Melisidis Konstantinos (Phd Candidate)

Thesis title: An educational approach to teaching programming and computational thinking through augmented reality and gamification

Supervisor: Keramopoulos Efkleidis

Advisory Committee Members:

Panagiotis Adamidis, Professor IHU
Apostolos Ampatzoglou, Assistant Professor, UoM

Abstract:

The scope of the PhD Thesis is the creation of an educationally oriented augmented reality platform, with gamification mechanisms, for teaching pro-gramming and enhancing computational thinking. More specifically, an augmented reality application platform will be implemented, appropriately de-signed according to pedagogical methods, enriched with gamification mech-anisms and technologically oriented to mobile devices for its adoption in a learning environment. Harmonization with modern pedagogical methods will be essential, as will the use of technologies such as AR-LEs, AR-GBL, PBL, and so on. The final goal of the PhD thesis implementation is expected to be particularly useful for the acquisition of computational thinking as a necessary 21st-century skill, as well as for learning programming.