Tudor Lapp

Tudor Lapp

Pedagogy-first technology

I help governments, universities, and schools integrate AI and digital technologies into education — with pedagogy leading, not following.

10,300+ teachers certified · 12 schools · 5 countries · 1 principle

Member of SCIA, Moldova’s interministerial sub-council for artificial intelligence and applied research

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Sound familiar?

Schools invest in technology. Governments launch digital strategies. Yet classrooms don't change. Here's why.

Technology without pedagogy fails

AI tools land in classrooms with no learning design behind them. Teachers get the tool but not the thinking. Students get novelty but not learning.

One-shot training doesn't stick

A workshop happens. Teachers take notes. Monday comes and nothing changes. Without mentoring, portfolios, and sustained support, skills don't transfer to practice.

Buying devices ≠ transformation

Schools get tablets and smartboards but lack the human capacity to use them meaningfully. Digital maturity requires culture change, not just procurement.

I solve these problems at scale.

What I do

Three ways I can help

Whether you need a national programme architect, a hands-on AI trainer, or a keynote speaker — here's how we can work together.

Learning Design & AI Consulting

I design professional development programmes, AI integration strategies, and digital competence frameworks aligned with DigCompEdu. From national policy to classroom scenarios — pedagogy drives every decision.

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Teacher Training at Scale

I build and deliver CPD programmes that actually change practice — through mentoring ecosystems, portfolio-based assessment, reflective learning, and sustained implementation support. DigiProf Moldova, which I co-designed with the Tallinn University team, has certified over 10,300 teachers.

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Speaking & Research

Keynotes, workshops, and conference papers grounded in real implementation — not theory. Topics: AI in education, digital transformation, teacher competence development, pedagogy-first technology integration.

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Flagship projects

Real programmes. Real scale. Real outcomes. Click to expand.

National Programme

DigiProf Moldova

Ministry of Education & UNICEF · 2023 – Present

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Challenge
Moldova needed a national system for developing teacher digital competence, structured enough to reach the 19,000 teachers the programme is contracted to certify, with consistent quality.
Approach
Co-designed the three-level programme (DigiProf A, B, C) with the Tallinn University team and piloted it, then supervised the training of trainers, the methodology, and the development of the programme and its course materials.
Result
Over 10,300 teachers certified December 2025 to May 2026 (Ministry of Education and Research), on the way to the 19,000 contracted by the end of 2026. Programme adopted as national standard for teacher digital competence development. Research presented at EDEN DLE 2026.
School Transformation

Digital Accelerator

CNIDE Clasa Viitorului · 2025 – Present

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Challenge
Schools had digital tools but lacked institutional capacity for meaningful integration. Hardware without human development.
Approach
12-school programme combining Digital Mirror self-assessment, school-level planning, mentoring structures, and meta-mentoring for local change agents.
Result
12 schools developing digital maturity roadmaps. Mentoring ecosystem connecting teacher development with institutional change.
University AI Training

AI for Higher Education

ASEM & USM · 2024 – 2025

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Challenge
University professors needed practical, ethical frameworks for using generative AI in teaching and research — not just tool demos.
Approach
Designed pedagogy-first AI training covering teaching applications, research use, and academic integrity in the context of LLMs.
Result
160+ university professors trained across two institutions. Replicable model adopted for continued faculty development.
International

Pedagogy-First AI — Euneos

Euneos, Tallinn, Estonia · 2025

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Challenge
International educators needed a framework for AI integration that prioritized learning outcomes over tool adoption.
Approach
Delivered the Pedagogy-First AI course — practical workshops on responsible, critical, and pedagogically grounded AI use in teaching.
Result
Multi-country cohort of educators equipped with frameworks and tools. Approach validated internationally beyond the Moldovan context.
Platform

DigiPuls

Own product · 2026 – Present

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Challenge
A school’s digital maturity was whatever the person filling in the form said it was. There was no way to see where the leadership and the teaching team disagreed, no evidence attached to a rating, and no record of who judged what.
Approach
I built the instrument as software: 19 indicators across four domains, six levels each, the administration and the team assessing separately so the gap between them is the finding. Evidence attaches to a rating, a confirmed cycle cannot be edited afterwards, and every action is in an audit log. The whole instrument exists in Romanian, Russian and English, not just the buttons around it.
Result
Running at digipuls.lappsus.com, the software implementation of the Moldova Digital School Framework, replacing the earlier Oglinda Digitală. Real schools are being onboarded. Public pages show a school only when it opts in, and then only a domain-level band, never a person’s name.
Courses

What I teach

Each programme is designed for one group and one problem, then run. None of them is a catalogue course with the client’s name changed.

Curriculum

„AI, de fapt” · AI, Actually

Adults with no technical background · Romanian

Evenings of sixty minutes, four to a block, and you take the blocks you need. The structure follows UNESCO’s AI competency framework adapted for adults, and it aims at practised rather than independent: someone who has used the thing with their own work in front of them, not someone who has heard it explained.

Team programme

AI in writing funding proposals

Teams who already write proposals · Romanian · in person

Three consecutive days of two hours, six contact hours in all. Each day starts from the artefact the last one produced. This is not proposal writing with AI added on top; it is AI for people who already write proposals, which decides everything else about how the three days are built.

Single session

Generative AI safely, inside a public institution

Public bodies · Romanian · 90 minutes

Ninety minutes is not enough for data protection law, account configuration, data hygiene and document checking, so the session does not pretend otherwise. It picks the few things that change what someone does on Monday and leaves the rest documented for later.

Explore the journey

From software engineering in London to national education policy in Moldova. Toggle between timeline and knowledge graph.

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Speaking & events

Conference papers, keynotes, workshops, and hackathons — sharing what actually works when technology meets pedagogy.

June 2026

EDEN DLE 2026

Porto, Portugal — Conference paper on DigiProf & teacher digital competence

2026

EdTech Moldova Forum

Teacher learning, AI & metacognition

2025

BETT London

TeachMeet — EdTech, AI & teacher practice

2025

Euneos — Tallinn

International trainer: Pedagogy-First AI

2023 – 2025

DigiEduHack Moldova

3 editions — national organizer & EU webinar speaker

2025 – 2026

America House Moldova

AI workshops for English teachers & school principals

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Writing & research

What the work taught me

Training ends when the session ends. Writing is how the thinking survives it.

A working library of thirty-five further pieces on AI in education, digital safety, assessment and parenting online is in preparation.

Feedback

From people I've worked with

What programme participants, partners, and collaborators actually said.

Tudor’s approach is consistently pedagogical rather than merely technical — he focuses on how digital tools support teaching, learning, assessment, and learner agency. His capacity to think systemically, understanding digital transformation as leadership, mentoring, and institutional culture rather than isolated training, is one of his strongest qualities.

Victoria Belous
Director, National Centre for Digital Innovations in Education “Clasa Viitorului”

Tudor has distinguished himself through his ability to connect academic knowledge with applied educational practice. He understands that digital technologies shouldn’t be treated as isolated tools, but as part of a broader pedagogical, institutional, and cultural transformation — and he has helped build a more dynamic, future-oriented academic culture here.

Alexandra Barbăneagră
Rector, State Pedagogical University “Ion Creangă” of Chișinău

Tudor has consistently promoted a pedagogically meaningful approach to digitalisation — not the technical use of tools, but how they improve teaching, learning, and inclusion. He understands classroom realities, but also sees the broader systemic conditions that determine whether innovation actually becomes sustainable.

Irina Gîncu
Education Programme Officer, UNICEF Moldova

Let's build something that lasts

Whether you're planning a national programme, a faculty workshop, or a conference keynote — let's talk.

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