Communication and Technology

Cantoni, L., & Danowski, J. A. (Eds.). (2015). Communication and Technology. Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton.
http://www.degruyter.com/view/product/179986 

 

eTourism: Communication Perspectives

I'm very happy to inform that we have just announced the MOOC - Massive Open Online Course - eTourism: Communication Perspectives by USI - Università della Svizzera italiana and its UNESCO chair in ICT to develop and promote sustainable tourism in World Heritage Sites.
It is, as far as I know, the very first MOOC covering the eTourism topic, a most needed one, considering the role plaid by Information and Communication Technologies within tourism and hospitality.
 
The course, fully free and open, will be delivered in October-November 2015; it will last 8 weeks, and will require approximately three hours study time per week. Among the intended publics, we can list: Destination managers, People active in the tourism industry, Policy makers, Students, in particular within tourism and hospitality programs, Academia and researchers.

You can watch the teaser, see the list of modules, and enrol directly from the iVersity platform

Southern Africa Youth in Tourism Conference “Promoting Sustainable Tourism Development through the Involvement and Participation of the Youth”

Very happy and honored to have contributed to the Southern Africa Youth in Tourism Conference “Promoting Sustainable Tourism Development through the Involvement and Participation of the Youth”, which has taken place 23-24 April 2015, in Pointe aux Piments, Mauritius, organized by RETOSA, the Regional Tourism Organisation of Southern Africa.
It has been a great opportunity to meet the Junior Deputy Minister and the Junior Ministers (both current and former ones) of Tourism in the Southern African development Community (SADC), as well as to present WHACY, the World Heritage Awareness Campaign for Youth in SADC.
Hereafter some pictures.

Having a sabbatical here / ici

http://www.univ-paris1.fr/ufr/irest/

Digital Technologies in Education

a current and a few upcoming events

• I'm coordinating the Summer School IDEAL Tourism - Information and communication technologies for promotion and development of sustainable tourism around cultural and natural destinations. The case of the UNESCO World Heritage Sites (see a photostory of the first week here)
• I'll do presentations at the following events:
• Vienna (Austria), 11-12 September 2014: ETC 10th TourMIS Users' Workshop & International Seminar on Knowledge Sharing for Tourism Destinations (speaker, together with Nadzeya Kalbaska)
• Lugano (Switzerland), 25 September 2014: Noi e il digitale: sfide e opportunità (panelist)
• Pisa (Italia), 9-12 October 2014: Internet Festival 2014, L'etica e la Rete (panelist)
• Guimarães (Portugal), 27-30 October 2014: ICEGOV 2014, The 8th International Conference on Theory and Practice of Electronic Governance (paper, together with Elmira Gazizova and Asta Adukaite)
• Istambul (Turkey), 6-8 November 2014: conference Heritage, Tourism and Hospitality. A Heritage of Hospitality and Hospitality for Heritage (keynote)
• Paris (France), 19-21 November 2014: European Master in InterCultural Communication (EMICC) - Eurocampus 2014 (lecturer) 
• Baden (Switzerland), 27 November 2014: SWISS E-Commerce Conference (speaker)
• Bragança and Mirandela (Portugal), 4-7 December: conference Smart Travel 2014 (keynote)

The role of e-learning applications within the tourism sector

eLearn Center Research Paper Series
8 (2014)
special issue on The role of e-learning applications within the tourism sector
coordinated by Oriol Miralbell, Lorenzo Cantoni, Nadzeya Kalbaska
fully available online for download

Congratulations to dr. Sara Vannini and dr. Francesca Fanni!

Congratulations!
see all details here >>>

Massive Open Online Courses: Strategies and Research Areas

Jamie Murphy, Nadzeya Kalbaska, Alan Williams, Peter Ryan, Lorenzo Cantoni, Laurel C. Horton-Tognazzini
Massive Open Online Courses: Strategies and Research Areas 
Journal of Hospitality & Tourism Education
Vol. 26, Iss. 1, 201, pp. 39-43

WHACY - World Heritage Awareness Campaign for Youth in Southern African Development Community (SADC)

WHACY, the World Heritage Awareness Campaign for Youth in Southern African Development Community (SADC) is going to start, make sure you participate in the great photo contest on FB, and subscribe to the campaign!

Information and Communication Technologies in Tourism 2014

Three new papers:

• Mobile Apps Devoted to UNESCO World Heritage Sites: A Mapby Theresa Karolina Schieder, Asta Adukaite, and Lorenzo Cantoni
• Hotel Mobile Apps. The Case of 4 and 5 Star Hotels in European German-Speaking Countriesby Asta Adukaite, Annina Melanie Reimann, Elena Marchiori, and Lorenzo Cantoni
• eLearning Courses Offered by Tourism Destinations: Factors Affecting Participation and Awareness Among British and Indian Travel Agents
  by Nadzeya Kalbaska and Lorenzo Cantoni

 

Summer school in Lugano (Switzerland)

Summer School IDEAL Tourism
Information and communication technologies for promotion and development of sustainable tourism around cultural and natural destinations. The case of the UNESCO World Heritage Sites
August 25-September 5, 2014
Università della Svizzera italiana (USI Lugano – Switzerland)

Among the instructors: Lorenzo Cantoni, Marcel Danesi, Silvia de Ascanis, Elena Marchiori, Amalia Sabiescu, John Traxler, Sara Vannini, Font Xavier

Organized by the UNESCO chair in ICT to develop and promote sustainable tourism in World Heritage Sites.

e-Learning courses on travel destinations. An exploratory study on Indian travel agents perspective

Kalbaska, Nadzeya and Cantoni, Lorenzo
e-Learning courses on travel destinations. An exploratory study on Indian travel agents perspective
In: Fountain, Joanna (Editor); Moore, Kevin (Editor)
CAUTHE 2013: Tourism and Global Change: On the Edge of Something Big
Christchurch, N.Z.: Lincoln University, 2013: 395-399
ISBN: 9780864762832

Changing mindsets: the attitude of pre-service teachers on technology for teaching

Amalia Sabiescu, Izak van Zyl, Marta Pucciarelli, Lorenzo Cantoni, Andy Bytheway, Wallace Chigona, and Stefano Tardini
Changing mindsets: the attitude of pre-service teachers on technology for teaching
In Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Information and Communications Technologies and Development: Notes - Volume 2 
(ICTD '13), Vol. 2
ACM, New York, NY, USA,  136-139. 
DOI=10.1145/2517899.2517927 
http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/2517899.2517927

La giornata dell’innovazione 2013: innovazione tra turismo, audiovisivo e sport

Being in the users' shoes: Anticipating experience while designing online courses

the paper is already availble online (before inclusion in an issue):
Rapanta, C. and Cantoni, L. (2013), Being in the users' shoes: Anticipating experience while designing online courses. British Journal of Educational Technology. doi: 10.1111/bjet.12102
the paper has elicited a very interesting response by John Cowan:
Cowan, J. (2013), Being in the users' shoes: Is there maybe another way?. British Journal of Educational Technology. doi: 10.1111/bjet.12104
see also our response to it:
Rapanta, C. and Cantoni, L. (2013), A reply to “Being in the users' shoes: Is there maybe another way?”. British Journal of Educational Technology. doi: 10.1111/bjet.12104_2

some Conferences

Workshop Role of eLearning Applications within the Tourism and Hospitality Sector (held at the 3rd International Conference on Tourism Management and Tourism Related Issues)
Presentations are now available online on www.elearning4tourism.com

EuroCHRIE Conference "Cooperative Education & Research for Hospitality & Tourism Educators"
the program (in pdf) is online
Make sure you don't miss Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) Adoption and Implementation, by Jamie Murphy, Alan Williams, Peter Ryan, Nadzeya Kalbaska, & Lorenzo Cantoni
Barriers and facilitators in implementing knowledge and skills acquired during a training in online communication. The view of hotel managers, by Asta Adukaite, Elena Marchiori, Cristina Fabi, & Lorenzo Cantoni

Prato CIRN Community Informatics Conference 2013
the program is now online. 
Make sure you don't miss Methodologies for sense-making in community-based research, by Amalia Georgiana Sabiescu, Sara Vannini, David Salomão, Lorenzo Cantoni, & Ammar Halabi

Sixth International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies and Development (ICTD2013) 
the preliminary program is online.
Make sure you don't miss Changing Mindsets: The Attitude of Pre-service Teachers on Technology for Teaching, by Marta Pucciarelli, Amalia Sabiescu, Izak Van Zyl, Andy Bytheway, Wallace Chigona, Lorenzo Cantoni, & Stefano Tardini; as well as ICTD: Intercultural Communication Technologies for Development, by Amalia Sabiescu and others from USI

Making Sense of MOOCs: Musings in a Maze of Myth, Paradox and Possibility

Making Sense of MOOCs: Musings in a Maze of Myth, Paradox and Possibility
by Sir John Daniel
Academic Partnerships. 2012

Using Self-Efficacy to measure primary school teachers’ perception of ICT: results from two studies

Francesca Fanni, Isabella Rega, & Lorenzo Cantoni (2013, April 19). Using Self-Efficacy to measure primary school teachers’ perception of ICT: results from two studies. International Journal of Education and Development using ICT [Online], 9(1). 

Available in pdf at: http://ijedict.dec.uwi.edu/include/getdoc.php?id=5401&article=1528&mode=pdf. 

eLearning in hospitality and tourism mini-track

webatelier.net researchers, prof. Lorenzo Cantoni and Nadzeya Kalbaska, in collaboration with Oriol Miralbell (Open University of Catalonia) and with the support of IFITT (International Federation for IT in Travel and Tourism) are organizing a special mini-track dedicated to the understanding of the “Role of eLearning Applications within the tourism and hospitality sector”.
The mini-track will be a part of the 3rd International Conference on Tourism Management and Tourism Related Issues, and will be held in Barcelona (Spain) on October 3-4, 2013.
for more info see the call for papers on www.elearning4tourism.com.