Innovascuola is an Italian government-backed portal that aims to foster digital didactics. It provides a directory of digital education content, materials for teaching teachers about e-learning, and a social network for connecting educators and students. The portal targets three main areas - content, teaching methodology, and its social network. It also has minor sections like a dictionary, news, and prizes. The goal is to provide vetted educational resources and train teachers on using technology in the classroom.
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Innovascuola Case Study on Digital Education Portal
1. Innovascuola
Case study
Giorgio Sironi
NEST project
Alta Scuola Politecnica 7th cycle
2. Description
Portal for fostering digital didactics
1)directory of digital contents
2)education material about technology
3)social network
Public backing (Italian government)
Goals
Providing selected, categorized and human-
reviewed material
Educating teachers about e-learning
Connecting teachers and students in their
communities
4. Homepage
Targets to the three thematic areas
Content
Didactics (methodology)
Social network
Also minor, classic areas
Dictionary
Prizes
Newsletter
News
6. Directory of contents
Search-based
Criteria
Payment required
Target students (age)
Subject (math, arts...)
Textual query
Contains reviews for some of the material
Human selection can be activated as a filter
8. Didactics
Dedicated to adults
Different channels
By target
Professors
Parents
By topic
Web 2.0
Interviews
By frequency of updating
Newsletter
Columns
10. Social network
Profiles for professors
Personal space and newsfeed
Classical web tools: forum, chat, wiki
Creation
Communities (student census)
Content
Goal: connect professors and experiences from
different schools
12. Syndication
Feeds for the different channels
Can be followed in an aggregator
Can be filtered or mashed up in other tools
Public content
Creative Commons license
Distribution with attribution
Non-commercial use, Share-alike (derivative works
must maintain the same license)
13. Business model
Government funding
Targeted advertising from content providers
Platform to improve the efficiency of didactic
material market
Expand supply
Makes supply and demand communicate easily
Gathers demand for electronic content
14. Conclusions
Public-backed initiative, presenting externalities
Its goal is not to make money
Take-aways
A single platform as a point of reference can
improve the market for digital content
Social networks allows for the best targeted
advertising, as user preferences are continuously
collected
Educational activity for adults (professors and
parents) in this domain must not be ignored