Knowledge management, Didactics Design, Didactics Evaluation, Education Technology Tutor online, Teaching and Learning with MUVE’s, School Director Professionalism, Lifelong Learning and Heamopathology 5 5 Faculties (out of 7) Degree Programmes (out of 29) students in 2009/2010 (out of enrolled at UNIMC) 4 4 Postgraduate Masters 220 students in 2009/ Postgraduate Courses students in 2009/2010 (405 out of 694 students) (405 out of 694 students) E-Learning at Macerata University Faculty of Law Humanities and Philosophy Humanities and Philosophy Education Political Science Cultural Heritage KICK OFF MEETING, KRAGUJEVAC (RS), 19/11/2010

CELFI activity AREAS E-learning services Since 2004, we provide strategic, pedagogic and organisational modelling of the university online learning; teacher and online tutor training; faculty online learning environment setup; research about pedagogical models and online environments; organisation of e-learning and knowledge management events; international cooperation KICK OFF MEETING, KRAGUJEVAC (RS), 19/11/2010

Organizational chart KICK OFF MEETING, KRAGUJEVAC (RS), 19/11/2010

E-learning at CELFI CELFI - e-Learning Centre supports and coordinates the progressive methodological-technical strengthening of teaching/learning processes based on ICT and multimedia. The centre serves as a strategic resource for the integration of e-Learning technologies both in teacher didactics and in student activities. CELFI provides: 1.administration services; 2.didactical services; 3.pedagogical model; 4.technical services and LMS implementation. KICK OFF MEETING, KRAGUJEVAC (RS), 19/11/2010

1. Administrative services management of the yearly selection for online tutor; degree and post degree courses budgets management; tutor contracts and payments. KICK OFF MEETING, KRAGUJEVAC (RS), 19/11/2010

2. Didactical services Strategic, pedagogic and organisational modelling of the university online learning; teacher and tutor training; support to students, teachers, tutors. Training sessions are provided before the beginning of the course and in progress during the activities. Tutors can refer to CELFI staff for administrative, didactical and technical problems. KICK OFF MEETING, KRAGUJEVAC (RS), 19/11/2010

3. Pedagogical model Sharing, negotiating, development of a network; building communities of learners and community of practice: tools for negotiation, team design, building ‘places’ not ‘spaces’. Reflection about personal paths, skills, to make the student aware of his/her professional identity: changing implicit knowledge into explicit. KICK OFF MEETING, KRAGUJEVAC (RS), 19/11/2010

3. Pedagogical model In order to develop a community each module includes: a preliminary introductory activity and continuous support allowing student to position and personalize his/her learning paths; collaborative activities enlightening student’s personal experiences and allowing negotiate shared cognitive domains; personal reflection and awareness activities facilitating the creation of dynamic professional identities (often, a course goal is building a community of practices of teachers/employers....)

4. Technologies LMS: OLAT Version 6.3 from the University of Zurich, open and easy with existing facilities/utilities; clear mapping of learning path structure based on XML; developed for scalability, portability, interoperability; open source/architecture for future or specific case oriented extensions. LMS extras as centralized user provisioning, videoconference service, tracking and monitoring service. Each course provides: personal page for all users; modular structure, easily editable by teachers and tutors; tools for negotiation; tools for learning path reflection. KICK OFF MEETING, KRAGUJEVAC (RS), 19/11/2010

Results since 2004, students can enrol asking for online services; constant increase of involved students/faculties/teachers; structured team for administration (contracts, fees...), IT developments and for teacher/tutor/students support; research network (PHD in e-learning and knowledge management) UNIQUE (The Quality Label for the use of ICT in Higher Education) award “Centre of excellence for e-learning” according to the definition of the E-learning Italian Society (SIEL) KICK OFF MEETING, KRAGUJEVAC (RS), 19/11/2010

Gigliola Paviotti e-learning centre – Internationalization unit University of Macerata Italy Authors Pier Giuseppe Rossi e-learning centre - Director, Education Faculty Dean University of Macerata Italy