11.10.12

Thin-Slicing, Malcolm Gladwell, and the Chinese Character for Listening

by Nick Morgan, on Forbes >>>

Hereafter the character:
taken from: http://www.she-philosopher.com/gallery/lely_2W1.html

6.10.12

Misconduct accounts for the majority of retracted scientific publications

an article by Ferric C. Fanga, R. Grant Steenc, and Arturo Casadevalld published on Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

hereafter the closing remark of the comment on the NYT: "There are many theories for why retractions and fraud have increased. A benign view suggests that because journals are now published online and more accessible to a wider audience, it’s easier for experts to spot erroneous or fraudulent papers. A darker view suggests that publish-or-perish pressures in the race to be first with a finding and to place it in a prestigious journal has driven scientists to make sloppy mistakes or even falsify data. The solutions are not obvious, but clearly greater vigilance by reviewers and editors is needed."

1.10.12

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

14.9.12

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


12.9.12

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


How Jeffery Boyd took Priceline from dot-bomb to highflier

a story by Fortune >>>

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