UniVirtual Lab
e-learning technologies Lab
For the Interuniversity Center CIRDFA
(Centro Interateneo per la Ricerca Didattica e la Formazione Avanzata)
Univirtual Lab
The inspiring idea
Nowadays the knowledge demand in every context of work and social
interaction, address people to search for lifelong and lifewide learning
This put the bases for personalized education, both of high quality and
easily accessible; eLearning seems to be one of the best strategies to
satisfy both criteria, enhancing possibilities for learners to experience
ubiquitous learning, a strong possibility of personal and institutional
development
Univirtual Lab
The starting point
… Univirtual Lab was founded
on 1999 with the aim of
developing online teachers
education
courses,
implemented by SSIS of
VENETO
(School
of
Especialization for Secondary
Teaching)
In the following years, the Lab has widen its scope, participating in
several international and national projects where it has experimented
virtual learning environments, net based learning tools, and training
of trainers to the use of educational technologies
Univirtual Lab
…Today
Today, the Lab provides support for learning&instructional design,
with an approach to innovation in educational technologies, and
strongly supported by research evidence, in collaboration with
CIRDFA
(Interuniversity
Advanced Training)
Center
for
Educational
Research
and
Univirtual Lab
Areas & Functions
Web Design & Development
Learning & Instructional Design
Quest'area realizza le diverse funzioni per lo sviluppo di strategie mirate di learning&instructional design;
dall'analisi di fabbisogni, alla progettazione di interventi formativi, alla formazione dei formatori. Si occupa
inoltre della costruzione di tools e metodologie specifiche a seconda degli scenari e problemi formativi.
Content
Management,
Institutional
AreaWeb
dedicataEditing,
alla progettazione
della comunicazione
web, da stili e caratteristiche
grafiche del
contenuto elaborato alle metodologie di presentazione web per l'uso dei diversi livelli/profili di
communication
utenza.
Business Development
Research
Scientific Coordination
Univirtual Lab
Research Profile
Learning on the cyberspace is creating
new phenomena, which in time
become a continuing challenge both for
research and practice. The Lab intends
to analyze well defined research
problems in this field, without leaving
ethical and deontological concerns
The aim is to put into practice
significant activities, with the
highest educational and social
impact among participants and
trainers.
The research areas are…..
- Networked learning
New learning environments,
instructional & learning design
for hybrid learning.
- Training of Trainers
Educators professionalism for
new educational contexts on
the net and in glocal
networks.
- Open educational
Resources and Metadata
Open content for better
access and innovation in
learning
E-research
Research methodologies and
tools to understand learning
processes on the net.
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LAprocess
LOGICA
…Tasks and working
Research I
Study on the state of art,
sceneries and problems of
Education. Analysis of
learning models
Learning Design
Educational Planning
and Methodologies
DEL DISEGNO
Research II
Analysis of Educational
Technologies. Development
of tools and learning
environments.
Metadata
Web
Design&Development
Content Design
Web Editing
Institutional
Communication
Research III
Learning Processes, outputs
and outcomes
Educational and Social
Impact
Training of Trainers
Educational
implementation
Evaluation
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Services
The Lab developes the following services
Blended Training
Courses
Monitoring
Learning
Processes
Assessment Tools
Technological and
Methdological
Assistence
Content Management,
Learning Groups
Management, Training of
Trainers
ACCREDITAMENTO E
Accreditation
and
CERTIFICAZIONE
Certification
DI PERCORSI of
FORMATIVI
ONLINE
Learning
DI NICCHIA
Learning Objects
Development
Open Educational Resources
Repositories
Personalization of
Learning
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…Learning Design
•
Learning Design is based on educational and institutional sceneries,
being hence customized.
•
Design stands for a process of negotiated construction in
collaboration with policy makers, institutional responsibles,
educators and learners
Educational
Model
Approaches to
Evaluation and
Assessment
Needs’
Analysis
Learning
Contexts
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A training framework: ILEP (Margiotta, 2006)
(information, laboratory , evaluation, personalization)
ILEP is an instrumental framework that defines a teaching
progressively oriented to promote different steps in the dynamic,
cognitive and metacognitive growing up of the students.
The ILEP framework contains and formalizes the following
hypothetical steps of the teaching action:
INFORMATION: This step cover the
process that communicates knowledge,
focused on the activation and the
organisation on knowledge and experience
schemes. The teacher, in this step, promotes
on student the acquisition of new
information, new patterns of reasoning and
analogical understanding
LAB: This step includes activities where
students learn to explore, prove, falsify, and
corroborate what they learn; laboratory is
the experimental environment in which
students learn to apply what it is known in
different and problematic environments of
human experience.
ASSESSMENT: This third step relates to recursive
stages of analysis, interpretation and justification of
learning results with a particular focus on their
generalization. This step could be characterized as a
continuous participatory analysis of learning process by
students.
PERSONALIZATION: This is a recursive action that
promotes students’ capacities to explore and to identify
rules with which it Is possible to discover new rules of
knowledge /experience composition and combination.
This is an inventive step: students learn to mastery
knowledge and experiences, to gain and to equilibrate
attitudes, to understand differences in the largest world,
to speak different alphabets , to act a well founded
citizenship.
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A training framework: ILEP (Margiotta, 2006)
(information, laboratory , evaluation, personalization)
Personalization
Provide further bibliography
Highlight alternative path to
develop knowledge/skills
Create additional materials
Assessment
Assess declarative knowledge
Assess competencies
(procedural knowledge)
Assess problem solving skills
(imaginative knowledge)
Information
Explain Education goals
Define steps through Timeline
Give a Theme’s sommary
Provide Advance Organizers
(Ausubel, 1960)
Contextualize Learning
Provide a Conceptual Map or
Elements to build it
Provide main contents through
text, multimedia, new
technologies.
Lab
Formulate questions about
crucial concepts
Propose discussions
Propose cases to study
Propose problems to analyze
Offer feed-back about learning
process and students’
achievements
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Learning Approaches
Learning Approaches
Self-Learning Approach
(online)
The learning process is
conceived as individual,
where the single retrieves
the material of his/her
interest from the net
Certification/recognition of
learning occurs through
highly structured tests and
assignments
Assisted training
Approach
(blended)
Collaborative Learning
(eel – enriched
environment learning)
The learning process is
conceived as individual,
where the single interacts
with a tutor online and
eventually with other users
Certification/recognition of
learning occurs through tests
and assignments proposed by
the tutor and interacting with
colleagues
The learning process is
conceived as social, where
learning environments offer
several inputs to motivate
participants to interact
among them
Certification/recognition of
learning occurs through selfrecognition and triangulation
of several instruments of
evaluation (mixed qualquan)
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Defining Learning Environments
Mosaic Learning Environment
Consorzio Univirtual
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Defining Learning Contents
LDS (Learning desing system)
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LOGICA
…Learning Design:LA
Learning
Units DEL
- TextDISEGNO
Learning Plan
Discipline
Knowledge
Competences Profile
Social Knowledge
Matrix : concepts, representations, images
Learning Unit
Sommary of the Unit
Contents, Activities, Evaluation
Unit
Objectives
Study
Sections
Activities
Learn
more
Assessment
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LOGICA
DISEGNO
…Learning Design:LA
Learning
Units DEL
- Multimedia
Learning Plan
Discipline
Knowledge
Competences Profile
Social Knowledge
Matrix : concepts, representations, images
Learning Unit
Storyboard
Selection of Media – Map of Hyperlinks
Plot
Actors
Critical
Incident
Interaction
Learn
more
Reflections/
Creation
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Technologies used
Virtual Learning Environments
UNIVIRTUAL LAB
… AWAP : a special case of Personal Learning
Environment
What’s AWAP?
It stands for Ambiente
Web per l’apprendimento
personalizzato (personal
learning environment on
the Web) which aim is to
make interact LMS with
WEB 2.0 according to
user’s motivations and
scopes
Favaretto, 2009
HOW?
Through highly flexible
platforms, which are
interoperable and allow
hence the necessary
simplicity and usability to
keep “natural” user’s
environments and tools
connected within the
learning experience
.
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A net to support the Net
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A net to support the Net
SW Open Source and interoperability
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Thank you!
Any Question?
Pls contact:
Parco Scientifico e Tecnologico di
Venezia, Edificio Lybra
Via delle Industrie 17/a 30175
Marghera (VE), Italy
Phone: +390415094363
/ +390415094363
Email: [email protected]