Start@unito: Open Online Courses for Improving Access and for Enhancing Success in Higher Education

Marchisio, Marina; Operti, Lorenza; Rabellino, Sergio; Sacchet, Matteo

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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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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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“…It is an online platform containing numerous free access university courses that can be attended autonomously from the last years of secondary school and allow students to immediately acquire the university credits, upon passing the final face to face exam after enrollment. (Bruschi et al, 2018;Marchisio, Operti, Rabellino, Sacchet, 2018). While the previous initiatives target the students, there are also numerous online training activities for secondary school teachers.…”

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Bridge the gap between high school systems with less than twelve years of schooling and European Universities

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Marchisio²,

Marello³

et al. 2019

5th International Conference on Higher Education Advances (HEAd'19)

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The phenomenon of globalization that concerns the modern era, pushed by technological evolution, has led to several changes in the field of education. Not only are education policies of the single States adapting by directing towards European models: the possibility for a student to choose a university is increasing all over the world, too. In order to facilitate students who want to enroll at a European university and who come from countries with less than 12 years of compulsory schooling, our University designed the Foundation Programme. This is an additional year that allows to earn 60 ECTS to reach the 12 years of schooling, a basic requirement for university access in Europe. The main feature of this project is that it is delivered online; this allows to reduce the costs of enrollment and allows students to attend it directly from home in their country. The design, structure and methodologies of the project are described and discussed in this article.

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“…The University of Turin has recently embarked upon the start@unito project (Bruschi et al, 2018;Marchisio et al, 2019), financed by Compagnia di San Paolo and aimed at using the Moodle LMS to create and provide open online courses targeted at both university students and high-school students in their last year. Before start@unito, the University of Turin had already had experience in developing high-quality online teaching programs, such as PPS Problem posing and solving (2012) (Brancaccio et al, 2015;Barana et al, 2019), aimed at high-school teachers of STEM disciplines, the Scuola dei compiti project (2013) ( Barana et al, 2017c) as a support for high-school students, and the university guidance modules Orient@mente (2014) (Barana et al, 2017a;Barana, et al, 2016;Barana, et al, 2017b).…”

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

Marchisio¹,

Sacchet²,

Salusso³

2019

Proceedings of the International Conference on E-Learning 2019

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Online learning has become essential in higher education. In order to follow the best practices in education and innovation and provide quality of online courses, careful and thorough instructional design is necessary. In this research we analyze the instructional design methods employed and focus on the training of the professors and grant holders who created and developed the 50 open online courses in a variety of disciplines developed in the start@unito project, a recent enterprise of the University of Turin with the aim of bridging the gap between secondary and higher education and provide open online courses that can be accessed anytime anywhere. The data gathered from the questionnaires given to the grant holders before and after the training show encouraging results as far as the effectiveness of our instructional method is concerned. At the same time, though, they reveal a lack and a disparity of technical, pedagogical and linguistic competences, which in turn require tailored and individualized support. In light of the feedback received, we conclude by envisaging possible improvements and further research, in order to understand what can be done to perfect the instructional design of an ever-expanding project.

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Start@unito: Open Online Courses for Improving Access and for Enhancing Success in Higher Education

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Automatic Assessment to Enhance Online Dictionaries Consultation Skills

Automatic Assessment to Enhance Online Dictionaries Consultation Skills

Bridge the gap between high school systems with less than twelve years of schooling and European Universities

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

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