Luigi Filippo Sarti

Italian National Research Council | CNR · Institute for Educational Technology ITD

This work describes a serious game aimed at supporting teachers in the development of competences in the conceptualization phase of Learning Design. The game builds on the 4Ts model, which addresses four main dimensions of collaborative learning activities: the task learners will carry out, the team structure of working groups, the time schedule an...

Negli anni '80 già si parlava di Intelligenza artificiale e didattica. Per chi è interessato a capire quanto di quello che si dice oggi si dicesse già allora.

One of the big challenges faced by research in the Technology Enhanced Learning (TEL) field has to do with the injection of innovation into real educational contexts. Very often, innovative technologies fail to be taken up by practitioners because of difficulties in absorbing both methodological and technological innovation of the target contexts....

The growing development of virtual learning platforms is boosting a new type of Big Data and of Big Data Stream, those ones that can be labeled as e-learning Big Data. These data, coming from different sources of Virtual Learning Environments, such as communications between students and instructors as well as pupils tests, require accurate analysis...

The METIS project intends to foster innovation in the educational systems by providing educators with an innovative environment, called Integrated Learning Design Environment (ILDE), and a workshop ‘format’ for training educators in using the ILDE to support effective learning design practices. A crucial project activity is the evaluation of whethe...

This work describes some of the web services that have been developed within the Share.TEC project to foster access, sharing and reuse of Teacher Education digital resources at European level. The Share.TEC platform features personalized functions to help users search for and select educational material via a broad repository of metadata records. T...

Il presente contributo illustra il percorso di formazione seguito da un gruppo di docenti di un’università telematica italiana nell’ambito di un progetto, il cui obiettivo è la realizzazione di un sistema innovativo di e-learning per la formazione universitaria. L’articolo descrive il processo per ottimizzare le condizioni d’uso di tale sistema e p...

Monitoring the learning process in computer supported collaborative learning (CSCL) environments is a key element for supporting the efficacy of tutor actions. This article proposes an approach for analysing learning processes in a CSCL environment to support tutors in their monitoring tasks. The approach entails tracking the interactions within th...

This contribution falls at the intersection between the fields of terminology and the sharing of information in a multicultural context, with particular reference to the field of Teacher Education (TE). The Share.TEC project aims to develop services to support the sharing and reuse of digital resources among European TE practitioners; it addresses...

In this contribution we propose a comparison between two distinct approaches to the annotation of digital resources. The former, top-down, is rooted in the cathedral model and is based on an authoritative, centralized definition of the adopted mark-up language; the latter, bottom-up, refers to the bazaar model and is based on the contributions of a...

What are the main issues connected with the design and development of distance learning courses? How to plan effective courses taking into account the context requirements, the contents to be delivered, the learning needs, the resources available? This paper analyses the instructional design decisions and the delivery strategies of a blended course...

This paper presents a general overview of possible approaches for implementing recommender systems and describes a specific implementation in the context of the Share.TEC project, which aims to foster the sharing of digital resources in the Teacher Education field. An outline of the main functionalities is given, together with a brief technical des...

Both quantitative and qualitative methods are being increasingly used to investigate the learning dynamics that take place within CSCL environments. Since such practices are a crucial aspect of the CSCL field, Design Patterns (DPs) can be used for capitalizing on experience and sharing know-how among practitioners. This paper describes three DP ins...

This paper focuses on the pedagogical dimension of metadata for learning objects (LO). Devising a pedagogical metadata proposal suitable for different target users is still a hard challenge. In order to contribute towards this endeavour, we designed and evaluated an extensible model where alternative sets of metadata descriptors can be chosen, depe...

Teacher Education (TE) is a dynamic, lifelong process that needs to fully embrace innovation and assume a broader European perspective. The EC-funded Share.TEC project aims to provide enhanced, culturally-aware access to TE-related resources across Europe by means of a federated resource brokerage system whose semantic core is the proposed Teacher...

Ontologies provide a structured knowledge representation scheme capable of supporting and informing a knowledge base system. This paper describes the rationale for an ontology-driven approach adopeted in a specific domain (i.e. Teacher Education, TE) and used to describe and share TE-related digital resources across Europe. It also gives an overvie...

In quanto processo permanente, dinamico ed in evoluzione, la Formazione Docenti (FD) svolge un ruolo cruciale nello svilup- po della società della conoscenza a livello europeo. Il progetto europeo Share.TEC mira alla costruzione di un sistema per aggregare metadati che descrivano le risorse educative digitali nel campo della Formazione Docenti in E...

Teacher Education (TE) is a dynamic, lifelong process that needs to fully embrace innovation and assume a broader European perspective. The EC-funded Share.TEC project aims to provide enhanced, culturally-aware access to TE-related resources across Europe by means of a federated resource brokerage system whose semantic core is the proposed Teacher...

Some collaborative learning strategies widely used in face-to-face settings can also be adapted to online contexts. They allow us to master the complex relations between members of large, heterogeneous online learning communities. The authors build on their experience in the application of some of the most well-known strategies and techniques used...

This chapter tackles the issue of monitoring and evaluating CSCL (Computer Supported Collaborative Learning) processes. It starts from the awareness that most of the tasks carried out in managing, tutoring, fine tuning and evaluating online courses heavily rely on information drawn through monitoring. Information of this kind is usually needed for...

We illustrate a pedagogical metadata model (IMATI-ITD pedagogical metadata model) that captures didactic features of LOs according to the view of the education world. This model allows to describe a variety of contexts and can be effectively instantiated in many specific educational situations, thus combining generality with flexibility features.

Teacher Education (TE) is a dynamic, lifelong and lifewide learning process that is central to Europe's Lisbon Strategy ambitions. To fulfil these expectations, however, TE needs to embrace innovation more fully and assume a broader European perspective. The EC-funded Share.TEC project aims to help achieve this by providing enhanced, culturally-awa...

This paper describes a method for analysing the learning processes that take place in a computer-supported collaborative learning (CSCL) environment. The approach is based on tracking the interactions between learners and tutors. Keeping track of meaningful events serves three main purposes: evaluation of the quality of the process, monitoring stud...

This paper describes a method for analysing the learning processes that take place in a computer-supported collaborative learning (CSCL) environment. The approach is based on tracking the interactions between learners and tutors. Keeping track of meaningful events serves three main purposes: evaluation of the quality of the process, monitoring stud...

The evaluation of e-learning courses relies on a number of methods and practices. By analysing various aspects of individual and group processes from both the qualitative and the quantitative perspectives, it is possible to identify weaknesses of the course design and allow for adjustment and fine tuning. This work presents a model for analysing CS...

Starting with the assumption that collaborative learning and working will occupy a strategic role in undergraduate, post-graduate and life-long education as well as in collaborative, fl exible and distant working, in this paper we present a refl ection on how to reduce the gap between constructivist and CSCL/W theories and practices, and open source...

In this paper an approach is presented that supports tracking and analysis of interactions within an online course with the twofold aim of evaluating the overall quality of the learning process and monitoring students' performance. Focus of the paper is on what data can be collected and how they can be gathered and analysed to provide course design...

The main attitudes, expectations and misconceptions of adult novices towards online learning have been investigated through a survey carried out within two different web-based courses. The data emerged from the two contexts showed several similarities: the reasons for the choice of the online approach, a positive perception of the method, a negativ...

ULEARN is a project that aims to create a stable community of ‘pioneer teachers’ in Europe through a system that supports teachers’ lifelong learning, knowledge sharing and cooperation. Herein we call ‘pioneer teachers’ those who are keen to use ICT in the classroom and who can be seen as the early adopters of ICT-based innovation in education, alr...

Within a course on educational technology, student teachers could choose among different modules, some online and some face-to-face. A survey was then carried out to analyse the reasons for trainees’ choices and particularly, their attitudes towards online training. The study of the factors that had lead most course participants to opt for face-to-...

L’esperienza quadriennale della SSIS ligure è caratterizzata dall’introduzione graduale di tecniche di formazione online e dallo studio delle problematiche legate a questo processo

Nell’ambito del corso sulle Tecnologie Didattiche della SSIS ligure è stato condotto uno studio finalizzato ad analizzare gli atteggiamenti dei partecipanti nei confronti dei metodi di apprendimento online. Lo studio dei fattori che hanno indotto gli specializzandi ad optare per attività in presenza oppure a distanza ha evidenziato resistenze di na...

L’articolo propone un approccio alla programmazione di robot LEGO MindStorms basato su un ambiente visivo estendibile ed orientato al dominio, che privilegia metodiche collaborative e facilita la metariflessione. Vengono descritte le caratteristiche salienti della programmazione di robot e proposto un modello computazionale basato sulla definizione...

Quali esigenze emergono in una comunitˆà virtuale per l'apprendimento, e quali funzioni la piattaforma tecnologica può˜ offrire per soddisfarle?

Bambini che costruiscono e programmano con un ambiente visivo.

Nel contesto del cambiamento in atto da un paradigma educativo di tipo istruzionale ad uno costruttivista, vengono analizzate le potenzialità del modello delle comunità di pratica nell’ambito della formazione in rete, con particolare riguardo per le esigenze che emergono nelle comunità virtuali di apprendimento e per le domande a cui le tecnologie...

I giocattoli computazionali godono di una grande diffusione anche nelle fasce piu' giovani della popolazione, specie quelle in eta' prescolare. Ma soprattutto suscitano negli adulti in generale, e in particolare in chi si occupa di problematiche educative, opinioni contrastanti.

I giocattoli computazionali stanno acqui-stando un peso sempre maggiore nei conte-sti caratterizzati da una elevata cultura tec-nologica e godono di una grande diffusione anche nelle fasce più giovani della popola-zione, specie quelle in età prescolare. Ma soprattutto suscitano negli adulti in genera-le, e in particolare in chi si occupa di pro-ble...

Questo articolo presenta una metodologia di valutazione dei processi d’apprendimento collaborativo in rete, basata su un approccio olistico, che prende cioè in considerazione un ampio spettro di caratteristiche connotative della qualità. L’obiettivo principale è la definizione di un sistema di gestione della qualità finalizzato non solo a valutare...

FADxPMI is a project aimed at supporting the evolution from a training system firmly based on the face-to-face approach into one where Open and Distance Learning (ODL) techniques are widely used, especially to reach the staff of SMEs at their workplace. Within this project, the development of know-how among course designers and trainers in the desi...

Nei corsi in rete i processi di apprendi- mento collaborativo nei quali i parteci- panti sono coinvolti sfruttano in genere una piattaforma di comunicazione che mette a disposizione particolari ambienti, che di seguito chiameremo “conferenze virtuali” o, semplicemente “conferenze”, ciascuno dei quali è caratterizzato da una precisa funzione pragmat...

A methodology for evaluating online collaborative learning processes is proposed. The underlying hipothesis id that three elements affect the quality of online courses: learning quality, content quality and interaction quality. The proposed methodology comprises a set of parameters that indicate the quality of online courses as such, a taxonomy of...

Processes of on-line collaborative learning generally take advantage of platforms offering communication dedicated environments, which henceforth we shall call virtual conferences or, simply conferences. Each of these environments is characterized by a specific pragmatic and communicative function. Therefore, participants, who are sometimes split i...

Introduzione La crescente diffusione della telematica offre oggi nuove possibilità d'approccio alla formazione in generale e a quella a distanza in particolare. La disponibilità di strumenti di comunicazione rapida, affidabile e poco costosa consente di realizzare forme di apprendimento sociale e collaborativo basate sullo scambio di messaggi in te...

Distance Learning for Small and Medium Enterprises (FADxPMI) project developed by the Institute for Educational Technology, CNR

Un progetto finanziato dalla Commissione Europea prevede interventi di formazione a distanza per insegnanti di matematica, scienze, educazione ambientale e lingue straniere. Parte degli esperimenti si svolgeranno in Italia.

This contribution covers those areas of courseware design that can be supported with computerised tools, like learner modelling, instructional design and domain representation. In the Discourse (Design and Interactive Specification of Courseware) framework the learner is modelled from both a static perspective and a dynamic one. The static model ac...

Describes a project that addressed the problem of courseware reusability by developing a database structure suitable for organizing multimedia learning material in a given content domain. A prototype system that allows browsing a DBLM (Data Base of Learning Material) on earth science is described, and future plans are discussed. (five references) (...

The architecture of educational applications and man‐machine interfaces has undergone a substantial evolution in the last decade. Huge amounts of available storage and processors of high computational power allow for multimediality and high expressiveness in the design of user interfaces, but in turn require formal methods in the organization of bo...

This paper refers to the ESM_BASE (Educational Systems Based on Multimedia Database) project carried out within the EEC DELTA programme. The concepts of ULM (Unit of Learning Mat.erial) and of DBLM (Database of multimedia Learning Material) as resources for learning and as bases for courseware reusability in the authoring process are discussed in c...

This paper describes a research project aimed at investigating the formative value (if any) of logic programming with high school students. Previous experience at the Istituto Tecnologie Didattiche (ITD), both in the specific field of teaching logic programming and in the more general one of teaching information science, formed the idea of developi...

Ariadne's Thread is a package composed of a self-instruction text addressed to high school students coupled with a commercially available prolog interpreter. The material is aimed at introducing computer novices to the concepts of logic programming.The examples and tasks in the package are based on the metaphor of Theseus in Crete with the subject...

This paper describes the theoretical framework of a research project aimed at exploring the new potentialities for instructional systems offered by videodisc technology and artificial intelligence methodologies and techniques. In the context of this project, ‘Earth’, a prototype of ITS, is being developed, which embodies the ideas presented. In an...

Nel corso del lavoro è illustrata una esperienza di introduzione all'Informatica nella formazione di base. L'intervento, sviluppato nell'ambito del progetto IRIS in coordinazione con il Centro Europeo per l'Educazione, ha comportato lo sviluppo di una unità didattica orientata al primo biennio della scuola media superiore. L'esperienza viene illust...

La seguente comunicazione verte sulla sperimentazione di un Corso di Introduzione all'Informatica nella formazione scolastica di base. Il Corso è stato progettato e realizzato da due Istituti del C.N.R. di Genova, l'I.T.D. (Istituto per le Tecnologie Didattiche) e l'I.M.A. (Istituto per la Matematica Applicata). Il Corso è già stato presentato in p...

One of the main advantages of the LO paradigm is to allow the availability of good quality, shareable learning material through the Web. The effectiveness of the retrieval process requires a formal description of the resources (metadata) that closely fits the user's search criteria; in spite of the huge international efforts in this field, educatio...