UK travel agents’ evaluation of eLearning courses offered by destinations : An exploratory study

Journal of Hospitality, Leisure, Sport & Tourism Education
Volume 12, Issue 1, April 2013, Pages 7–14
UK travel agents’ evaluation of eLearning courses offered by destinations : An exploratory study 
by Nadzeya Kalbaska, Hee Andy Lee, Lorenzo Cantoni, Rob Law

SSRE2013 Annual Conference

SSRE Società Svizzera di ricerca in Educazione
SSRE Société suisse pour la recherche en éducation
SGBF Schweizerische Gesellschaft für Bildungsforschung
SSRE Swiss Society for Research in Education
Integrating formal and informal learning 
August 21-23, 2013, Università della Svizzera italiana, Lugano
Jointly organized by SUPSI-DFA, USI and SFIVET

Progetto INTERREG: Laghi e Monti Life

Seguendo un approccio centrato sull’ascolto, sono state condotte interviste a 279 turisti in visita nell’area del Ticino e del Distretto Turistico dei Laghi in Piemonte. 
È possibile scaricare gratuitamente il report.

La reputazione nell’epoca del web

sono stato intervistato per questa cover story di Ticino Management >>>

Online Communication of the Catholic World Youth Days

by Lorenzo Cantoni, Miriam Stefania & Silvia De Ascaniis, in Kevin Griffin & Razaq Ra (eds.), Reflecting on Religious Tourism and Pilgrimage, ATLAS, 2012
ISBN: 978-90-75775-53-2

quite happy with my email management of yesterday

the book Internet by Cantoni & Tardini now available in Persian!

 
Persian translation of Internet

Integrating formal and informal learning

The 2013 Annual Conference of the Swiss Society for Research in Education will be held on August 21-23, 2013 at the Università della Svizzera italiana, in Lugano. The conference main topic is Integrating formal and informal learning.

The conference is organized jointly by the Dipartimento Formazione e Apprendimento of the Scuola Universitaria Professionale della Svizzera Italiana (SUPSI-DFA), by the Faculty of Communication Sciences of the University of Lugano (USI), and by the Swiss Federal Institute for Vocational Education and Training (SFIVET).
see the conference website for the call for papers

a great experience at the University of Eastern Finland

acting as opponent at the doctoral defence of Carolina Islas Sedano
Joensuu (Finland), September 4, 2012
Topic: Hypercontextualised Games 
Custodian: Prof. Erkki Sutinen

Comunicazione è anzitutto ascolto

Il Presidente USI, Prof. Piero Martinoli e l’USI Career Service hanno il piacere di invitarla all’incontro:
Comunicazione è anzitutto ascolto
Intervengono:Prof. Lorenzo Cantoni, Decano della Facoltà di scienze della comunicazione
Prof. Mario Botta, Direttore dell’Accademia d’Architettura

Modera: Michele Fazioli, RSI

16 Ottobre 2012, Ore 16.30 – 18.30, Auditorium, Campus USI Lugano

Symposium: Global tools, local needs

I'll be at the University of Eastern Finland (in Joensuu) to be opponent in a PhD discussion, as well as to participate to the Global tools, local needs Symposium, at the IMPDET (International Multidisciplinary PhD Studies in Educational Technology) >>>

Connected Minds Technology and Today’s Learners

a new report by OECD, edited by Francesc Pedró, with significant contributions from Emanuele Rapetti (Chapters 3 and 6). 

The report cites two of our papers on the topic:

• Rapetti, E. and L. Cantoni (2010), “Digital natives and learning with the
  ICTs the ‘GenY @ work’ research in Ticino, Switzerland”, Journal of
  E-Learning and Knowledge Society, Vol.6 no. 1, pp. 39-49 
• Rapetti, E., Cantoni, L. and Misic, S. (2009), “New cultural spaces for
  learning: the learners’ voices”, Online Webasculture Conference
  Proceedings, July 16-18, Giessen, Germany, www.webasculture.de/index.php?id=75.

Ticino Switzerland Travel Specialist featured in TES MAGAZINE

Read the interview here (in German).
Subscribe to Ticino Turismo eLearning Platform here (in English).

Labs' residential seminar (dieta) in Miglieglia

Bene comune e comunicazione

un mio intervento presso la Facoltà di Teologia di Lugano >>>

EDEN's Best Research Paper Award !

EDEN's Best Research Paper Award is granted yearly during the Annual Conference Dinner, the Award is presented in collaboration with the Ulrich Bernath Foundation for Research in Open and Distance Learning, with the support of a distinguished Jury. This year, former President of EDEN - European Distance and E-Learning Network Ingeborg Bø chaired the jury and presented the Best Paper Award at the conference dinner on June 8th.
This year's winners were Emanuele Rapetti and Lorenzo Cantoni from Università della Svizzera Italiana (Lugano, Switzerland). Our paper is titled Reconsidering "Gen Y" & Co: From Minding the Gap to Overcoming it.

Other finalists were:

• Do Men Learn in Order to Earn? Motives for Lifelong Learners to Choose Web-Based Courses and the Relationship with Age, Gender, Parenthood and Rate of Studies
  Ron Mahieu, Simon Wolming, Department of Education, Umea University, Sweden
• Generational Distinctiveness in the Time Use of Working Distance Learners
  Bill McNeill, The College of Estate Management, United Kingdom
• Personalisation in e-Learning – The Key for Success in Learning in Later Life
  Sonia Hetzner, Eline Leen, Innovation in Learning Institute - ILI, Germany

Mobile Access to Knowledge (A2K)

Marta Pucciarelli & Lorenzo Cantoni (Università della Svizzera Italiana, Lugano, Switzerland), Mobile Access to Knowledge (A2K), presentation held at the Scientific m-Learning seminar, ICTP - Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics, Trieste (Italy).

you can see the program, the video of the presentation, as well as the videos of the entire seminar.

Mobile Science & Learning

Marta Pucciarelli & Lorenzo Cantoni, Mobile Access To Knowledge, in Enrique Canessa & Marco Zennaro (Eds.), Mobile Science & Learning, ICTP—The Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics, Trieste (Italy) 2012, pp. 71-77.
Freely downloadable.

Mobile Science and Learning v.4 (Hires)

con la classe del Master in Gestione dei Media

visita il sito del Master

Reconsidering “Gen Y” & Co: From Minding the Gap to Overcoming it