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EdTech blog by Alexander Mikroyannidis

25 July 201224 February 2019Technology-Enhanced Learning

International Workshop on Cloud Education Environments

Alexander Mikroyannidis is co-organising an international workshop on Cloud Education Environments, on November 15-16 in Antigua Guatemala. The workshop will focus on […]

7 June 201224 February 2019Technology-Enhanced Learning

The 4th ROLE Widget Enchantment Contest is now open

Do you have a cool idea about a learning widget or app that you would like to build? Submit it to the 4th […]

1 June 201224 May 2020Technology-Enhanced Learning

Build your Responsive Open Learning Environment – Workshop at the PLE conference

Would you like to learn about widgets and how you can build your personalised learning environment with them? Would you like to […]

28 May 201224 February 2019Technology-Enhanced Learning

Build your Personal Learning Environment

ROLE project partners delivered a number of sessions in last week’s JTEL Summer School in Estoril, Portugal. Alexander Mikroyannidis delivered a workshop […]

18 April 201224 February 2019Technology-Enhanced Learning

How can I become a self-regulated learner?

If you’d like to learn more about Self-Regulated Learning (SRL) and how you can become a self-regulated learner, visit the new SRL course in OpenLearn. […]

20 October 201124 February 2019Technology-Enhanced Learning

Free online course about Responsive Open Learning Environments

What is a widget? What is a Personal Learning Environment? How can I start building my own Personal Learning Environment? If you’d […]

14 April 201124 May 2020Semantic Web, Technology-Enhanced Learning

Linked Data at the Open University and the ROLE project

The Open University and the Lucero project have recently launched data.open.ac.uk, an RDF repository of metadata from Open University datasets, such as […]

Professional biography

Dr. Alexander Mikroyannidis is a Senior Research Fellow (Associate Professor) in the Knowledge Media Institute of The Open University, UK. He holds a Ph.D. in Informatics from Manchester Business School, an M.Phil. in Computation from the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology (UMIST), and a B.Eng. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Patras, Greece.

Research interests

Dr. Mikroyannidis has more than 10 years of research experience in the field of Technology-Enhanced Learning and specifically in personalised learning, self-regulated learning, lifelong learning, open educational resources and rich interactive learning materials, as well as applications of blockchain technology and decentralisation in education. He is the author of over 120 articles that have been published in peer-reviewed journals, conferences and books and have received over 1,500 citations according to Google Scholar.

Teaching interests

Dr. Mikroyannidis has extensive experience in developing Open Educational Resources (OERs), Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs), Badged Open Courses (BOCs) for OpenLearn and OpenLearn Create, as well as rich interactive learning materials as eBooks published in the OU’s iTunes channel. Some highlights from this work are the following:

Impact and engagement

The work of Dr. Mikroyannidis has led to strategic partnerships with key technological companies, most notably with Cisco and its global educational network, the Cisco Networking Academy, which has over 1 million students worldwide. Within this partnership, Dr. Mikroyannidis is in charge of the design, development and deployment of PT Anywhere, a novel educational tool for teaching computer networking skills by performing network simulations on any device. PT Anywhere has played a vital role in remote teaching and learning during the COVID-19 pandemic, and has been featured in the UK government’s Digital Skills Toolkit, which is offering essential digital skills to job seekers.

Dr. Mikroyannidis has recently led a succesful pilot for facilitating lifelong learning using blockchain technologies, in the context of the QualiChain Horizon 2020 project. In particular, he has been in charge of deploying and evaluating decentralised education and employment qualifications with learners and educators within various lifelong learning contexts. The results of this pilot have provided valuable insights into the different aspects of lifelong learning that require support, as well as into the guidance and training needs of the education community related to the use of decentralisation technologies.

External collaborations

Dr. Mikroyannidis has been driving significant educational technology initiatives at an international level, by establishing a network of collaborators inside and outside the Open University and acquiring external funding, in order to implement and evaluate novel educational solutions in real-life settings and with real users. He has been awarded and worked on a wide range of European and nationally funded research projects, including QualiChain, DEL4ALL, OpenLang Network, Open Networking Lab, Institute of Coding, SlideWiki, EDSA, HUB4NGI, FORGE, weSPOT, EUCLID, ROLE, OpenScout, CASPAR, and PARMENIDES.