Dionisis Manesis

Basic Information:

Title: Teaching Staff
Area of Specialization: Educational technology

Contact details:

Phone No: +30-210 368-8443 Fax:+30-210-3688510

Office hours:	Announced in the beginning of each semester
Contact address:	National and Kapodistrian University of Athens Department of Early Childhood Education

Academic information

Education

PhD in Statistics. National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Department of Early Childhood Education. Title of Dissertation: «Anxiety and Attitudes toward Statistics: Education Sciences students’ performance in Statistics course with ICT»
MSc ICT in Education. National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Department of Early Childhood Education.

Research interests

E-learning
Digital Games Based Learning
The impact of educational technology, on students’ attitudes toward a learning subject
Attitudes towards learning Statistics and pre-service teachers’ performance in Statistics courses

Courses and Seminars

Undergraduate

Introduction to Informatics
Methodology of social sciences: Statistics

Selected Publications

Maria Saridaki, Giannis Chaniotakis, Vaia Manoli, Manessis Dionissios, Maria Karafotia, Dimitris Gouskos, Michael Meimaris. «Applying Digital Game Based Learning solutions to the primary and special classroom: results from field studies», 2nd European Conference on Games Based Learning, Univesitat Oberta de Catalunya Spain, 16 – 17 October 2008, pp. 401 – 411.
Gialamas V., & Manessis D. «Attitudes toward statistics and performance of pre-service teachers in the educational science in an introductory statistics course», 6th Greece Conference of data analysis, Thessaloniki, 8-11 September 2011.
Dionissios Manessis. « Early Childhood Post-Educated Teachers’ Views and Intentions About Using Digital Games in the Classroom », 5th European Conference on Games Based Learning, The National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece, 20 – 21 October 2011, pp. 753 – 758.
Gialamas V., & Manessis D. « Statistics anxiety and performance of pre-service teachers in the educational science in an introductory statistics course», 7th Greece Conference of data analysis, Kavala, 12-14 September 2013.
Dionissios Manessis. «Early Childhood Post-Educated Teachers’ Views and Intentions About Using Digital Games in the Classroom», 7th European Conference on Games Based Learning, Instituto Superior de Engenharia do Porto, Portugal, 3 – 4 October 2013, pp. 369 – 377.
Dionysios Manessis. «The Importance of Future Kindergarten Teachers’ Beliefs about the Usefulness of Games Based, International Journal of Games-Based Learning, 4(1), 78-90, January-March 2014.

Additional Information

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