1. MATRIX ENEA e-Learning Platform Flavio Fontana ENEA – Usability Laboratory (CAMO) Dip. Informatica, DI, Univ. La Sapienza Roma fontana@casaccia.enea.it

2. MATRIX (IV GEN) http://192.107.92.31/fadivgen2/ ODL (III GEN) http://odl.casaccia.enea.it/

3. ODL Open Distance Learning

4. Homepage FAD IV GEN

5. Matrix Global Architecture Project: Description of the ENEA e-Learning activities, ENEA e-Learn Portal; Project: Description of the ENEA e-Learning activities, ENEA e-Learn Portal; Courses List of the activated courses on Matrix Courses List of the activated courses on Matrix Catalogue: Platform; Catalogue: Platform; News: More relavant news about the platform, project and conferences; News: More relavant news about the platform, project and conferences; Target Courses list in relation to user classifications. Target Courses list in relation to user classifications.

6. Project

7. CoursesCatalogue

8. Target users

9. Tematics

10. Services

11. Modules of the portal Modules of the portal Net LessonSynchronouse lessons management; Net LessonSynchronouse lessons management; e-Learning Asynchronouse lessons and courses management; e-Learning Asynchronouse lessons and courses management; Multimedia (DB) video repository database (interview, ecc.); Multimedia (DB) video repository database (interview, ecc.); News (DB) news management; News (DB) news management; Newsletter dissemination by mail of the periodical electronic magazine; Newsletter dissemination by mail of the periodical electronic magazine; Services end-user network services and assistance. Services end-user network services and assistance.

12. SI.A. AREA A AREA C AREA B

13. E-Learning On-line course example

14. The course Indice Navigabile Ipertesto Titolo Unità Personalizza Ipertesto Percorso Barra Navigazione Corso e LogoElementi di Navigazione

15. Course and user personalization Personalizza Ipertesto Barra Personalizzazione Testo Personalizzato Apri Finestra Appunti

16. Course editor The Authoring tool is an integrated system to manage the contents of the courses. The main functionality are Hypertextual visualization Dynamic index management; Console management; Layout; Technical notes, personalization; Multimedia; Documentation.

17. SI.A. Internal structure Index generatorData Courses Page FileSystem DB Layout

18. DB Is NoYes Custom Page Page FileSystem SI.A. Internal structure

19. Self-Evaluation Tests FrequencesQuestionnaire

20. (Radon course)

21. Course access User registration UserIDPassword

22. Course Minimum Data Set (Radon course)

23. Course teacher (Radon course)

24. Course contents (Radon course) ModulesLessonsUnits

25. Course contents (Radoncourse) Module 1 Lesson 1 Unit 0

26. SI.A.Functions:TeacherStudent Text personalization

27. Student comments Between student and teacher Synchronous and Asynchronous communication

28. User area DataCoursesRegistration

29. DataCoursesRegistration

30. DataCoursesRegistration

31. The NetLesson Web Site NetLesson is online with a specific web site that integrates different functional modules to manage user and lectures data, online video lessons information, the synchronization of video and PowerPoint presentations, online e-learning courses catalogue and the calendar of the real time lessons.

32. NetLesson Web Site Modules 1. Home page presentation of the project; 2. NetLesson manages synchronous/asynchronous lessons; 3. e-Learning manages asynchronous courses and their MDS; 4. Multimedia manages video repository (interviews, etc.); 5. News manages the news collection; 6. Newsletter manages the dissemination of news and brief articles by e-mail; 7. Services Network services for the end-users; 8. Project description of the Desire-Net project; 9. Calendar calendar of the internet synchronous lessons; 10. Contacts persons of the Desire-Net organization; 11. Users list of the end-users (organizations and countries).

33. The calendar for the synchronous lessons has been determined considering the possibility to visualize inside a standard calendar the incoming video lessons. Users can visualize the video lessons calendar and choose a specific video lesson. The NetLesson Calendar

34. NetLesson Modules NetLesson manages lesson, video, presentation in power-point format and the teacher information. The system visualizes the questions, inserted by the student, towards the teacher. For each lesson the system shows date, time, title of the lesson and the teacher’s name. In some case is possible to insert a short summary of the lesson contents. The NetLesson has a search function to find lesson by title and date or name of the lectures. The system lists the lessons ordered by date.

35. The video lessons Management The NetLesson video lessons management has a specific methodology to organize the online streaming and recorded interviews. Each interview is part of a video session and each session is part of a video lesson. Video lesson Video Sessions Lecturers interviews

36. The video lessons visualization Video Lesson Video Lessons Catalogue Video session

37. NetLesson Visual Interface

38. Presentation Area Navigation Bottons Video Area Question Area

39. NetLesson Visual Interface Control panel for the slides

40. NetLesson Classroom Visual Interface Video & slide Control panel Always on top the screen

41. Hardware & Software Requirements HARDWARE: PC – Pentium 4, RAM 512 Mb, Video Card SVGA, Video Display 15” – 17”, Resolution: Min. 800x600, optimal 1025x768 or superior; SOFTWARE: O.S. Windows 98/200x/XP/Vista, Free Real Player (www.real.com), Internet Explorer, FireFox. INTERNET: connection speed rate 56Kbps or superior (1,4 Mbps).

42. The Desire-Net project DEvelopment and Sustainability with International Renewable Energies network, www.desire-net.enea.it E-Learning in Renewable Energies for managers, designers and operators in Central, East and South East European and South Mediterranean countries. 40 different university countries connected in asynchronous and synchronous mode to participate at the online video lessons. The project has guaranteed 100 hours of online course in 18 months.

43. SEE2008 European Award The European Commission has assigned the prestigious Award SEE “Sustainable Energy Europe Campaign”, for the “Co-operation programs “ category, to the “Desire-Net” project, realized by ENEA in collaboration with UNESCO.

44. NetLesson and the Virtual World-3D The video lessons in NetLesson are integrated inside the new 3D interface of Virtual World 3D (VW-3D). The lessons calendar, catalogue, video lessons and PowerPoint presentations can be displayed inside the VW-3D

45. Conclusions The users (technical staff and end-users) have successfully used the system everyday with no problems after a mini training session. Internet connection today offers the possibility to disseminate high quality lectures very accessible system in terms of technology and costs. The future learning project will use this technology to create multi e- learning points because the teachers and the students are ready to participate to these type of online services. The users attention index during the video lessons is higher than HTML e-learning courses because the end-users are concentrated to watch the video screen. The users learning index is lower than the contiguous teaching but the system guarantees the possibility to repeat many times the same experience. To improve these results a tutor can be present in the classroom or connected online (Uteas, E-LEARN2007).

46. Thank you for your attention Flavio Fontana - fontana@casaccia.enea.it David D’Arcangelo - daviddarcangelo@gmail.com Enrico Cosimi - enrico.cosimi@casaccia.enea.it