Technology Supported Innovations in School Education

Part I - Exploring the use of Digital Technologies in School Education.- Chapter 1 - Digital ethnicity: Social belonging in the internet age.- Chapter 2 - The use of virtual reality at lower secondary schools.- Chapter 3 - Language and electronic medium skills development through autonomous and ideological practices.- Chapter 4 - Technology enhanced learning of motions based on a clustering approach.- Chapter 5-  Comparing face-to-face to online instruction in secondary education - Findings of a repetitive factoral experiment.- Part II - Technology Supported STEM School Education.- Chapter 6 - Coding and computational thinking - using Arduino to acquire problem solving skills.- Chapter 7 - Learning through a "route planner" Human-computer information retrieval for automatic assessment.- Chapter 8 - Orchestrating outdoor location-based learning activities.- Part III- Teachers' Professional Development.- Chapter 9- Online professionallearning communities for developing teachers' digital competences.- Chapter 10 - Experiences of multimodal teaching through a serious game: meanings, practices and discourses.- Chapter 11 - The development of teacher leadership inventory in Malaysian educational context.

Pedro Isaias is an Associate Professor at the Information Systems & Technology Management School of The University of New South Wales (UNSW - Sydney), Australia. Previously he was an Associate Professor at The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia. Before moving to Australia, he was also an Associate Professor at Universidade Aberta (Portuguese Open University) in Lisbon, Portugal, where he was responsible for several courses and director of the master's degree program in Management / MBA. He was also director of the master's degree program in Electronic Commerce and Internet for 10 years. Associate Professor Pedro Isaias holds a PhD in Information Management (in the specialty of information and decision systems) from the New University of Lisbon. Author of several books, book chapters, papers and research reports, all in the information systems area, he has headed several conferences and workshops within the mentioned area. He has also been responsible for the scientific coordination of several EU funded research projects. He is also a member of the editorial board of several journals and program committee member of several conferences and workshops. In the past 20 years, he has developed expertise in Learning Technologies and e-Learning, as part of his roles. Currently, he conducts research activity related to MIS in general and more specifically Learning Technologies, Data Analytics, Business Intelligence, Digital Transformation, e-Business and WWW related areas.
Demetrios Sampson is a Professor of Learning Technologies at the University of Piraeus, Greece. He is the co-author of 350 articles in scientific books, journals, and conferences, and the editor of 17 books, 35 special issues in academic journals and 40 international conference proceedings. He has received 10 times Best Paper Award in International Conferences on Learning Technologies. He has been a Keynote/Invited Speaker in 90 International/National Conferences. He has been director,