Development of Academic Programs:

I have been continuously involved in the design and development of academic programs throughout my career. At CUT, as a new university, all members of the department actively participated in designing its Bachelor and Master programs; during 2009–2012, as Head of Department, I coordinated the annual revision of the program.

Most recently, I have been closely involved in building the academic offering of the new Department of Sustainable Development, including the development of a full BSc in Sustainable Development curriculum and the establishment of a pedagogical framework for the department. This work draws directly on my long experience in curriculum design and on the participatory, inclusive methodologies that have shaped my teaching.

At Cyprus University of Technology, in collaboration with colleagues, I proposed and developed three Master-level programs:

• MSc in Interaction Design (offered online in collaboration with Tallinn University)
• MA in Interactive Multimedia 
• MSc in Design and Development of Computer Game and Interactive Technologies (started being offered in September 2012)

I served as course director for the MSc in Interaction Design and, in past years, for the MA in Interactive Multimedia and the MSc in Design and Development of Computer Games and Interactive Technologies.

At City University London I proposed and developed a new MSc in Human Centred Systems (HCS), which started in October 2004 and of which I was course director in 2006 — at the time one of the most popular master’s programs in this area in the UK. My responsibilities as course director included curriculum development team coordination, course document preparation, liaison with Boards of Studies for course approval, presentation to the Courses Committee, planning the academic direction of the course, updating content and objectives, preparing amendments, and producing the course handbook.

In addition, over the past twenty years I developed and continue to maintain a course for teaching modern Greek online. The Learn Greek Online course consists of 105 fully developed lessons designed using a novel participatory design methodology and currently has over 100,000 students. The project has been featured in the Cypriot press, and its findings have been presented in numerous conferences and publications.