Juliana Elisa Raffaghelli

University of Padova | UNIPD · Department of Philosophy, Sociology, Education and Applied Psychology FISPPA

The complexity of the current onlife reality, pervasively platformized and characterized by the uncertainty of unprecedented and globally accelerating changes, demands not only skills of a performative nature but, above all, a renewed agentive mindset to be tackled responsibly, consciously, and ethically. The goal of this contribution is to explore...

This narrative literature review aims to explore interactions in social robotics within a hospital context, highlighting how the complexity of interventions calls for an ethical and educational professional agency rooted in good care. We present the theoretical framework through three key insights and employ speculative method to stimulate the deve...

One trending theme within research on learning and teaching is an emphasis on artificial intelligence (AI). While AI offers opportunities in the educational arena, blindly replacing human involvement is not the answer. Instead, current research suggests that the key lies in harnessing the strengths of both humans and AI to create a more effective a...

A key focus is assessing children's apps, emphasising informational clarity, safety, and data ethics. The present study employs a structured database for app evaluation, by categorising 30 apps into edutainment, education, instruction, and training based on various criteria, including educational value and user ratings. Moreover, a comparative eval...

Como consecuencia de las transformaciones iniciadas en los últimos años, y que se han acelerado en el contexto de la pandemia del COVID-19, se ha intensificado la penetración de nuevas infraestructuras, plataformas digitales y herramientas de uso intensivo de datos en los sistemas educativos nacionales (Suárez et al., 2023; Williamson & Hogan, 2020...

El presente articulo estudia las percepciones de los principales representantes de la comunidad educativa sobre el uso de las plataformas digitales en entornos educativos, centrándose en cuestiones de privacidad y protección de datos. Se adoptó una metodología cualitativa con un enfoque etnográfico para analizar seis casos específicos en diferentes...

The systematic evaluation of the integration of problem-based learning (PBL) into educational programs in Italy is scarce and there are no published reports of its use in an Italian Bachelor of Veterinary Science degree program. This paper aims to assess the satisfaction of second-year students on an international Bachelor of Veterinary Science deg...

This paper introduces a study aimed at understanding informal learning to develop open data literacy. Based on the open datasets and reports published by the Open Knowledge Foundation (OKF) on the globally organised event Open Data Day 2021, we extracted 20 records and applied to them quantitative and thematic analysis. Convergent and diversified p...

With the emergence of medial and dynamic contexts, influenced by the invisible presence of the post-digital, the need for digital and transmedial literacy is arising, necessarily challenging education and training. It is essential to explore teaching strategies to support critical understanding beyond the static information. The argument maps, orig...

Digital data has consolidated as the fuel of technological development. The commercialisation of Large Language Models and Generative Artificial Intelligence has led to the massive adoption of Artificial Intelligence applications by the general public, bringing data literacy to a prominent position in the public debate. In this data-driven economy...

Despite progress in data literacy frameworks associated with a critical discussion of datafication, educators are still perplexed when it comes to working with these issues in their everyday teaching practice. In part, this is due to the complexity of the data infrastructures that permeate educational practice itself. In this context, it seems part...

The so-called logic of datafication and platformisation, as a consolidated business model for the BigTech industry with applications to education (van Dijck et al., 2018), can also reach (and affect) early education and care. In a kid’s culture that values documenting and sharing with parents, social media and instant messaging are widely used. Edu...

Data literacy is considered a key dimension supporting citizens’ enhancement of open data. Nevertheless, more precise definitions of its role and the consideration of nuances between the types of knowledge and abilities that influence a relevant use of open data are needed. Therefore, we carried out a systematic review of the literature, spotting:...

Purpose It has been demonstrated that AI-powered, data-driven tools’ usage is not universal, but deeply linked to socio-cultural contexts. The purpose of this paper is to display the need of adopting situated lenses, relating to specific personal and professional learning about data protection and privacy. Design/methodology/approach The authors i...

Holocaust education, which refers to the teaching and learning of the Holocaust—the systematic genocide of six million Jews by Nazi Germany and its collaborators during World War II—is an essential component of history and social studies education in many countries. Its primary aim is to raise awareness of the Holocaust, promote understanding of it...

After decades of turbulence and acute crises in recent years, how can we build a better future for Higher Education? Thoughtfully edited by Laura Czerniewicz and Catherine Cronin, this rich and diverse collection by academics and professionals from across 17 countries and many disciplines offers a variety of answers to this question. It addresses t...

Myths are universal narratives linked to objects, shaping social and personal identities. Technologies generate modern myths, influencing choices and impacting our lives. The present study focuses on EdTech myths. From a qualitative methodological approach based on codesign, five relevant EdTech myths are identified. Subsequently, the analysis was...

The need for educational approaches that comply with the restrictions arising from the COVID-19 pandemic has raised a number of critical issues for students of different age groups. The delicate transition between high school and university has become a key point to focus on, leading many institutions to replan projects dedicated to students involv...

Starting from the position that ‘something important is going on with data’, the role of each educators’ political agency to act within complex datafied contexts is explored. After first examining broader efforts to make sense of data, and its processing and use in social science research, the HDI elements of agency, legibility and negotiability ar...

This study adopts a conceptual research approach to examine recent developments in Digital Holocaust Memory regarding the use of digital technology for teaching and learning about the Holocaust. In order to promote heritage education, this paper proposes a conceptual framework that links the field of Digital Holocaust Memory with the approach of le...

Background Holocaust memory and learning processes have become increasingly mediatised as a result of rapid technological advances. There is, however, little information available regarding how people learn about this topic informally through social media. Objectives This paper explores how adult learners develop their learning ecologies by using...

Il feedback interno è un costrutto divenuto recentemente rilevante per il suo impatto sulla regolazione metacognitiva e affettivo-relazionale, in relazione a diverse skills e contesti formativi. In particolare, il concetto di comparator, ovvero gli strumenti, gli interventi o le risorse che attivano il feedback interno, necessita di approfondimento...

Usar tecnología no es solo hacer algo con un artefacto, supone establecer una relación con el mundo y con nosotros mismos (Floridi, 2015). En educación, la tecnología genera una serie de expectativas sobre cómo proyectar mundos. ¿Sobre qué expectativas ideamos la educación con tecnología? Las respuestas son amplias y complejas. Una forma de encarar...

"Construir Culturas de Datos Justas: Desafíos para el Profesorado " is proposed as a contribution to the growing body of research that explores the problematics of the impending technological change that has occurred in the last ten years. In this sense, the book makes reference to the governance of our digital interactions through Big Tech platfor...

This chapter introduces the book “Data Cultures in Higher Education: Emerging Practices and the Challenges Ahead”. It is based on four sections that frame several chapters’ work and present it. In the first section, we briefly explain the problem of data and datafication in our contemporary society. To offer conceptual lenses, the idea of complexit...

This chapter complements the introduction to the book “Data Cultures in Higher Education: Emerging Practices and the challenges ahead”. This chapter explores policy-making areas that impact higher education directly or indirectly. These areas are (a) transformation of higher education (from discourses of modernisation to the problem of managerialis...

Assessment and evaluation in education were a subject of quantification early in the history of the educational systems, given their crucial role to allegedly support transparency, accountability and effectiveness. The aim of this chapter is to scrutinise the evolution of recent discourses relating assessment in higher education, to uncover the fal...

Open data has been conceptualised as a strategic form of public knowledge. Tightly connected with the developments in open government and open science, the main claim is that access to open data (OD) might be a catalyser of social innovation and citizen empowerment. Nevertheless, the so-called (open) data divide, as a problem connected to the situa...

This chapter presents the conclusions of the book Data Cultures in Higher Education: Current Practices and Emergent Challenges. It is divided in three parts. The first part introduces the contributions of the initial chapters in the book, highlighting the idea of complexity in the current landscape of data practices. It also reviews the cases intro...

This collection focuses on the role of higher education institutions concerning datafication as a complex phenomenon. It explores how the universities can develop data literac(ies) shaping tomorrow skills and “formae mentis” to face the most deleterious effects of datafication, but also to engage in creative and constructive ways with data. Notably...

Can education be a response to the injustices generated by datafication? Although education has been considered a crucial instrument to generate a more democratic and egalitarian society, there is no linear relationship between education and social justice. In the same vein, data literacy as an approach to generate data justice or social justice in...

Digital systems are increasingly becoming central to the running of contemporary schools. A range of digital tools are also adopted by teachers to facilitate face to face teaching and learning and more recently to accommodate remote schooling. Similarly, digital technologies lie at the heart of how students support their learning but also interact...

Purpose Although current research has investigated how open research data (ORD) are published, researchers' behaviour of ORD sharing on academic social networks (ASNs) remains insufficiently explored. The purpose of this study is to investigate the connections between ORDs publication and social activity to uncover data literacy gaps. Design/metho...

While ChatGPT has recently become very popular, AI has a long history and philosophy. This paper intends to explore the promises and pitfalls of the Generative Pre-trained Transformer (GPT) AI and potentially future technologies by adopting a speculative methodology. Speculative future narratives with a specific focus on educational contexts are pr...

Aim/Purpose: In undergraduate training, helping students improve argumentative text comprehension (CoT) by identifying the elements of an argumentative text and critical thinking (CT) by reconstructing the meaning of the text and constructing their own reflections is relevant. Argumentative skills are essential on both the personal and professional...

This article is dedicated to evaluating the impact of Faculty Development for the introduction of Problem Based Education in higher education. A bachelor's science degree program in Animal Care at the University of Padua has decided to introduce Problem Based Learning in an entire semester, as a first propaedeutic attempt at transforming the entire...

Academic development becomes a central strategy to help universities be suitable settings for XXI century education. However, academic development itself needs to adjust to a new post-pandemic reality and new ways of learning. In this regard, engaging students has been targeted in several areas of research on educational quality, assessment and eva...

Versión: 18 de marzo de 2022 Resumen La formación docente para la implementación eficaz de las Tecnologías de la Información y la Comunicación (TIC) en la educación se ha convertido en una pieza central de la investigación educativa. En este sentido, se evidencia la falta de modelos apropiados para apoyar a los docentes en su desarrollo profesional...

**********************ESP - SUMARIO - Este trabajo introduce las reacciones de los educadores desde su práctica profesional ante la injusticia generada por las prácticas y narrativas de la datificación. Se presenta un enfoque de trabajo reflexivo e interpretativo basado en los principios de la hermenéutica, implementado dentro de una serie de talle...

Un debate crucial tiene que ver con la forma en que las universidades actúan y preparan a su profesorado, en sus roles investigativos y educativos, para dar sentido a la complejidad en las prácticas y los discursos sobre datos en contextos institucionales y culturales situados. Apoyando esta premisa, en este capítulo vamos a realizar el siguiente r...

Artificial intelligence systems such as early warning systems are becoming more common in Higher Education. However, the students' reactions to such techno-pedagogical innovations are much less explored in settings beyond the development and testing. This paper analyses the students' acceptance of an early warning system developed at a fully online...

Research on Open Government Data (OGD) use reveals that the data is not being used as expected. Many governments have opened their data but lack the development of the capacities required for OGD usage. There is a need of having frameworks of reference for open data literacy (ODL). The initial screening of the literature uncovers there is a dearth...

The phenomenology around data is complex and evolving, meaning there might not be a universal perspective on educators’ data literacy that institutions and the system can embrace in search of social justice. In this chapter, I claim that an evolving, situated and explorative approach should be considered. Such an approach should be based on profess...

In the higher education context, an increasing concern on the technical or instrumental approach permeates attention to academics’ data literacies and faculty development. The need for data literacy to deal specifically with the rise of learning analytics in higher education has been raised by some authors, though in spite of some focus on the need...

As the debate on data in the society and in education grows the attention on data‐trace as ‘primary material’ for governance, educational quality and innovation falls under the spotlights. In this context, HEIs have been put under pressure to adopt quantitative metrics and evaluation approaches enhancing the massive collection of trace data. Noneth...

Learning is evolving, just as the world and society are. In this context, teachers are also experiencing new ways for updating their professional development. The metamorphosis of learning is currently being pushed by four main catalysts: the connectivity of networks, the empowerment of the students, the overcoming of space and time barriers, and t...

The article introduces a case study (Ateneo di Padova) over data practices in teaching and learning. The study is based on a survey and focuses on data practices relating to evaluating quality in teaching, learning and assessment. The survey was distributed to all the university teaching staff: 370 responses were collected. Data were exploratively...

The questions, contexts and tendencies approached in this chapter make evident the need for further investigation to advance and improve hybrid and online higher education, contributing to faculty development and improving the quality of teaching and learning of higher education. In this way, we propose to transcend the unilateral and conventional...

In this chapter three basic features of online teaching and learning representing a paradigmatic change in the field are explored regardless the tensions/resistance generated on academics: (1) the shared construction of knowledge through digital instructional interaction; (2) the growing curriculum flexibility facilitated by an open and boundless I...

Over the last decade, policy makers have urged universities to innovate their teaching methodologies. Although educational research has shown that active methods lead to improvements in learners’ performance more than traditional lectures in small classes, some factors impede active methods from spreading in large size classes. In this paper we aim...

La "datificazione" di processi e servizi è un fenomeno emergente, che sta creando una nuova forma di digital divide. Le due missioni principali dell'un-versità sono entrate in pieno nelle dinamiche della datificazione a partire dai processi di digitalizzazione che hanno accompagnato la modernizzazione dell'università e più recentemente la pedagogia...

Dataset of papers containing the 20 frameworks/rubrics of data literacy.

El año 2020 nos ha dejado, y junto a él, un conjunto de experiencias genuinas, y otras no tanto, que hicieron frente al desafío de dar continuidad al sistema educativo en tiempos de pandemia. La comunidad educativa, en un esfuerzo titánico, debió abordar un reto global sin precedentes para esta generación, y lo hizo pese a la desigualdad estructura...

Open research data (ORD) have been considered a driver of scientific transparency. However, data friction, as the phenomenon of data underutilisation for several causes, has also been pointed out. A factor often called into question for ORD low usage is the quality of the ORD and associated metadata. This work aims to illustrate the use of ORD, pub...

Ha habido desde siempre una fuerte preocupación por la presencia de la educación en línea como enfoque de baja calidad o solución menor, cristalizando varios debates en la literatura y particularmente en la consolidación de sistemas nacionales e institucionales. Así mismo, el rápido avance de las tecnologías promueve continuas innovaciones que pued...

La evaluación de la calidad del eLearning ha entrado de lleno como objeto de debate dentro de sistemas regionales (por ejemplo, la Unión Europea), nacionales e institucionales de evaluación de la calidad educativa. Este fenómeno se debe a la rápìda expansión del eLearning como sistema de formación integrado, particularmente aunque no exclusivamente...

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Is education and more specifically, data literacy initiatives in Higher Education, an appropriate instrument to promote social justice in a context of datafication? Education is (and has been) at the center of the debate over the achievement of social justice as a desirable quality of the human society. However, which type of educational interventi...

This paper presents a study about Students Evaluation of Teaching (SET). Student surveys delivered at the end of the academic course is an approach currently applied in all Italian university courses. However, the quality of teaching is a multi-layered phenomenon whose evaluation might require additional methods. In this study, concerning a course...

Uncertain times require prompt reflexes to survive and this study is a collaborative reflex to better understand uncertainty and navigate through it. The Coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic hit hard and interrupted many dimensions of our lives, particularly education. As a response to interruption of education due to the Covid-19 pandemic, this study i...

Uncertain times require prompt reflexes to survive and this study is a collaborative reflex to better understand uncertainty and navigate through it. The Coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic hit hard and interrupted many dimensions of our lives, particularly education. As a response to interruption of education due to the Covid-19 pandemic, this study i...

As algorithmic decision-making and data collection become pervasive in higher education, how can educators make sense of the systems that shape life and learning in the twenty-first century? This paper outlines a systematic literature review that investigated gaps in the current framing of data and faculty development, and explores how these gaps p...

Participation in today’s datafied society requires a series of transversal skills. In fact, we need technical abilities and media literacies weaved in a critical approach to understand the socio-political and cultural mechanisms that affects individuals and groups. Higher Education (HE) must lead in the development of critical, socio-technical peda...

La «datificación» de procesos y servicios es un fenómeno emergente, que está creando una nueva forma de divisoria digital (Kitchin, 2014). La abundancia de datos generados y disponibles a partir del uso aplicativos web y móviles requiere competencias específicas para su explotación; además, han surgido nuevas preocupaciones, como la vigilancia y la...

This paper presents an exploratory study to examine the practices of outstanding primary school teachers in their professional development for ICT integration in teaching and learning, as a means of understanding how their learning ecologies develop and function. Outstanding teachers in the context of this study are teachers who innovate pedagogica...

La «datificación» de procesos y servicios es un fenómeno emergente, que está creando una nueva forma de divisoria digital (Kitchin, 2014). La abundancia de datos generados y disponibles a partir del uso aplicativos web y móviles requiere competencias específicas para su explotación; además, han surgido nuevas preocupaciones, como la vigilancia y la...

Dagli anni Novanta ad oggi, il tema della qualità della didattica universitaria è stato oggetto di crescente interesse sia a livello nazionale che internazionale, come il fiorire di iniziative in questo ambito testimonia. Nel nostro paese, l’attenzione al problema è attestata dai vari convegni organizzati dai diversi Atenei (Errico, 2017), dalle pu...

This article introduces a conceptual framework supporting educators’ data literacy to empower them as education professionals, as well as their students, to thrive in the datafied society. By framing the problem, we are putting the basis for educational intervention. The study is based on a conceptual review of several frameworks of data literacy....

This Special Section brings together original perspectives to the construct of Lifelong Learning Ecologies by collating a number of articles which have adopted the term to conduct empirical research in the field of educational technologies. Overall, the studies in this section encompass a perspective into which learning is understood not only in th...

Research on faculty development supporting pedagogical innovation has gained momentum since effective teaching and learning are deemed a central piece for the modernization of higher education. However, the field is still characterized by a low level of conceptualization, fragmented approaches, and unclear strategies on organizational level. This c...

The concept of learning ecologies emerged in a context of educational change. While the “learning ecologies” construct has offered a broad semantic space for characterizing innovative ways of learning, it is also true that its potential to promote innovative educational interventions may have been hindered by this same broadness. Based on this assu...

This article aims to reflect on the problem of the development of data literacy, as a frontier of numeracy in the context of higher education and specifically in the case of initial educators’ training. Therefore, a case study generated in this specific context will be introduced, supporting the analysis of two issues: first, the place that can be...

In the landscape of Open Science, Open Data (OD) plays a crucial role as data are one of the most basic components of research, despite their diverse formats across scientific disciplines. Opening up data is a recent concern for policy makers and researchers, as the basis for good Open Science practices. The common factor underlying these new pract...

Engagement analytics is a branch of learning analytics (LA) that focuses on student engagement, with most studies conducted by computer scientists. Thus, rather than focusing on learning, research in this field usually treats education as a scenario for algorithms optimization and it rarely concludes with implications for practice. While LA as a re...

The utopia of access to data came across a problem which was not new in its configuration, but only in its content. The issue of abundance, immediately recalls the competence to navigate such abundance. Some authors paragon the problem of the appropriation of data by citizenship to the long debate on the digital divide. In the area of educational r...

Il contributo presenta i risultati di un servizio sperimentale attivato dall’Università di Firenze nell’a.a. 2016/2017 per supportare i docenti nella sperimentazione di approcci e-learning. Il servizio, denominato Sportello e-Learning (Se-L), rientrava nel più ampio progetto di sviluppo professionale DIDel (Didattica in e-learning), ed era basato s...

The article describes a program of cognitive enhancement (the Visual Intelligence Development Program, VIEP). It aims to enhance visual intelligence and metacognitive skills through the application of exercises with the guidance of an adult and with peer tutoring. The article discusses the results of a quasi-experimental study on the program effica...

In this paper, the authors discuss the effectiveness of MOOCs as part of a pedagogical strategy aimed at supporting Physics’ preliminary undergraduate students in large-size lectures. Our study is based on an experimental activity based on a blended course, which integrated a parallel MOOC delivered through the POK (PoliMi Open Knowledge, http://ww...

The concept of learning ecologies (Barron, 2004, 2006; Williams, 2011) emerged in a context of educational change. In such context, there was emphasis on searching models and applications facing the new forms of learning as continuum from structured, formal spaces to fluid, informal spaces, with the support of digital technologies (Sangra, Gonzalez...

The co-citation map was adopted as type of analysis over 85 papers sampled from five scientific databases (pls. cfr: Systematic Review on the Research Topic "Learning Ecologies" - Dataset and Analysis". This was adopted as method to further understand the relationships and advancement of work relating the concept of LE. The software tool to carry...

Instructor–student interaction and regular feedback are seen as teaching strategies designed to support effective learning. These days, there is increasing reliance on technology to support this in the classroom; one such technology is a student response system or its more recent development of this, that is, a game-based one. This study investigat...

The academic course on Mechanics and Electromagnetism "Fisica Sperimentale A+B" at Politecnico di Milano was selected to investigate peer learning effects in large size lectures. It was attended by both freshmen attending the first year of Chemical Engineering and those studying Materials and Nanotechnology Engineering during the first term of the...