The special issue of the 14th Conference on Informatics in Education (CIE2022, http://events.di.ionio.gr/cie) is published under the European Journal of Engineering and Technology Research (EJ-ENG). The Conference on Informatics in Education is co-organized by the Department of Informatics of the University of Piraeus (https://www.cs.unipi.gr/) and the Department of Informatics of Ionian University (https://di.ionio.gr), Greece, in collaboration with the Greek Computer Society (http://epy.gr/) and under the auspices of the Hellenic Ministry of Education. This is the sixth consecutive year in which selected papers presented at the conference are published after blind review in the journal. The published manuscripts are selected under a double peered review process among a significant number of manuscripts submitted to the conference.
The current special issue includes 8 papers related to informatics issues in education. More specifically, the issue includes three papers concerning gamification in education with digital technologies and a paper that deals with virtual reality in education. In addition, two papers study distance education issues during the pandemic, a paper that deals with pupils' achievement in primary and secondary schools in Greece, and a paper concerning nutrition informatics.
CIE Committee for EJ-ENG and Editors
Spyridon Doukakis, Assistant Professor, Department of Informatics, Ionian University
Ioannis Karydis, Assistant Professor, Department of Informatics, Ionian University
Vasilios S. Belesiotis, PhD, f. Educational Coordinator of Information Technology, Ministry of Education