Student Placement

Students can choose it only once during undergraduate studies (either the 7th or the 8th semester).

Privacy on the Internet

Learning Outcomes

The purpose of the course is to highlight the necessity of a high-level framework, for the protection of personally identifiable information (PII) within information and communication technology (ICT) systems, general in nature, placing organizational, technical, and procedural aspects in an overall privacy framework. The privacy framework, according to ISO/IEC 29100:2011 and ISO/IEC 29101:2018, is intended to support organizations define their privacy safeguarding requirements related to PII within an ICT environment by defining the actors and their roles in processing PII, describing privacy safeguarding requirements, and referencing known privacy principles. According to ISO/IEC 2913:2017, guidelines are providing for conducting a Privacy Impact Assessment (PIA) as an instrument for assessing the potential impacts on privacy of a process, information system, program, software module, device, which processes PII. Privacy-by-Design critical issues are introduced. Moreover, privacy protection issues in cloud environments are described in detail, according to ISO/IEC 27018:2014.

In this context, the learning outcomes of the course, after its successful completion, are that the students will be able:

  • to understand the basic concepts of privacy framework as well as how to recognize and analyze privacy requirements
  • to realize the Privacy-By-Design principle
  • to conduct a study for Privacy Impact Assessment
  • to understand and deal with privacy protection issues in cloud environments.

Course Contents

  • Privacy protection: Technical, legal, regulation, and ethical issues
  • Privacy framework according to ISO/IEC 29100:2011 and ISO/IEC 29101:2018
  • Privacy by Design critical issues
  • Privacy Impact Assessment according to ISO/IEC 29134:2017
  • Privacy protection countermeasures according to ISO/IEC 27701:2019
  • Cloud computing and related Privacy protection issues according to ISO 27018:2014
  • GDPR and ISO 27001 synergies of activities towards organization’s compliance
  • Case study: Privacy in social media

Recommended Readings

  • Lambrinoudakis, L. Mitrou, S. Gritzalis, S. Katsikas (2010), Privacy Protection and Information and Communication Technologies (Eds.), Papasotiriou Pubs. (in Greek)
  • Acquisti, S. Gritzalis, C. Lambrinoudakis, S. De Capitani di Vimercati (Eds) (2008) Digital Privacy, Theory, Technology and Practices, Auerbach Publications.
  • Tamo-Larrieux (2018), Designing for Privacy and its Legal Framework: Data Protection by Design and Default for the Internet of Things, Springer
  • van der Sloot, A. de Groot, (2018) The Handbook of Privacy Studies, Amsterdam University Press
  • ISO/IEC 29100:2011 Information Technology – Security Techniques – Privacy Framework
  • ISO/IEC 29134:2017 Information Technology — Security Techniques — Guidelines for Privacy Impact Assessment
  • ISO/IEC 27701:2019 Information Technology – Security Techniques – Extension to ISO 27002:2013 for Privacy Information Management – Requirements and Guidelines
  • ISO/IEC 27018:2014 Information technology — Security techniques — Code of practice for protection of personally identifiable information (PII) in public clouds acting as PII processors

Educational Technology

With the completion of the course, the student will be able:

  • to know and understand the key concepts of educational design for technology-supported and technology-enhanced educational innovations (including flipped classroom for blended learning and Massive Open Online Courses).
  • to analyse and critique the basic elements of the ADDIE educational design process when applied to design, develop and evaluate technology-supported and technology-enhanced educational innovations (including flipped classroom for blended learning and Massive Open Online Courses).
  • to design and implement pedagogically grounded technology-supported and technology-enhanced educational innovations focusing to flipped classroom for blended learning and Massive Open Online Courses.

Course Contents

  • Educational Design for Technology-supported and Technology-enhanced Educational Innovations
    • What is Educational design? Definitions – Basic Principles – Models
    • The ADDIE Model: Analysis of each Phase
    • Analyse Learners and Learning Context
    • Educational Objectives and Assessment of Learning and/or Performance
    • Strategies for Teaching and Learning
  • Digital Media in Education and Training
    • Educational Videos
    • Interactive Digital Textbooks
    • Educational Games and Gamification
    • Educational Mobile Apps
    • Educational Web 2.0 Application
    • Educational Augmented Reality and 3D Virtual Worlds in Education & Training
  • Case Studies
    • Blended Learning: the Flipped Classroom model
    • Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs)

Recommended Readings

  • Textbook in Greek (provided for free)
  • Additional Open Access Educational Resources available through the course management system

Assessment in Digital Learning

Goal and Learning Outcomes

The course seeks to both conceptualize and redefine the purpose and objectives of the 21st century assessment for learning, as well as to outline modern and easy-to-use techniques and tools used by teachers in modern formal and informal learning environments.

After the successful completion of the course, the students will be able to:

  • State the modern forms of educational evaluation, utilizing educational technologies
  • Understand methodological issues regarding the organization and conduct of quality assessment of the educational process.
  • Utilize modern tools and techniques to evaluate trainees’ performance.
  • Apply a variety of techniques for systematic evaluation of instructional process.

 

Contents

  1. Basic principles of evaluating the quality of educational interventions
  • Formative
  • Holistic-Summative
  1. Principles of Monitoring and Assessing Students’ Performance
  2. Known techniques for evaluating the performance of trainees
  3. Categories of assessment tools
  • Quiz-tests
  • Rubrics
  • Mindmaps
  • Learning Analytics
  • Computational Thinking Assessment tools
  1. Quality Evaluation Techniques for Learning Resources and Learning Systems
  2. Process of creation and application of evaluation techniques and tools.

Suggested Reading

  1. A. Tomlinson & T. R. Moon (2013). Assessment and Student Success in a Differentiated Classroom, Association for Supervision & Curriculum Development, ISBN 1416616179 (ISBN13: 9781416616177)
  2. Cowie, B., Moreland, J. and Otrel-Cass, K. (2013). Expanding Notions of Assessment for Learning. Dordrecht: Springer.

Compilers

Learning Outcomes

This course provides an introduction to the principles of analysis and design of programming languages as well as to the ways these principles are applied in modern programming languages. The successful completion of this course will allow students:

  • to understand the basic and important features of the design, implementation and analysis of compiler systems for modern programming languages.
  • to know the basic features of the tools and the development techniques for the creation of modern programming languages.

Course Contents

  • Introduction – Overview of Modern Programming Languages.
  • Language Definition and Design (Regular Expressions – Automata – Context-Free Grammars).
  • Programming Language Structure (Variables, Types and Scoping, Control Flow and Evaluation of Expressions, Subroutines, Iterative and Recursive Processes, Memory Management and Communication).
  • The Compiling/Interpretation Process (Lectical Analysis, Syntactic Analysis, Code Production & Optimization, Linking).

Recommended Readings

  • Scott, M. L., Programming Language Pragmatics, 2nd edition, Morgan Kaufmann, 2009
  • Instructor Notes

Digital Signal Processing

Learning Outcomes

The aim of the course is to introduce students to the theory of time and spectral field by which continuous and discrete time systems are analyzed and designed. Based on this theory, students will be able to design analogue and digital filters based on frequency response specifications.

 

Upon successful completion of the course the student will be able to:

  • Be familiar with FIR and IIR filter design algorithms
  • create transfer function of generic analog filters
  • Handle IIR and FIR filter implementation methods: serial and parallel structures.
  • Be able to design IIR and FIR filters using Matlab software tool.

Course Contents

  • Discrete time convolution, Z transform, frequency response of discrete time signals and systems.
  • Prototypes of analogue lowpass filters: Butterworth polynomials and Chebyshev polynomials.
  • Frequency translation of normalized analogue filters, general algorithm for creating arbitrary analogue filters.
  • Bilinear transformation.
  • Design of digital infinite impulse response (IIR) filters using bilinear transformation.
  • Frequency transformation of digital filters.
  • Digital finite impulse response (FIR) filters with linear phase.
  • FIR filter design using frequency sampling.
  • FIR filter design using optimal method.
  • Implementation issues and techniques for IIR and FIR digital filters.

Recommended Readings

  • Proakis J. & Manolakis D. (2007): Digital Signal Processing: Principles, Algorithms and Applications, 4th Edition, Prentice Hall.
  • Ingle V. & Proakis J. (2000): Digital Signal Processing Using Matlab, Brooks/Cole Publishing.

Digital Image Processing

Learning Outcomes

Digital image processing is used for two distinct purposes: (1) improving the appearance of the image so that it is easier for an observer to interpret and (2) digitally analyzing the image for the purpose of describing, identifying and interpreting the content of an image. image. The course will present the basic algorithms and methodologies for both purposes in the field of space and in the field of frequencies.

Students, upon successful completion of the course, will be able to:

A) Understand basic methodologies and basic knowledge of designing and developing image processing systems

B) Know the stages of digital image processing and analysis (optical sensors, image capture, digitization, transformation, coding, compression, transmission, segmentation, recognition)

C) Analyze problems across different application areas and select the right mechanisms for managing and processing digital images

D) Evaluate digital image processing systems and algorithms

Course Contents

  • Introduction to Digital Image Processing
  • 2-D Signals and Systems – Background Information
  • Sampling and Digitization Issues
  • Image Enhancement and Restoration
  • Binary Image Processing – Morphological Operators
  • Image Segmentation – Edge Detection
  • Image Transformations (Fourier, DCT, Hadamard, etc.)
  • Analysis in the frequency domain
  • Digital Image Compression
  • Digital Image Analysis – Computer Vision
  • Texture Analysis – Region of Interests
  • Other areas: eg Watermarking, Information Retrieval, etc.

Recommended Readings

  • Rafael C. Gonzalez & Richard E. Woods Digital Image Processing CRC Press 4th Edition

Educational Digital Systems

Learning Outcomes

With the completion of the course, the student will be able:

  • to know and understand the key concepts of exploiting digital technologies in teaching, learning and assessment of learning in K12 School Education.
  • to analyse, assess, select and justify a pedagogically appropriate educational technologies to support different teaching strategies in K12 School Education.
  • to design and create pedagogically grounded technology-supported teaching and learning scenarios for the K12 education.

The learning objectives of the course are aligned to the Greek State qualification framework for a teaching licence in K12 school education.

Course Contents

  • 1. Technology-Supported and Technology-Enhanced Teaching and Learning in School Education: Theoretical Underpinnings
  • 2. Integrating Technology in School Education (teaching, learning and assessment of learning): Models and Practice
  • 3. Taxonomy of Educational Technologies in School Education
  • 4. Educational Technologies for supporting different teaching and learning strategies
    • 4.1. Tutorials
    • 4.2. Drill and Practice
    • 4.3. Problem solving
    • 4.4. Modeling
    • 4.5. Virtual Labs and Simulations
    • 4.6. Inquiry-based Learning
    • 4.7. Collaborative Learning
    • 4.8. Assessment of Learning
    • o 4.9. Educational Games
  • 5. Digital School Infrastructure
    • 5.1. Interactive Boards
    • 5.2. ICT School Laboratory

Recommended Readings

  • Textbook in Greek (provided for free)
  • Additional Open Access Educational Resources available through the course management system