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Luca Botturi
University of Lugano - NewMinE Lab
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E[superscript 2]ML: A Visual Language for the Design of Instruction
Luca Botturi
Educational Technology Research and Development Vol. 54, No. 3 (June 2006) pp. 265–293
The last decade has brought about a major change in higher education. Course design has developed from a craftsmanship-like process to a structured production, which involves interdisciplinary teams and requires more complex communication skills....
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Online Media Juke-Box
Luca Botturi
E-Learn: World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education 2002 (2002) pp. 2475–2476
This interactive session presents Online Media Jukebox, a web interface for delivering online one or more selections of digital resources (texts in any web-compatible format, streaming video and audio, links) with a minimum of technical competencies....
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Visual Languages for Instructional Design: an Evaluation of E2ML
Luca Botturi
World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2004 (2004) pp. 243–250
In the last years, Instructional Design has seen the development of visual models for supporting and enhancing the design process. A part of them concern the definition of learning goals, while others address the definition of learning activities or ...
Topics: Instructional Design, Evaluation, Instructional Materials
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Visualising learning goals with the Quail Model
Luca Botturi
Australasian Journal of Educational Technology Vol. 20, No. 2 (Jan 01, 2004) pp. 248–273
This paper introduces the Quail Model, a device for the classification and visualisation of learning goals. The model is a communication tool that can smoothen the discussion within a course design team, support shared understanding, and improve...
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A Framework for the Evaluation of Visual Languages for Instructional Design: the Case of E2ML
Luca Botturi
Journal of Interactive Learning Research Vol. 16, No. 4 (October 2005) pp. 329–351
** Invited as paper from ED-MEDIA 2004 ** In the last years, Instructional Design has seen the development of visual notation systems for supporting and enhancing the design process. Some of them concern the definition of learning goals, while...
Topics: Instructional Design, design, teaching, Evaluation, eLearning, faculty development, web design
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Knowledge as Relationship and E-learning
Luca Botturi
World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education 2002 (2002) pp. 144–153
The shift to new paradigms in education pushed by new media has initiated a critical re-thinking of the way we talk of and practice teaching and learning which is still open. Some concepts of the Western educational tradition can be helpful in...
Topics: Instructional Design
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E2ML - Educational Environment Modeling Language
Luca Botturi
World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2003 (2003) pp. 304–311
E2ML is a modeling language specifically developed for the design of educational environments. It models the goals, requirement and design of the teaching and learning activity. Its core parts are a verbal statement and visual mapping of goals and a ...
Topics: Learning Objects, Instructional Design, Integration
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E[2]ML: A Visual Instructional Design Language
Luca Botturi
Annual Meeting of the Association for Educational Communications and Technology 2004 (October 2005)
The advent of technologies has changed our very idea of what a course is (Bates & Poole, 2003). Instructors in Higher Education are now daily supported by instructional designers or educational technology experts that provide advice for integrating...
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Pedagogical Patterns for Online Learning
Luca Botturi; Karen Belfer
World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education 2003 (2003) pp. 881–884
Abstract. This paper describes the use of a new representation language E2ML to denote pedagogical patterns. With E2ML you can create visual illustrations to communicate of sound pedagogical applications of technology. The language is so intuitive...
Topics: Languages
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Essential Use Cases for Pedagogical Patterns
Michael Derntl; Luca Botturi
Computer Science Education Vol. 16, No. 2 (June 2006) pp. 137–156
Coming from architecture, through computer science, pattern-based design spread into other disciplines and is nowadays recognized as a powerful way of capturing and reusing effective design practice. However, current pedagogical pattern approaches...
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Monitoring an Online Course With the GISMO Tool: A Case Study
Riccardo Mazza; Luca Botturi
Journal of Interactive Learning Research Vol. 18, No. 2 (April 2007) pp. 251–265
This article presents GISMO, a novel, open source, graphic student-tracking tool integrated into Moodle. GISMO represents a further step in information visualization applied to education, and also a novelty in the field of learning management...
Topics: Educational Technology, Learning Management Systems, Information Communication Technologies, Databases, eLearning, Instructional Materials
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Evaluating LMS Usability for Enhanced eLearning Experience
Alessandro Inversini; Luca Botturi; Luca Triacca
World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2006 (June 2006) pp. 595–601
This paper reports the method and results of a comparative usability study conducted on four Learning Management Systems (LMS), two commercial and two Open Source. The results suggest that there is no single most usable LMS, and that there is no...
Topics: Learning Management Systems
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Design & Trust as Key Factors for e-Teaching
Sabrina Rozalèn; Terry Inglese; Luca Botturi
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2003 (2003) pp. 1379–1382
The offer of new possibilities for teaching and learning with new media increase the complexity of educational environments. This fact consequently increments the possibility of negative learning outcomes, and makes the development of student...
Topics: Instructional Design, Learning Outcomes, Students
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Learning by Seeing: The TEMAS Multimedia Learning Objects for Civil Engineers
Ezio Cadoni; Luca Botturi; Daniele Forni
TechTrends: Linking Research and Practice to Improve Learning Vol. 52, No. 5 (September 2008) pp. 17–21
A goal of engineering and architecture bachelor and master's programs is to provide students with practical and technical preparation in the mechanical characterization of materials and structures: future architects and civil engineers should be...
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Beauty and Precision in Instructional Design
Michael Derntl; Patrick Parrish; Luca Botturi
World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2008 (Jun 30, 2008) pp. 356–365
Instructional design and technology products result from many options and constraints. On the one hand, solutions should be creative, effective and flexible; on the other hand, developers and instructors need precise guidance and details on what to...
Topics: Languages, Instructional Design
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Beauty and Precision: Weaving Complex Educational Technology Projects with Visual Instructional Design Languages
Michael Derntl; Patrick Parrish; Luca Botturi
International Journal on E-Learning Vol. 9, No. 2 (April 2010) pp. 185–202
Instructional design and technology products result from many options and constraints. On the one hand, solutions should be creative, effective and flexible; on the other hand, developers and instructors need precise guidance and details on what to...
Topics: Instructional Design, Educational Technology, Communication, Learning Objects, Engineering, Creativity, Planning
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Introducing a Moodle LMS in Higher Education: the e-Courses Experience in Ticino (Switzerland)
Luca Botturi; Lorenzo Cantoni; Stefano Tardini
Journal of e-Learning and Knowledge Society Vol. 2, No. 1 (2006) pp. 123–130
The University of Lugano (USI) and the University of Applied Sciences of Italian Switzerland (SUPSI) adopted in May 2004 a Moodle LMS as a support for their educational activities. This article describes how the eLearning platform was chosen,...
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The New Media Juke Box - a multimedia project
Luca Botturi; Terry Inglese; Sabrina Rozalèn
World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2003 (2003) pp. 984–989
The New Media Juke-Box is an experiment carried out at the University of Lugano in collaboration with the RTSI – Radio and Television of Italian-speaking Switzerland. The goal of the project was the integration and exploitation of archive media...
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Media-Juke Box
Terry Inglese; Sabrina Rozalèn; Luca Botturi
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2003 (2003) pp. 1166–1167
This interactive session presents Online Media Jukebox, a web interface for delivering online one or more selections of digital resources (texts in any web-compatible format, streaming video and audio, links) with a minimum of technical competencies....
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MiLE: Systematic Usability Evaluation for E-learning Web Applications
Luca Triacca; Davide Bolchini; Luca Botturi; Alessandro Inversini
World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2004 (2004) pp. 4398–4405
This paper presents a proven and reusable methodology (MiLE) for performing a cost-effective usability evaluation of an e-learning web application. MiLE is a scenario-driven inspection technique which is based on the concepts of user profile, user...
Topics: Evaluation
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Development-oriented eLearning Tool Evaluation: The Edukalibre Approach
Luca Botturi; Vania Dimitrova; Chris Tebb; Julika Matravers; Drew Whitworth; Jutta Geldermann; Isabelle Hubert
World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2005 (Jun 27, 2005) pp. 1104–1109
This paper arose from the recognition that a lot more work is required to address the issue of suitable and complete evaluation for libre software development for education. The evaluation approach proposed here offers a significant step towards...
Topics: Evaluation
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Integrating Instructional Design and Hypermedia Design
Jacopo Armani; Luca Botturi; Ignazio Cantoni; Maria Di Benedetto; Franca Garzotto
World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2004 (2004) pp. 1713–1719
The impact of new technologies in education has brought to the perception of an educational web site has a more or less standard features in several contexts. Yet, an analysis of the existing literature reveals that the practices of Instructional...
Topics: Instructional Design, Integration, Educational Technology, Multimedia