The Social Media Economy Map

a quite interesting map by SMI

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.

just seen these statistics...

Survey of Nation’s Top Attorneys Reveals Spike in Smart Phone and Text Evidence During Divorces

a very interesting campaign by the Ministry of Tourism in Macedonia

a very interesting viral campaign addressed to local people to promote a change in attitudes and behaviours toward tourists. 

How to evaluate it? (here a very negative evaluation)

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

The eLearning Africa 2012 Report

free download >>>

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

un'intervista a Controluce, con Michele Fazioli

su LA1 della RSI (13 maggio 2012) >>>

una mia intervista sulla comunicazione della Chiesa cattolica

da Il Giornale del Popolo, 10 maggio 2012

Harvard and M.I.T. Team Up to Offer Free Online Courses

an interesting article published by NYTimes >>>

with very good colleagues and friends in Maputo (Mozambique)

last week, during a meeting of the RE-ACT (social REpresentations of community multimedia centres and ACTions for improvement) project

facebook Groups for Schools

Vacanze, il primo tuffo è nel Web

Ma il Vaticano sa ancora comunicare? Da Giovanni Paolo II a Benedetto XVI: l’informazione cattolica tra nuovi media e tradizione

Università della Svizzera italiana (Lugano, Svizzera), giovedì 10 maggio, ore 18.15
aula A11, palazzo rosso, campus di Lugano

Incontro con:

• Andrea Tornielli, vaticanista del quotidiano La Stampa e autore di numerosi saggi
• Lorenzo Cantoni, Decano della Facoltà di scienze della comunicazione dell’USI ed esperto di New Media

Introduce e modera Marcello Foa, direttore generale di TImedia e cofondatore dell’Osservatorio europeo di giornalismo.
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La serata è organizzata dall'Osservatorio europeo di giornalismo dell'USI in collaborazione con Il Corriere del Ticino.

Why I’m a listener: Amgen CEO Kevin Sharer

after two days in Andorra

skiing or attending the 7th World Congress on Snow and Mountain Tourism & playing with the Bienfaits pour vous iPhone App?

7th World Congress on Snow and Mountain Tourism

La Massana, Andorra, 11-12 April 2012

I'm here, presenting in the session: Relationship marketing: the need to create communities and to follow  potential customers before, during and after their trips

Rethinking Education in the Knowledge Society

a special issue of J.UCS - Journal of Universal Computer Science, 18/3 (2012), edited by Lorenzo Cantoni and Isabella Rega