Research
During the last years I have participated in several and multidipliscinary projects as an ICT and TELL/CALL expert collaborating with various affliliations.
CURRENT AFFILIATIONS:
Dates: 1/11/2014-Currently
Name and address of employer:
Muntaner 262, 08021 Barcelona, (Spain)
Phone: (34) 93.367.04.00
Fax: (34) 93.414.62.38
Type of business or sector:
International Private Company of Research and Education
Occupation or position held: Project coordinator, Educational Design Consultant, ICT Researcher
Main activities and responsibilities:
Project: Education in the Digital Era,
Client: European Comission-DG EAC,
Business Unit: Online Solutions
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Coordinator of the "Education in the Digital Era" online animators' team.
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Presenter of the online activities in the Education in the Digital Era conference.
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Coordinator of the #EdDigEra team's post activities (Webinars, blogposts, interviews,workshops etc.)
Project: Open Education Europa Portal
Client: European Comission-DG EAC,
Business Unit: Online Solutions
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OEE Editorial Team Member: Learning Technologist Consultant of the Open Education Europa Portal. (Content, publications, dissemination strategy, interviews, contacts, workshops etc)
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Elearning papers Online Journal: Consultant, reviewer, Manager of the Elearning papers Linkedin group .
Dates: 22/10/2014-Currently
Name and address of employer:
University of Macedonia
156 Egnatia Avenue
Thessaloniki 54006
GreeceThessaloniki 56445 (Greece)
Type of business or sector:
Higher Education
Occupation or position held: Researcher
Main activities and responsibilities:
1. Research on MOOCs
2. Greek Member of the Management Committee at the following COST Actions:
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IS1404 | Evolution of reading in the age of digitisation (E-READ) | 28 November 2014 - 27 November 2018.
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Public Relations Manager: Social networking,publications, dissemination etc.
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S1401 | Strengthening Europeans' capabilities by establishing the European literacy network | 22 October 2014 - 13 May 2018
Dates: 12/2014 - Currently
Name and address of employer:
25, Xenofontos , Sapes 69300,
Anatoliki Makedonia, Thraki, (Greece)
Type of business or sector:
NGO with focus on Research, Training and Education
Occupation or position held: Researcher/Trainer
Main activities and responsibilities:
Project: LangMOOC project, ERASMUS+
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Member of the Project manager's team.
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Scientific coordinator
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Head Scientific Reseacher: coordinates all the Intellectual Outputs and the implementation activities that will be delivered during the 2 years project lifetime.
PAST AFFILIATIONS
Dates: 2009-2014
Name and address of employer:
Pontydysgu Ltd. (Bridge to Learning)
5, Courthouse, CF372LB Pontypridd (United Kingdom)
Type of business or sector:
Independent research and development organisation
Occupation or position held: Researcher/Trainer
Main activities and responsibilities:
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Responsible researcher for the 'Webquest for HRM' project.
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Author of the CBL Methodology,
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Author of the CBL Manual
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Workshops' organiser: On line/ F2F Trainer of professional trainers of HRM on TEL, Blended Learning & Work based Learning topics focused on skills based on labour market needs
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Author of articles related to TEL, Blended Learning & Work based Learning topics, keynote speaker, presenter of the project's research work in several International TEL conferences
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Author of EU project proposals
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Collaborator in other EU projects and Web 2.0 facilitator in international and European stakeholders’ meetings for example: Member of the Media Support Team of the European Conference on Educational Research, ECER 2009, ECER 2010
Responsibilities:
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Keynote speakers' Interviewer
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Internet Radio co-presenter/producer
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Co-developer of media material
Dates: 01/03/2011 - 31/05/2012
Name and address of employer:
‘Attiko’ Vocational Training Center
5, Roma, 10673 Athens (Greece)
Type of business or sector:
Vocational Training Center
Occupation or position held: Researcher
Main activities and responsibilities:
Work at the ‘Social Mobile Network to Enhance Community Building for adults’_SoMobNet': Informal Learning Project funded by EU.
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Co-organise the International SoMobNet roundtable at the Institute of Education in London (UK) and have the role of the reporteur.
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Support and disseminate the roundtable via facebook and other web 2.0 services.
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Organise a desk top research using diigo and create folksonomies related to the following topics: Mobile Learning, Informal learning Community building, Adults' Learning,Work Based Learning,VET, Social tools and emerging technologies (methodologies/practices/apps/devices).
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Review papers for the BJET – Special Issue on Social Networking and Mobile Learning.
Dates: 16/01/2012-16/01/2013
Name and address of employer:
10, Kritis, Thessaloniki 56445 (Greece)
Type of business or sector:
Independent research and ICT consultancy company
Occupation or position held: Project manager assistant /Researcher/Trainer
Main activities and responsibilities:
1. Develop and mantain the company's website http://web2learn.eu/
2. Work at the “Web2LLP project” - Improving web strategies and maximizing social media presence of LLP projects having the role of :
a. project manager assistant
b. co-author of web2llp TEL handbooks and developer of multimedia training material
c. co-organiser of online training courses
d. Workshop organiser at TEL events (JTELSS13)
Dates:
1/08/2012-31/10/2012
Name and address of employer:
University of Luxembourg,
162a, avenue de la Faïencerie
L-1511 Luxembourg
Type of business or sector:
Higher Education
Occupation or position held:
Researcher/External Evaluator
Main activities and responsibilities:
Evaluate the “LANGUAGE LEARNING AND SOCIAL MEDIA – 6 Key dialogues” 3 years LLP KA2 EU project, 505107-LLP-1-2009-1-LU-KA2-KA2NW
-screening all completed deliverables;
-screening all deliverables from the progress report until the end of the project;
-screening the progress report itself;
-drafting the final report;
-communication with the project management team throughout the project finalization.
Dates: 01/07/2010 - 15/09/2010
Name and address of employer:
17 Grammou, 15235 Vrilissia
Athens (Greece)
Type of business or sector:
An SME specializing in knowledge management practices and services, promoting research and innovation in the agricultural domain.
Occupation or position held:
CALL Trainer (External collaborator)
Main activities and responsibilities:
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Work at the "LaProf Project": This is a Multilateral Project that aims to promote language awareness to immigrating workforces in ICT & agriculture.
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Co organise and have the role of the head-trainer at the LaProf summer school on Integrating e-Learning and Web 2.0 into Language Teaching. My Presentations 1, 2 , LaProf Summer School
More info about the LaProf project and the deliverables.