User:Nikos Zygouritsas

Nikos Zygouritsas, born in Piraeus in 1972, graduated from the National University of Athens, Department of Education Sciences. He was awarded a Master’s Degree in Educational Technology from the Université Libre de Bruxelles. He worked as a researcher in the Department of Educational Technology in Université Libre de Bruxelles and as an assistant for the on-line courses in Mons University (Educational Technology Unit). For three years he worked as an ICT teacher in the European School of Brussels III. Since 2003, he works as a senior researcher for the Lambrakis-Foundation in the domain of education research and technologies. He participates in various projects for the application of new technologies in various educational settings, e-learning and teacher training. He is also content and development manager of www.e-paideia.net, the foundation’s educational portal. His main interests and activities are: 1) educational design of e-learning systems, 2) research on learning objects, metadata and educational repositories, 3) research on games and education, 4) early childhood education, 5) action research in e-inclusion, 6) digital gap and 7) teacher training, skills and competencies.