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I am interested in the integration of new technologies in education. From new theoretical approaches to innovative practices.

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This paper presents the preliminary results of a survey on faculty development practices in Switz... more This paper presents the preliminary results of a survey on faculty development practices in Switzerland. A sample of 40 faculty developers contacted though the Swiss Faculty Development Network replied to a set of 35 questions between March and May 2016. The survey identified the 12 core activities they consider to carry out in their role as faculty developers from which: teacher training, personal or small-group advising and curriculum development. The main goal of the survey was to explore if the choice of core activities thereby mentioned could be driven by the faculty developer’s training more than by the type of institution in which they work, of which Universities, Polytechnics and Universities of Applied Sciences (UAS). The main findings show that there is a significant difference of practices between the Universities/ Polytechnics on one side and UAS on the other side. For instance, conducting teacher training programmes and personal advising are the most often mentioned act...

Andragogical and Pedagogical Methods for Curriculum and Program Development

The current educational structure was created in response to the demands of an industrial society... more The current educational structure was created in response to the demands of an industrial society, which, alongside workers, needed an elite of highly educated professionals. The knowledge revolution accelerated this trend: professionals are now not only the people who “have” the knowledge, but they should be also able to find it quickly and efficiently, and have the skills to apply knowledge in new situations, extending the scope of their initial field of expertise. With massive growth of free open educational resources, knowledge became available and accessible to everyone with a simple Internet connection. All these conditions currently call into question the role and operationalization of educational processes in Higher Education, since universities are no longer the one central source of knowledge generation. In this chapter, the authors analyze the current situation in Higher Education, in terms of why a demand for transformation of educational models has been almost entirely ...

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The demonstration will take place in the context of The ShanghAI Lectures 1, a global mixed-rea... more The demonstration will take place in the context of The ShanghAI Lectures 1, a global mixed-reality educational experiment that has three main goals:(1) Building a sustainable, global community and knowledge source in Embodied Intelligence, a topic ...

Encounters on education, nº6, 2005