Alessandro Pagano

University of Bari Aldo Moro | Università di Bari · Department of Economics and Finance (DEF)

International students face unique challenges in pursuing higher education in a foreign country. To address these challenges and enhance their academic experience, higher education institutions are increasingly exploring the use of artificial intelligence (AI) applications. This research essay aims to investigate the impact of AI on the education o...

ABSTRACT Soft skills are interpersonal, communication, and personal attributes that enable individuals to interact effectively with others in personal and workplace settings. Despite the significance of soft skills for career success, these skills are not necessarily taught in traditional academic settings. Consequently, education institutions must...

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The objectives of this editorial are to provide a brief overview of the themes of EJEL papers published in 2023, compare these themes with the areas of work suggested in the previous Editorial (Charbonneau-Gowdy, et al., 2023), and propose new areas of focus for future research. The present Editorial will primarily concentrate on the main challenge...

It is widely recognized that quality and sustainable education is a key enabler for all the SDGs, and that affective education significantly enhances such education. However, while certain pedagogical approaches have been found to support the competencies and skills within Education for Sustainable Development (ESD), there is no tangible framework...

CONTACT ME FOR THE FULL PAPER! Purpose- This paper consolidates empirical studies between 2013 and 2022 to investigate the impact of artificial intelligence (AI) in higher education. It aims to examine published research characteristics and provide insights into the promises and challenges of AI integration in academia. Design/methodology/approach-...

Dear Colleagues, In the rapidly evolving landscape of education, the integration of data-driven mobile networks into educational technology is not just an option but a necessity. This Special Issue, titled "Data-Driven Mobile Networks in Educational Technology: Innovations and Challenges in E-Learning and Higher Education", aims to explore the dyna...

Speech impairments can be extremely debilitating for individuals in many areas of their lives. Speech therapy is a field that aims to solve these disorders by taking into account multiple factors and following patients over an extended period of time. Technology can represent a powerful support system for people affected by these impairments; more...

The technology inside modern vehicles is rapidly growing and poses newer security risks, as vehicle communication protocols are not yet fully secured and vulnerable to attacks. Consequently, the implementation of automotive cybersecurity systems has gained more attention. Controller Area Network (CAN) is one of the most studied communication protoc...

With the emergence of artificial intelligence (AI), many aspects of our lives, from how we work to how we interact with each other and the world around us is showing dramatic changes. Education is one of the key areas that may be impacted by the rise of AI. Although a large number of studies have been conducted in recent years to shed light on how...

Despite the reported disruptive nature of blockchain technology in the extant literature, its adoption is slower than its potential. This difference between the technology's promises and its current adoption has sparked interest in understanding the factors impeding widespread adoption. This systematic literature review (SLR), drawn from 1786 studi...

This special issue is intended to explore the assumption (and to provide at least partial evidence) that the most successful Artificial Intelligence (AI) systems out there today are dependent on teams of humans, just as humans depend on these systems to gain access to information, provide insights and perform tasks beyond their own capabilities. An...

Cyber Security Education is considered one of the key challenges of recent years. The increase in cyber attacks requires not only technical experts but also an increase in the awareness of users using technological devices. ENISA (European Union Agency for Cybersecurity) provides a common understanding of the relevant roles, competences, skills and...

The use of artificial intelligence (AI) applications in education has the potential to revolutionize the learning experience for international students, who face unique challenges when studying in a foreign country. This paper explores various examples of AI applications in education and their potential impact on international students. AI applicat...

Nowadays, homes are much more than just a place to live. Pervasive technology is slowly changing people’s lives as well as their way of living, supporting them in daily activities. This wind of change is also touching homes which are becoming more and more “smart”, automating at a glance users’ routine. Voice assistant devices are able to connect a...

The COVID-19 pandemic marked an important breakthrough in human progress: from working habits to social life, the world population’s behaviours changed according to the new lifestyle requirements. In this changing environment, university courses and learning methods evolved along with other “remote” working activities. For this quasi-experimental s...

Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Human-Computer Interaction are getting closer and closer in modern systems, leading to a slow but constant increasing synergy between the two topics. Text prediction and voice recognition are the most know application for AI techniques. Common examples are virtual keyboards, that suggests the next word to be used in...

Privacy by Design and Security by Design are two fundamental as- pects in the current technological and regulatory context. Therefore, software development must integrate these aspects and consider software security on one hand, and user-centricity from the de- sign phase on the other. It is necessary to support the team in all stages of the softwa...

It is widely recognized that sustainability education is a key enabler for the Sustainable Development Goals, and that affective education significantly enhances such education. This paper introduces and demonstrates a comprehensive, feasible and applicable pedagogical framework in which sustainability can be explicitly fostered as an intrinsic val...

It was March 2020 in Italy, and the nation with all the world is facing the COVID-19 pandemic. Most countries were in lockdown, being asked to "Stay home. Stay safe". Lockdown has closed schools and universities in most countries. UNESCO estimates that over 90% of the world's students are not currently attending school in response to the pandemic,...

COVID19. During the lockdown period, we all have had the opportunity to renew our online teaching strategy and learn something new about the methodology useful to manage the tools (LMS, SCORM, Data Mining) we have to support our students in their study process and, above all, evaluate their performance. As long as we took it seriously and put it in...

This research aims to investigate whether it is possible to perform an in-Basket test online with the same effect as the onsite one. The onsite in-Basket test is widely used, and many behavioral and psychological studies consider it valid. Companies and organizations perform in-Basket tests in order to map employees' soft skills (time, priority, an...

The potentials of the use of AR are showing up in a variety of ways can be used to create unique learning experiences. Recently, the advancement and popularity of handheld devices has enabled researchers to implement more effective learning methods. in educational as well as in corporate settings, from primary through to adult education. The indust...

Maintenance and repair skills can be very complex. Traditional methods of training may not have potential to meet future trends in maintenance and repair. In the light of this, Augmented Reality (AR) is a very promising application of an emerging technology, combining virtual environment with the real world, to support procedural tasks in corporate...

In the last decade, many studies on game-based learning have revolutionized education and Information Technology (IT). The proposed research consists of a project aiming to prove the efficacy of mobile game-based learning for language education. We developed a language learning game with the most innovative HTML5 framework to author an engaging lea...

The huge amount of online conversations that arises from the new means of communication between users, if analyzed and capitalized, is an important resource for companies and brands alike. Thus, a fundamental tool for the management of the relationship with customers such as CRM seems to be exceeded. The concept of a Social CRM platform was born wi...

This paper describes the implementation of adaptive technology in a specific, Open Source, Learning Management System (LMS). After a preliminary study about the adaptive features already built-in and the capabilities ready to perform a suitable student modeling, the research team extended those capabilities with a specific data model, student model...

How could data mining help the development of e-learning methodologies? How could an instructional designer take benefit from the use of adaptive learning? How could adaptive learning be implemented in an Open Source platform? In this paper will be described the implementation of adaptivity technology in a specific, Open Source, Learning Management...

The huge amount of online conversations that arises from the new means of communication between users, if analyzed and capitalized, is an important resource for companies and brands alike. Thus, a fundamental tool for the management of the relationship with customers such as CRM seems to be exceeded. The concept of a Social CRM platform was born wi...

How could data mining help the development of e-learning methodologies? How could an instructional designer take benefit from the use of adaptive learning? How could adaptive learning be implemented in an Open Source platform? In this paper will be described the implementation of adaptivity technology in a specific, Open Source, Learning Management...

Here is described the implementation of adaptivity in Moodle: a specific but very common Learning Management System. After a preliminary study about the adaptive built-in features in moodle learning management system, and the capabilities ready to perform a suitable student modeling, the research team extended Moodle capabilities with a specific da...

This research highlight how a blended e-learning course could promote the soft skill development and prepare the students to world of work. In particular the result of the research analisys underlines the collaboration aspect and the usefulness of experience in teamwork and in real and stressful context. The environment created in this experimental...

Open Source development model gives users the opportunity to contribute. The development of Open Source System does not end at deployment time but requires continuous user participation and contribution. Many companies are involved in Open Source communities for enterprise software development and a huge amount of investments are related to traini...

There has been much debate recently about the use and benefits of virtual learning platforms but these fail to actively support users on an individual basis to actually help them learn at a pace that is appropriate to the learner and that can identify knowledge or skill gaps and address them dynamically. The aim of the research project, called i...

The Free and OSS movement has had phenomenal impact on the industry's evolution, in fact most of the companies today, makes extensive use of Open Source software and technologies. The research communities, are engaged in the study of the open software-related development in order to highlight the advantages and disadvantages in terms of technology,...

There has been much debate recently about the use and benefits of virtual learning platforms but these fail to actively support users on an individual basis to actually help them learn at a pace that is appropriate to the learner and that can identify knowledge or skill gaps and address them dynamically. The aim of the research is to develop such a...

With the advent of the new technologies and thanks to metadata, a new method, tag clouding has been developed to visualize and relate the information on the web sites in the course of years. Tag clouds are visual presentations of sets of words whose characteristics, size, weight and colour vary according to what they must represent. The tags contai...

This paper will explain the first step of a framework for the OSEL 2.0 (Open Source E-Learning 2.0 – http://www.osel.it) Project started from the necessity to create a flexible and integrated system, based on Open Source software, in which an Intelligent Web Agent will be integrated to manage the OSEL’s Learning Objects repository and LCMS. This ap...

The aim of the project is the development of an innovative, Open Source-based eLearning portal, which provides high scalability and versatility, as well as it is easy to upgrade; it aims at meeting some changeable requirement in the field of distance learning (yearly or even monthly innovation). The modular structure and flexibility provided by the...

The aim of the project is the development of an inn ovative, Open Source-based eLearning portal, which provides high scalability and versatility, as well as it is easy to upgrade; it aims at meeting some changeable requirement in the field of distanc e learning (yearly or even monthly innovation). The modular structure and flexibility provided by t...

The aim of the project is the development of an innovative, Open Source-based eLearning portal, which provides high scalability and versatility, as well as it is easy to upgrade; it aims at meeting some changeable requirement in the field of distance learning (yearly or even monthly innovation). The modular structure and flexibility provided by the...

Il principale obiettivo del progetto è lo sviluppo di un innovativo portale di e-Learning, basato su tecnologie OpenSource, con caratteristiche di elevata scalabilità, versatilità e molto semplice da aggiornare; pronto a soddisfare le mutevoli esigenze nel campo dell'apprendimento a distanza. La sua flessibilità e la sua struttura modulare, non sol...