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Pellas Nikolaos

Biography

Pellas Nikolaos is a Ph.D. Candidate at the Department of Product and Systems Design Engineering, University of the Aegean, in Greece. He obtained a Master's degree in Education with ICT in the field of e-learning with the utilization of virtual worlds in 2010 from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. In 2011 he wrote a research book about the pedagogical added value of virtual environments in the e-learning process in which he seeks a better administration of the organizational complexity between avatars’ interactions with a proposed collaborative “cybernetic” model. Currently, he has begun his dissertation research applying on the configuration and co-manipulation of virtual worlds in e-Education. Learning applications with the learning technique “Jigsaw” and the investigation of engagement factors in association with the users’ presence in virtual communities of inquiry are also in his research field. Apparently, he has an extensive experience οn teaching different disciplines of the e-Education, especially in adult groups and students of the Secondary Education. 

Research Interest

His research interests include the use of ICT in e-Εducation with more emphasis on contemporary instructional formats with open-source virtual worlds as “Metaverse” skins.