Handbook of Research on TPACK in the Digital Age

Charoula Angeli is Professor of Instructional Technology and the Deputy Director of the Teaching and Learning Center at University of Cyprus. She has undergraduate, graduate, and doctoral studies at Indiana University-Bloomington, USA (B.S. in Computer Science, M.S. in Computer Science, and Ph.D. in Instructional Systems Technology). She also pursued a postdoctoral fellowship in Learning Research and Development Centre (LRDC) at University of Pittsburgh in the United States during the academic year 1998-1999. She is one of the principal researchers who initially conceptualized the framework of Technological Pedagogical Content Knowledge (TPCK) and developed methods for developing and evaluating TPCK in pre-service and in-service teacher education. She also researches the use of computers as cognitive tools for all learners taking into consideration individual learning needs and cognitive differences. Her research interests also include the development of e-learning training materials for teachers, adaptive technology-enhanced learning, learning analytics, and the design of learning environments for the development of critical thinking skills. She has published extensively in more than 50 prestigious referred journals and presented her work in more than 150 conferences worldwide. She is also the recipient of multiple best paper awards granted among others by American Educational Research Association (AERA), world Indigenous People Conference on Education (WiPSCE), Society for Information Technology and Teacher Education (SITE), and Cognition and Exploratory Learning in Digital Age (CELDA).