Zalavra Eleni

    PhD Candidate

  ezalavra@uniwa.gr

Secondary Education

        Teacher

   zalavra@sch.gr

   Athens, Greece

STUDIES

Dissertations

Foreign Languages

English, C2 level (Michigan Proficiency), 2014

CERTIFICATIONS

EMPLOYMENT - PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

2003 - now, 3rd General High School of Galatsi, Athens Directorate of Education

2001 - 2003, General High School of Tithorea, Fthiotida Directorate of Education

Experience:

- management and maintenance of the school's IT Laboratory

- teaching courses of Computer Science

- grading the subject of computer Science at the Panhellenic examinations

- creation and maintenance of the school's website

- trainer for 447 hours at the program: "Teachers education for integrating ICT in the teaching process" (Greek teachers' A level training)

- Assistant trainer / Technician for 594 hours at the program: "Teachers education for the utilization and implementation of ICT in the teaching process" (Greek teacher's B level Training)

Participation and Coordination of European school partnerships with schools from: Netherlands, England, France, Germany, Spain, Italy, Croatia, Lithuania, Sweden, Hungary, Poland, Portugal, Romania and Turkey. Specifically:

2019-2022, Coordinator in the Erasmus+ project (KA2) "Roots & Roads"

2017-2019, Participant in the Erasmus+ project (KA2) "Migration Matters"

2015-2017, Coordinator in the Erasmus+ project (KA2) "APPLES - Applying Practices for Productive Learning of Entrepreneurial Skills".

2012-2014, Coordinator in the Comenius project "Wine: an European asset"

2009-2011, Participant in the Comenius project "Nous ecrivons notre Historie commune".

2004-2007, Participant in the Socrates-Comenius project "Four elements of environment".

Experience:

- Administrative organization of the ICT Department

- Monitor and implementation of the budget for company's ICT infrastructure

- Design and implementation of IT projects for the development of the company's information systems

- Implementation and maintenance of internal procedures and regulations for the operation, use and support of the company's ICT infrastructure

- Installation, maintenance and evaluation of computer applications of stock market - data and services.

- Monitor and compliance of the company's information systems for security threats and policies.

- Organization and implementation of HelpDesk service for the ICT support of the company's users.

- Installation and maintenance of information systems based on the Novell Netware, Microsoft network (NT server) and Sco Openserver 5.

- Installation and maintenance of components of Ethernet Networks

-  Subcontracted Systems Engineer and IT Helpdesk supporting the information systems of the factory of the company Aluminum of Greece at Aspra Spitia, Viotia.

- Installation and maintenance of information systems based on Novell Netware and Sco Unix.

- Participation in the European program TELEMATIQUE I, in the projects: a) Realization of the interconnection of Greek Museums for the ethnographic decentralization, b) Development of an information center of the General Confederation of Greek Workers, and c) Development of an information center for the PanHellenic Woodworking Craftsmen.

- Participation in the project of the Greek Ministry of Finance for the installation and maintenance of an information system for the 13 provinces of the country.

COMPUTER SKILLS

EXTRA ACTIVITIES

- Coordination of the humanitarian effort of the 3rd General High School of Galatsi in sponsoring a child from Nepal through ActionAid from 2007 until today. Participation in a spot of ActionAid for child sponsorship.

- Volunteer in the ATHENS 2004 Olympic Games as Technology Helpdesk venue coordinator at the Peace and Friendship Stadium

RESEARCH PROFILE

Orcid         Scopus        Google scholar        ResearchGate            

Research interests:

Learning Design, Learning Design Environments, Teacher Communities, Computer Supported Collaborative Learning, Teacher Training.

Publications in scientific journals:

Papanikolaou, K., Makri, K., Sofos, I., Tzelepi, M., & Zalavra, E. (2022). Putting TPACK into action in learning design: The case of PeerLAND. Australasian Journal of Educational Technology, 53-74. https://doi.org/10.14742/ajet.7556

Zalavra, E., Papanikolaou, K., Dimitriadis, Y. et al. (2022). Representing learning designs in a design support tool. Educ Inf Technol. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10639-022-11441-6

Zalavra, E., Papanikolaou, K. (2022). A wiki-based framework for collaborative learning design in teacher education. Educ Inf Technol . https://doi.org/10.1007/s10639-021-10874-9

Zalavra, E., & Makri, K. (2022). Relocating Online a Technology-Enhanced Microteaching Practice in Teacher Education: Challenges and Implications. Electronic Journal of e-Learning, 20 (3), https://doi.org/10.34190/ejel.20.3.2180

Zalavra, E., & Papanikolaou, K. (2019). Exploring the Potential of the Learning Designer as a Teacher Support Tool. Electronic Journal of e-Learning, 17(2). https://doi.org/10.34190/JEL.17.2.04 

Moundridou, M., Zalavra, E., Papanikolaou, K., & Tripiniotis, A. (2019). Collaboratively Developing Open Educational Resources for Engineering Educators in SlideWiki. International Journal of Engineering Pedagogy, 9(2), 99-116. https://doi.org/10.3991/ijep.v9i2.9959 

Publications in conferences:

E. Zalavra, K. Papanikolaou, Y. Dimitriadis and C. Sgouropoulou, "Personalising learning: towards a coherent learning design framework," 2022 International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies (ICALT), Bucharest, Romania, 2022, pp. 77-79, https://doi.org/10.1109/ICALT55010.2022.00030

Zalavra, E., Papanikolaou, K., Dimitriadis, Y., & Sgouropoulou, C. (2021, November). Teachers' perceptions of learning design recommendations. In 2021 19th International Conference on Information Technology Based Higher Education and Training (ITHET) (pp. 1-8). IEEE.  https://doi.org/10.1109/ITHET50392.2021.9759609

Zalavra, E., Papanikolaou, K., Dimitriadis, Y., & Sgouropoulou, C. (2021). Exploring Teachers' Needs for Guidance While Designing for Technology-Enhanced Learning with Digital Tools. In Lecture Notes in Computer Science  (Vol. 12884 LNCS, pp. 358-362). Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-86436-1_35

Zalavra, E., Papanikolaou, K., Makri, K., Michos, K., & Hernandez-Leo, D. (2019, June). Exploiting Peer Review in Microteaching Through the Ld-Feedback App in Teacher Education. In International Conference in Methodologies and intelligent Systems for Techhnology Enhanced Learning (pp. 139-147). Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-23884-1_18

Zalavra, E., & Papanikolaou, K. (2018, November). Supporting the Learning Design Process: Insights Into Pre-Service Teachers' Perceptions. In European Conference on e-Learning (pp. 620-629). Academic Conferences International Limited.

Moundridou, M., Zalavra, E., Papanikolaou, K., & Tripiniotis, A. (2018, September). In: Auer M., Tsiatsos T. (eds) The Challenges of the Digital Transformation in Education. ICL 2018. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 916. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-11932-4_21 

Ζαλαβρά, Ε. και Παπανικολάου, Κ. Το wiki ως περιβάλλον ηλεκτρονικής μάθησης υποψήφιων εκπαιδευτικών. Στο: Κ. Παπανικολάου, Α. Γόγουλου, Δ. Ζυμπίδης, Α. Λαδιάς, Ι. Τζωρτζάκης, Θ. Μπράτιτσης, Χ. Παναγιωτακόπουλος (επιμ.), Πρακτικά Εργασιών 5ου Πανελλήνιου Συνεδρίου "Ένταξη και Χρήση των ΤΠΕ στην Εκπαιδευτική Διαδικασία", σ. 310-319, Ανώτατη Σχολή ΠΑΙδαγωγικής & Τεχνολογικής Εκπαίδευσης, 21-23 Απριλίου 2017.

Ζαλαβρά, Ε., Παπανικολάου, Κ. Το wiki ως Συνεργατικό Περιβάλλον Σχεδιασμού Εκπαιδευτικών Σεναρίων. Στο: Β.Δαγδιλέλης, Α. Λαδιάς, Κ. Μπίκος, Ε. Ντρενογιάννη, Μ. Τσιτουρίδου (επιμ.), Πρακτικά Εργασιών 4ου Πανελλήνιου Συνεδρίου "Ένταξη των ΤΠΕ στην Εκπαιδευτική Διαδικασία" της Ελληνικής Επιστημονικής Ένωσης ΤΠΕ στην Εκπαίδευση (ΕΤΠΕ), Αριστοτέλειο Πανεπιστήμιο Θεσσαλονίκης & Πανεπιστήμιο Μακεδονίας, Θεσσαλονίκη, 30/10/2015- 1/11/2015. 

Participation in Research Programs:

2022- Erasmus+ project in Higher Education: FERTILE (

2018:  Research project "SlideWiki for collaborative learning design" aiming to explore the usability and dynamics of SlideWiki in supporting collaboration in developing open educational content. Project carried out by ASPETE as subcontractor of the SlideWiki EU project - EU ICT-20-2015, Horizon 2020 Project under Grant Agreement No 688095  via its partner: ATHINA research center (Greece).