26 Oct 2023

Quality Council Webinar

Enhancing Student Retention in Higher Education

The Quality Council hosted the webinar Enhancing Student Retention in Higher Education on 26 October at 14:00-15:00. Guest speaker was Dimitrios Vlachopoulos.

Enhancing Student Retention in Higher Education

Dimitrios Vlachopoulos has worked as a faculty member in 18 universities in the Netherlands, the UK, the USA, Spain, and Cyprus, mainly conducting research in education sciences and teaching in post-graduate and doctorate programs in the field of pedagogy and business administration. He is a committed lifelong learner with a PhD in distance education and instructional technology and six MA degrees in education and social sciences. His research focuses on new and emerging pedagogies, instructional design, research methodology, digital transformation of education, teachers’ training, and quality assurance. He is a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy(SFHEA) and Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts (FRSA). He has more than 100 publications in peer-reviewed journals, books, and international conferences and has participated in more than 20 EU projects related to education and Excurrent, he is Associate Professor and Director of e-masters at Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University.