Augmented Reality in Education
How has the evolution of technology changed the form of education in recent years? New features and applications are provided to the teacher to design a more interactive and experiential teaching. Augmented Reality is becoming increasingly popular in the pedagogical sciences. Augmented Reality means the interaction of the real world with digital objects and digital […]
Nikos Kaklamanos: The teacher who is an example to follow!
We were delighted to learn about the initiative of our colleague Mr. Fotis Pantopoulos, who -as head of the E-learning Team of the Department of Informatics and Telecommunications of the University of Thessaly, Greece- publicly praised Mr. Nikolaos Kaklamanos for his many years of contribution to education and training of teachers in New Technologies. Mr. […]
Experiential and Interactive Teaching
The teacher plays one of the most important roles in the educational process. His interaction with students entrusts him with the responsibility of adapting the teaching based on the era we are living and the new tools it provides. Education needs a form of teaching that is in line with the demands and new orientations […]
The Best Leaders Are Great Teachers
Kundapur Vaman Kamath was a teacher. But he didn’t work at a school or stand in front of a class. Instead, he delivered his lessons at the office—to the employees who served under him during his four decades as a senior executive at, and then CEO of, India’s ICICI Bank. Whether he was offering tips […]
Communication and Effective Teaching
The previous article in this series examined some important concepts related to ‘teaching’ and ‘learning’. In this article we take a short look at the role of communication in teaching. The article aims to make readers more aware of the importance of communication in teaching, and hopes to give some ideas of how readers can […]
Theories of Learning and Innovation in Didactics
Learning is a particularly important mechanism for the development of every subject and can be defined as a process that allows for the acquisition of new concepts and information, a behavioral modification that supports the change. Throughout history, different perspectives have attempted to describe and define such a complex mechanism: from those more focused on […]
How to Stop Delegating and Start Teaching
As a college professor, I regularly train PhD students. In psychology and most fields of science, students are assigned to a project early on in their studies and learn key skills through an apprenticeship model. Many go on to projects related to more specific research goals, and are eventually taught to design their own studies […]