An exciting workshop was held on Friday, October 17, at the Faculty of Education (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki) by the Master’s Program “Education Sciences.Research and Praxis in Changing Learning Environments”.

Over 100 postgraduate students, as well as students from the Education Departments of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, faculty members, and numerous educators, attended the workshop on ‘Changing Learning Environments’.

Sofia Diamantopoulou, an Associate Professor at the UCL Institute of Education, spoke about multimodal communication and education, with a focus on design issues in formal and informal learning spaces.Martha Ioannidou, Associate Professor in the Department of Early Childhood Education at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, discussed the role of the arts in education in today’s ever-changing landscape.In his talk, entitled ‘Between humans and algorithms: What (Doesn’t) Change?”, Nikos Mouratoglou, the Pedagogical Monitoring Coordinator at the European Platform for School Education, discussed how artificial intelligence is changing the relationships between teachers and children, the content and methods of learning, and the concept of the ‘student’ itself. Finally, Maria Avgerinou, Director of the Master’s Program in Educational Design and New Technologies at ACG, discussed how artificial intelligence is transforming teaching and learning. The discussions that followed the talks were fruitful and particularly interesting, focusing on the future of education in the 21st century.

The workshop was accompanied by an exhibition of the students’ dissertations, which allowed everyone to learn more about the research produced in the postgraduate program.