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A community building event for project ICT-INOV: Modernizing ICT Education for Harvesting Innovation took place in Greece in the context of the EESTech 2023 Challenge on March 18, 2023. EESTech Challenge is a yearly competition for European university students/graduates with the aim to gain knowledge in the field of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and expand their professional networks. The competition consists of several local rounds organized by EESTEC branches in different European cities and the Final Round where the winners of the local rounds will compete with each other. The event was organized in Athens at the National Technical University. The EESTech challenge was a good opportunity for community building as it enabled reaching wide student audiences, academics, and industry members from several universities or other stakeholders throughout Greeece. The…

The 4th consortium meeting of project ICT-INOV: Modernizing ICT education for harvesting innovation took place in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam on April 3 - 5, 2023 see more

A dual piloting and instructor training event took place on March 27, 2023. During the event, 40 students and 14 teachers of the Specical Education Vocational High School of Nea Ionia visited the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering of the University of Thessaly. The students and teachers became aware of project INCLUDEME objectives, activities, and outcomes. They experienced the full functionality of the INCLUDEME digital learning platform for inclusive education, including functionality that facilitates access to the project educational content to individuals with disabilities. In addition, the participants engaged into a series of exercises developed through the INCLUDEME digital learning platform using H5P tools. The exercises were based on interactive puzzles, quizzes, pattern matching, knowledge, and interactive video and helped build knowlede and skills related to language education, critical…

ICT-INOV was promoted in a community building event that took place in the context of the EESTech Student Challenge, a yearly competition in the form of a hackathon, that took place at the National Technical University of Athens see more

The collaborative educative platform for the project DigiMat: Excellence for digital education in materials engineering released its first version. You can find it here: https://digimat.e-ce.uth.gr/

A 2nd multiplier event was organized on February 2, 2023 for project VIE in the computer lab of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering of the University of Thessaly. The event was attended by over 30 students of IEK Dimitra, accompanied by their teachers see more

Project VIE develops digital collaboration tools for hybrid learning. Through these tools, the project aims to support the flexibility necessary in learning design that has emerged in the COVID-19 pandemic. More specifically, the tools aim to support the smooth transition of learning delivery from in-class to virtual models and back, as well as hybrid learning scenarios, without disruption. The digital tools developed in the project complement existing educational content management services, which typically support content sharing, exams (both multiple choice and open text), announcements, and the submission of student projects. The VIE tools provide collaboration capabilities that are typically not available in traditional learning management systems. On January 17, 2023 a multiplier event took place at the Department of Product and Services Design of the University of the Aegean, which is…

The Creative Technologies Learning Lab of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering of the University of Thessaly (DECE) in collaboration with the Regional Authorities of Educational Planning of Thessaly co-organized an event on the importance of innovation skills for a green economy. The event was aimed at vocational students and teachers and was attended by 33 students at the 2nd Evening Vocational High School of Volos. It took place at the DECE Computer Lab at the intersection of Sekeri and Heyden Streets in Volos on Thursday, December 9, 2022.  The event was a continuation of previous related activity that engaged students at the 4th Evening Vocational High School of Volos. The event aimed to encourage innovative thinking on green production practices in the context of vocational education. Participants worked…

The Creative Technologies Learning Lab research group (http://ctll.e-ce.uth.gr) of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering of the University of Thessaly (DECE) presented research project  ICT-INOV: Modernizing ICT Education for Harvesting Innovation (http://ictinov- project. eu) to educators of the Hellenic Open University.  The research project aims to encourage innovative thinking in Computer Science through design thinking and gamification.  The presentation took place on December 9, 2022 via the internet. 18 individuals participated in the event. The audience became familiar with the process of design thinking, a deeply anthropocentric method for designing solutions to difficult problems of entrepreneurship and social entrepreneurship through a process of empathy that contributes to a better understanding of the true dimensions of a problem, giving through a perspective that considers both the functional and emotional needs…

The Creative Technologies Learning Lab research team of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering of the University of Thessaly (http://cttl.e-ce.uth.gr) organized instructor training on the design and deployment of learning activities that address the needs of individuals at risk of exclusion. The event was attended by 15 vocational education teachers from the 2nd Evening Vocational Lyceum of Volos. The event took place at the computer lab of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering on Thursday, December 1, 2022 see more