Centre for Interdisciplinary Education and Technology

First and last name

Karolina Dobi Barišić, Ph.D.

Profession

Assistant Professor

Email

kdobi@foozos.hr

Office number

62

Research interests

ICT in education, assessment of knowledge using ICT, development of computational thinking in preschool and early school-age children

Curriculum vitae (up to 300 words)

She graduated from the School of Applied Mathematics and Informatics, earning the title of graduate professor of mathematics and informatics. After graduation, she worked as a teacher of mathematics, informatics, and, unofficially, physics in an elementary school. Since 2008, she has been employed at the Faculty of Education, University of Osijek as a teaching assistant.

In 2018, she defended her doctoral dissertation titled The Impact of Peer and Self-Assessment on Learning Approaches and the Use of Information and Communication Technology among Future Teachers at the Faculty of Organization and Informatics in Varaždin, University of Zagreb. She earned the academic title of Doctor of Science in the field of Social Sciences, specializing in Information and Communication Sciences.

Since 2019, she has been working as a senior assistant, and in 2023, she was promoted to the academic rank of assistant professor in the field of social sciences, specializing in Information and Communication Sciences (Information Science).

She is a member of the Department of Natural Sciences and the chair of Information, Communication, and Technics. She also serves as the head of the Center for Interdisciplinary Education and Technology and is a member of the organizing committees of the scientific conferences Mathematics and Children, ICT in Life, and KOMPAS.

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CroRIS Karolina Dobi Barišić

First and last name

Ivana Đurđević Babić, Ph.D.

Profession

Full Professor

Email

idjurdjevic@foozos.hr

Office number

65

Research interests

artificial intelligence, neural networks and their application and application of other methods of data mining, the use of information and communication technology in education

Curriculum vitae (up to 300 words)

Ivana Đurđević Babić teaches courses at integrated undergraduate and graduate five-year university class teacher studies: Informatics in education, Internet in education, Methodology of teaching Informatics, Web programming, Programming language Logo and Computers in leisure. Additionally, in the 2024-2025 academic year, she is teaching Augmented Reality in Educational Rehabilitation, offered in the undergraduate university study program of Educational Rehabilitation, and Digital Tools in Inclusive Education, offered in the undergraduate university study program of Speech Therapy. Previously, she taught the course Computer Literacy, offered in the undergraduate university program of Early and Preschool Education, and the courses Word Formatting, Introduction to Computing, Algorithms and Data Structures, and Computer Databases, offered in the integrated undergraduate and graduate university program of Teacher Education.

She actively participates in international and national scientific conferences and has been a reviewer for professional and scientific articles.

From 2015 until 2019, she held the position of chair president of the Chair of Mathematics and Informatics as part of the Department of Natural Sciences at the Faculty of Education. With the establishment of the Chair of Information, Communication, and Technology in October 2017, she became the Chair President of this Chair at the Faculty of Education. She also held the position of Chair of the Commission for Quality Improvement and Quality Assurance (mandate from October 1, 2018 to September 30, 2022).

Currently, she holds the position of the President of the Committee for Final and Graduate Theses at the Faculty of Education and Educational Sciences at Josip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek for the term from 2022 to 2026.

She is a member of the Croatian Operational Research Society (CRORS).

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CroRIS – Ivana Đurđević Babić

First and last name

Ružica Kolar-Šuper, Ph.D.

Profession

Full Professor

Email

rkolar@foozos.hr

Office number

40

Research interests

Nonassociative algebraic structure, geometry

Curriculum vitae (up to 300 words)

Ružica Kolar-Šuper obtained her BSc degree in mathematics and physics from the Faculty of Education in Osijek in 1996. In the third year of study, she was granted the Dean's Award as the best student in the field of natural sciences. She received her MSc degree in the field of mathematics from the Department of Mathematics, University of Zagreb, in 2003. In 2006, she obtained her PhD degree in the field of mathematics from the Department of Mathematics, University of Zagreb. From 1996 to 1998, she worked as a professor of mathematics and physics at the Technical School in Vinkovci. Since 1998, she has been employed as an Assistant at the Department of Mathematics, Faculty of Education in Osijek. She was head of the Scientific and vice head of the Organizing Committee of the International Colloquium Mathematics and Children in 2015, 2017, 2019, 2021, and 2023. She is the editor of six monographs: Mathematics Teaching for the Future (2013), Higher Goals in Mathematics Education (2015), Mathematics Education as a Science and a Profession (2017), Towards New Perspectives on Mathematics Education (2019), Advances in Research on Teaching Mathematics (2022) and Effective Teaching and Learning of Mathematics Through Bridging Theory and Practice (2024). In 2018, she received an award from the Faculty of Education in acknowledgment of her achievements in the academic year 2017-2018 for her exceptional contribution to the organization of international scientific conferences regarding mathematics and children. She was head of the Department of Natural Sciences at the Faculty of Education (2014-2018). She is currently head of the Sub-Department of Mathematics. She is a member of the editorial board of Osijek Mathematical Gazette. She is a member of the Geometry Seminar at the Department of Mathematics, University of Zagreb, the Croatian Society for Geometry and Graphics, the Croatian Mathematical Society, and the Osijek Mathematical Society. She is a reviewer for Mathematical Reviews. She has published 50 scientific papers in international peer-reviewed journals and presented papers at 25 international scientific conferences. She currently teaches the following courses: Elementary mathematics, Mathematics, Discrete mathematics, Introduction to linear algebra, Mathematical culture and communication.

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Ružica Kolar-Šuper

Name and surname

Vjekoslav Galzina, Ph.D.

Title

Associate Professor

Vice Dean for Business Relations and International Cooperation

e-mail

vgalzina@foozos.hr

Office

Vice deans office and office no.57

Research interests

Artificial intelligence, production scheduling, human-machine interface, cybernetic-physical systems

Vjekoslav Galzina was born on August 21, 1975 in Slavonski Brod. He finished primary school in Sapci and Garčin, and graduate high school (Mathematical gymnasium) in Slavonski Brod. He graduated from the Mechanical Engineering Faculty in Slavonski Brod, University of Osijek in 2002, got his master’s degree in 2007 and PhD in 2011. Between 2002 and 2004 he was employed at the firm Đuro Đaković Ltd. SlavonskiBrod. From 2004 to 2014 he was employed at Mechanical Engineering Faculty in SlavonskiBrod. Since 2014, he has been employed as a docent at the Faculty of Education, University of Osijek. He is the main CEEPUS coordinator for the network CIII-HR-1005 Educational Systems in Central Europe.

Project involvement: 0152014 Expert System of Individual Production Technology MZOS RH. 52-1521781-2235 Development of an ERP system for a digital enterprise. Associate on the bilateral HR-SLO project Flexible production systems design using evolutionary programming (2006/2007). As a Technical Expert he worked on the project from Instrument for Pre-Accession Assistance (IPA) - Component IIIc: Flexible Manufacturing of Customized Spinal Orthoses (OrtoFlex) (IPA2007/HR/16IPO/001-040504) by September 2014. RED FAITH Restoring the Ecological Diversity of Forests with Airborne Imaging Technologies from 2017 and as a technical associate of the project co-financed by the EU: Safer Internet Center Croatia: Making the Internet a Good and Safe Place (INEA/CEF/ICT/A2015/1153209) in 2018.

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Name and surname

Zvonimir Užarević, Ph.D.

Profession

Full Professor

e-mail

zuzarevic@foozos.hr

Office number

53

Research interests

biomedicine, biology, biotechnology

He graduated at the Pedagogical faculty at the University of Osijek in 1998 and earned the title of professor of biology and chemistry. He holds a doctorate in 2011 at the Postgraduate interdisciplinary doctoral study in Molecular biosciences at the University of Osijek. From 2000 to 2004 he worked as an assistant at the Department of biology at the Pedagogical faculty in Osijek. Between 2004 and 2006 he teaches biology and chemistry at secondary school MatijaAntunReljkovic in SlavonskiBrod and from 2006 to 2008 he worked as an assistant at the Department of biology in Osijek. Since 2008, he has been employed at the Faculty of education in Osijek. In 2014 he was elected to the scientific-teaching professorship of an interdisciplinary field of science (basic medical science and interdisciplinary biotechnical sciences). At the Faculty of education, he teaches Health education, School hygiene, Knowledge of plants and animals, Field work, Natural sciences, Ecology, Biological kinanthropology and First aid. As an author and co-author, he publishes original scientific papers in journals indexed into Current Contents and Science Citation Index Expanded. He is the author and co-author of numerous scientific and professional announcements at national and international conferences. He is a member of the Croatian society for cancer research, Croatian biological society, Croatian society for plant physiology and Croatian society for chemistry.

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First and last name

Ana Katalenić, Ph.D.

Profession

Assistant Professor

Email

akatalenic@foozos.hr

Office number

63

Research interests

Mathematics education, teacher competencies

Curriculum vitae (up to 300 words)

Ana Katalenić graduated as a mathematics and computer science teacher in 2009 from the Faculty of Science, University of Zagreb. She obtained her PhD in 2017 at the same institution with a dissertation entitled Asymptote and asymptotic behavior – didactic transposition in general secondary education in Croatia under the supervision of Dr. Sc. Aleksandra Čižmešija and Dr. Sc. Željka Milin Šipuš. Since July 2009, she has been an employee at the Faculty of Education, Josip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek, where she teaches courses in computer science, mathematics, and mathematics education. She was elected an assistant professor in 2022. She worked as a co-leader of extracurricular activities for fourth-grade elementary school students with a special interest in mathematics and an associate on the scientific project Education of Students with a Special Interest in Mathematics (2008-2013) under the leadership of Dr. Sc. Margita Pavleković. She is a member of the Croatian Mathematical Society, Osijek Mathematical Society, and the Seminar for Mathematics Education, as well as the editorial board of the professional journal Mathematics and Schools and the organizational and scientific committee of the International Scientific Colloquium Mathematics and Children. As a co-author with teacher training students, she participated in the Congress of Mathematics Teachers and in activities of science popularisation. She has presented independently and as a co-author at several professional and scientific conferences. She is the co-author of several scientific and professional papers in mathematics education and one of the editors of the scientific monographs Effective teaching and learning of mathematics through bridging theory and practice (2024) and Advances in research on teaching mathematics (2022). She lives in Đakovo with her husband and three children.

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First and last name

Ana Mirković Moguš, Ph.D.

Profession

Assistant Professor

Email

amirkovic@foozos.hr

Office number

62

Research interests

e-learning, quality of e-learning, information and communication technology in education

Curriculum vitae (up to 300 words)

She teaches courses in Informatics in Teaching and Methodology of Teaching Informatics at the Integrated Undergraduate and Graduate University Teacher Education Study in Osijek. She also conducts classes in Computer Literacy in the regular and part-time university undergraduate programs in Early and Preschool Education, as well as Introduction to Statistics in the university undergraduate program in Educational Rehabilitation and Digital Tools in Inclusive Education.

She serves as the CARNET Coordinator for the Faculty of Education and administrator of e-courses. She is a member of the statistics seminar at the Department of Mathematics.

She regularly participates in and presents papers at international conferences and is a member of several organizational committees for scientific conferences. Additionally, she organizes various workshops as part of the Science Festival.

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CroRIS Ana Mirković Moguš

Name and surname

Damir Tomić, Ph.D.

Academic rank

e-mail

dtomic@foozos.hr

Office

62

Research interests

Information science

He was born on March 22, 1970 in Berlin. He graduated from the Faculty of Education in Osijek in 1996, got his PhD from the Faculty of Organization and Informatics in Varaždin in 2011. From 1994 to 2006 he worked at the First Gymnasium in Osijek as a professor of Informatics. After that he works as an Assistant at the Faculty of Education in Osijek. From 2011 to 2020 he was a member of the Croatian Parliament, and from 2020 a Senior Assistant at the Faculty of Education.

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First and last name

Diana Moslavac Bičvić

Profession

Senior Lecturer

Email

dmoslavac@foozos.hr

Office number

62

Research interests

mathematics methodology, gifted students, class teacher education

Curriculum vitae (up to 300 words)

Diana Moslavac Bičvić was born in 1983 in Osijek. She graduated in 2007 from the Department of Mathematics at Josip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek with a thesis titled Bayesian Statistics, earning the degree of Graduate Professor of Mathematics and Computer Science. After graduating, she worked as a mathematics and computer science teacher at August Šenoa Elementary School in Osijek.

Since November 2008, she has been employed at the Faculty of Education (formerly the Faculty of Teacher Education ), initially as a teaching assistant, later as a lecturer, and since 2022 as a senior lecturer. She regularly presents at international scientific conferences, publishes research and professional papers, and participates in the organizational and program committees of international scientific conferences. In order to popularize mathematics, she regularly organizes workshops as part of the Science Festival and Evening of Mathematics.

She has been an associate on two scientific projects funded by the Croatian Science Foundation and participates in the implementation of institutional projects.

At the Faculty of Education, she teaches courses in Elementary Mathematics, Mathematics, Teaching Mathematics I, Teaching Mathematics II, Statistics, and Mathematics for Gifted Students within the Integrated Undergraduate and Graduate University Class Teacher Study Program. She also teaches Introduction to Statistics and Functional Mathematics in the University Undergraduate Study Program of Educational Rehabilitation, Introduction to Statistics in the University Undergraduate Study Program of Educational Rehabilitation (for part-time students), and Functional Mathematical Abilities and Skills in the University Undergraduate Study Program of Language and Speech Pathology.

For many years, she has worked as a co-leader of the Little School of Mathematics, an extracurricular activity for fourth-grade elementary school students with a special interest in mathematics, which is held at the Faculty of Education.

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CroRIS Diana Moslavac Bičvić

First and last name

Krešimir Vidačić

Profession

Teaching Assistant

Email

kvidacic@foozos.hr

Office number

29

Research interests

environmental education, sustainable development, methodical knowledge

Curriculum vitae (up to 300 words)

Krešimir Vidačić was born in 1996 in Osijek, where he completed his primary and secondary education. He earned a Master of Primary Education degree from the Faculty of Education at Josip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek. Since November 2023, he has been employed as an assistant in the Department of Natural Sciences at the Faculty of Education. In addition to his professional career, he is recreationally active in sports.

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