Souropetsis, M., Kyza, E., Nisiotis, L., Georgiou, Y., & Giorgalla, V. (2023). Investigating Students’ Motivation and Cultural Heritage Learning in a Gamified Versus Non-gamified VR Environment. In: Pelechano N., Liarokapis F., Rohmer D., Asadipour A. (Eds.), International Conference on Interactive Media, Smart Systems and Emerging Technologies (IMET) (pp. 41-44). The Eurographics Association. doi:10.2312/imet.20231255

Nisiotis, L., Souropetsis, M., Kyza, E.A. (2023). Embracing Cultural Heritage Through Virtual Reality: Development, Usability and Enjoyment Evaluation of a VR Environment for the Church of Panagia Aggeloktisti. In: De Paolis, L.T., Arpaia, P., Sacco, M. (Eds.), Extended Reality. XR Salento 2023 (pp. 227-246). Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 14219. Springer. doi:10.1007/978-3-031-43404-4_15

de Jong, T., Lazonder, A. W., Chinn, C. A., Fischer, F., Gobert, J., Hmelo-Silver, C. E., Koedinger, K. R., Krajcik, J. S., Kyza, E. A., Linn, M. C., Pedaste, M., Scheiter, K. & Zacharia, Z. C. (2023). Let’s talk evidence–The case for combining inquiry-based and direct instruction. Educational Research Review, 100536.

Georgiou, Y., & Kyza, E. A. (2023). Fostering chemistry students’ scientific literacy for responsible citizenship through Socio-Scientific Inquiry-Based Learning (SSIBL). Sustainability, 15(8), 6442.

Kyza, E. A., Agesilaou, A., Georgiou, Y., & Hadjichambis, A. (2023). Investigating co-design as a professional development model to support teacher efficacy. Paper to be presented at the 20th Biennial Conference of the European Association of Research on Learning & Instruction (EARLI 2023), Thessaloniki, Greece.

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The Media, Cognition and Learning (MCL) Group is a research group within the Department of Communication and Internet Studies at the Cyprus University of Technology. MCL’s focus is the study of the relation of media, cognition and learning in various educational fields and settings.

The group is led by Dr. Eleni A. Kyza and is composed by members of the Department of Communication and Internet Studies and graduate students at the Ph.D. or Master’s level.

Research in the Media, Cognition and Learning (MCL) group is structured around three main research areas: (1) Learning Sciences, (2) Technology-enhanced learning and (3) Inquiry-based learning

Research topics include among others:

• Extended Reality (XR) technologies for learning
• Teacher Learning
• Reflective Inquiry
• Digital Literacy
• Active and Responsible Citizenship
• Technology-enhanced learning in inquiry-based science
• Computer Supported Collaborative Learning (CSCL)
• Design-based research
• Gamification

The MCL research group aims to promote high quality research in the context of Media, Cognition and Learning.