31.8.12

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) >>>

27.7.12

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.

21.6.12

Ticino Switzerland Travel Specialist featured in TES MAGAZINE

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

18.6.12

Bene comune e comunicazione

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

The Social Media Economy Map

a quite interesting map by SMI

9.6.12

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

5.6.12

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).

31.5.12

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)

29.5.12

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.

con la classe del Master in Gestione dei Media

28.5.12

3.5.12

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

an interesting article published by NYTimes >>>

2.5.12

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