Tag: umi-sci-ed

  • Participation to NKUL2019

    Participation to NKUL2019

    UMI-Sci-ed, Excited, and TILES have joined forces to present their research results at NKUL, the conference that brings together teachers, school managers, policy makers, and educational technology companies. Thank you to the organizers of the NKUL conference who have given us the possibility to have a stand at the 3-day conference and organize a special…

  • Dr. Mavrommati visiting NTNU

    Dr. Mavrommati visiting NTNU

    In the context of an Erasmus+ agreement with Open Hellenic University we had the pleasure to host Dr. Irene Mavrommati. While visiting NTNU she gave an interesting talk on IoT sensing for STEM Education & environmental awareness, something very relevant for the work we are doing in schools in the context of Excited. It was interesting…

  • Happy to be joining ALL DIGITAL

    Happy to be joining ALL DIGITAL

    Excited has recently joined ALL DIGITAL, a Pan-European association aiming at promoting digital skills. Prof. Divitini attended the ALL DIGITAL general assembly in May and presented Excited as a new member. This follows our involvement in the European project UMI-Sci-Ed and it will give us the possibility to bring forward this work also now that…

  • 2-days Programming workshop at the main library

    2-days Programming workshop at the main library

    Join us for 2-days of creative and engaging activities with programming. Read more and register!

  • Join as in Kyoto for UMIQUE2019

    Join as in Kyoto for UMIQUE2019

    UMI technologies combine Ubiquitous computing, Mobile computing, Internet of Things. They are affecting our personal lives, our professional environments, our social activity, our citizenshipt. Are we ready to exploit the full potential and avoid the risks posed by UMI technologies? How can we prepare the knowledgeable, capable, and consequently, active citizens of tomorrow? What could…

  • Designing games for privacy

    Designing games for privacy

      Congratulation to Dag, Erlend, and Torjus! Their work during specialisation and master projects has been summarised into an article that has been accepted for publication at 21th International Conference on Interactive Collaborative Learning. The paper will appear in the proceedings of the conference by Springer. Well done 🙂 ABSTRACT Supporting the co-design of games for…

  • Best paper award

    Best paper award

    Our paper Mavroudi, A., M. Divitini, Gianni, F., Mora, S., and  D. R. Kvittem (2018). Designing IoT applications in lower secondary schools. 2018 IEEE Global Engineering Education Conference (EDUCON), IEEE Press was presented at EDUCON2018 by Anna Mavroudi and won the BEST PAPER AWARD! Well done 🙂

  • ANYBOARD goes to school

    ANYBOARD goes to school

    Learning Internet of Things (IoT) by designing interactive board games? ANYBOARD, a platform for the design of interactive board games has been recently used to create engaging and fun learning experiences. By joining forces with the UMI-Sci-Ed project, ANYBOARD researchers have been able to integrate the research platform into an educational scenario, defining  relevant learning objectives, related activities, and supporting…

  • Summer jobs for students at IDI

    Summer jobs for students at IDI

    come and work with us this summer. Application deadline: 04.05.2018 – Read more…

  • Anna Mavroudi attending ECTEL conference in Tallin

    Anna Mavroudi attending ECTEL conference in Tallin

    Anna is presenting the poster with our initial work on career consultancy in STEM education at ECTEL, the European Conference on Technology Enhanced Learning. Career consultancy is an important but often downplayed aspect in technology-enhanced learning systems designed for students. In our work we started by identifying career consultancy services for STEM and co-designing services…