ELearning Project

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E-Learning Project

• State of the art of the
• University of Genova
• Marina Rui
• marina_at_frency.chimica.unige.it

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E-learning project
The University of Genova is partner (and one of
the founders) of Consorzio Nettuno Network
promoted in 1990 by MIUR with the goal of
integrate traditional face-to face activities
with On-distance lessons boadcasted by RAI at
the beginning traditional and satellite TV
now different courses operated via WEB
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E-Learning Project

• The University of Genova in the past years
• Several experiences born on a volunteer basis in
  different fields of our Faculties.
• No centralized plan by the University
• All projects promoted by single teachers or
  single Course of Studies.
• All resources coming from the local structures
  involved

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E-Learning Project

• The output of this situation
• A lot of different experiences
• both from technological point of wiew,
• both from pedagogical point of wiew
• That means
• variety of different technical choices,
• empirical teaching methods,
• open-mindedness to suggestions of people
  involved
• lessons as continuous work in progress

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E-Learning Project

• The data of the next two slides are got by a
  set of questions about distant-learning made in
  2001 (before the Campus-One Project)
• Teachers involved 2.8
• Students involved 4.6 (around 2000 people)
• The majority of these experiences are part of
  different kinds of projects and just a few of
  them are due to the enterprise of single
  teachers.
• In this environment the 91.2 of distant-learning
  is an help to the traditional lessons and only
  the 2.9 is totally distant-learning

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E-Learning Project

• Data of distant learning before the project
  Campus_One
• in the Faculties
• Engineering 35.0
• Science 29.4
• Humanities 11.8
• Political Science 8.8
• High Education (Pedagogy) 5.9
• Economy 5.9
• Medicine 2.9

Data by Angela M. Sugliano
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E-Learning Project

• 26.5 due to Faculty Projects (mainly F. of
  Engineering)
• 17.6 due to single Courses of Studies
• 11.3 due to International Projects
• 5.9 due to National Projects
• 23.5 others
• 14.7 no answer

Data by Angela M. Sugliano
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E-Learning Project

• Project Campus_One
• ( 2001-2004) promoted by CRUI
• about traditional courses
• Improvement of University Web Site
• Translation of Students Web Site in English and
  soon in Spanish
• about e-learning
• Increasing of the number of on-line courses
• Web Portal dedicated to management
  dissemination of them

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E-Learning Project

• All documents available at
• http//www.campusone.unige.it/azione-1d/index.html
  
• Many seminaries about technical, pedagogical and
  legal aspects related to the construction and the
  dissemination of on-line courses
• Team of teachers projecting the features of the
  E-learning Web Portal
• Teachers of different areas working to prepairing
  the contents testing the feedback

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E-Learning Project

• http// portale.campusone.unige.it
• based on GNU Public License
• following the ADL SCORM (Sherable Content Object
  Reference Model) set of rules
• SCORM is a package IMS for Learning Object (LO)
• Any LO is an independent and self-consistent
  module made by a set of different assets

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E-Learning Project

• LO Metadata, Packaging, Run-time
  environement
• LO set of assets
• SCORM guarantees that any LO can be indexed to
  maintain
• Reusability
• Accessibility
• Interoperability
• Durability

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E-Learning Project

• Conclusions
• finally we started to formalize and to canalize
  all previous eager but non homogeneous
  experiences
• still the contents are not so many, but they are
  increasing
• teachers involved are growing up and working in
  cooperation
• first tests on students are positive.
• People mainly involved in this e-learning
  project
• Angela M. Sugliano, Giovanni Adorni, Gianni
  Vercelli, Marina Scapolla