computer.org/tclt/structure/
• Best Full Paper Award (8th Annual Conference, Immersive Learning Research Network, Vienna, 2022)

Academic experience

Current positions:

• Assistant Professor, Department of Primary Education, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens.
• Collaborating Teaching Staff, Hellenic Open University.

Previous positions:

• Department of Cultural Heritage Management and New Technologies, University of Patras.
• Harokopio University of Athens, Department of Home Economics and Ecology.
• Marasleio Didaskaleio, Department of Primary Education, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens.
• Department of Primary Education, University of Aegean.
• Department of Applied Informatics in Management and Economy (of former TEI of Western Greece).
• Department of Mathematics, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens.

Research interests

• Augmented reality in education
• Wearable technologies in education
• Educational digital games
• Aerial robotics with the use of drones
• Technology Acceptance Models
• Educational software
• Teachers’ professional development and ICT
• Mobile applications for teaching and learning

Subjects Taught

a) Undergraduate programme

• ICT in Education
• Design, Development and Evaluation of Educational Software Ι
• Design, Development and Evaluation of Educational Software ΙΙ
• Emerging technologies in education

 b) Postgraduate programme

• Digital Game Based Learning
• Development of Augmented Reality and Mobile Learning Applications
• Social Computing Applications in Education