In the last couple of decades the pace of technological change and development has been increasing and ubiquitous. New digital technologies comprising services, applications and gadgets have been introduced and as a result many aspects of education have been re-imagined in the light of new possibilities concerning where, how, and when teaching and learning experiences can take place. Besides, digital technologies have been often called for in order to provide immediate solutions to problems related to the organization of teaching and learning as well as their effectiveness. However, such promises did not quite materialize. Conversely, the rapid pace at which new gadgets, services and tools have been introduced has generated an unprecedented variety and increased complexity, affecting the way in which education can have an impact on society. The course offers the opportunity to navigate the current educational landscape by developing the proper thinking tools to address complexity. The course is divided into three parts. The first part will be revolving around the presentation and discussion of a number of cases related to the role of technology in education and society. The purpose of this block will be to engage students in deep conversations and help them develop a more multifaceted approach to technology. In the second part of the course students will be engaged in conducting an inquiry whose main aim will be to investigate a case of interest for the student. This part will be the chance for students to explore practically the notions described in the first part and develop their ability to think. The third part of the course will be devoted to presenting and sharing the insights gained during the inquiries conducted by the students.

In the last couple of decades the pace of technological change and development has been increasing and ubiquitous. New digital technologies comprising services, applications and gadgets have been introduced and as a result many aspects of education have been re-imagined in the light of new possibilities concerning where, how, and when teaching and learning experiences can take place. Besides, digital technologies have been often called for in order to provide immediate solutions to problems related to the organization of teaching and learning as well as their effectiveness. However, such promises did not quite materialize. Conversely, the rapid pace at which new gadgets, services and tools have been introduced has generated an unprecedented variety and increased complexity, affecting the way in which education can have an impact on society. The course offers the opportunity to navigate the current educational landscape by developing the proper thinking tools to address complexity. The course is divided into three parts. The first part will be revolving around the presentation and discussion of a number of cases related to the role of technology in education and society. The purpose of this block will be to engage students in deep conversations and help them develop a more multifaceted approach to technology. In the second part of the course students will be engaged in conducting an inquiry whose main aim will be to investigate a case of interest for the student. This part will be the chance for students to explore practically the notions described in the first part and develop their ability to think. The third part of the course will be devoted to presenting and sharing the insights gained during the inquiries conducted by the students.

This course will focus on the role that culture plays in business and management and the impacts of cultural differences on business and management practices. This includes language, habits, traditions, nationality, religion, gender and age. Students will learn how to manage different staff within an organisation, including their education and training needs, as well as managing consumer and client relationships. Emphasis will also be placed on the challenges of doing global business in national, regional and local contexts.

In lectures, we will give an overview of cross-cultural studies in psychology. We will address topics like values, ethnic groups, personality, socialization, language and communication, social behavior in a cross-cultural perspective. We will discuss why behavior and many psychological processes differ across cultures and what it means for theory and practice in psychology.

The course will cover the issues related to decision-making regarding development, implementation and use of e-governance services that involve various (European) national authorities. It focuses on the multi-level governance aspects of policy making and service delivery, and includes issues related to the ex ante evaluation of policy making regarding cross border services.

The aim of this course is to learn how to implement cryptographic primitives efficiently and to analyze them by considering basic implementation attacks. This course will include materials from introduction to cryptography and algorithms. In this course, we review the arithmetic operations in finite fields/groups such as modular reduction, multiplication, inversion, and exponentiation. We give the implementation details of the algorithms for the integer/polynomial arithmetic in the finite fields/groups by considering efficiency and timing attacks. Then, we implement the cryptosystems by considering efficiency and basic timing attacks. We discuss open-source cryptographic libraries in terms of efficiency and security. The course covers the following topics: open-source cryptographic libraries, algorithms to implement finite field/group arithmetic, symmetric key cryptosystems, public-key encryption, key exchange, elliptic curve arithmetic, lattice-based cryptography.