UniVirtual Lab e-learning technologies Lab For the Interuniversity Center CIRDFA (Centro Interateneo per la Ricerca Didattica e la Formazione Avanzata)

Univirtual LabThe inspiring ideaNowadays 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 LabThe 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)

Univirtual Lab Today

Univirtual LabAreas & FunctionsQuest'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.

Area dedicata 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 utenza.

Scientific Coordination

Web Design & Development

Learning & Instructional Design

Web Editing, Content Management, Institutional communication

Business Development

R e s e a r c h

Univirtual LabResearch Profile- Networked learningNew learning environments, instructional & learning design for hybrid learning.- Training of TrainersEducators 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-researchResearch methodologies and tools to understand learning processes on the net.

LA LOGICA DEL DISEGNOLearning DesignEducational Planning and MethodologiesWeb Design&Development

Training of TrainersEducational implementationEvaluationContent DesignWeb EditingInstitutional CommunicationResearch IStudy on the state of art, sceneries and problems of Education. Analysis of learning modelsResearch IIAnalysis of Educational Technologies. Development of tools and learning environments.MetadataResearch III Learning Processes, outputs and outcomes Educational and Social Impact

Univirtual LabTasks and working process

ACCREDITAMENTO E CERTIFICAZIONE DI PERCORSI FORMATIVI ONLINE DI NICCHIA

The Lab developes the following servicesUnivirtual labServices

Blended Training Courses

Technological and Methdological AssistenceContent Management, Learning Groups Management, Training of Trainers

Learning Objects Development Open Educational Resources Repositories

Monitoring Learning ProcessesAssessment Tools

Accreditation and Certification of Learning

Personalization of Learning

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

Needs AnalysisEducational ModelLearning ContextsApproaches to Evaluation and AssessmentUnivirtual labLearning Design

Univirtual LabA 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.

Univirtual LabA training framework: ILEP (Margiotta, 2006) (information, laboratory , evaluation, personalization)PersonalizationProvide further bibliographyHighlight alternative path to develop knowledge/skillsCreate additional materialsInformationExplain Education goalsDefine steps through TimelineGive a Themes sommaryProvide Advance Organizers (Ausubel, 1960)Contextualize LearningProvide a Conceptual Map or Elements to build itProvide main contents through text, multimedia, new technologies.AssessmentAssess declarative knowledge Assess competencies (procedural knowledge)Assess problem solving skills (imaginative knowledge) LabFormulate questions about crucial conceptsPropose discussions Propose cases to studyPropose problems to analyzeOffer feed-back about learning process and students achievements

Univirtual LabLearning Approaches Learning ApproachesSelf-Learning Approach(online)

The learning process is conceived as individual, where the single retrieves the material of his/her interest from the netCertification/recognition of learning occurs through highly structured tests and assignments

Assisted training Approach(blended)

The learning process is conceived as individual, where the single interacts with a tutor online and eventually with other usersCertification/recognition of learning occurs through tests and assignments proposed by the tutor and interacting with colleagues

Collaborative Learning(eel enriched environment learning)

The learning process is conceived as social, where learning environments offer several inputs to motivate participants to interact among themCertification/recognition of learning occurs through self-recognition and triangulation of several instruments of evaluation (mixed qual-quan)

Consorzio UnivirtualUNIVIRTUAL LabDefining Learning EnvironmentsMosaic Learning Environment

Univirtual LabDefining Learning Contents LDS (Learning desing system)

Learning PlanCompetences ProfileDiscipline KnowledgeSocial KnowledgeMatrix : concepts, representations, images Learning UnitSommary of the Unit Contents, Activities, EvaluationUnit ObjectivesStudy SectionsActivitiesLearn moreLA LOGICA DEL DISEGNOAssessmentUnivirtual LabLearning Design: Learning Units - Text

Learning PlanCompetences ProfileDiscipline KnowledgeSocial KnowledgeMatrix : concepts, representations, images Learning UnitStoryboardSelection of Media Map of HyperlinksPlotActorsCritical IncidentInteractionLearn moreLA LOGICA DEL DISEGNOReflections/CreationUnivirtual LabLearning Design: Learning Units - Multimedia

Technologies used

Virtual Learning EnvironmentsUNIVIRTUAL LAB

UNIVIRTUAL LAB AWAP : a special case of Personal Learning EnvironmentWhats AWAP?

It stands for Ambiente Web per lapprendimento personalizzato (personal learning environment on the Web) which aim is to make interact LMS with WEB 2.0 according to users motivations and scopes

HOW?Through highly flexible platforms, which are interoperable and allow hence the necessary simplicity and usability to keep natural users environments and tools connected within the learning experience

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Univirtual LabA net to support the Net

Univirtual LabA net to support the NetSW Open Source and interoperability

Univirtual LabThank you!

Any Question?Pls contact:

Parco Scientifico e Tecnologico di Venezia, Edificio LybraVia delle Industrie 17/a 30175 Marghera (VE), ItalyPhone: +390415094363 /+390415094363Email: info@univirtual.it

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