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Attention towards university teaching is growing, also as a result of the evaluation procedures aimed at the Italian university system. In this context, the experience of the course of Media Education and digital literacy activated during the degree course in Communication Sciences at the University of Molise is presented. Given the need to acquire not only knowledge but digital literacy, students were asked to create digital products using a dual methodological approach: gamification and peer evaluation. The gamification has allowed to conceive the activities of the course as a series of challenges to which to give a timely response, as documented by the blog of the course https://ilblogcialafebbre.blogspot.com/.  The peer assessment allowed to increase the interactions among the students, pushing to forms of analysis and comparison that have had positive repercussions on the realized digital products. In evaluating the overall experience, despite the difficulty in interpreting the available data, the perspective of  linking the gamification processes to the creation of assessment rubrics is affirmed

The workshop approach has a long and rich history of supporting teaching and learning activities in different training contexts. The workshop proposals pursue important training objectives, including: the enhancement of theoretical knowledge and their applications; the development of practical skills; the ability to solve problems; a scientific mindset; interest and motivation. The organization of space and the use of supports, especially if technological, represent two central aspects of any educational planning, but assume within the laboratory proposals a founding role. For this reason, following the preparation of a room 3.0, an exploratory survey was carried out, of which this article explores the results, aimed at gathering information on the opinions, perceptions and attitudes of university teachers and students (future teachers) who participated in training proposals in a technologically equipped and functional space for a continuous redefinition of learning spaces

The paper presents the evaluation plan and the first results of DIDeL (Didactics in e-Learning), a research and development project of the University of Florence, aimed at promoting faculty professional development on e-learning methods and technologies. From a theoretical point of view the project is based on a multi-levels model characterized by the combination of methodological approaches and teaching tools. The evaluation plan reflects this articulation with the aim to measure users’ satisfaction, the impact of the programme on teachers’ techno-didactic competences on the short and medium run, as well as the impact on students’ career progression. Specifically, this papers illustrates and discusses the results of a questionnaire administered online to all the teachers who participated in at least one of the project's training activities during the first half of 2018: it was investigated the level of satisfaction of training and teachers’ self-perception of learning in terms of knowledge and skills. 166 teachers answered the questionnaire. The results show a high level of appreciation for the various types of training initiatives, which confirms the design hypotheses and the methodologies adopted.

This article aims to focus on the experience of the blended courses that the Catholic University started since the academic year 2016/17. Specifically, it focuses on the figure of the e-tutor and its function in relation to the personalization of students' learning. The starting point is a brief reconstruction of the history of the Catholic University about teaching innovation. Doing this it is possible to point out the meaning and challenges of the blended solution in higher education, showing how this solution is nowadays really present and how it is changing the idea of the classroom: an extended, spread, intensive, flipped classroom These characteristics involve changes both at an educational and organizational level, among which a key element is the e-tutor who, thanks to the planning and updating of specific monitoring tools, acts in a technological, organizational and relational role, reiterating an orientation and motivational support aimed at contributing to the student's chances of success. The e-tutor is set up as a new figure, which requires specific training and acts a precise role in the teaching teams of the courses. In particular, the article refers to the research data about drop-out prevention which were collected in the Master's Degree Program in Business Management and Consulting.

In recent years, Italian universities have been called upon to experiment with innovative processes and changes that have involved different aspects. This contribution focuses in particular on the factors related to teaching that influence the design of university settings, characterized by student’s profile evolution,  the pervasiveness of the media and the ever-increasing demand to develop skills. and achieve the stated training goals are some aspects that have influenced the teaching. BYOD, inverted classroom, feedback, experience learning are considered relevant factors for the re-definition of settings for university teaching Starting from two approaches, teacher or student-centered, some scenarios that could characterize in the next decades the following university settings: the lecture hall, the small classroom in presence, the online synchronous environments and the asynchronous online environments.

The idea, proposed in this work, is that who are introducing educational innovation in University teaching should focus more on the renewal of a curriculum more than in a single course’s changes. University teaching innovation  often focuses on the changes introduced within a single discipline through the adoption of some educational technologies or new teaching-learning-evaluation methods,  keeping the focus only on the single discipline and not on the curriculum as a whole. With reference to the work of  Ronald Harden about the eight roles of the university teacher, we underline  the role of  Curriculum developer and implementer. Six models are proposed to classify the introduction of innovative curricula. The different ways by which Problem Based Learning was introduced in university curricula are described  as  examples of the six models.

The objective of this work is to know both the motivations and the values that move teachers to train and use ICT in educational centers with long experience and Good Practices with ICT. A quantitative research is proposed with a descriptive method and a survey design, whose instrument of data collection is a questionnaire to the teachers. After a non-probabilistic and intentional sample, a final sample of 136 teachers from 18 educational centers is reached. Among the results, it highlights a more elevated intrinsic than extrinsic motivation and high values of trust, creativity and sharing. Likewise, there are significant differences in motivations and values in the formation and use of ICTs based on a series of variables related to ICT integration plans and programs, as well as the involvement of teachers at different levels. In this way, the relevance of both ICT policies and awareness of their importance among teachers is evident

The paper presents the results of the research carried out at the University of Bari in the PRODID project - Preparation to Professionalism Teaching and Didactic Innovation, which involved 8 Italian Universities (Padua, Bari, Camerino, Catania, Florence, Foggia, Genoa, Turin) constituents the Italian Association for the promotion and development of teaching, learning and teaching at the University. The research was conducted through the administration of a questionnaire developed according to the Framework of Teachingof Tigelaar and colleagues (2004), focusing on the usual teaching practices, on the beliefs and needs of the teacher, on different aspects of teaching professionalism. Thanks to the experimentation it was possible to analyse the needs of the Bari University context and set up the PRODID-TLL (Teaching Learning Laboratory) project, focused on structuring pilot training paths, innovative and personalized according to different target groups, for the professional development of university teachers

The implementation of the ICT-TPCK integrated design procedures (Technological, Pedagogical, Content Knowledge) can foster an effective teachers’ planning thinking. The aim is to consider all the elements as essential to develop an effective integration of ICT in teaching in HIS (Hybrid Instruction Solution) learning environments. A mixed methods study was carried out in 2017-18 involving 42 volunteer teachers. The goal was to design and to implement some onsite/online hybrid solutions to enhance specific soft skills in the field of curricular disciplinary teaching. A structured questionnaire was built, administered in and out, and could lead to interesting reflections on some issues that are still open in the Higher Education area: the quality and objectives of teacher training; the effective overcoming of the frontal lesson; the relationship between technological affordances and methodological approaches.

The complexity of the class context changes knowledge that, today, experiments more and more the ambiguity between global and local. Knowledge seems to aim at the construction of nets of modal meanings. Even the posture of teachers and students change and feedback is one of the aspects that can mostly affect learning by fostering the acceptance of reciprocal worlds present in the class context. In this direction, also feedback seems to change and from an informative structure, as proposed by Gagné, feedback is acquiring a generative rationale, that is, a structure able to open different interpretative perspectives. In the present contribution modalities of feedback collection are described such as Mentimeter.com and Google.com forms being used in different courses at the department of Education, Cultural Heritage and Tourism at the University of Macerata. Those tools were used to valorise the students’ informal and non formal knowledge and to define personalized trajectories. Feedback surely was the tool able to bridge the students’ and teachers’ experience and knowledge towards the construction of a net of meanings built in context.

The article aims to highlight how the knowledge of university students’ characteristics is a key-point for planning innovative teaching. The Bologna University Project refers to a Formative Educational Evaluation model, which is focused on higher education teaching skills and aims to have an impact on teaching and learning processes’ multiple levels and dimensions, in a diachronic perspective. The application of the model to different academic contexts of the University of Bologna was carried on by two evaluation research pilot studies with "Nursing" and "Economics and Finance" (CLEF) Degree teachers. This model includes evaluation actions specifically oriented in the formative sense (analysis and progressive re-planning of teaching actions supported by ad hoc higher education teachers training interventions) in order to promote teachers' capacity for reflection, self-analysis of their teaching practices and specific training actions based on innovative methodologies

University didactics can be defined as a field of reflection relating to some specific empirical categories of educational events. In this sense, the main aim of the research conducted was to identify, according to a quantitative and qualitative approach, the innovative elements of didactics in an ecosystemic perspective, analysing the way in which the context and the elements characterising it play a decisive role. Particular emphasis has been given to the use of mulitple languages (multimedia perspective), and to the possibility of activating several integrated fields of action (multimodal perspective) in order to elicit the creation of multiple and original viewpoints through activities of comparison and sharing. Specifically, the research was conducted through the testing of different didactic strategies according to a blended learning methodology within the scope of some university courses offered by the Department of Education Sciences of the University of Bologna

Starting from 2011, year of the publication in Italy of Alain Berthoz's book on simplexity, an articulated theoretical reflection involved part of the Italian scientific community stimulating an inter-transdisciplinary debate that has generated "non-linear" trajectories of research within the educational field. In particular, the transposition of the theory of simplexity in the teaching-learning process, by postulating an idea of teaching based on a metacognitive approach, has led to the hypothesis of a teacher training model able to promote the exercise of "non-linearity" within the didactic field through the use of simplex properties and principles. In the wake of these reflections, the work presented below describes the results of a study aimed at assessing the reliability of an instrument for measuring the construct of simplexity within the didactic field starting from a specific research experience carried out during training courses for support teachers which were held at the University of Bergamo in 2017

The article analyzes the learning paths, the organizational devices and the system actions taken aimed at the development of a didactics for employability within the Teaching & Learning Center (TLC), at University of Siena. The Teaching & Learning Center is a research and training center founded within the Santa Chiara Lab, a hub space for supporting the contamination between multidisciplinary research projects and the meeting between students, teachers and entrepreneurs. We would like to explore (a) how university centre for innovation can design and integrate learning paths and curricula for promoting the acquisition of practical skills useful for future professionals; (b) which methods and strategies are able to accompany professional development processes in university students; (c) which organizational supports are useful to promote sustainable didactic innovation in center for Teaching & Learning in Higher Education

Robert Schumann ha combattuto durante tutto il corso della sua vita contro la malattia mentale, sulla cui natura sono state fatte molte ipotesi: psicosi maniaco-depressiva, sifilide, alcolismo. L’intento dell’articolo è di mostrare come questo grande musicista sia riuscito a contenere il suo mondo interno, sempre sull’orlo della disgregazione, attraverso le sue straordinarie capacità di compositore, cercando di tenere insieme le contrastanti e frammentate voci interne in armonia fra di loro. In questo modo la sua mente riesce a riflettere l’integrazione piuttosto che una guerra caotica di voci o oggetti non integrati o disintegrati. La fascinazione di Schumann per il contrappunto e la fuga, a cui faceva ricorso nei momenti più critici della sua malattia mentale, suggerisce che il compositore cercasse nei momenti di scompenso un principio organizzatore - garantito dalle caratteristiche formali di questo tipo di composizione - che potesse contenere la frammentazione della sua mente.

Quali sono le implicazioni cliniche delle teorie che hanno messo in luce le caratteristiche della organizzazione psichica primaria, postulando cosi la coesistenza in ognuno di noi di livelli di funzionamento psichico differenti, l’esistenza di aree narcisistiche o perfino psicotiche nonché la coesistenza di parti indifferenziate? Tali concettualizzazioni implicano di dover cambiare il metodo e il setting abituale (con le cosiddette "flessibilizzazioni") o, viceversa, intensificano le funzioni e le tecniche dell’analisi, ampliando la gamma e la portata della nostra capacità di comprensione e delle nostre ipotesi interpretative. Ne consegue che i criteri classici di "analizzabilità" sono argomento che merita di essere esplorato e discusso ulteriormente, poiché le sue implicazioni sono fondamentali non solo per il trattamento delle cosiddette "patologie attuali", ma anche per la filosofia del nostro training.