Charalambos Vrasidas

Professor Charalambos Vrasidas is a Professor of Learning Technologies and Innovation and Associate Dean for e-learning at the University of Nicosia. He is the co-founder and Executive Director of CARDET (Center for the Advancement of Research and Development in Educational Technology), a Non-Governmental non-profit research and development center based in Cyprus with partners around the world. He graduated from the Pedagogical Academy of Cyprus (PAC) in June 1989. PAC was the official teachers’ college that prepared teachers for elementary schools, and which has now become the University of Cyprus. In September 1991, he was appointed as an elementary school teacher. After working for a year in that position, he was awarded a Fulbright scholarship to pursue a Bachelors degree in the U.S. While in the US he received a B.S. in Photo/Multimedia with a minor in Film, from Western Illinois University (WIU). He then continued for a Masters in Education with emphasis on Instructional Technology and Telecommunication, also at WIU. In August 1996 he joined the Ph.D. program in Educational Media and Computers at Arizona State University and received his PhD in May 1999. (https://www.unic.ac.cy/vrasidas-charalambos/).