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New Publication Alert: “Evaluating Interaction Techniques in XR Environments Through the Prism of Four EduGames”
Interested in exploring how XR can enhance teaching and learning? Our latest research article delves into the dynamic world of Extended Reality (XR) and its transformative potential in education. This study offers a comprehensive evaluation of various interaction...
Great scientific recognition for NILE LAB as member of the #INVITE project!
We are thrilled to announce that the paper entitled "Designing an Online Training Module to Develop Virtual and Blended International Modalities in Higher Education" has been...
SAVE THE DATE! INVITE Multiplier Event – 23 January 2025
We are pleased to invite you to participate in the last Multiplier Event of the Erasmus+ project INVITE - Developing Competencies for New Virtual and Blended Modalities of...
WaterWays Project Meeting in Sitia
During the week we had the chance to meet with our partners for the WaterWays project, funded by Interreg, in Sitia. During the meeting we had fruitful conversations that will feed the future development of the project, but also presentations of work already done and...
Two New Chapters Published!
Today we joyfully announce the publication of the book on The Digital Folklore of Cyberculture and Digital Humanities, by Stamatis Papadakis (University of Crete, Greece) and Alexandros Kapaniaris (Hellenic Open University, Greece), in which 2 chapters are contributed...
Speech at the Foreign language education day 2022
Today Dr. Vidakis is proudly giving a speech at the Foreign language education day 2022, located at Galaxy Hotel, in Heraklion. Hope to see you there!
Participation in Educational Interest round table
During the 4th Panhellenic Scientific Conference on The Transformation of the school in the 21st century, Dr. Nikolaos Vidakis, representing our laboratory, partook in the round table on the topic "Teaching European values through Eramsus+: Democracy and Inclusion,...
New NILE Lab Promo Video
We proudly present a new promo video for our lab!
Recycle Game Presentation
Today we presented our serious game about recycling to a class of Master Students at Hellenic Mediterranean University. We discussed topics such as Game Based Learning, Learning Analytics, and Technical details of creating games for different platforms. A very...
NILE Participation in Digifest 2022
NILE is Participating in this years Student Festival of Digital Creation (Digifest), in Heraklion. There, we presented a short version of the Recycle Game, and invited students to play and learn!
Content manager for serious games
We are happy to announce that our research paper “Content manager for serious games: Theoretical framework and digital platform” has been published in the journal Advances in Mobile Learning Educational Research. Read the study Abstract: In education, digital or...
Adaptable EduGames Platform presented at ICERI2021
Our paper “Adaptable EduGames Platform, Allowing Educators to Customize Games”, was presented during the ICERI2021 conference. The paper talks about a platform we have created where educators can customize the educational content of games, to better suit the needs of...
Accepted paper for ICERI2021
We are proud to announce that our paper about the creation and dynamic loading of educational content into digital environments has been accepted for the 14th annual International Conference of Education, Research and Innovation, ICERI2021. Our work will be presented...