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UniVirtual Lab

e-learning technologies Lab

For the Interuniversity Center CIRDFA (Centro Interateneo per la Ricerca Didattica e la Formazione Avanzata)

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The inspiring idea

Nowadays the knowledge demand in every context of work and social

interaction, address people to search for lifelong and lifewide learning

This put the bases for personalized education, both of high quality and

easily accessible; eLearning seems to be one of the best strategies to

satisfy both criteria, enhancing possibilities for learners to experience

ubiquitous learning, a strong possibility of personal and institutional

development

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The starting point

In the following years, the Lab has widen its scope, participating in several international and national projects where it has experimented virtual learning environments, net based learning tools, and training of trainers to the use of educational technologies

… Univirtual Lab was founded on 1999 with the aim of developing online teachers education courses, implemented by SSIS of VENETO (School of Especialization for Secondary Teaching)

Today, the Lab provides support for learning&instructional

design, with an approach to innovation in educational

technologies, and strongly supported by research evidence, in

collaboration with CIRDFA (Interuniversity Center for Educational

Research and Advanced Training)

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…Today

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Areas & Functions

Quest'area realizza le diverse funzioni per lo sviluppo di strategie mirate di learning&instructional design; dall'analisi di fabbisogni, alla progettazione di interventi formativi, alla formazione dei formatori. Si occupa inoltre della costruzione di tools e metodologie specifiche a seconda degli scenari e problemi formativi.

Area dedicata alla progettazione della comunicazione web, da stili e caratteristiche grafiche del contenuto elaborato alle metodologie di presentazione web per l'uso dei diversi livelli/profili di utenza.

Scientific Coordination

Web Design & Development

Learning & Instructional Design

Web Editing, Content Management, Institutional communication

Business Development

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Research Profile

Learning on the cyberspace is creating new phenomena, which in time become a continuing challenge both for research and practice. The Lab intends to analyze well defined research problems in this field, without leaving ethical and deontological concerns

The aim is to put into practice significant activities, with the highest educational and social impact among participants and trainers.

The research areas are…..

- Networked learningNew learning environments, instructional & learning design for hybrid learning.

- Training of TrainersEducators professionalism for new educational contexts on the net and in glocal networks.

- Open educational Resources and Metadata

Open content for better access and innovation in learning

E-researchResearch methodologies and tools to understand learning processes on the net.

LA LOGICA DEL DISEGNO

Learning DesignEducational Planning and Methodologies

Web Design&Development

Training of TrainersEducational

implementationEvaluation

Content DesignWeb EditingInstitutional

Communication

Research IStudy on the state of art, sceneries and problems of

Education. Analysis of learning models

Research IIAnalysis of Educational

Technologies. Development of tools and learning

environments.Metadata

Research III Learning Processes, outputs

and outcomes Educational and Social

Impact

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…Tasks and working process

ACCREDITAMENTO E CERTIFICAZIONE

DI PERCORSI FORMATIVI ONLINE

DI NICCHIA

The Lab developes the following servicesThe Lab developes the following services

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Services

Blended Training Courses

Technological and Methdological

AssistenceContent Management,

Learning Groups Management, Training of

Trainers

Learning Objects Development

Open Educational Resources Repositories

Monitoring Learning Processes

Assessment Tools

Accreditation and Certification of

LearningPersonalization of

Learning

• Learning Design is based on educational and institutional sceneries, being hence customized.

• Design stands for a process of negotiated construction in collaboration with policy makers, institutional responsibles, educators and learners

Needs’ Analysis

Educational Model

Learning Contexts

Approaches to Evaluation and

Assessment

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…Learning Design

Univirtual LabA training framework: ILEP (Margiotta, 2006)(information, laboratory , evaluation, personalization)

ILEP is an instrumental framework that defines a teaching progressively oriented to promote different steps in the dynamic,

cognitive and metacognitive growing up of the students.The ILEP framework contains and formalizes the following

hypothetical steps of the teaching action:

INFORMATION: This step cover the process that communicates knowledge, focused on the activation and the organisation on knowledge and experience schemes. The teacher, in this step, promotes on student the acquisition of new information, new patterns of reasoning and analogical understanding

LAB: This step includes activities where students learn to explore, prove, falsify, and corroborate what they learn; laboratory is the experimental environment in which students learn to apply what it is known in different and problematic environments of human experience.

ASSESSMENT: This third step relates to recursive stages of analysis, interpretation and justification of learning results with a particular focus on their generalization. This step could be characterized as a continuous participatory analysis of learning process by students.

PERSONALIZATION: This is a recursive action that promotes students’ capacities to explore and to identify rules with which it Is possible to discover new rules of knowledge /experience composition and combination. This is an inventive step: students learn to mastery knowledge and experiences, to gain and to equilibrate attitudes, to understand differences in the largest world, to speak different alphabets , to act a well founded citizenship.

Univirtual LabA training framework: ILEP (Margiotta, 2006)(information, laboratory , evaluation, personalization)

PersonalizationProvide further bibliographyHighlight alternative path to

develop knowledge/skillsCreate additional materials

InformationExplain Education goalsDefine steps through TimelineGive a Theme’s sommaryProvide Advance Organizers (Ausubel, 1960)Contextualize LearningProvide a Conceptual Map or Elements to build itProvide main contents through text, multimedia, new technologies.

AssessmentAssess declarative knowledge

Assess competencies (procedural knowledge)

Assess problem solving skills (imaginative knowledge)

LabFormulate questions about crucial conceptsPropose discussions Propose cases to studyPropose problems to analyzeOffer feed-back about learning process and students’ achievements

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Learning Approaches

Learning Approaches

Self-Learning Approach(online)

The learning process is conceived as individual,

where the single retrieves the material of his/her interest from the net

Certification/recognition of learning occurs through

highly structured tests and assignments

Assisted training Approach(blended)

The learning process is conceived as individual,

where the single interacts with a tutor online and

eventually with other usersCertification/recognition of

learning occurs through tests and assignments proposed by the tutor and interacting

with colleagues

Collaborative Learning(eel – enriched

environment learning)

The learning process is conceived as social, where learning environments offer several inputs to motivate

participants to interact among them

Certification/recognition of learning occurs through self-recognition and triangulation

of several instruments of evaluation (mixed qual-

quan)

Consorzio Univirtual

UNIVIRTUAL LabDefining Learning EnvironmentsMosaic Learning Environment

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Defining Learning Contents LDS (Learning desing system)

Learning Plan Competences Profile

Discipline Knowledge

Social Knowledge

Matrix : concepts, representations, images

Learning Unit

Sommary of the Unit Contents, Activities, Evaluation

Unit ObjectivesStudy

SectionsActivities

Learn more

LA LOGICA DEL DISEGNO

Assessment

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…Learning Design: Learning Units - Text

Learning Plan Competences Profile

Discipline Knowledge

Social Knowledge

Matrix : concepts, representations, images

Learning Unit

StoryboardSelection of Media – Map of Hyperlinks

Plot ActorsCritical Incident

InteractionLearn more

LA LOGICA DEL DISEGNO

Reflections/Creation

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…Learning Design: Learning Units - Multimedia

Technologies used

Virtual Learning Environments

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… AWAP : a special case of Personal Learning Environment

What’s AWAP?

It stands for Ambiente Web per l’apprendimento personalizzato (personal learning environment on the Web) which aim is to make interact LMS with WEB 2.0 according to user’s motivations and scopes

HOW?Through highly flexible platforms, which are interoperable and allow hence the necessary simplicity and usability to keep “natural” user’s environments and tools connected within the learning experience

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Favaretto, 2009

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A net to support the Net

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A net to support the Net

SW Open Source and interoperability

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Thank you!

Any Question?Pls contact:

Parco Scientifico e Tecnologico di Venezia, Edificio Lybra

Via delle Industrie 17/a 30175 Marghera (VE), Italy

Phone: +390415094363 / +390415094363    

  Email: [email protected]