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The Future of Innovation and Technology in Education

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Emerald Studies in Higher Education, Innovation and Technology

Series Editors: Miltiadis Lytras and Anna Visvizi

Emerald Studies in Higher Education, Innovation and Technology seeks to provide a multifaceted and interdisciplinary approach to these interconnected topics and invites proposals from all scholars working in these fields. The underlying purpose of this series is to demonstrate how innovations in education, educational technology and teaching can advance research and practice and help us respond to socio-economic changes and challenges.

The series has a broad scope, covering many topics, including but not limited to learning analytics, open and distributed learning, technology-enhanced learning, digital pedagogies, data mining, virtual and augmented realities, cloud computing, social media, educational robotics, flipped classrooms, active learning, innovation networks and many more.

Interested in publishing in this series? Please contact Miltiadis Lytras (mlytras@acg.edu) and Anna Visvizi (avisvizi@acg.edu).

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The Future of Innovation and Technology in Education: Policies and Practices for Teaching and Learning Excellence

Edited By

Anna Visvizi

American College of Greece, Greece

Miltiadis D. Lytras

American College of Greece, Greece

Linda Daniela

University of Latvia, Latvia

United Kingdom – North America – Japan India – Malaysia – China

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About the Authors

Marie-Hélène Abel is a Professor in the Computer Engineering Department, Sorbonne Universités, Université de technology de Compiègne, France. Professor Abel is in charge of the pedagogical specialisation ‘Knowledge Engineering and Information Media’ and her expertise includes knowledge engineering, semantic web, knowledge management and e-learning.

Sulaiman Alqahtani is a PhD candidate at Curtin University, Australia. His research focusses on information systems with an emphasis on the intersection between technology and culture, with a special interest in information systems in relation to security knowledge.

Allaa Barefah is a PhD candidate at RMIT University, Australia. Her research focusses on investigating effective e-Pedagogical practices employed in e-Learning application in the higher education sector. She is interested in the design and measurement of the digital learning environments and the field of learning analytics.

Vladlena Benson is Professor of Cybersecurity at the University of West London, UK and Academic Relations and Research Director at ISACA LC. Professor Benson’s research areas cover information privacy, cyber victimisation, gender and culture differences in online behaviour and digital rights and the cyber vulnerability of young people.

Chien-Chi Chu is an Associate Professor at Shantou University, China. His research interests include Internet finance and fintech regulation, law and finance and education reform of finance in China.

Linda Daniela is Professor, Chair of the Council for Promotion in Pedagogy, Head of the Scientific Institute of Pedagogy at the University of Latvia, Latvia and Expert of Education at the Council of Sciences of the Republic of Latvia, Latvia. Her research interests include virtual education, smart education, educational technologies for learning, educational robotics and solutions for reducing social exclusion from the educational process.

Maria De Marsico is an Associate Professor at Sapienza University, Rome, Italy. Her research interests focus on human–computer interaction, with special focus on multimodal interaction and personalised teaching in distance learning and on biometric systems used for both security and ambient intelligence. She is Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Biometrics Newsletter and Area Editor of the Pattern Recognition Letters journal.

Fragkiskos Filippaios is a Reader in International Business at Kent Business School, University of Kent, UK. Previously he was the International MBA Course Director at Kingston Business School. His research interests focus on the roles of subsidiaries of multinational enterprises, technology in the multinational group, the empirical assessment of foreign direct investment and the impact of cultural and psychic distance on the performance and management of multinational enterprises.

Katarzyna Górak-Sosnowska is an Associate Professor and heads the Middle East Central Asia Unit at the Political Studies Department at the Warsaw School of Economics, Poland. Over the past five years she has also served as the Vice-Dean in Graduate Degree Studies at the university. In 2017 she launched The Dean’s Offices Forum (Forum Dziekanatów), a platform for networking, collaboration and exchange of best practices for dean’s office employees. Her research is mostly focussed on Middle Eastern studies and Islam in Europe.

Calixto Gutiérrez-Braojos is Associate Professor, Department of Research Methods in Education, University of Granada, Spain. He has conducted research at the University of Toronto, Institute for Knowledge Innovation and Technology, University of California-San Diego, Laboratory of Comparative Human Cognition and at the Autonomous University of Barcelona, SINTE Research group. His research interests include research methods, knowledge building pedagogy and high mental functions and environmental education.

Saad Haj Bakry is a Professor at King Saud University, Saudi Arabia, where he has been working since 1980. His work covers a wide scope of issues in the fields of information networks and the development of the knowledge society.

Evi Hatziandreou is Scientific Advisor of DIKTIO: Network for Reform in Greece and Europe. Involved with research and management. Dr Hatziandreou has worked in both the United States and Europe in public and private sectors. Her research interests include European integration, education, and reforms in Greece and Europe.

Antonio Jimeno-Morenilla is a Professor in the Computer Technology and Computation Department at the University of Alicante, Spain. His research interests include computational geometry for design and manufacturing, rapid and virtual prototyping and high-performance computer architectures.

Jari Jussila is a Principal Research Scientist at Häme University of Applied Sciences, Finland. He has 15 years of experience in information technology and management consulting. His research is currently focussed on social media, big social data analytics and health informatics.

Sandra Kalniņa is a Lecturer at the University of Latvia. Her research interests include adult education, critical thinking, educational technologies for learning, educational processes and solutions for including all in the educational processes.

Margarida Lucas is a Researcher at the Research Centre Didactics and Technology in Teacher Education (CIDTFF) at the University of Aveiro, Portugal. Her research interests focus on the use of digital technologies for teaching and learning, particularly on how they can be used to develop digital competence and bridge formal and informal learning.

Miltiadis D. Lytras is Research Professor at Deree College, The American College of Greece, Greece and Visiting Researcher at Effat University, Saudi Arabia. His research explores the broad field defined by education in correlation with cognitive computing, information systems, technology-enabled innovation, social networks, computers in human behaviour and knowledge management.

Ana Eugenia Marín-Jiménez is an Assistant Professor, Department of Quantitative Methods in the Economy and Business, University of Granada, Spain. Her expertise includes both the study of different statistical methods to compare binary diagnostic tests and educational research, especially statistical formation and collaborative learning supported by Information and Communication Technologies.

Yannis Mastrogeorgiou is Director of the K. Karamanlis Institute, Greece and former Director of the Greek think-tank DIKTYO: Network for Reform in Greece and Europe. His research interests include history, international relations and international affairs.

Elspeth McKay is an Associate Professor of Information Systems at RMIT University, Australia. In her research, Professor McKay focusses on designing effective e-Learning resources for the education sector and industry training/re-skilling programmes. Her Australian Research Council’s research project investigated Government e-Training strategies. Her work involves developing specialist e-Learning tools that utilise her Rasch model learning analytics methodology.

Antoni Meseguer-Artola is Associate Professor of Quantitative Methods and a Researcher of the Digital Business Research Group at the Open University of Catalonia (Universitat Oberta de Catalunya), Spain. His current research focusses on users’ behaviour in immersive virtual environments and online education.

Rafael Molina-Carmona is a Researcher at the University Institute for Computing Research and Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence at the University of Alicante, Spain. His research interests include artificial intelligence applied to computer-aided design, manufacture and computer graphics, technology-enhanced learning, video games, gamification and learning analytics.

Jesús Montejo-Gámez is Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematical Education at the University of Granada, Spain. His expertise includes both applied mathematics and educational research, paying special attention to collaborative learning supported by Information and Commnunication Technologies, mathematics teacher formation and mathematical modelling in problem solving, mostly in what concerns to algebraic and functional thinking.

Higinio Mora-Mora is a Professor in the Computer Technology and Computation Department at the University of Alicante, Spain. His areas of research interest include computer modelling, computer architectures, high-performance computing, embedded systems, Internet of things and cloud computing paradigm.

Marc Nagels is a Researcher in the field of education sciences, associated with CREAD, Rennes University, France. His research crosses cognitive social theory, the theory of agency and self-efficacy, with conceptualisation in action. He questions the place of the subject, a strategic subject interacting with his environment.

María Luisa Pertegal-Felices is Assistant Lecturer, Department of Developmental Psychology and Didactics at the University of Alicante, Spain. She has more than 10 years of child guidance experience in public schools. Her research interests include emotional intelligence applied to work performance, investigation of higher education, and development of generic competencies.

Fátima Poza-Vilches is Assistant Professor in the Department of Methods of Research in Diagnosis in Education, University of Granada, Spain. She collaborated in several research projects. Her publications related to educational evaluation in institutional, social and environmental fields have appeared in several journals and edited volumes.

Inma Rodríguez-Ardura is Associate Professor of Marketing and the Director of the Digital Business Research Group at the Open University of Catalonia (Universitat Oberta de Catalunya), Spain. She is also a part-time faculty member at the University of Miami Business School, USA, and Co-Editor of the Journal of Theoretical and Applied Electronic Commerce Research. Her research interests focus on the intersection between online user experience and online education.

Zanda Rubene is Head of Department of Pedagogy, University of Latvia. She is an expert in philosophy of education and serves as expert in education at the Council of Sciences of the Republic of Latvia. Her research concentrates on history and philosophy of education and childhood and published widely in these fields.

Salvador Sanchez-Alonso is Associate Professor and senior member of the Information Engineering group, a research unit of the Computer Science Department at the University of Alcalá, Spain. His current research interests include technology-enhanced learning, web science and block chain technologies.

Filippo Sciarrone is a Fellow Researcher at the Roma Tre University, Italy. He has conducted several projects of industrial concern, particularly in the fields of user modelling and student modelling, and has led several research laboratories of companies for the production of algorithms and innovative systems for human resource management and for teaching-oriented recommendation systems. His research interests are in the design of hybrid architectures, machine learning and systems to support learning and teaching.

Anthi Soulitsioti is a member of the Board of DIKTIO: Network for Reform in Greece and Europe. Her research interests include European integration, education as well as reforms in Greece and Europe.

Andrea Sterbini is a Researcher in the Computer Science Department, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy. His main research interests are in adaptive and personalised e-learning and in modelling peer-assessment through Bayesian networks.

Raimonds Strods is a PhD candidate in Pedagogy and a Researcher at the University of Latvia, Faculty of Education, Psychology and Art. His research interests include digitalisation of education, future teacher’s media competence as well as professional agency of academic staff and media pedagogy in general.

Anu Helena Suominen is a University Teacher at Tampere University of Technology (TUT), Tampere, Finland. Recently, she defended her doctoral thesis on legitimacy building in inter-organisational networks in the Industrial and Information Management Laboratory of TUT. Her research is currently focussed on relationship quality, knowledge sharing and innovation in inter-organisational networks.

Fatiha Tali is Associate Professor, Laboratoire d’Innovation et Numérique pour l’Éducation, Université Nice Sophia Antipolis, France. Her research is in the field of assessment for/of learning with a competence-based approach. Her research focusses on teacher training and the use of digital tools for training, teachers’ professional learning in new hybrid training contexts, including instructional and distance learning.

Marco Temperini is Associate Professor of Computer Science, Department of Computer, Control, and Management Engineering, Sapienza University, Italy. He teaches programming techniques and programming of the web. His research focusses on the theory and technology of web-based distance learning, adaptive e-learning, social and collaborative learning and web-based participatory planning.

Theoni Tsinonis is a senior student at Deree College, the American College of Greece, graduating with a double major in International Business and Marketing Management. Her research interests include innovative education, the Internet of Things, fashion and global business management.

Dries Van De Weghe is professionally involved with Software as a Service and Engineered Systems at Cronos group, Belgium. His research interests include e-learning, social media for educational purposes and innovation driven by cloud solutions.

Anna Visvizi is an Associate Professor at Deree College, The American College of Greece, Greece, and Visiting Researcher at Effat University, Saudi Arabia. Her research focusses on building bridges between the worlds of diplomacy and academia to promote effective policy responses and coherent policy making.

Yves Wautelet is an Assistant Professor in Information Systems at KU Leuven, Belgium, and invited Lecturer at Université de Namur and Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium. His research interests include aspects of software engineering such as requirements engineering, software project management and development life cycles, IT governance and e-learning.

Yenchun Jim Wu is a Distinguished Professor at the National Taiwan Normal University, Taiwan. His research interests include supply chain management, technology management and innovation and entrepreneurship.

Muqiang Zheng is a Professor in the Department of Economics, Shantou University, China. Her research interests focus on e-learning, industry economics and innovation and entrepreneurship.

Acknowledgements

This edited volume reaches the audience at a time ripe with tensions and uncertainties, at a time filled with poignant questions of how to respond effectively to challenges our societies are exposed to on a daily basis. This book suggests that education is the answer. However, this volume argues as well that for education to bear results, dialogue, conversation and critical reflection are needed. This edited volume is an outcome of precisely this process. As researchers, educators, editors, consultants and citizens, we embark on a continuous dialogue, conversation and reflection on the state of education and the ways of improving it for the benefit of the society. Therefore, we are grateful to the contributing authors, by now our colleagues and friends, who responded to our invitation to join this conversation on the role information and communication technology can play in education, especially that the stakes have never been higher. We would like to thank you all for your hard work and for your patience and diligence. We are hopeful that we will be able to continue this discussion in different contexts soon. We are grateful to the publisher and the entire team that dealt with the book content, including the arduous process of typesetting and making the book look as terrific as it does. We appreciate that our ideas concerning the cover had been listened to and dealt with in a beautiful manner. This book required considerable effort on the part of all authors and, us, the editors.

However, this book would not have been possible without one person, Kim Chadwick, the Commissioning Editor – Education, at Emerald Publishing. Kim’s professionalism and ability to look forward, to spot good ideas and kindly reject others have been consequential in the initial stages of this project. Kim’s support and trust in us have motivated us throughout the process. Kim’s smile would place smile on our faces. Dear Kim: thank you for everything you have done for us!

Anna Visvizi, Miltiadis D. Lytras and Linda Daniela

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