Biography
Dimitrios Vlachopoulos (he/him) is an Associate Professor of Management Education at the Department of Technology and Operations Management (Innovation Management Section).
Since 2005, Dimitrios has taught and/or conducted research in several universities in the USA (University of California at Berkeley and Walden University), the UK (University of Liverpool, University of Roehampton London, University of Essex and University of Hull), Spain (University of Barcelona, Autonomous University of Barcelona and Open University of Catalonia), Greece (Hellenic Open University), Cyprus (European University Cyprus and Open University of Cyprus) and the Netherlands (Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences). Over the last 10 years, in parallel with teaching and research, Dimitrios also held leadership roles related to e-learning program development, student retention and academic staff professional development.
Dr. Vlachopoulos holds a PhD in Distance Education and Instructional Technology from the Department of Research Methods of the University of Barcelona. Additionally, he holds six master’s degrees in the field of education sciences and business administration.
Dimitrios is a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy & Fellow of the Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce. He has completed successfully the Senior Teaching Qualification at Erasmus University Rotterdam. His research focuses on new emerging pedagogies, evidence-based and sustainable innovation in management education, digital transformation of higher education, quality assurance, change management, technology use & wellbeing and teachers’ training.
His research activity has as blueprint the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals with a focus on Goal 4 (Quality Education), Goal 5 (Gender Equality) and Goal 10 (Reduced Inequalities). His research has been published in top-ranked academic journals, including the International Journal of Educational Technology in Higher Education, the British Journal of Educational Technology, Computers and Education (AI), the International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, Education and Information Technologies, PLOS One, Technology, Knowledge and Learning, Studies in Educational Evaluation, European Journal of Education and International Review of Education.
Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University
- vlachopoulos@rsm.nl
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Work
- Dimitrios Vlachopoulos & Agoritsa Makri (2024) - A systematic literature review on authentic assessment in higher education: Best practices for the development of 21st century skills, and policy considerations - Studies in Educational Evaluation, 83 - doi: 10.1016/j.stueduc.2024.101425 - [link]
- Harry Barton Essel, Dimitrios Vlachopoulos, Henry Nunoo-Mensah & John Opuni Amankwa (2024) - Exploring the impact of VoiceBots on multimedia programming education among Ghanaian university students - British Journal of Educational Technology - doi: 10.1111/bjet.13504 - [link]
- Harry Barton Essel, Dimitrios Vlachopoulos, Albert Benjamin Essuman & John Opuni Amankwa (2024) - ChatGPT effects on cognitive skills of undergraduate students: Receiving instant responses from AI-based conversational large language models (LLMs) - Computers and Education: Artificial Intelligence, 6 - doi: 10.1016/j.caeai.2023.100198 - [link]
- Emily Hope Morrison & Dimitrios Vlachopoulos (2023) - Exploring secondary students’ emergency remote teaching and learning experience in science curriculum during the COVID-19 pandemic - Contemporary Educational Technology, 15 (4) - doi: 10.30935/cedtech/13703 - [link]
- Lewis Ron Perry & Dimitrios Vlachopoulos (2023) - Learning Attainment in English Lessons: A Study of Teachers’ Perspectives on Native English Speakers and English as an Additional Language (EAL) Students at an International School - Education Sciences, 13 (9) - doi: 10.3390/educsci13090901 - [link]
- Dimitrios Vlachopoulos, Rannveig Björk Thorkelsdóttir, Despoina Schina & Jóna Guðrún Jónsdóttir (2023) - Teachers’ Experience and Perceptions of Sustainable Digitalization in School Education: An Existential Phenomenological Study of Teachers in Romania, Greece, Cyprus, Iceland, and The Netherlands - Sustainability (Switzerland), 15 (18) - doi: 10.3390/su151813353 - [link]
- Harry Barton Essel, Dimitrios Vlachopoulos, Ralph Nyadu-Addo, Akosua Tachie-Menson, Paa Kwame Baah & Charles Owusu-Antwi (2023) - The Impact of Mental Health Predictors of Internet Addiction among Pre-Service Teachers in Ghana - Behavioral Sciences, 13 (1) - doi: 10.3390/bs13010020 - [link]
- Richard Greaves & Dimitrios Vlachopoulos (2023) - The Use of Gamification as a Vehicle for Pedagogic Sharing and Teachers’ Professional Development - RIED-Revista Iberoamericana de Educacion a Distancia, 26 (1), 245-264 - doi: 10.5944/ried.26.1.34026 - [link]
- Harry Barton Essel, Dimitrios Vlachopoulos, Akosua Tachie-Menson, Esi Eduafua Johnson & Papa Kwame Baah (2022) - The impact of a virtual teaching assistant (chatbot) on students' learning in Ghanaian higher education - International Journal of Educational Technology in Higher Education, 19 (1) - doi: 10.1186/s41239-022-00362-6 - [link]
- Harry Barton Essel, Dimitrios Vlachopoulos, Akosua Tachie-Menson, Francis Kofi Nimo Nunoo & Esi Eduafua Johnson (2022) - Nomophobia among Preservice Teachers: a descriptive correlational study at Ghanaian Colleges of Education - Education and Information Technologies, 27 (7), 9541-9561 - doi: 10.1007/s10639-022-11023-6 - [link]
Hellenic Open University
- Start date approval
- November 2022
- End date approval
- November 2025
- Place
- GREECE
- Description
- Research supervisor and committee member
Open University of Catalonia
- Start date approval
- November 2022
- End date approval
- November 2025
- Place
- SPAIN
- Description
- PhD/ Research Supervision
SkillsUp Training and Research Services
- Start date approval
- November 2022
- End date approval
- November 2025
- Place
- NETHERLANDS
- Description
- Education consultant
University of Essex Online
- Start date approval
- November 2022
- End date approval
- November 2025
- Place
- UNITED KINGDOM
- Description
- Research supervision
University of Science and Technology, Kumasi
- Start date approval
- November 2022
- End date approval
- November 2025
- Place
- GHANA
- Description
- PhD/ Research Supervision