Telematics, Narrative and Poetry: The Parole in Jeans Project

Guglielmo Trentin

International Journal of Instructional Media Vol. 26, No. 4 (1999) pp. 409–22

Explains "Parole in Jeans", a computer-based project developed to promote literature and foster collaborative poetry and story writing in lower secondary schools in Italy, Topics include network-based collaborative production; integration of...

Cooperative online learning: a possible methodological approach to the management of online university courses

Guglielmo Trentin

Italian Journal of Educational Technology Vol. 13, No. 3 (Jan 01, 2005) p. 45

Discussion of a proposal on how to organize, manage and evaluate the interaction online university courses based on collaborative learning. The proposal is illustrated through the description of two online courses on the use of ICT in human resource ...

Insegnanti e nativi digitali

Guglielmo Trentin

Italian Journal of Educational Technology Vol. 17, No. 2 (Jan 01, 2009) p. 59

Il livello di mutamento delle proprie abitudini comunicative e' quasi sempre correlato all'eta' anagrafica e varia in un range che va dallo "sconvolgente" per i soggetti adulti e poco tecnologizzati, all'assoluta normalita' per i cosiddetti nativi...

The BBSD database

Guglielmo Trentin

Italian Journal of Educational Technology Vol. 2, No. 2 (Jan 01, 1994) p. 8

Catalog description of the educational software available at the Library of Educational Software (BSD) managed dall'ITD-CNR. The products described refer to the main subject areas and relate to schools, universities' and vocational training. Over...

Language: Italiano/Italian

From distance education to virtual communities of practice: The wide range of possibilities for using the Internet in continuous education and training

Guglielmo Trentin

International Journal on E-Learning Vol. 1, No. 1 (2002) pp. 55–66

Continuous education and training has become a specific need in many professional areas. In this light, Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) can play a key role, offering resources that open up new opportunities for managing and actively ...

Topics: Information Communication Technologies, Educational Technology, Training, Communication

Intercultural Email Classroom Connections: an international project to communicate between classes of students

Guglielmo Trentin

Italian Journal of Educational Technology Vol. 3, No. 1 (Jan 01, 1995) p. 68

Intercultural E-mail Classroom Connections (IECC), un progetto internazionale promosso dal St. Olaf College di Northfield, Minnesota, ha l\u2019obiettivo di favorire il contatto fra classi di studenti ai diversi livelli scolari. Gli utenti...

Il progetto Polaris: la telematica nella formazione in servizio dei docenti

Guglielmo Trentin

Italian Journal of Educational Technology Vol. 4, No. 3 (Jan 01, 1996) p. 58

Presentation of the POLARIS project aims to test a particular method of in-service training of teachers based on the intensive use of telematic resources with the approach of so-called online education (training network), or third generation...

Wikis in the organization and evaluation of c-learning

Guglielmo Trentin

Italian Journal of Educational Technology Vol. 15, No. 3 (Jan 01, 2007) p. 4

Description of a methodological approach aimed at promoting the process of monitoring and evaluating the collaborative learning process based on co-writing in a wiki. The reference context and research developed in the course Network Technology &...

Knowledge and Information Flows in a Hybrid Learning Space: the students’ perceptions

Guglielmo Trentin

Journal of Interactive Learning Research Vol. 26, No. 4 (October 2015) pp. 403–429

When proposing group activities to students with a view to fostering collaborative learning in a hybrid learning space, we often ourselves about the relative amounts of information and knowledge which flow in the interaction, both among the group...

Topics: Information Communication Technologies

TEL and University Teaching: Different Approaches for Different Purposes

Guglielmo Trentin

International Journal on E-Learning Vol. 7, No. 1 (January 2008) pp. 117–132

Teaching innovation in university education, especially when based on the use of information and communication technology (ICT), is a long process and is strongly conditioned by many variables such as the specific cultural context, the availability...

Topics: Information Communication Technologies, Teaching Methods, eLearning, Faculty, Distance Education

Dall'e-learning formale a quella informale attraverso i processi di gestione e condivisione delle conoscenza professionale

Guglielmo Trentin

Italian Journal of Educational Technology Vol. 14, No. 3 (Jan 01, 2006) p. 39

Discussione sullo sviluppo professionale all\u2019interno di comunita\u2019 di pratica e formazione formale come premessa per i processi di apprendimento informale.

SCUOLA.ITA A permanent conference on school

Guglielmo Trentin

Italian Journal of Educational Technology Vol. 2, No. 2 (Jan 01, 1994) p. 75

SCUOLA.ITA e' uno spazio di discussione sulle tematiche che riguardano la scuola. Ha l\u2019obiettivo di creare un ambiente di comunicazione fra tutti coloro che sono interessati a scambiare opinioni ed esperienze su questioni di didattica, di...

Apprendimento collaborativo in rete e didattica universitaria: i ritorni di tipo educativo

Guglielmo Trentin

Italian Journal of Educational Technology Vol. 14, No. 2 (Jan 01, 2006) p. 3

Analisi dei fattori e delle motivazioni che possono spingere un docente ad adottare strategie di insegnamento tese a favorire l\u2019apprendimento collaborativo in rete nella didattica universitaria.

Approaching Hospital-Bound/Home-Bound Special Education as an Opportunity for Innovation in Teaching

Guglielmo Trentin

Educational Technology Vol. 54, No. 1 (2014) pp. 26–30

Paradoxically some "extreme" didactic needs, such as those of students who are unable to attend normal education regularly (e.g., hospitalized and/or homebound students), have shown themselves to be ideal for the development of a teaching...

Designing Online Education Courses

Guglielmo Trentin

Computers in the Schools Vol. 17, No. 3 (2001) pp. 47–66

Focuses on the main elements that characterize online course design. Topics include design constraints; analysis of learning needs; defining objectives; course prerequisites; content structuring; course flexibility; learning strategies; evaluation...

Always-on Education and Hybrid Learning Spaces

Guglielmo Trentin

Educational Technology Vol. 56, No. 2 (2016) pp. 31–37

The possibility of being always connected to the Internet and/or the mobile network (hence the term "always-on") is increasingly blurring the borderline between physical and digital spaces, introducing a new concept of space, known as ...

Quality in distance education

Guglielmo Trentin

Italian Journal of Educational Technology Vol. 7, No. 1 (Jan 01, 1999) p. 10

Discussion of the concept of quality in the context of distance learning.

The WISE project and support for socialeducational inclusion

Guglielmo Trentin

Italian Journal of Educational Technology Vol. 21, No. 2 (Aug 31, 2013) pp. 68–74

Some learners are temporarily or permanently hindered from participating normally in school, university or professional education and training due to physical or health disabilities that are either congenital or have been acquired through traumas or ...

METAFORE: il mediatore della formazione

Guglielmo Trentin

Italian Journal of Educational Technology Vol. 8, No. 3 (Jan 01, 2000) p. 54

In recent years, and 'enhanced educational provision based on action at a distance and in particular on the systematic use of networks is to distribute educational materials to be enjoyed in a structured self-instruction, is to create virtual...

Technology Enhanced Learning e didattica universitaria: i diversi approcci e i motivi della loro scelta

Guglielmo Trentin

Italian Journal of Educational Technology Vol. 14, No. 1 (Jan 01, 2006) p. 3

Un\u2019analisi su come si orientano i docenti universitari nella scelta di Technology Enhanced Learning (TEL). Vengono inoltro proposte alcuni suggerimenti utili su come orientarsi. La discussione prende in esame una serie di iniziative presso l...

The Apprentice Historian: Studying Modern History With the Help of Computers and Telematics

Guglielmo Trentin

International Journal of Educational Telecommunications Vol. 6, No. 3 (2000) pp. 213–225

This article describes a project for the study of contemporary history using computer and telematics. The activities involved collaboration between dozens of "apprentice historians" and in-vestigated the subject of "modernisation" during the period...

Topics: Social Studies

E-Learning and the Third Age

Guglielmo Trentin

Journal of Computer Assisted Learning Vol. 20, No. 1 (February 2004) pp. 21–30

As a result of the general improvement in living conditions in industrialised Western countries, people aged over 60 years usually reach the third age in good mental and physical condition. Contemporary society has thus had to endeavour to offer the ...

Network-Based Collaborative Education

Guglielmo Trentin

International Journal of Instructional Media Vol. 26, No. 2 (1999) pp. 145–57

Discusses telematics and the use of computer networks to support collaborative education, both among teachers for training and planning and among students in their learning process. Highlights include traditional class groups and groups using...

How to transform a dire educational need into a wonderful opportunity for innovation and teachers'professional development

Guglielmo Trentin

Italian Journal of Educational Technology Vol. 22, No. 1 (Apr 30, 2014) pp. 31–38

Le esperienze individuali derivanti da esigenze didattiche a volte “estreme\u201d, come quelle degli studenti che non possono frequentareregolarmente (se non del tutto) le lezioni, hanno fornito e continuano a fornire, al mondo della scuola e della...

A multidimensional approach to the sustainability of e-learning

Guglielmo Trentin

Italian Journal of Educational Technology Vol. 15, No. 1 (Jan 01, 2007) p. 14

Analysis of the key elements related to sustainability 'of a system of e-learning. We present a model that highlights the complex web of relationships between the dimensions that characterize it. E 'already' in the early stages of its planning and...

Graphical representation of the informal knowledge and problem-based learning

Guglielmo Trentin

Italian Journal of Educational Technology Vol. 16, No. 1 (Jan 01, 2008) p. 43

Discussione dell\u2019uso di strumenti concettuali propri dell\u2019informatica per la rappresentazione di contenuti in ambito didattico. Viene esaminato in particolare l\u2019uso di mappe concettuali e reti di Petri.

E-learning as a complex system

Guglielmo Trentin

Italian Journal of Educational Technology Vol. 11, No. 3 (Jan 01, 2003) p. 47

Proporre e gestire e-learning significa avere ben chiari gli elementi di un sistema complesso, fatto si' di contenuti da erogare, ma anche di modelli teorici a cui riferirsi, di scelte tecnologiche da operare, di risorse umane da mettere in gioco e...

La tecnologia della comunicazione via rete

Guglielmo Trentin

Italian Journal of Educational Technology Vol. 1, No. 2 (Jan 01, 1993) p. 60

Presentazione di una panoramica sui servizi disponibili e sui modi di comunicare via rete.

From distance learning to communities of practice through online learning

Guglielmo Trentin

Italian Journal of Educational Technology Vol. 8, No. 2 (Jan 01, 2000) p. 21

Considerations on the range of possible uses of the network in continuing education and distance learning, with particular attention to communities' practice of professions.

The Evaluation of Online Courses

Benigno ; Guglielmo Trentin

Journal of Computer Assisted Learning Vol. 16, No. 3 (2000) pp. 259–70

Discusses issues involved in the evaluation of online courses, focusing on the peculiarities that distinguish such evaluation from that of traditional distance education. Proposes a methodological approach for monitoring and evaluating online...

Modelling Blended Solutions for Higher Education: Teaching, Learning, and Assessment in the Network and Mobile Technology Era

Stefania Bocconi; Guglielmo Trentin

Educational Research and Evaluation Vol. 20, No. 7 (2014) pp. 516–535

The article addresses the role of network and mobile technologies in enhancing blended solutions with a view to (a) enriching the teaching/learning processes, (b) exploiting the opportunities it offers for their observability, and hence for their...

Analisi del follow-up nella formazione

Guglielmo Trentin; Elisabetta Vallarino

Italian Journal of Educational Technology Vol. 15, No. 2 (Jan 01, 2007) p. 4

Description of a methodology for the analysis of follow-up training. Is presented a possible detection tool used in the project Procopius on collaborative network involving a group of teachers in South Tyrol.

The Roles of Tutors and Experts in Designing Online Education Courses

Guglielmo Trentin; Santi Scimeca

Distance Education Vol. 20, No. 1 (1999) pp. 144–61

Considers the roles and the process that characterize the design of online distance education courses, especially when the online tutors are not real experts in the course content domain. Describes an Italian pilot project that studies the use of...

Distance Collaboration for Studying History in Lower Secondary Schools: The Storybase Project

Guglielmo Trentin; Camillo Gibelli

International Journal of Instructional Media Vol. 25, No. 1 (1998) pp. 11–27

Describes StoryBase, a pilot project supported by computer mediated communication in which a network of schools spread throughout Italy collaborated with the specific objective of the historical reconstruction of the period from the 1940s to the...

The Effectiveness of Hybrid Solutions in Higher Education: A Call for Hybrid-Teaching Instructional Design

Guglielmo Trentin; Stefania Bocconi

Educational Technology Vol. 54, No. 5 (2014) pp. 12–21

In order to design learning solutions that effectively embed face-to-face and online dimensions, it is crucial to identify the key components underpinning hybrid solutions. Furthermore, once these components have been identified, there is the need...

Evaluating Vocational Educators' Training Programs: A Kirkpatrick-Inspired Evaluation Model

Fabrizio Ravicchio; Guglielmo Trentin

Educational Technology Vol. 55, No. 3 (2015) pp. 22–28

The aim of the article is to describe the assessment model adopted by the SCINTILLA Project, a project in Italy aimed at the online vocational training of young, seriously-disabled subjects and their subsequent work inclusion in smart-work mode. It...

ICT and lifelong learning for senior citizens

Manuela Repetto; Guglielmo Trentin

Journal of e-Learning and Knowledge Society Vol. 4, No. 1 (2008) pp. 189–198

Currently an effective and adequate use of new technologies appears to be a key element in knowledge-based society. This requires capabilities, which discriminate large social classes, in particular, the elderly. Opportunities to develop and...

Valutare gli effetti dell'apprendimento informale prodotto nelle comunit professionali online

Giovanna Romano; Guglielmo Trentin

Italian Journal of Educational Technology Vol. 16, No. 2 (Jan 01, 2008) p. 57

Analysis of how to measure the performance of a community 'professional online virtual environment and to assess their Community. Are given certain "enabling conditions", predisposing to achieve a good performance level of the community '. It also...

Telematics in education: when and how

Giorgio Olimpo; Guglielmo Trentin

Italian Journal of Educational Technology Vol. 1, No. 2 (Jan 01, 1993) p. 4

Un'analisi dei possibili ruoli e significati che la telematica puo' assumere nei differenti momenti della didattica.

Blended presence / distance learning

Vincenza Benigno; Guglielmo Trentin

Italian Journal of Educational Technology Vol. 6, No. 2 (Jan 01, 1998) p. 24

Presentazione della sperimentazione di un approccio misto presenza/distanza condotta nell\u2019ambito del corso di aggiornamento EDIT (EDucare con Internet e la Telematica) sull\u2019uso delle risorse di rete a supporto della didattica scolastica....

Formazione formatori sullo smart working per disabili: come valutare le ricadute

Fabrizio Ravicchio; Manuela Repetto; Guglielmo Trentin

Italian Journal of Educational Technology Vol. 23, No. 2 (Oct 19, 2015) pp. 102–111

The SCINTILLA project (Innovative Scenarios of Tele-Training for Work Inclusion in Liguria) supported by the Region of Liguria (Italy) has set out to study how new technology can be used to support work inclusion processes for people whose mobility...

Formazione in rete dei docenti: L'esperienza POLARIS

Vincenza Benigno; Renata Briano; Guglielmo Trentin

Italian Journal of Educational Technology Vol. 5, No. 1 (Jan 01, 1997) p. 7

Riflessioni su diverse problematiche relative alla formazione a distanza, con particolare riferimento al progetto Polaris.

Aggiornamento in rete dei docenti sull'Educazione Ambientale

Renata Briano; Vittorio Midoro; Guglielmo Trentin

Italian Journal of Educational Technology Vol. 4, No. 1 (Jan 01, 1996) p. 60

Reflections on the professionalism of teachers on the field of environmental education (EA), the learning process can be facilitated by training the network.

The "electronic language" beyond the forms of written language

Serenella Besio; Michela Ott; Guglielmo Trentin

Italian Journal of Educational Technology Vol. 2, No. 1 (Apr 30, 1994) p. 51

The search for significance approaching the language of computer messages to spoken language.

Language: Italiano/Italian

The WISE project: new opportunities for homebound education

Vincenza Benigno; Manuela Repetto; Guglielmo Trentin

Italian Journal of Educational Technology Vol. 17, No. 3 (Jan 01, 2009) p. 55

Wiring Individualized Special Education and 'a three-year project, financed with funds for basic research (FIRB) provided by the Ministry of Education, University' and MIUR. The project is in the field of special education research and represents...

Parole in Jeans: poesia e telematica

Paola Barisone; Milvia Scarrone; Guglielmo Trentin

Italian Journal of Educational Technology Vol. 6, No. 1 (Jan 01, 1998) p. 58

Presentation of project "Parole in Jeans" focuses on poetry and telematics under more 'general education reading in a multimedia context. The theme concerns "the culture of the various Italian regions" created through a collaborative implemented...

The ELGA-EDELWEISS work group

Vincenza Benigno; Mirvana Contini; Guglielmo Trentin

Italian Journal of Educational Technology Vol. 8, No. 2 (Jan 01, 2000) p. 59

Description of the purposes' of a working group, Elga, within the project Edelweiss dedicated to the use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) in the hospital school. These activities' conducted with the participation of primary school ...