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Papers by claudio dondi
Studia Migracyjne – Przegląd Polonijny, 2021
The article focuses on the role of stakeholder involvement in social innovation research, explori... more The article focuses on the role of stakeholder involvement in social innovation research, exploring the reasons, strategies and difficulties associated with the dialogue between researchers and stakeholders. More than an original research article, it has the modest ambition of making a contribution to the current debate on the role of stakeholders in social research, based on the approach and results to date of an ongoing research project on the integration of migrant children, CHILD-UP, funded by the EU Horizon 2020 Programme in the period 2019–2022. In contrast to major contributions that focus on the relationship between researchers and policymakers, this article refers to many different categories of stakeholders, some of which are only active at the level of grassroots practice. Rather than focusing on the direct relation between researchers and decision makers, CHILD-UP has adopted a broader, predominantly bottom-up approach to how research results can influence current practi...
Developing the individual, the worker, the citizen: the aims of education re-visited in the infor... more Developing the individual, the worker, the citizen: the aims of education re-visited in the information society: how can ICT help innovation?
Remote laboratories allow researchers to perform experiments via a normal web browser from any ge... more Remote laboratories allow researchers to perform experiments via a normal web browser from any geographical location with internet access. Given the fast technological development and ever higher bandwidth, a growing number of universities and research centers offer their students and/or interested lay persons the opportunity to set the variables of an experiment, execute and retrieve the data for analysis. Furthermore, Rocard [1] summarized studies on the overall effectiveness of an inquiry-based approach to teaching in schools with regards to raised interest in and motivation for science subjects as well as a better inclusion of girls and disadvantaged students. Despite those facts, many schools especially in rural areas have fragmented access to science laboratories or lack proper equipment. Deductive “chalk and talk” methods prevail in many science classrooms, failing to equip students with a proper understanding of scientific inquiry. The EU-funded project UniSchooLabS addresse...
Il contributo si articola in due parti principali: nella prima si analizza l’importanza attribuit... more Il contributo si articola in due parti principali: nella prima si analizza l’importanza attribuita negli ultimi anni all’eLearning nelle politiche pubbliche e nelle pratiche educative, riflettendo anche sul futuro dell’eLearning negli scenari di cambiamento previsti per i sistemi educativi e formativi. Nella seconda parte si analizza più specificamente il potenziale dell’eLearning nel sostenere il cosiddetto Processo di Bologna e le ragioni di una scarsa considerazione dell’eLearning nei documenti ufficiali che al Processo di Bologna si riferiscono.
Handbook on Quality and Standardisation in E-Learning
Although everybody recognises that lack of confidence in e-learning and lack of perceived quality... more Although everybody recognises that lack of confidence in e-learning and lack of perceived quality in early e-learning, a major mobility factor to adoption of and investment in e-learning. The approaches to quality, governmental and institu-tional policies that can be observed are as many as ...
pixel-online.net
Remote laboratories allow researchers to perform experiments via a normal web browser from any ge... more Remote laboratories allow researchers to perform experiments via a normal web browser from any geographical location with internet access. Given the fast technological development and ever higher bandwidth, a growing number of universities and research ...
SwePub titelinformation: Learning Innovation for the Adapted Lisbon Agenda [Elektronisk resurs].
eLearning Papers, 2009
While in the year 2000 e-learning was perceived as a single mega-trend for education systems and ... more While in the year 2000 e-learning was perceived as a single mega-trend for education systems and the corporate world, experience has shown that the purpose, pedagogical models (or rather learning heritage), organisation and economic assumption of e-learning ...
The Challenge of …, 2006
Analysis of users' learning needs, design and selection of learning reference materials, set... more Analysis of users' learning needs, design and selection of learning reference materials, set up of synchronous and/or asynchronous support provisions (ie tutoring and mentoring services), design and implementation of specific monitoring and evaluation ...
British Journal of Educational Technology, 2004
The graph Laplacian is a standard tool in data science, machine learning, and image processing. T... more The graph Laplacian is a standard tool in data science, machine learning, and image processing. The corresponding matrix inherits the complex structure of the underlying network and is in certain applications densely populated. This makes computations, in particular matrix-vector products, with the graph Laplacian a hard task. A typical application is the computation of a number of its eigenvalues and eigenvectors. Standard methods become infeasible as the number of nodes in the graph is too large. We propose the use of the fast summation based on the nonequispaced fast Fourier transform (NFFT) to perform the dense matrix-vector product with the graph Laplacian fast without ever forming the whole matrix. The enormous flexibility of the NFFT algorithm allows us to embed the accelerated multiplication into Lanczos-based eigenvalues routines or iterative linear system solvers and even consider other than the standard Gaussian kernels. We illustrate the feasibility of our approach on a number of test problems from image segmentation to semi-supervised learning based on graph-based PDEs. In particular, we compare our approach with the Nyström method. Moreover, we present and test an enhanced, hybrid version of the Nyström method, which internally uses the NFFT.
British Journal of Educational Technology, 2007
Innovazione per la formazione (IT)-a non-profit research organisation active throughout Europe in... more Innovazione per la formazione (IT)-a non-profit research organisation active throughout Europe in the field of innovation of education and training systems. Michela Moretti is the head of the evaluation and training design unit of Scienter. She is involved at national and European level in projects focused on quality of ODL/e-learning services and systems and game-based learning.
British Journal of Educational Technology, 2007
posterous.com
This article presents the results of the analysis of innovation in the context of the lifelong le... more This article presents the results of the analysis of innovation in the context of the lifelong learning supported by the use of ICT, as well as a number of learning-related areas that need specific attention in terms of innovation and creativity. The result of this work has been condensed ...
Within Kaleidoscope, technology and pedagogy are considered together, as it is pointless, from a ... more Within Kaleidoscope, technology and pedagogy are considered together, as it is pointless, from a pedagogical point of view, to make ICT-based tools available if the educational strategies, and the activities the learners engage in, are not rethought. Technology can influence learning by fundamentally changing both the way in which it can be taught and learnt, and the nature of the discipline content itself.
Proceeding of the 10th World Conference on …, 2006
The article describes the evolution of e-learning from a period of techno-enthusiasm to the colla... more The article describes the evolution of e-learning from a period of techno-enthusiasm to the collapse of the IT bubble and the present "reasonable doubts" about its growth potential. It pinpoints some reasonable concerns related to first generation e-learning experiences, and it argues that these concerns should be properly managed if e-learning is to become mainstream into education and training. However,
HAL is a multi-disciplinary open access archive for the deposit and dissemination of scientific r... more HAL is a multi-disciplinary open access archive for the deposit and dissemination of scientific research documents, whether they are published or not. The documents may come from teaching and research institutions in France or abroad, or from public or private research centers. L’archive ouverte pluridisciplinaire HAL, est destinée au dépôt et à la diffusion de documents scientifiques de niveau recherche, publiés ou non, émanant des établissements d’enseignement et de recherche français ou étrangers, des laboratoires publics ou privés. Future Challenges Report Editors Claudio Dondi, Jennifer Palumbo, Nikos Zygouritsas, Vasilis Fasoulis, Spiros Borotis, Nikitas Kastis
In a time of fast transformation and increasing complexity, education is challenged to maintain i... more In a time of fast transformation and increasing complexity, education is challenged to maintain its role as a key force driving social development and economic innovation and an equalizing leverage. Teachers play a key role in making school an effective learning environment where students are helped in developing autonomy and ownership of their learning experience through the leverages of motivation, pleasure and understanding of the sense of what they learn – elements which prepare for a systematic engagement in lifelong learning and active citizenship once formal schooling is over. The teaching community is thus central in the innovation of European school systems to fit for the future. This is the key belief of the LLwings project (LLP programme of the EC) aimed at supporting innovative teacher preparation in the intertwined areas of “Learning to learn” and motivation of students, recognized as cornerstones of successful school education. This includes a specific attention to tea...
This report is part of the research project on Pedagogical Innovations in New ICT-facilitated Lea... more This report is part of the research project on Pedagogical Innovations in New ICT-facilitated Learning Communities (LearnCom), under an Administrative Arrangement between IPTS (IS Unit) and DG Education and Culture. The aim of this study is to review and assess the new social and pedagogical approaches to learning that are emerging in new ICT-facilitated collaborative learning settings. In addition to formal education, such communities are increasingly emerging in informal and non-formal lifelong learning environments where learning is happening in a freely organised manner, bringing together learners, experts, and other parties. This study aims to examine these new learning communities in order to find innovative pedagogical and organisational practices that support lifelong learning in different settings and foster innovations in the interaction of teachers, learners and organisations. This report presents the results of the in-depth study of 12 online learning communities. The ca...
The foresight activity of Learnovation is framed within its goal of building a new vision of tech... more The foresight activity of Learnovation is framed within its goal of building a new vision of technology enhanced learning in Europe, by means of a consensus process which overcomes traditional borders of education and training and addresses learning in a much broader perspective, centred on its role in innovation and lifelong learning implementation, and in light of a policy advising perspective. This activity has been carried out through two parallel processes, feeding one into the other and providing basis for a foresight exercise: ¨ Exploring emerging innovation paradigms and the actual and expected role for ICT across the lifelong learning land, mapped and investigated in its 12 eLearning territories, through a desk/field research activity also aimed at inquiring the impact of TEL on policy discourse and priorities throughout the territories, so as to build a picture of where we are and where it seems we are going. ¨ consensus building: organised, open and result-oriented dialog...
Studia Migracyjne – Przegląd Polonijny, 2021
The article focuses on the role of stakeholder involvement in social innovation research, explori... more The article focuses on the role of stakeholder involvement in social innovation research, exploring the reasons, strategies and difficulties associated with the dialogue between researchers and stakeholders. More than an original research article, it has the modest ambition of making a contribution to the current debate on the role of stakeholders in social research, based on the approach and results to date of an ongoing research project on the integration of migrant children, CHILD-UP, funded by the EU Horizon 2020 Programme in the period 2019–2022. In contrast to major contributions that focus on the relationship between researchers and policymakers, this article refers to many different categories of stakeholders, some of which are only active at the level of grassroots practice. Rather than focusing on the direct relation between researchers and decision makers, CHILD-UP has adopted a broader, predominantly bottom-up approach to how research results can influence current practi...
Developing the individual, the worker, the citizen: the aims of education re-visited in the infor... more Developing the individual, the worker, the citizen: the aims of education re-visited in the information society: how can ICT help innovation?
Remote laboratories allow researchers to perform experiments via a normal web browser from any ge... more Remote laboratories allow researchers to perform experiments via a normal web browser from any geographical location with internet access. Given the fast technological development and ever higher bandwidth, a growing number of universities and research centers offer their students and/or interested lay persons the opportunity to set the variables of an experiment, execute and retrieve the data for analysis. Furthermore, Rocard [1] summarized studies on the overall effectiveness of an inquiry-based approach to teaching in schools with regards to raised interest in and motivation for science subjects as well as a better inclusion of girls and disadvantaged students. Despite those facts, many schools especially in rural areas have fragmented access to science laboratories or lack proper equipment. Deductive “chalk and talk” methods prevail in many science classrooms, failing to equip students with a proper understanding of scientific inquiry. The EU-funded project UniSchooLabS addresse...
Il contributo si articola in due parti principali: nella prima si analizza l’importanza attribuit... more Il contributo si articola in due parti principali: nella prima si analizza l’importanza attribuita negli ultimi anni all’eLearning nelle politiche pubbliche e nelle pratiche educative, riflettendo anche sul futuro dell’eLearning negli scenari di cambiamento previsti per i sistemi educativi e formativi. Nella seconda parte si analizza più specificamente il potenziale dell’eLearning nel sostenere il cosiddetto Processo di Bologna e le ragioni di una scarsa considerazione dell’eLearning nei documenti ufficiali che al Processo di Bologna si riferiscono.
Handbook on Quality and Standardisation in E-Learning
Although everybody recognises that lack of confidence in e-learning and lack of perceived quality... more Although everybody recognises that lack of confidence in e-learning and lack of perceived quality in early e-learning, a major mobility factor to adoption of and investment in e-learning. The approaches to quality, governmental and institu-tional policies that can be observed are as many as ...
pixel-online.net
Remote laboratories allow researchers to perform experiments via a normal web browser from any ge... more Remote laboratories allow researchers to perform experiments via a normal web browser from any geographical location with internet access. Given the fast technological development and ever higher bandwidth, a growing number of universities and research ...
SwePub titelinformation: Learning Innovation for the Adapted Lisbon Agenda [Elektronisk resurs].
eLearning Papers, 2009
While in the year 2000 e-learning was perceived as a single mega-trend for education systems and ... more While in the year 2000 e-learning was perceived as a single mega-trend for education systems and the corporate world, experience has shown that the purpose, pedagogical models (or rather learning heritage), organisation and economic assumption of e-learning ...
The Challenge of …, 2006
Analysis of users' learning needs, design and selection of learning reference materials, set... more Analysis of users' learning needs, design and selection of learning reference materials, set up of synchronous and/or asynchronous support provisions (ie tutoring and mentoring services), design and implementation of specific monitoring and evaluation ...
British Journal of Educational Technology, 2004
The graph Laplacian is a standard tool in data science, machine learning, and image processing. T... more The graph Laplacian is a standard tool in data science, machine learning, and image processing. The corresponding matrix inherits the complex structure of the underlying network and is in certain applications densely populated. This makes computations, in particular matrix-vector products, with the graph Laplacian a hard task. A typical application is the computation of a number of its eigenvalues and eigenvectors. Standard methods become infeasible as the number of nodes in the graph is too large. We propose the use of the fast summation based on the nonequispaced fast Fourier transform (NFFT) to perform the dense matrix-vector product with the graph Laplacian fast without ever forming the whole matrix. The enormous flexibility of the NFFT algorithm allows us to embed the accelerated multiplication into Lanczos-based eigenvalues routines or iterative linear system solvers and even consider other than the standard Gaussian kernels. We illustrate the feasibility of our approach on a number of test problems from image segmentation to semi-supervised learning based on graph-based PDEs. In particular, we compare our approach with the Nyström method. Moreover, we present and test an enhanced, hybrid version of the Nyström method, which internally uses the NFFT.
British Journal of Educational Technology, 2007
Innovazione per la formazione (IT)-a non-profit research organisation active throughout Europe in... more Innovazione per la formazione (IT)-a non-profit research organisation active throughout Europe in the field of innovation of education and training systems. Michela Moretti is the head of the evaluation and training design unit of Scienter. She is involved at national and European level in projects focused on quality of ODL/e-learning services and systems and game-based learning.
British Journal of Educational Technology, 2007
posterous.com
This article presents the results of the analysis of innovation in the context of the lifelong le... more This article presents the results of the analysis of innovation in the context of the lifelong learning supported by the use of ICT, as well as a number of learning-related areas that need specific attention in terms of innovation and creativity. The result of this work has been condensed ...
Within Kaleidoscope, technology and pedagogy are considered together, as it is pointless, from a ... more Within Kaleidoscope, technology and pedagogy are considered together, as it is pointless, from a pedagogical point of view, to make ICT-based tools available if the educational strategies, and the activities the learners engage in, are not rethought. Technology can influence learning by fundamentally changing both the way in which it can be taught and learnt, and the nature of the discipline content itself.
Proceeding of the 10th World Conference on …, 2006
The article describes the evolution of e-learning from a period of techno-enthusiasm to the colla... more The article describes the evolution of e-learning from a period of techno-enthusiasm to the collapse of the IT bubble and the present "reasonable doubts" about its growth potential. It pinpoints some reasonable concerns related to first generation e-learning experiences, and it argues that these concerns should be properly managed if e-learning is to become mainstream into education and training. However,
HAL is a multi-disciplinary open access archive for the deposit and dissemination of scientific r... more HAL is a multi-disciplinary open access archive for the deposit and dissemination of scientific research documents, whether they are published or not. The documents may come from teaching and research institutions in France or abroad, or from public or private research centers. L’archive ouverte pluridisciplinaire HAL, est destinée au dépôt et à la diffusion de documents scientifiques de niveau recherche, publiés ou non, émanant des établissements d’enseignement et de recherche français ou étrangers, des laboratoires publics ou privés. Future Challenges Report Editors Claudio Dondi, Jennifer Palumbo, Nikos Zygouritsas, Vasilis Fasoulis, Spiros Borotis, Nikitas Kastis
In a time of fast transformation and increasing complexity, education is challenged to maintain i... more In a time of fast transformation and increasing complexity, education is challenged to maintain its role as a key force driving social development and economic innovation and an equalizing leverage. Teachers play a key role in making school an effective learning environment where students are helped in developing autonomy and ownership of their learning experience through the leverages of motivation, pleasure and understanding of the sense of what they learn – elements which prepare for a systematic engagement in lifelong learning and active citizenship once formal schooling is over. The teaching community is thus central in the innovation of European school systems to fit for the future. This is the key belief of the LLwings project (LLP programme of the EC) aimed at supporting innovative teacher preparation in the intertwined areas of “Learning to learn” and motivation of students, recognized as cornerstones of successful school education. This includes a specific attention to tea...
This report is part of the research project on Pedagogical Innovations in New ICT-facilitated Lea... more This report is part of the research project on Pedagogical Innovations in New ICT-facilitated Learning Communities (LearnCom), under an Administrative Arrangement between IPTS (IS Unit) and DG Education and Culture. The aim of this study is to review and assess the new social and pedagogical approaches to learning that are emerging in new ICT-facilitated collaborative learning settings. In addition to formal education, such communities are increasingly emerging in informal and non-formal lifelong learning environments where learning is happening in a freely organised manner, bringing together learners, experts, and other parties. This study aims to examine these new learning communities in order to find innovative pedagogical and organisational practices that support lifelong learning in different settings and foster innovations in the interaction of teachers, learners and organisations. This report presents the results of the in-depth study of 12 online learning communities. The ca...
The foresight activity of Learnovation is framed within its goal of building a new vision of tech... more The foresight activity of Learnovation is framed within its goal of building a new vision of technology enhanced learning in Europe, by means of a consensus process which overcomes traditional borders of education and training and addresses learning in a much broader perspective, centred on its role in innovation and lifelong learning implementation, and in light of a policy advising perspective. This activity has been carried out through two parallel processes, feeding one into the other and providing basis for a foresight exercise: ¨ Exploring emerging innovation paradigms and the actual and expected role for ICT across the lifelong learning land, mapped and investigated in its 12 eLearning territories, through a desk/field research activity also aimed at inquiring the impact of TEL on policy discourse and priorities throughout the territories, so as to build a picture of where we are and where it seems we are going. ¨ consensus building: organised, open and result-oriented dialog...