Advanced Technologies and Standards for Interactive Educational Television: Emerging Research and Opportunities: Emerging Research and Opportunities

Politis, Dionysios · Stagiopoulos, Petros · Aleksić, Veljko

Oct 2019 · IGI Global

About this ebook

Educational TV in the post-war years was a cornerstone for delivering high-quality knowledge over a geographically-dispersed and culturally-segregated public. As de facto massive learning, virtual environments have been shaped by both open university initiatives and corporate courseware activities. The educational technology institutes seek a new paradigm for delivering instruction and simultaneously expanding higher education.

Advanced Technologies and Standards for Interactive Educational Television: Emerging Research and Opportunities is a critical scholarly publication that examines the concept of promoting learning through mass communication through the use of extended augmentation and visualization interaction methodologies and the deployment of wide-area collaborative practices. Featuring a range of topics such as gamification, mobile technology, and digital pedagogy, this book is ideal for communications specialists, media producers, audiovisual engineers, broadcasters, computer programmers, legal experts, STEM educators, professors, teachers, academicians, researchers, policymakers, and students.

About the author

Dionysios Politis is a lecturer of the Multimedia Lab, in the Department of Informatics, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. He has earned his BS in Physics (1987), MSc in radio engineering and electronics (1990), and PhD in computer science (1998) from the same university. He is a holder of a graduate diploma in computing studies (1991) from RMIT University as a scholar of the Australian government.

He has been a collaborator of the Centre of International and European Economic Law (1992-2002) and has participated in various computer law projects, mainly focusing on the pre-accession route of South Eastern Europe countries to EU integration. His research interests focus on multimedia reconstructions and visualizations, mainly with an e-learning orientation. He has edited, published or presented more than 60 books, chapters in books, journals, magazines, newspapers, radio-television emissions and international conferences.

Petros Stagiopoulos is a Counsellor-supervisor for the Special Education Schools of Thessaloniki. He has studied Pedagogics (BS in 1981) and Special Education (MSc, 1999). His second graduate diploma was on the Psychoeducation of Children with Special Needs (2003). He received his PhD from the Medical School of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki in 2016, focussing on speech and language development in children with profound prelingual sensory-neural hearing loss.

Veljko Aleksić, PhD is an Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Technical Sciences Čačak, University of Kragujevac. He holds a PhD in Teaching methods in life sciences, mathematics and computer science. Veljko was and is a member of various expert teams and workgroups at the Ministry of Education, Science and Technological Development of the Republic of Serbia. He participated in the development and implementation of several subject curricula and educational standards in Serbian primary, secondary, vocational and adult education. He is the Guest Teacher at Faculty of Pedagogy in Užice, University of Kragujevac. His research interests include Educational Technology, Digital Games, Computer Simulations, Teacher Training, Game-Based Learning and Multimedia. Veljko is the author and co-author of more than 60 journal articles and conference papers, and seven handbooks and textbooks. He finds problem-solving challenging and deems participating in discussions and sharing experiences invaluable. Veljko believes in creativity and teamwork.

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