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Introduction
Francesca Amenduni currently is a PhD student at the Department of Educational Sciences, Università Degli Studi Roma Tre.
Current institution
Current position
- Senior Researcher
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September 2016 - December 2016
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Technological advancements are rapidly transforming education, particularly immersive technologies, such as virtual reality (VR). Despite extensive research on VR’s potential to enhance learning, its effectiveness in vocational education and training (VET) remains underexplored. This study evaluates the performance of VET students using a VR enviro...
Immersive technologies like virtual reality can enhance learning outcomes by improving engagement, motivation, creativity, critical thinking, attention, information retention, satisfaction, self-efficacy, and problem-solving ability. This contribution focuses on exploring the use of virtual reality (VR) environments for assessing learning content....
Context: This study investigates the perspective of vocational educators on the possibility of adopting augmented reality (AR) and hypervideo (HV) technologies to support their teaching practice. Vocational education and training (VET) is particularly concerned with the learning of resources (knowledge, skills and attitudes) that are immediately tr...
Learner engagement and sustained motivation belong to some central challenges in designing and facilitating Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs). One approach to face this challenge has been the use of gamification as an attempt to enhance learner engagement and motivation through the use of game-related elements such as levels, leaderboards, points...
The revised capability benchmark in professional psychology (APA, 2012) identified a set of core competencies for professional psychologists to develop during training. These competencies include professional identity, reflective practice, self-assessment, interpersonal relationship skills, and affective skills. In addition, psychologists’ daily pr...
Industries are currently experiencing several kinds of disruptive changes, including digital transformation and environmental and health emergencies. Despite intense discussion about disruptive changes in companies, the impact of such changes on workplace learning is still underexplored. In this study, we investigated the impact of disruptive chang...
In recent years, digital tools, such as WhatsApp, have been increasingly deployed to support group interaction and collaboration in higher education contexts. To understand contemporary, digitally-mediated collaborative dynamics – including the role played by tutors and the situated nature of group development – robust and innovative methodologies...
Acceptance of technology in educational contexts is a relevant factor in determining teachers' intention to use digital tools in their teaching practice. However, the mechanism through which teachers' digital competence can influence or enhance their technology acceptance and use intention remains relatively unexplored, especially in the context of...
The 21st century and its many challenges (invasion of digital technology, climate change, health crises, political crises, etc.) alert us that we need new educational responses, led by new education professionals.
Research has shown that for these professionals to change in a substantial and profound way, they must change their identity, that is, t...
Any teacher that can be replaced by a machine should be.
—Arthur C. Clarke -
ICTs have substantially transformed our society. However, in the educational field, until 2019, being a teacher who manages ICTs was quite optional. With the COVID-19 pandemic, most teachers had to become virtual teachers, at least intermittently. This accidental and unex...
Blended learning is not a new topic for educational research in Higher Education (HE) [...]
The present paper aims to illustrate the reorganization of the second year course “Standards for museum education” of the two-year post-graduate course “Advanced Studies in Museum Education” promoted by the CDM (Museum Education Centre) – Dept. of Education at University Roma Tre, that was carried out during the Covid-19 pandemic, and to analyse th...
The ongoing Corona crisis has highlighted the importance of digital transformation in educational organisations. The effects of the digital transformation are not limited to the classroom level but extend into various areas of the school. Against this background, we have investigated the current state of digital transformation in Swiss vocational s...
Blended learning usually refers to the combination of online/offline instructional methods. In this paper, we describe a university course in “E-learning Psychology” designed to blend not only modes of teaching, tools, and media, but also learning contexts; specifically, academic and professional contexts. To achieve an effective blend of learning...
The present paper aims to illustrate the reorganization of two post-graduate courses, “Museum Education. Theoretical aspects” and “Advanced Studies in Museum Education” promoted by CDM (Center for Museum Studies) - Dept. of Education at Roma Tre University, carried out during the Covid-19 pandemic, and to analyze the education strategies adopted in...
This chapter presents a qualitative research project called “Oversight Points”. Fifty-nine Italian teachers participated in in-depth semi-structured interviews focusing on their perceptions, grievances, and hopes about remote teaching during the COVID-19 lockdown. Interviewees belong to a national school network and share a longstanding cooperation...
This paper presents the design of two miniMOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses) Autonomy-driven learning and Self-Regulated Learning (SRL), developed in the Open Virtual Mobility MOOC. The design is based on two concepts: microlearning and SRL. All the MOOC elements were designed to support SRL. From a descriptive and quantitative approach, the resea...
In this chapter, we describe a blended university course aimed at supporting transaction from academic learning to the acquisition of professional skills. The design of this course is based on the Blended Collaborative and Constructive Participation (BCCP) model, enriched by the Trialogical Learning Approach (TLA). A detailed description of the arc...
Learner engagement and sustained motivation belong to some central challenges in designing and facilitating Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs). One approach to face this challenge has been the use of gamification as an attempt to enhance learner engagement and motivation through the use of game-related elements such as levels, leaderboards, points...
The current global health emergency has posed the need to reflect upon how to guarantee high standard of quality in 100% virtual exhibition. In this case study, we present one of the possible solutions to design a VR museum exhibition for educational purposes. The Centre for Museum Studies designed “The E-Trouria App”, a VR exhibition which is aime...
Silence is an important aspect of various meditation practices, but little work has focused specifically on the underlying neurophysiology of silence-related meditative practice, and on how it relates to the self-reported experiences of practitioners. To expand current knowledge regarding the neurophenomenology of silence in meditation, we directly...
The role of Higher Education (HE) is growingly acknowledged for the promotion of Critical Thinking (CT). Constructed-response tasks (CRT) are recognized to be necessary for the CT assessment, though they present problems related to scoring quality and cost (Ku, 2009). Researchers (Liu, Frankel, Roohr, 2014) have proposed using automated scoring to...
In the last years, the concept of Virtual Mobility has receiving a growing attention from educational policy makers and institutions, because it has the potential to make more accessible and effective students and teachers mobility in Higher Education. Virtual Mobility could be defined as institutional ICT-supported activities that trigger or facil...
This paper describes five different pilot case studies which show how mini-MOOCs were integrated into study programs in higher education during COVID-19. The pilot case studies were conducted in five different countries (Germany, Italy, Spain, Romania and Slovenia) in the first quarter of 2020 as part of the Open Virtual Mobility project. Open Virt...
In this case-report we describe an experience where alternative places – rather than the classroom – are exploited to implement learning processes. We maintain that this experience is a good example of materiality because it focuses on a project where students had the opportunity to re-design a public space. To this aim, various objects and tools a...
The rapidly growing number of learning materials and repositories makes the issue of how to find the most relevant and best quality resources to be integrated in teaching and learning offers. Thus, effective quality assessment tools are more and more needed. In the present paper, a case-study focusing on quality assurance in a Virtual Mobility (VM)...
p class="0abstract"> The present work describes the structure of a pilot study which was addressed to test a tool developed to automatically assess Critical Thinking - CT Levels through language analysis techniques. Starting from Wikipedia database and lexical analysis procedures based on n-grams, a new approach aimed at the automatic assessment of...
University museums are powerful resource centres in higher education. In this context, the adoption of digital technologies can support personalised learning experience within the university museum. The aim of the present contribution is to present a case study carried out at the Department of Educational Sciences at Roma Tre University with a grou...
Il presente lavoro mira a fornire delle linee guida teoriche e pratiche per la progettazione e implementazione di un servizio 0-6. Tali linee si fondano sull’analisi in profondità di buone pratiche adottate da strutture presenti nelle regioni in cui è stata anticipata l’offerta di servizi 0-6.
Il rapporto di ricerca è suddiviso in tre parti. Nella...
Il presente lavoro mira a fornire delle linee guida teoriche e pratiche per la progettazione e implementazione di un servizio 0-6. Tali linee si fondano sull’analisi in profondità di buone pratiche adottate da strutture presenti nelle regioni in cui è stata anticipata l’offerta di servizi 0-6. Il rapporto di ricerca è suddiviso in tre parti. Nella...
Currently, educational policymakers identify Critical Thinking (CT) as an essential aspect of progress and knowledge growth in any field and in the broad society. Peer interactions and individual writing are helpful pedagogical strategies for CT development that could be enhanced by the use of technologies (Guiller, Durndell, & Ross, 2008). Startin...
Le relazioni tra robotica ed economia costituiscono un affascinante argomento, esso apre un ‘vasto paesaggio scientico’, che abbraccia da meccatronica e intelligenza artificiale fino a scienze sociali, arte e cultura. Questa convergenza è allo stesso tempo un bisogno, una importante sfida per entrambe le aree, e una grande opportunità per migliorar...
Oggi le università potrebbero assumere un ruolo chiave nel preparare gli studenti ad intraprendere percorsi adeguati rispetto agli studi intrapresi. Partendo da tale obiettivo, un corso di laurea in “Psicologia dell’educazione e dell’e-learning” (Bari) è stato progettato basandosi sullo scambio di pratiche e conoscenze tra comunità universitarie e...
L’uso delle tecnologie è sempre più pervasivo nelle nostre società contemporanee che spesso sono oggetto di preoccupazioni e di rappresentazioni negative. Esse sono accusate di creare dipendenza, di raffreddare i rapporti umani, di innescare dinamiche sociali negative, di depotenziare processi di scrittura e lettura e, non ultimo, di impoverire i p...
Boundaries-crossing from university to workplaces is one of the most meaningful crisis for the profes- sional development of the young people. Students need to develop cultural tools to solve their inner con- flicts typical of this phase. In this study, the Dialogical Self Theory is used, inspired by Bakhtin, to define cross-boundaries in terms of...
“Technology enhanced learning” is a buzzword in the feld of education and professional training, but its real meaning is often hazy and not well known. In school education and professional training, technologies sometimes reproduce old-fashioned pedagogical practices rather than transforming or innovating. Sami Paavola, a researcher at CRADLE (Cent...
La transizione dall’Università al mondo del lavoro rappresenta una sfida per i giovani,
specialmente all’interno di un mercato del lavoro instabile. Gli studenti spesso affrontano con
timore il problema di cosa fare dopo l’università, dilemma che coinvolge la loro identità
professionale.
Nello studio qui presentato, è stato ri-progettato un corso u...
University students need to develop generic skills, important in professional contexts. University courses are often based on theoretical knowledge and students have a few chances to develop digital and professional skills during their academic life. This study is exploring a new teaching method applied to a university course on "Education and e-le...
Trialogical Learning Approach describes forms of learning where people are collaboratively planning, developing, and transforming ”shared” objects. We applied TLA in a University Course through the application of the six design principles. The poster describes the context, the course design, main results, challenges and future development.
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I would like to know how to ask to the authors of a psychometric test the permission to translate and validate their psychometric test. More specifically, I would like to understand what is the process to ask for a closed psychometric test, that means that you need to pay to access it. Do you have any experience? Which kind of agreements are possible? Thank you in advance for your reply
I would like to know what is your favorite book about "the story of psychology" and the reasons why you love it! Thank you in advance.
I think that technology could be used by higher education institutes in order to improve connections among university students and companies. Do you know any study which describes university digital platform used for placement and career guidance?
Do you think that can be useful to improve digital networking between university students and firms?
I am looking for good practices for digital university placement! Thank you in advance.
Good afternoon.
I am going to apply for a PhD scholarship and I would like to propose a project about how to support university students' transition from university to workplace. During my master degree I have started to explore this topic and I focused on Identity as a psychological resource useful to face the transition. Could you suggest me some other important psychological resources that students need to have to cross successfully the boundaries from academia to workplaces? Thank you in advance :)
Hello Research Gate Community.
I have a question for you:
during my university education, I read a lot about how to validate quantitative instruments. However, I don't know anything about how to validate qualitative instruments. Do you have any idea? Could you suggest me some references?
Thank you in advance for you reply!
I would like to understand deeply what are the difference between "crisis" and "drama" concepts in Vygostky. What do you think about it?
What are the differences between Personality and Identity concepts from the perspective of Cultural Psychology?
Many cultural psychologists never mention the term "identity" but they use the term "personality" (e.g. Vygostky).
While Bruner for example use the term "identity".
Thank you in advance for your help!
Your project is very interesting for me. In my master degree thesis I am investigating identity trajectories in University students and I am using Dialogical Self theory by Hermans. I would like to know more about "bourdonnaisia" method and I am very curious to read something more about your research!
Hello everyone.
In August I will be in Warsaw for a week and I will take part in an European Project. The main aim of this project is to promote European Citizens through Hip Hop culture and practices.
My question is: how can I investigate the European Identity?
I thought to use the "Dialogical Identity Theory" of Hermans. Any suggestions? This is my first experience in this field. Thank you in advance!
Hi. I'm master's degree student.
Actually, I'm involved in a research for my thesis focused on boundary crossing processes between online communities. Do you think SNA could be used to this purpose? Do you know researches about these topics?
Thank you so much!
Some days ago I see "Spotlight" a brilliant film about investigation into cases of widespread and systemic child sex abuse in the Boston area by Roman Catholic priests.
I'm looking for prevalence studies about pedophilia because i wish to compare film data of 6% with real data.
Some one could help me?
I have no found prevalence studies about pedophilia.
My interest is understand if 6% is the same prevalence of normal population or not.
Thank you so much :)
I'm looking for articles and/or books about:
- use of LinkedIn in University Training;
- assessment student by use of Linkedin
I'm master degree student and I have used L. in my research thesis.
I wish to compare my design with others in order to improve the work in the future.
thank you!
