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Study Day organised by The Institute for Educational Technology of the Italian
CNR, the Collaborative Knowledge Building Group,
and the European project Share.TEC
Digital educational resources and
the constructivist approach
Methods and tools for sharing
Le risorse educative digitali
nell’approccio costruttivista
Metodi e strumenti per la condivisione
Genova, 27 January 2011
The Institute for Educational Technology
National Research Council of Italy
Area della Ricerca (11th floor), Aula Leonardo
Via de Marini 6 - 16149 Genova
http://www.ckbg.org/risorsedigitali/
Collaborative Knowledge
Building Group
Istituto per le Tecnologie
Didattiche - CNR
Share.TEC - Sharing digital resources
for Teacher Education
Programma Comunitario
eContenplus
Programme
9.00 - 9.30
Registration & poster hanging
9.30 - 10.00
Welcome
Rosa Maria Bottino - Director of the Institute for Educational Technology
Introduction to study day activities
Maria Beatrice Ligorio - CKBG, University of Bari
Luigi Sarti - Institute for Educational Technology
10.00 - 10.45
Invited lecture: The Power of the Collective
Allison Littlejohn - Caledonian Academy, Glasgow Caledonian University (with consecutive translation)
10.45 - 11.15
Coffee break
11.15 - 11.45
Invited lecture: Metodiche e strumenti per la condivisione di risorse educative digitali (Methods and tools for sharing digital
learning resources)
Luigi Sarti - Institute for Educational Technology
11.45 - 12.15
Invited lecture: Oltre i contenuti. Prospettive e nuove opportunità per le Open Educational Resources (Beyond content. Perspectives and new opportunities for Open Educational Resources)
Antonio Fini - Università di Firenze, Laboratorio di Tecnologie dell'Educazione
12.15 - 12.45
Discussion
Chair: Stefania Bocconi - Institute for Educational Technology
12.45 - 14.15
Lunch
14.15 - 15.00
Demo Share.TEC – una piattaforma per la condivisione di risorse digitali per la formazione dei docenti (Share.TEC—A platform for sharing digital resources in the teacher education
field )
Stefania Bocconi e Luigi Sarti, Institute for Educational Technology
15.00 - 15.30
Poster session
15.30 - 16.15
Presentation of poster themes
Discussants: Maria Beatrice Ligorio, Luca Vanin
16.15 - 16.45
Coffee break
16.45 - 17.45
Roundtable: La condivisione di risorse educative digitali
(Sharing digital learning resorces)
Allison Littlejohn, Antonio Fini, Maria Beatrice Ligorio, Gianni Vercelli,
Ivana Sacchi, Giovanni Fulantelli (to be confirmed)
Chair: Luigi Sarti - Institute for Educational Technology
17.45 - 18.00
Conclusions and closure
Themes
Many recent initiatives in the field of Open Educational Resources (OER) have faced issues
related to the role resources play in constructivist-oriented learning processes, both formal and informal. Re-examination of the function of Learning Objects (LO) within a constructivist perspective requires more expressive representation languages, i.e. languages
capable of capturing contextual, social and pedagogical information, and also of capturing
characteristics related to activities, processes, roles and learning environments.
The study day will explore these issues in the context of experiences and projects carried
out at both national and international levels. The morning sessions will be given over to
the invited presentations, while the afternoon will be dedicated to discussion of the issues
raised in the morning’s activities and the poster session. Possible themes are:

the relationship between the constructivist learning paradigm and languages used for
representing digital learning resources;

pedagogical issues underlying the use of learning objects in adult education in general and teacher training in particular;

the role played by specifications, tools and platforms for sharing digital learning resources in instructional design;

experiences in reusing learning resources within instructional design.
Scientific & organising committee
1
Stefania Bocconi, 1Jeffrey Earp, 2Maria Beatrice Ligorio, 1Stefania Manca, 1Luigi
Sarti, 3Luca Vanin
1
CNR - Institute for Educationa Technology; 2University of Bari; 3Bicocca
University, Milan
This day is co-organised by the EC Share.TEC project, co-financed by the European Commission with the eContentPlus programme
(http://www.share-tec.eu).
Contacts
Luigi Sarti
Tel. 0106475303, Fax 0106475300, [email protected]