{"id":5663,"date":"2024-02-05T10:41:31","date_gmt":"2024-02-05T07:41:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ucy.ac.cy\/fhs\/?p=5663"},"modified":"2024-02-05T10:43:07","modified_gmt":"2024-02-05T07:43:07","slug":"teaching-excellence-award-2024-dora-loizidou-lecturer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ucy.ac.cy\/fhs\/teaching-excellence-award-2024-dora-loizidou-lecturer\/?lang=en","title":{"rendered":"Teaching Excellence Award 2024, Dora Loizidou, Lecturer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong>Congratulations to Dora Loizidou on being awarded the &#8220;Teaching Excellence Award 2024&#8221; for the Faculty of Humanities<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Dora Loizidou is a Lecturer in language teaching and digital technologies at the Department of French and European Studies of the University of Cyprus. She teaches undergraduate students, the Master of Teaching French as a Foreign Language, and teacher training programs.<br \/>\nHer research areas are the teaching of French as a foreign language, educational technology, digital learning environments (telecollaboration, hybrid education), curriculum design, guidance and student autonomy.<br \/>\nShe is a member of the LIDILEM research laboratory of Grenoble Alpes University, France and the M\u00e9thodal OpenLab research laboratory of the University of Cyprus and Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. She is also a member of the Distance Education Pedagogical Unit under the supervision of the Vice Rector of Academic Affairs of the University of Cyprus.<br \/>\nHer research activities are directly linked to the teaching of her courses, as her students are actively involved in educational and research programs that she coordinates (such as the telecollaboration program Le fran\u00e7ais en (premi\u00e8re) ligne with Grenoble Alpes University).<br \/>\nIn her teaching work, Dora is constantly looking for effective and modern practices using technology. The ultimate goal of the pedagogical design of her courses is the formation of appropriate learning environments where learning for students becomes more active, autonomous and collaborative.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-5666 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ucy.ac.cy\/fhs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/186\/2024\/02\/dora-loizidou-cropped-277x300.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"277\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ucy.ac.cy\/fhs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/186\/2024\/02\/dora-loizidou-cropped-277x300.jpeg 277w, https:\/\/www.ucy.ac.cy\/fhs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/186\/2024\/02\/dora-loizidou-cropped-944x1024.jpeg 944w, https:\/\/www.ucy.ac.cy\/fhs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/186\/2024\/02\/dora-loizidou-cropped-768x833.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.ucy.ac.cy\/fhs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/186\/2024\/02\/dora-loizidou-cropped-1416x1536.jpeg 1416w, https:\/\/www.ucy.ac.cy\/fhs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/186\/2024\/02\/dora-loizidou-cropped-1888x2048.jpeg 1888w, https:\/\/www.ucy.ac.cy\/fhs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/186\/2024\/02\/dora-loizidou-cropped-69x75.jpeg 69w, https:\/\/www.ucy.ac.cy\/fhs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/186\/2024\/02\/dora-loizidou-cropped-480x521.jpeg 480w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width:767px) 277px, 277px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The \u201cTeaching Excellence Award\u201d is established by the Centre for Teaching and Learning in working towards the UCY policy for Quality Assurance in Teaching, and is granted every two years to a member of each Faculty.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congratulations to Dora Loizidou on being awarded the &#8220;Teaching Excellence Award 2024&#8221; for the Faculty of Humanities Dora Loizidou is a Lecturer in language teaching and<span class=\"excerpt-hellip\"> [\u2026]<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":56,"featured_media":5666,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5663","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-events"],"modified_by":"staloiz","publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-14 19:03:24","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ucy.ac.cy\/fhs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5663","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ucy.ac.cy\/fhs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ucy.ac.cy\/fhs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ucy.ac.cy\/fhs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/56"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ucy.ac.cy\/fhs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5663"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ucy.ac.cy\/fhs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5663\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5668,"href":"https:\/\/www.ucy.ac.cy\/fhs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5663\/revisions\/5668"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ucy.ac.cy\/fhs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5666"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ucy.ac.cy\/fhs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ucy.ac.cy\/fhs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ucy.ac.cy\/fhs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}