Professor Emeritus
Speaker: Dr. Dragan Domazet
Affiliation: Belgrade Metropolitan University
Title of keynote speech:Soon
Abstract: Soon
Biography:
Dragan Domazet is Emeritus Professor, President and Founder of Belgrade Metropolitan University. He obtained bachelor’s, master’s and PhD degrees at the University of Niš (Serbia). He was a Fulllbright Fellow (1990/91) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (USA) doing research in AI and knowledge-based systems. He worked seven years in Singapore (1994-2001) for Gintic Institute of Manufacturing Technology (now Simtec) and taught two master courses at Nayang Technological University. He was Minister for Science, Technology and Development in the Government of Serbia (2001-2004), Chairman of the Management Board of Vinca Institute of Nuclear Sciences (2009-2014), Member of the Management Board of Mihailo Pupin Institute (2008-2015), Team member that prepared “The Strategy of Development of Education in Serbia till 2020”, adopted by the Government of Serbia in 2012. He is teaching Software Engineering master and PhD courses at BMU. His team has been doing research in area of AI-based personalization of e-learning since 2012.
Assistant Professor
Speaker: Dr. Elitsa Peltekova
Affiliation: Faculty of Mathematics and Informatics (FMI) at Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski” (Sofia University)
Title of keynote speech:Educational XR: Virtual, Augmented and Mixed Reality via examples
Abstract: Extended Reality (XR) technologies, including VR, AR, and MR, are transforming education. Participants will learn XR fundamentals through interactive examples and some activities, highlighting XR’s role in enhancing learning.
Biography:
Elitsa Vasileva Peltekova, Assistant Professor in the Department of Information Technology and Information assurance expert E-Learning at E-Distance and Distance Learning Sector at the Faculty of Mathematics and Informatics (FMI) at Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski” (Sofia University). Her research and academic interests are in the field of: interactive content and technologies (interactive boards), extended reality, inquiry-based learning; application of information and communication technologies in education.
She holds Doctoral degree in Computer science and Master in E-learning from FMI at Sofia University, Sofia, Bulgaria and Bachelor in Applied Mathematics from the Faculty of Applied Mathematics and Informatics at the Technical University – Sofia, Bulgaria.
Elitsa has been a visiting researcher in 2023 at the Institute for Educational Technology (CNR-ITD), Genoa, Italy. She has been a doctoral exchange student within Erasmus+ Programme in 2016 at the Faculty of applied informatics and mathematics at Warsaw University of Life Sciences (Szkoła Główna Gospodarstwa Wiejskiego w Warszawie, SGGW), Warsaw, Poland. She has been an exchange bachelor student within Erasmus Programme in 2008 at the Free University of Brussels (Université libre de Bruxelles, ULB), Brussels, Belgium.
She has been working at Sofia University since 2009 and she is also currently part of the team of the Distance Learning Center of Sofia University.
Since 2013 she has been a lecturer at RAABE Bulgaria on topics related to the use of interactive whiteboards in the educational process, Microsoft Office software (Word, PowerPoint, Excel), cloud technologies for education (Microsoft Teams, Google Suite/Workspace), etc.
Since 2008 she has participated in 42 projects – both national and international.
Author and co-author of 34 publications.