CV

Education

• B.S. in Informatics, Athens University of Economics and Business, Department of Informatics, 1992
• Degree in Pedagogical Studies, Department of Graduate Students, School Of Pedagogical and Educational Education, 1993
• M.S. in Informatics, Ionian University, 2013
• Ph.D in Computing Education: A Video-game making approach in Science Education: Exploring Computational Thinking Skills Development and Student Motivation, Ionian University, Department of Informatics, 2017

Work experience

• December 1991 - November 1992
  • Programming Experience in a Shipping Company
• September 1993 - September 2021
  • Teaching Computing and ICT in Secondary Education
• Winter Semester 2017: Teaching the “Interaction Design” Course
  • Ionian University, Department of Informatics
  • Duties included: workshops
  • Supervisor: Konstantinos Chorianopoulos
• Spring Semester 2018: Teaching the “Moble and Social Media” Course
  • Ionian University, Department of Informatics
  • Duties included: Lectures; Workshops;
• March 2020 - June 2021: Post Doc Researcher
  • Ionian University, Department of Informatics
  • Duties included: Researcher
  • Supervisor: Konstantinos Chorianopoulos
• September 2021: EDIP (Laboratory Teaching) Multimedia Applications and Video Games
  • Department of Audio and Visual Arts
  • Ionian University

Skills

• Video Games (Design and Programming)
• Serious Games
• “Game Making” for Learning
• Multimedia Applications
• Computing Education

Publications

Learning by playing and learning by making

Instructional media and teaching methods for engaging children with computer programming

Computing education in K-12 schools: A review of the literature

Serious game development as a creative learning experience: lessons learnt

Serious games as a malleable learning medium: The effects of narrative, gameplay, and making on students’ performance and attitudes

Programming video games and simulations in science education: exploring computational thinking through code analysis

Integrating Science Tasks and Puzzles in Computer Role Playing Games

Adapting a Classic Platform Video Game to the Carbohydrate Counting Method for Insulin-Dependent Diabetics

Designing a 2D Platform Game with Mathematics Curriculum

The effects of video game making within science content on student computational thinking skills and performance

Game Mechanics of a Character Progression Multiplayer Role-Playing Game with Science Content

Designing Multiplayer Serious Games with Science Content

Programming Human-Robot Interactions for Teaching Robotics within a Collaborative Learning Open Space: Robots Playing Capture the Flag Game - Programming Human-Robot Interactions within a Collaborative Learning Open Space

Employing Social Interactions of Multiplayer Role-Playing Games in a Serious Game Employing Social Interactions of Multiplayer Role-Playing Games in a Serious Game. The Case of maSters of AIR (SAIR)

Covid-19 Survivor: Design and Evaluation of a Game to Improve Students’ Experience During Social Isolation

Talks

Serious game development as a creative learning experience: lessons learnt

May 18, 2015

Paper presentation at 4th Fourth International Workshop on Games and Software Engineering, Firenze, Italy

Serious Games in Education

September 29, 2018

Summer School Talk at Educational Technologies, Ionian University, Department of Informatics, Summer School, September 2018, Corfu, Greece

Adapting a Classic Platform Video Game to the Carbohydrate Counting Method for Insulin-Dependent Diabetics

September 26, 2019

Paper presentation at 5th EAI International Conference on Smart Objects and Technologies for Social Good, Valencia, Spain

Designing a 2D Platform Game with Mathematics Curriculum

November 28, 2019

Paper presentation at 8th International Conference, GALA 2019, Athens, Greece, November 27–29, 2019, Proceedings, Athens, Greece

Teaching

Interaction Design

Mobile and Social Media

Serious Games in Education

Service and leadership