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Experimenting an Integrated Learning System
the experience of Università Telematica
Guglielmo Marconi Dott. Ilaria Mascitti Head
of International Affair and Research Projects
Department XII Encuentro Iberoamericano de
Educacion Superior a Distancia
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Overview

• Università Telematica Guglielmo Marconiin a
  nutshell
• Integrated Learning System
• UTGM e-platform
• UTGM m-portal
• UTGM t-platform
• Consideration

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Università Telematica Guglielmo Marconi in a
nutshell
UTGM - Università Telematica Guglielmo Marconi
the First Italian Open University recognized
by the Italian Ministry of Education(DM March
2004) offers on-line courses (Degrees Masters
- PhD) delivered through an Integrated Learning
System consisting of e-platform m-portal
t-platform
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Faculty and Degree Courses

• Faculty of Law
• Faculty of Economic Sciences
• Faculty of Applied Sciences and Technologies
• Degree Courses Civil Engineering
• Industrial Engineering
• Agricultural Science and Technology
• Building and Environmental Studies

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Faculty and Degree Courses

• Faculty of Education
• Degree Courses Pedagogy
• Faculty of Social Sciences
• Degree Courses Social SciencesPolitical Science
  and International Relation
• Social Sciences for Co-operation, Development and
  Peace
• Administration and Organization of Social Work
• Public Administration Sciences
• Faculty of Humanities
• Degree Courses Italian Language and
  Culture
• Foreign Language for International
  Communication

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Master Programmes
Business Administration Area Master on Business
Administration Master on Marketing
Management Master on Human Resources and
Management Master on Structure and Analysis of
Franchising Network Master on Science in
Sustainable Development Master EMAS - Eco
Management Auditing Scheme Law Economic Master
on International Law Master on Fiscal
International Law Master on Investigation
Sciences Master on European Studies and Politics
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Master Programmes
Translation Studies Area Master on Conference
Translation Master on International Communication
Languages Master on Literature and
Technical-Scientific Translations Social Science
Area Master on Migration and Intercultural
Mediation Master on Functional Integration of
Disabled People Master on Family Mediation
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Integrated Learning System
Innovative and flexible learning methodology
e-learning
m-learning
t-learning Virtual C_at_mpus e-platform
m-portal t-C_at_mpus platform
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Integrated Learning System why?

• to answer different learning needs
• to meet different learning styles
• to offer personalised and flexible training
  path
• UTGM students

Young students
Adult Learners

• Skilled Adults
• Not ICT litterate users

• Net Generation
• Digital Natives
• Homo Zappiens

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New generation - Homo Zappiens

• Zapping is the skill to construct meaningful
  knowledge from discontinued audio,visual and
  testual information flows
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  Wim Veen, 2005

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The way Homo Zappiens learns
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The adult learners

• Adults learners, professionals, lifelong learners
  
• andragogy theory
• Enquiry based approaches
• Experiential learning
• Collaborative learning
• Active learning
  
• Self organisation
• Problem solving strategies
• Knowles 1993

Skilled adults
Not ICT litterate users
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Integrated Learning System
Self-paced personalised learning Flexible
dynamic learning Collaborative interactive
learning
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Virtual C_at_mpus e-Platform

• The UTGM e-platform consists of different
  scenarios
• Administrative Services a kind of virtual
  secretariat allowing the user to find out useful
  information
• On-line courses built up in different Didactic
  Modules and made up by different Learning Objects
  
• Tutoring counselling and didactic support
  through social software

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Virtual C_at_mpus e-Platform

• The on-line course is made up by different
  Learning Objects delivered through the e-platform
• AUDIO-LESSONS
• ANIMATED CARTOONS
• LECTURE NOTES
• EVALUATION TESTS

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Virtual C_at_mpus e-Platform
The audio/video lectures represent the focal
point of the training path
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Virtual C_at_mpus e-Platform

• Different kind of tests are realised by the
  teacher to evaluate the effectiveness of the
  learning process
• multiple choice test
• true/false
• fill in the blank
• matching

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Virtual C_at_mpus e-Platform

• Tutoring
• The UTGM tutors act both as counsellors and
  didactic experts
• synch async tools available in the virtual
  classroom to promote collaborative learning
• Chat
• Video Chat
• Forum
• Web log
• Application Sharing
• Documents Sharing

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Virtual C_at_mpus e-Platform
blog private diary which may empower the
learner to take a more active, committed and
self-governing role in the learning process
feeling emotions shared among the users
empower the learning process fostering the
motivation social phenomenon
Blogospherecommunity social software
enables users to rendezvous, connect or
collaborate and to form online communities
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UTGM m-portal

• The m-learning is
• in-your-hands
• in-your-pocket
• on-demand
• on-the-move
• just-in-time
• just-in-place
• Stolen
  moments of Learning
• 
  David Metcalf,
  2005

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UTGM m-portal

• The m-learning is
• ubiquitous learning
• situated learning
• on-demand learning
• informal learning
• anytime and anywhere..
• for people on the move and going nomadic
• 
  Bryan Alexander, 2004

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UTGM m-portal
The m-learning portal presents 2 different
didactic scenarios m-TRAINING section
Didactic Pills Audio lessons Cartoons
Quiz m-COMMUNITY Forum Chat
Videochat
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t-C_at_mpus platform
t-C_at_mpus platform digital interactive
television The keyboard is replaced by the
user-friendly remote control the PC is
substituted by television easy to use also by not
ICT literate people
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t-C_at_mpus platform

• The t-platform promotes a kind of learning
  process which is
• hypertextual thanks to the indexing of the
  lecture and thanks to the use of the remote
  control the students can easily stop, rewind,
  review, the teacher explanation
• multimedia thanks to the converge of different
  format of didactic material (audio, video, text,
  image) the students can activate and support
  different learning style.

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Considerations
The pervasive use of technologies in learning
processess bring us to re-think to the didactic
methodology in a ecological approach
(Bateson) the user is the focus of the learning
process not the technology technology is only
the mean NOT our end NOMADIC(T)
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