{"title":"A personalized feedback system to support teacher training","authors":"Marta De Angelis, Sergio Miranda","doi":"10.2478/rem-2023-0005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2478/rem-2023-0005","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This paper aims to illustrate an automated system developed to give formative and personalized feedback to teachers in training. It is an expert system (Paviotti, Rossi & Zarka, 2012) that uses concrete examples, cases and scenarios to guide the engaged learners (Leake, 1996). In this regard, this system is able to create questionnaires, deliver them, collect and analyze data, send feedback to the participants to provide information about their beliefs and behaviors about teaching and learning processes. Far from constituting an assessment of teaching practices, the automated feedback demonstrates its usefulness in identifying teachers’ mindframes at an early stage, so as to be able to implement more specific and personalized training. This allows its application to be extended to further training areas as well as constituting an effective approach for need analysis and a preparatory action for numerous training activities (guided discussion with experts, observation on practice, modeling, etc.).","PeriodicalId":55657,"journal":{"name":"Research on Education and Media","volume":"15 1","pages":"30 - 39"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45911168","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"One year later: digitalized higher education in pandemic times. An international study of higher education faculty’s response","authors":"Ottavia Trevisan, Marina De Rossi","doi":"10.2478/rem-2023-0009","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2478/rem-2023-0009","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract The paper describes the international research conducted in collaboration between the University of Padova, University of North Texas, and Windesheim University of Applied Sciences. The study explores how higher education faculty involved in professionalizing courses for the educational area perceive the pandemic-induced transition to digitalized education (DE), after one year of experience with it. This paper introduces the second phase of a research study that began as early as spring 2020, with an online survey distributed worldwide. It seeks to investigate possible changes after one year of digitalized education related to (1) perceptions of institutional support and professional training offered; (2) potential and challenges of DE; and (3) professional intentions for future uses of DE. Details on the instrument’s reliability and structure will also be provided. We are exploring how the DE is changing teachers’ routines and whether these changes are paving the way for collaborative, reflective, and student-centred approaches that could have long-term consequences. This is to help focus future training pathways to better support teachers in teaching effectively and efficiently for learning, both in times of crisis and in times of normalcy.","PeriodicalId":55657,"journal":{"name":"Research on Education and Media","volume":"15 1","pages":"64 - 71"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41573961","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Innovation as socially shared practice: the contribution of the Teaching and Learning Center","authors":"L. Fabbri, P. Rossi, L. Giannandrea, A. Romano","doi":"10.2478/rem-2023-0013","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2478/rem-2023-0013","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract The contribution describes a study on the organizational devices and the professional development programs carried out at the Teaching and Learning Center (TLC) of the University of Siena and at the Teaching and Learning Lab (TLL) of the University of Macerata. The focus is on systemic actions capable to elicit innovation at an organizational level, starting from the work of the institutional centers for research, professional training, and digital enhanced learning embedded in the university. In the final paragraph, future developmental trajectories for constituting an inter-universities network of TLCs are discussed.","PeriodicalId":55657,"journal":{"name":"Research on Education and Media","volume":"15 1","pages":"95 - 102"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43732116","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Innovating university teaching with micro-credentials: an ongoing research experimentation","authors":"L. Perla, V. Vinci, A. Scarinci","doi":"10.2478/rem-2023-0010","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2478/rem-2023-0010","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract The experience of the Covid-19 lockdown has suddenly accelerated the awareness process of the entire university faculty about the need to hybridise their teaching with digital tools (Trentin, Bocconi 2015; Perla, Scarinci, Amati 2021) transforming traditional scholarship of the Italian University in a gigantic field of experimentation of innovative practices (Perla, 2020, p. 562). This has brought out the importance of supporting the quality of university teaching through the commitment to address precise Faculty Development policies, specifically through the development of innovative experiences and the design of paths based on micro-credentials. This contribution reports some actions promoted by the University of Bari aimed at the innovation of university teaching and the results of a pilot course on micro-credentials.","PeriodicalId":55657,"journal":{"name":"Research on Education and Media","volume":"15 1","pages":"72 - 79"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43364439","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Learning in the post-digital era. Transforming education through the Maker approach","authors":"Francesca Gratani, L. Giannandrea, P. Rossi","doi":"10.2478/rem-2023-0015","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2478/rem-2023-0015","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract In today’s world, technology and digital media are no longer separate, “other” than “natural” human and social life. Technology has become pervasive, transparent, reaching a “stable” form, no longer revolutionary. A new concept, “the post-digital,” is emerging and gradually taking hold in a wide range of fields. The resulting complexities call for overcoming the binary and hierarchical approach between theory and practice by rethinking traditional teaching patterns and remediating knowledge. Maker Education is moving in this direction. It is considered a technology-based extension of activism, developing STEAM and 21st-century skills. Its main exponents believe that it can “disrupt” or transform traditional educational methods. The Maker Movement, indeed, overlaps with the natural inclinations of children and the power of learning by doing. This contribution presents an ongoing research project that aims to outline a proposal for integrating this approach into the primary and lower secondary school curriculum. We detected its impact on students’ school self-efficacy and attitude toward STEM and 21st-century skills. The results collected in the first part of the project look promising. The data underline the pupils’ interest in STEM subjects and the improvement of their organizational and interpersonal skills.","PeriodicalId":55657,"journal":{"name":"Research on Education and Media","volume":"15 1","pages":"111 - 119"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46005711","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"What kind of teaching in the post-digital era? The challenges of schools and universities after the pandemic: An explorative survey at University of Bari Aldo Moro","authors":"A. Fornasari, M. Conte","doi":"10.2478/rem-2023-0012","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2478/rem-2023-0012","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract All around the world, schools and universities should re-think and update teaching to adjust to technological changes and exploit their potentialities by means of hybrid teaching (Limone, 2013). Considering teaching in presence as absolutely good and online teaching as bad and necessary only during the pandemic is ideological, reductive and wrong (Ferri, Moriggi, 2018). If properly used in an ad-hoc pedagogical approach, technology represents an opportunity for students (Bonaiuti, Dipace, 2021), who can participate in training and updating processes and better adapt to changes. The long and complex post-pandemic period should allow the experimentation of a better integration between teaching in the classroom and technologically ‘augmented’ teaching. The process of digitalisation and methodological innovation should become permanent, as suggested in Mission number 4 – Education and Research of the NPRR. This was the starting point for an explorative survey (Lucisano, Salerni, 2002) conducted with 400 students of the University of Bari in order to research their challenges and levels of satisfaction with the online courses attended in the a.a. 2020/2021. The survey shows the difficulties with distance teaching and presents an overview on possible future blended approaches.","PeriodicalId":55657,"journal":{"name":"Research on Education and Media","volume":"15 1","pages":"88 - 94"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44230704","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Technologies and innovation in secondary schools: rethinking teaching to improve student satisfaction","authors":"F. Storai, F. Rossi, S. Mori, Valentin Toçi","doi":"10.2478/rem-2023-0008","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2478/rem-2023-0008","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract The use of new technologies is one of the themes at the centre of the educational debate, especially following Distance Education. The Avant-garde Educative Movement gathers schools from all over the country that share experiments based on a model in which the student is at the centre of his or her own educational path, a model capable of promoting meaningful learning. The Self Determination Theory (Deci & Ryan, 1985) highlights the extent to which the satisfaction of the needs for autonomy, competence and relationships contributes to student motivation. The purpose of the present study is to understand whether the rethinking of teaching promoted by widespread use of new technologies has had an impact in terms of student satisfaction. For the analysis, a Multilevel Model was used that assumes as the dependent variable students’ satisfaction with their school life from the Clipper Test, a-Portfolio for the orientation of students aged 15–19 (Soresi & Nota, 2003). The scale captures satisfaction with the school experience in terms of preparation received, relationships established and congruence with expectations. Results show that satisfaction increases as the use and frequency of innovative teaching methodologies employed by the teacher increases and as the frequency of use of technological resources employed in the classroom and in homework assignments increases.","PeriodicalId":55657,"journal":{"name":"Research on Education and Media","volume":"15 1","pages":"55 - 63"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45865638","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
P. Raviolo, Salvatore Messina, Irene Mauro, Marco Rondonotti
{"title":"E-tutoring layout in higher education: skills and efficacy perception","authors":"P. Raviolo, Salvatore Messina, Irene Mauro, Marco Rondonotti","doi":"10.2478/rem-2023-0011","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2478/rem-2023-0011","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract The paper focuses on the topic of e-tutoring within the context of Higher Education. The research target is a framework for e-tutor role and skills in a higher education environment. The research began with a systematic review of the scientific literature with the aim of having a vision on the scientific landscape about the approach of universities to online tutoring and on the role and skills of tutors. Subsequently, to investigate more in depth, the research had a second phase with the use of a questionnaire divided into five sections, administered to two different figures of and tutors (disciplinary tutors and online tutors) of eCampus, in one of the online Italian universities. The discussion on the results investigates how important e-tutoring is for students’ online learning, especially as regards the pedagogical, organization and pastoral dimensions.","PeriodicalId":55657,"journal":{"name":"Research on Education and Media","volume":"15 1","pages":"80 - 87"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42100332","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Federica Pelizzari, Michele Marangi, Pier Cesare Rivoltella, G. Peretti, D. Massaro, D. Villani
{"title":"Coding and childhood between play and learning: Research on the impact of coding in the learning of 4-year-olds","authors":"Federica Pelizzari, Michele Marangi, Pier Cesare Rivoltella, G. Peretti, D. Massaro, D. Villani","doi":"10.2478/rem-2023-0003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2478/rem-2023-0003","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract We propose the results of a research that combines the educational and psychological media approach, to verify the pedagogical potential of coding and robotics in the learning processes of 4-year-old children at the cognitive and socio-relational level. The study investigated the impact of unplugged and plugged coding on the skills of spatiality, movement and problem-solving skills, storage and decoding of progressively more complex indications, and single-group interaction of 51 children and three kindergartens using storytelling and the educational robot Cubetto. The work is based on the research carried out by Lee (2020) on the inclusion of coding in early childhood, the theoretical references of Wing (2010) about computational thinking and the theoretical frameworks proposed by Bers (2020) regarding coding as a playful dimension. The data collected through the quantitative and qualitative tools of a pre- and post-intervention questionnaire to educators and a checklist of observations on children recorded the following: • an increase in children’s space, motor and information-storage/decoding skills; • a change in children’s collaborative skills when comparing the results of the plugged and unplugged coding workshops and • the impact of coding to increase children’s performance skills through narrative dimension and play.","PeriodicalId":55657,"journal":{"name":"Research on Education and Media","volume":"15 1","pages":"9 - 19"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41810387","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}