Instructional Design to "Train the Trainers": The Start@unito Project at the University of Turin

Marchisio, Marina; Sacchet, Matteo; Salusso, Daniela

doi:10.33965/el2019_201909f025

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“…Moodle, a Virtual Learning Environment (VLE), was used, integrated with the AAS Möbius Assessment (Barana et al, 2015). This integration has proven to be effective for the teaching of Mathematics (Barana et al, 2019b) and in open online courses (Marchisio et al, 2019a;Marchisio et al, 2019b) as it exploits the mathematical engine behind it: the Advanced Computing Environment (ACE) Maple. It also allowed the creation of a model of formative automatic assessment and interactive feedback for STEM (Barana et al, 2018).…”

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Automatic Assessment to Enhance Online Dictionaries Consultation Skills

Marello¹,

Marchisio²,

Pulvirenti³

et al. 2019

Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Cognition and Exploratory Learning in Digital Age (CELDA 2019)

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We live in a digital world and our students are surrounded by technologies: it is essential that they learn how to use the digital tools available for education purposes. As for language teaching, among the most recent technologies we can find online dictionaries. They could play a key role to foster language competences, and yet they are not very popular in schools. In order to increase the use of online dictionaries among students, the University of Turin has promoted the nationwide project 'Esplorare (con) i Dizionari Digitali'. This project makes the most of a Learning Management System (https://esploradizionari.i-learn.unito.it/) that allowed the creation of a student-centered environment. The integration of the platform with an Automatic Assessment System allowed the design and creation of tests to be carried out through the consultation of online dictionaries. In this paper, we analyze the answers given by almost 600 students in 5 different tests on different languages, and we try to understand whether the methodologies and technologies adopted have been influential in making students "meta-linguistic aware" and researchers "meta-design aware". The results obtained show in a statistically significant way that the students who made a larger use of online dictionaries performed better in the tests.

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Section: Methodology Of Exercise Deliverymentioning

confidence: 99%

Automatic Assessment to Enhance Online Dictionaries Consultation Skills

Marello¹,

Marchisio²,

Pulvirenti³

et al. 2019

Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Cognition and Exploratory Learning in Digital Age (CELDA 2019)

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“…The main users that enters start@unito courses are high school students, or first year students. There is a percentage of teachers that logged in, since we carried out experimentations (Marchisio et al, 2019c), but we do not know the exact number of the different extractions, since the data required to access the OOCs are simply First name, Last name and Email. Further data are only required when the user wants to obtain the certification.…”

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Analysis Items to Assess the Quality of Open Online Courses for Higher Education

Marchisio¹,

Sacchet²

2020

Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on E-Learning (EL 2020)

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The quality of Massive Open Online Courses (MOOC) is an important topic to be addressed by different stakeholders: higher education institutions, MOOC providers, education companies, educational providers. National and international agencies are or will be deeply involved in preparing or attending common guidelines in order to fulfill quality of MOOCs. Some indicators that can help in analyzing quality are provided by the learner point of view, by pedagogy, by instructional design, by outcome measures. The latter has been the most widely adopted, since numerical data help in comparison between different platform or different educational experiences. But these data, such as completion and retention rates, were criticized when used to assess quality of MOOCs. In the literature, there are some checklists and framework that can help and guide the expert or novice designer in the process of MOOC developments. In the present work, we are going to address the experience of the start@unito project, an online platform developed at the University of Torino which offers 50 open online courses in order to facilitate the transition between secondary and tertiary education, making the students anticipate their career by attending a complete university module online prior to enrolment at the university. This could lead to an improvement in the number of ECTS credits acquired during the first year of university studies and to the drop-out rate. An analysis of the start@unito open online courses quality is provided according to the frameworks and checklists.

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“…The tool we chose to offer all the tutoring activities is the Moodle Virtual Learning Environment. The University of Turin carried out multiple experiences in the field of tutoring and adaptive teaching (Barana et al, 2017b; in press 2019; Barana et al, 2019a;Barana et al, 2019b), e-learning (Brancaccio et al, 2016;Brancaccio et al, 2019;Marchisio et al, 2019a) and in the development of Virtual Learning Environments (Barana et al, 2017a;Bruschi et al, 2018;Marchisio et al, 2019b). The research group also designed and developed the online Moodle platform of the project (available at the link: https://tutoratoonline.orientamente.unito.it/) integrated with a web conference service for the Disciplinary Tutoring of the University of Turin.…”

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University Tutoring Actions Using an Integrated Online Platform

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Floris

Marchisio

et al. 2019

Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Cognition and Exploratory Learning in Digital Age (CELDA 2019)

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University tutoring consists of a set of heterogeneous actions aimed to support students, upon entering the University and throughout their academic life. The tutoring implements the resources needed to cope with possible difficulties in each phase of the training process. It also provides information and advice to better address the study course, prepares paths for the recovery of learning gaps, and provides assistance for the preparation of the thesis. Its main purpose is to remove any possible obstacles to a profitable attendance at courses, also through initiatives related to the attitudes and needs of individuals. The research group of University of Turin has designed and developed a model of online tutoring, carried out via an online Moodle platform integrated with a web conference service for the Disciplinary Tutoring of the University of Turin. The main aim of the project, called TutoratoOnline, is to reduce the number of students starting the second academic year with a low number of passed exams, by helping students with the lessons they find more difficult. Through the platform, various and many synchronous and asynchronous tutoring activities were offered to students. The aim of this paper is to discuss and analyze the multiple tutoring activities carried out through the platform and the multiple teaching strategies used, and to discuss how their variety is associated with a greater students engagement.

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Instructional Design to "Train the Trainers": The Start@unito Project at the University of Turin

Cited by 7 publications

References 12 publications

Automatic Assessment to Enhance Online Dictionaries Consultation Skills

Automatic Assessment to Enhance Online Dictionaries Consultation Skills

Analysis Items to Assess the Quality of Open Online Courses for Higher Education

University Tutoring Actions Using an Integrated Online Platform

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