Antonio Cartelli

• Mathematics
• Professor (Associate) at University of Cassino and Southern Lazio

This book gathers contributions to the 3rd International Conference on Smart Learning Ecosystems and Regional Developments (SLERD 2018), held at Aalborg University, Denmark on 23–25 May 2018. What characterizes smart learning ecosystems? What is their role in city and regional development and innovation? How can we promote citizen engagement in sm...

The paper reports the results of an investigation on teaching supported by digital equipments in an Italian university. The opportunity for the study arises from the creation of a particular training activity for first employed teachers (called TFA), and it aims at analyzing the teaching styles adopted by professors when the use of digital technolo...

This special issue of the journal collects the proposals of the call for papers focusing on "Digital Literacy and Digital Competence: Facts, Problems, Needs & Trends", an issue solicited by many sides and especially by the members of the editorial board, to draw the panorama emerging from most recent studies on these topics and to define new strate...

This paper discusses the hypotheses, instruments, and processes for the introduction of suitable strategies for digital competence improvement in schools and for lifelong learning, together with the analysis of the first results on the use of a special questionnaire for the assessment. First, the evolution of the models for digital competence analy...

The last four years of Journal life have featured the interest of many scholars for the multiple aspects of digital literacy and digital competence, but some studies have also shown how difficult can be to join the new perspectives of teaching-learning, with and within new technologies, and the growth and development of young generations, at least...

The 21st century has seen an expansion in digital technology and the ways in which it affects everyday life. These technologies have become essential in the growth of social communication and mass media. Fostering 21st Century Digital Literacy and Technical Competency offers the latest in research on the technological advances on computer proficien...

The topic of the individual learning conditions creation can be analysed from the technological as well as pedagogical side. In both cases there is the same fundamental point: how to create valuable and as much as possible natural learning environment? The experience in the application of technologies for personalisation, analysed in scientific lit...

Starting from the key competencies for a knowledge society, this paper examines the information and communication technology (ICT) competency needed by teachers for effective teaching in the 21st-century. The paper analyzes the existing pre-service education programmes for teachers’ ICT competency in Lithuanian universities and colleges, self-evalu...

The M.A.T.R.I.X (Modalities of Telematic Learning and Inter-university Results that can be Extrapolated to Blended Learning)1 project identified and described the diverse teaching methods and practices applied in a representative sample of virtual and blended learning degree courses taught at different Spanish Universities using the G92 Shared Virt...

The needs of adult learners are different from those of traditional undergraduate students, and programs must be designed to meet this need. In particular, digital and technology literacy needs, including general computing skills, computerized communications, online and distance learning, and Web 2.0 tools make navigating coursework an additional c...

This article describes the new requirements of the European Higher Education Area (EHEA) - international and cross-cultural, Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) that are important in all fields of university studies and take on a central role for learning and teaching. The literature review showed that, despite the considerable attent...

This study explores the use of the Internet by medical practitioners in private hospitals in Warri Delta State, Nigeria. Descriptive survey design was adopted and questionnaire was the instrument used to collect data. The total population and sample for the study were 137 medical practitioners from 30 private hospitals in Warri. Findings revealed t...

This paper examines literacy as it affects Space Technology in Nigeria. The place of digital technology enables a proper understanding of literacy in Nigeria. The paper is divided into four parts. The first section redefines literacy in order to understand the possibilities of meanings based on the perceptions of James (1984), Onukaogu (2008), Arua...

For a number of years, there has been a concerted effort by the United Arab Emirates to take a prominent role in introducing e-business initiatives throughout the Gulf region, and this effort has translated into widespread access of internet technology for its own citizens. The country, in setting out to become a hub for foreign and domestic compan...

In this paper the behaviors and tendencies in the use of digital technologies by university students are analyzed. After a short discussion of former studies and the presentation of the model for digital literacy structure and assessment in students attending compulsory school, the investigation carried out by the authors is described and the resul...

After a short introduction on the evolution of ICT influence on mankind and on the meaning and functions of smart cities, the Me.Dig.Eco. project Eco-Sustainable Digital Mediterranean Sea is discussed and it is especially showed how it can contribute in the construction of a virtual environment, having the following main features: a aiming at helpi...

After a short introduction describing the influence that digital technologies and especially the Internet had on mankind, the paper reports on the last projects for the introduction of digital technologies in Italian schools, and especially focuses on the InnovaScuola project. This analysis leads to the discussion of the difficulties that students...

Being a digital citizen has transformed from a process of familiarizing ones’ self with terminology and techniques to a full-time responsibility in the hands of any who want to stay abreast of the latest technological change in their respective field. Current Trends and Future Practices for Digital Literacy and Competence offers a look at the lates...

The library built in the mid-15th century by the Lord of Cesena Malatesta Novello still preserves 343 manuscripts. 126 out of these codices were copied and illuminated for him. The activity of the Malatesta scriptorium covers a period of about twenty years, from 1446 to 1465, when Novello died. This corpus, consisting of manuscripts written in a re...

Developments in information and communication technologies have raised the issue of the intergenerational digital divide that can take place between “digital natives” and “digital immigrants”. Despite emphatic claims concerning how educational systems must take into account the specific characteristics of “digital natives”, sound empirical research...

A community made up of a group of individuals becomes a “community of practice” when a mutual engagement is established between its members. The mutual engagement unites the participants in the carrying out of a common task (Wenger, 1998). The main aim of a community of practice is to find the solution to a problem by sharing experiences (Midoro, 2...

In today’s knowledge society, better identified as a learning society, the opportunities for self-instruction and lifelong learning are playing an increasing role due to Information Communication Technologies. Old and new communication technologies offer possibilities for learning, as long as the worker is capable of learning in autonomy. Training...

The aim of this study was to examine the differences among harassed teachers and un-harassed ones, regarding coping strategies, self-efficacy, and locus of control. Participants were 255 teachers (163 women and 92 men) who completed a set of three questionnaires, the Mobbing Perceived Questionnaire, a battery of control expectancies, and the Brief...

ICT skills are fundamental for the further enhancement and development of productivity and knowledge-intensive products and services. The long-term-demand for professionals with ICT skills still exceeds the supply, particularly in user industries such as the travel industry. This paper presents the results of a study aimed at analysing the impact o...

This paper outlines and challenges expectations and promises regarding the potential of the internet and Web 2.0 for empowering patients and citizens. It focuses on literacies required to make a meaningful (to the individual) use of these technologies for health and health care related purposes. The author briefly discusses how these should be taug...

The paper is made of two parts. The first part discusses the importance of informal education environments supported by IT/ICT in students’ learning, followed by reports of some international competitions and the role they have in improving students’ interest and use of Informatics and related disciplines. At the end of the section, it describes th...

The paper explores the effectiveness of a new computer-supported collaborative problem solving educational approach in higher education at a master’s course level. After outlining the technological and pedagogical characteristics of a new digital cooperative environment, as well as the constructivist, learner-centered philosophy of the Daosan Maste...

In this paper, the authors give an overview of the current trends of media literacy in Europe. The study titled “Current trends and approaches to media literacy in Europe”, commissioned in the second half of 2007 by the European Commission to the Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, maps current practices in implementing media literacy in Europe and...

The study presented explores aspects of adult learning on digital literacy in the context of a lifelong learning programme for social cohesion in Greece. The article outlines the framework of the digital literacy subject and underlines its associated objectives regarding adults’ knowledge and competence in Information and Communication Technologies...

The advent of new media and web technologies made both contents and “containers” more “liquid” and requires an in depth reflection on the multi-facets concept of literacy in which the author tries to develop from an education point of view that can be defined as “experiential”. According to such reflection, in the present scenarios, the “design” be...

The cultural landscape poses different challenges for teachers. Beyond developing reading and writing skills, it is necessary to emerge in the digital culture and master the different codes of different languages. In this context, media education studies discuss the educational possibilities of interpreting, problematizing, and producing different...

Digital divide can be considered a macro economical index representing the social differences and the separation between the North and the South of the world. Since the first definition of digital divide, it has been shown that it is also a great and unrecognized problem in the developed countries, especially in the field of education. “Digital dis...

It seems improbable that Wikipedia could be considered a valid resource for educational institutions like schools and universities because of the risk of incurring mistakes, inaccuracies, and plagiarism. The bad reputation of the free encyclopedia is false, Wikipedia is reliable and can be used in the curriculum as a new approach for social and col...

In this paper the behaviors and tendencies in the use of digital technologies by university students are analyzed. After a short discussion of former studies and the presentation of the model for digital literacy structure and assessment in students attending compulsory school, the investigation carried out by the authors is described and the resul...

The article is made of two parts. The first part discusses the importance of informal education environments supported by IT/ICT in students’ learning, followed by reports of some international competitions and the role they have in improving students’ interest and use of Informatics and related disciplines. At the end of the section, it descri...

Today, life is more complex and difficult due to uncertainties in society. Liquid life (Bauman, 2006) is frenetic, rapidly changing and highly influenced from information and communication technologies, and forces subjects to adapt to group behavior avoiding exclusion. Human beings are experimenting with the digital age and the pervasiveness of com...

The paper discusses the impact of IT/ICT on society by analyzing the effects it has on subjects and organizations. The recent proposal of frameworks for digital competence assessment and the construction of suitable instruments helping students in the acquisition of this competence are the main reason for the transfer to Small and Medium Enterprise...

After a short introduction on the need for a new literacy, coming from the work of many organi-zations and institutions during last twenty years, the approach adopted by an Italian research group for the planning and development of a framework for digital competence assessment is dis-cussed. This model, the first built until now, has been used to c...

The online information systems the authors planned and constructed for research and teaching on the ancient manuscripts are described as first. The correspond- ing web sites, used to store the bibliography and more general data on ancient manu- scripts, are soon after analyzed; it is also shown how they contributed in the creation of communities of...

The paper first proposes a panorama of the changes that IT/ICT are producing in different educational contexts. Soon after it focuses on the analysis of two experiences which will be held in two schools and will involve teachers, students and their families. The discussion of the projects is preceded from a short summary of the most important Itali...

Despite the significant investment and growth both in Europe and globally in the development of virtual universities and virtual campuses over the last decade, there have been a number of high-profile projects and initiatives that failed to achieve their intended goals. If such failures are to be avoided in the future, then it is vital that a bette...

After a short overview of the results obtained by t he use of information systems for teaching and research in paleography, the problem of the student s' access to information on the web is dis- cussed. The difficulty students have in finding the "right" documents, among the ones freely available in the site of the "Materials for Latin p aleography...

The paper starts by describing the changes in the theory and practice of computing at school in the last years. It focuses first on the transition from character interfaces to graphic interfaces (GUIs), then on the Internet, with a special attention to the presence of misconceptions and mental schemes in students' minds. Today debate on the feature...

Pulmonary auscultation has been the key method to detect and evaluate respiratory dysfunctions for many years. However, auscultation with a stethoscope is a subjective process that depends on the individual’s own hearing, experience, and ability to differentiate between different sounds (Sovijarvi et al, 2000). Therefore, the computerized method fo...

This article aims to examine these different e-learning models and discuss some recent evolutions in this field due to the development of online learning communities (Palloff & Pratt, 1999) and the diffusion of social networking practices that have emerged in the Web in recent years (Bonaiuti, 2006). Chapter Preview Top Introduction Since the beg...

After a short overview of the results obtained by the use of information systems for teaching and research in paleography, the problem of the students’ access to information on the web is discussed. The difficulty students have in finding the “right” documents, among the ones freely available in the site of the “Materials for Latin paleography”, ca...

This paper explores a number of key issues that have been identified as being important in the identification and evaluation of best practice within the context of e-learning and virtual campuses. The 'Promoting Best Practice in Virtual Campuses' (PBP-VC) project is a two year European Commission Education Audiovisual and Culture Executive Agency (...

This paper considers the increasing impact of Information and Communications Technologies (ICT) and eLearning practices and the associated rise in Virtual Campuses (VC) as a recognized and respected research area in the EU and around the world. The paper provides an outline of the key issues characterizing the VC paradigm and the framework determin...

This paper reports on the work of a European Commission DG Education and Culture co-financed project PBP-VC, Promoting Best Practice in Virtual Campuses, which is aimed at pro-viding a deeper understanding of the key issues and critical success factors underlying the imple-mentation of virtual campuses. T he paper outlines a tentative model of issu...

The article aims at presenting some experiences concerning new ways of introducing ICT in teaching and especially the use of Web technologies in education. It starts with the analysis of the results that the author obtained with little groups of students, while using special Web sites (i.e., online information systems) for the collection of bibliog...

Come si può definire e valutare la competenza digitale? Uno dei più diffusi strumenti per la certificazione delle abilità informatiche è l'ECDL, che presenta alcuni limiti soprattutto nella stretta relazione con conoscenze tecnologiche legate a specifici software. Il nostro gruppo di ricerca ha elaborato un modello per la definizione della competen...

IT (Information Technology) and ICT (Information and Communication Technology) are undoubtedly changing mankind's contexts and environments but, what's more, they are modifying subjects, communities and the whole society. As a consequence citizenship has gained new meanings, and national and international institutions have been forced to define new...

How digital competence can be defi ned and assessed? One of the most known instruments to certificate IT skills is the European Computer Driving License (ECDL), but it focuses on the mastery of specific technical skills while neglecting dimensions which are pedagogically significant.In such a context, our research group developed a conceptual model...

After a short introduction on the hypotheses scholars developed for explaining knowledge construction and evolution in mankind, the role that ICT is playing on this phenomenon is described. From the results of many studies and from the separation today well settled between human knowledge and corporate knowledge, the idea of a tri-partition of know...

Three main questions guided the author in the writing of this chapter: Is there the need for a widespread and in-depth ICT literacy in mankind? What has to be meant for ICT literacy? And are there special problems in students’ learning of ICT topics? And last but not least: How can ICTs themselves improve teachers’ work and students’ learning on IC...

Every day, information and communication technologies (ICT) are extending their influence on knowing and transmitting knowledge. They act on humankind at different levels: the individual, the society, and the community/organization. The Internet more than other instruments in the past is changing human customs and knowledge strategies mostly due to...

The 20th century has marked the transformation of the philosophical definition of knowledge into a new and different one. The new idea of knowledge mostly depends on the experiences and theories from human and social sciences like psychology, pedagogy, anthropology, sociology, and so forth. But many contributions to its specification are also due t...

Information and communication technology (ICT) is today influencing many aspects of our lives from administration to economy from culture and entertainment to work, and so forth. Education is receiving from IT and ICT a great deal of suggestions just from their first beginning. It is well known, for example, that Taylor (1980) outlined three metaph...

Every day, information and communication technologies (ICT) are extending their influence on knowing and transmitting knowledge. They act on humankind at different levels: the individual, the society, and the community/organization. The Internet more than other instruments in the past is changing human customs and knowledge strategies mostly due to...

This paper reports on the work of a European Commission DG Education and Culture cofinanced project PBP-VC, Promoting Best Practice in Virtual Campuses, which is aimed at providing a deeper understanding of the key issues and critical success factors underlying the implementation of virtual campuses. The paper outlines a tentative model of issues u...

The paper reports on the features of the framework for digital literacy support and documentation, developed within a research project the author is working on, with some colleagues in other Italian universities. First a short introduction on the features of today society often called “knowledge society” is reported, and the problems of digital div...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to provide an analysis and review of the sociotechnical approach as a result of analysis of experiences with the introduction of ICT in higher education Design/methodology/approach – The experiences of the author with the creation of special web sites in palaeography are analysed paying special attention to k...

After a short introduction on socio-technical theory, the experiences the author made in the plan- ning and carrying out of web sites and information systems for research and teaching are re- ported. The results from those experiences are analyzed with a special attention to knowledge development at three different levels: individuals, communities,...

After a short introduction on socio-technical theory, the experiences the author made in the planning and carrying out of web sites and information systems for research and teaching are reported. The results from those experiences are analyzed with a special attention to knowledge development at three different levels: individuals, communities, and...

The author describes his experience with students interacting with some websites he made for didactics and research and how this led him to an appreciation for the need for better searching tools and strategies for education. The students' difficulties emerging from the above observa-tions were a special case of the more general problem evidenced f...

The chapter starts with a short introduction on students' assessment and school evaluation and the great changes investing them in last decades. Soon after the same topics are deeply analyzed with respect to results coming from educational research and to the introduction and use of ICT; as a consequence the limits of the partial application of ICT...

Teaching in the Knowledge Society: New Skills and Instruments for Teachers covers a pedagogical survey of the changes induced by information and communication technology (ICT) in today's society and education. It critically analyzes facts, instruments, solutions, and strategies while suggesting interpretations and hypotheses to develop a new way of...

After a short introduction on the hypotheses scholars developed for explaining knowledge construction and evolution in mankind, the role that ICT is playing on this phenomenon is described. From the results of many studies and from the separation today well settled between human knowledge and corporate knowledge, the idea of a tri-partition of know...

Every day, information and communication technologies (ICT) are extending their influence on knowing and transmitting knowledge. They act on humankind at different levels: the individual, the society, and the community/organization. The Internet more than other instruments in the past is changing human customs and knowledge strategies mostly due to...

In this chapter the authors describe how ICT changed the way of approaching research and teaching for today’s paleographers. First of all they report how new technologies changed the cataloging, the studying, and the spreading of information concerning ancient manuscripts all over the world. Next, the results of the experiences they carried out at...

It is well known that computers, information technology (IT), and information and communication technology (ICT) strongly influenced individuals and communities in their ways of knowing and transmitting knowledge. The impact the above instruments had on human activities has been often compared to other historical revolutions such as alphabet and pr...

Databases and systems for their management are today more and more important for individual and corporate applications. Furthermore the spreading of the Internet has made possible the achievement of centralized information systems, accessible from everywhere on the Net, both for querying data and for managing them.

Mankind studied and analyzed knowledge and learning since its first history and two main ways of thinking imposed very early: idealism, interpreting reality as the construction of human mind, and empiricism, looking at knowledge as the effect of the human-reality interaction. Recently three ways of interpreting thinking and knowledge intervened in...

The author describes his experience with students interacting with some websites he made for didactics and research and how this led him to an appreciation for the need for better searching tools and strategies for education. The students’ difficulties emerging from the above observations were a special case of the more general problem evidenced fr...

The paper first describes the main features of the project for vocational and educational guidance the author recently planned. The main aim of the project was to help students develop self guid- ance skills and overcome the difficulties they meet at school. The information system used in the project was based on the use of action research and soci...

Every day, information and communication technologies (ICT) are extending their influence on knowing and transmitting knowledge. They act on humankind at different levels: the individual, the society, and the community/organization. The Internet more than other instruments in the past is changing human customs and knowledge strategies mostly due to...

In this chapter the authors describe how ICT changed the way of approaching research and teaching for today's paleographers. First of all they report how new technologies changed the cataloging, the studying, and the spreading of information concerning ancient manuscripts all over the world. Next, the results of the experiences they carried out at...

It is well known that computers, information technology (IT), and information and communication technology (ICT) strongly influenced individuals and communities in their ways of knowing and transmitting knowledge. The impact the above instruments had on human activities has been often compared to other historical revolutions such as alphabet and pr...

Mankind studied and analyzed knowledge and learning since its first history and two main ways of thinking imposed very early: idealism, interpreting reality as the construction of human mind, and empiricism, looking at knowledge as the effect of the human-reality interaction. Recently three ways of interpreting thinking and knowledge intervened in...

Three main questions guided the author in the writing of this chapter: Is there the need for a widespread and in-depth ICT literacy in mankind? What has to be meant for ICT literacy? And are there special problems in students' learning of ICT topics? And last but not least: How can ICTs themselves improve teachers' work and students' learning on IC...

The paper first describes the main features of the project for vocational and educational guidance the author recently planned. The main aim of the project was to help students develop self guidance skills and overcome the difficulties they meet at school. The information system used in the project was based on the use of action research and social...

After a short introduction that describes the author's interest in educational and vocational guid-ance, this paper reports on the psychological and pedagogical contributions to the analysis of the phenomenon. The limits of the above approaches are then analyzed and the need for the monitor-ing of the students' cognitive, relational and affective s...