In: Scientometrics, 2021, vol. 126, no. 2, p. 1311–1328
The aim of this study was to examine how institutional barriers arising from policy decisions influence the level of participation of third- party countries in European Framework Programs (EU-FPs). To achieve this, we contrasted the effect of EU funding restrictions following Switzerland’s 2014 reclassification as a “third country” in Horizon 2020, and the political uncertainties resulting...
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In: Research in science education, 2020, p. 16 p
The implementation of Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) at school is one of the challenges of education in the twenty- first century, especially concerning the development of critical thinking during argumentative interactions. In this paper, I refer to an interdisciplinary approach with the aim to analyze the implicit inferential reasoning emerging in argumentative...
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Thèse de doctorat : Università della Svizzera italiana, 2018 ; 2018COM001.
Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) have existed as a disruptive educational phenomenon for nine years. Grounded in the roots of distance education, open education, Open Educational Resources, and OpenCourseWare, MOOCs have now survived various critics and have continued growing globally. Reports about MOOCs in both the press and scholarly publications began to grow significantly in 2013...
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Thèse de doctorat : Università della Svizzera italiana, 2014 ; 2014COM007.
This thesis is positioned at the intersection of education, technology, and motivation research fields, specifically in the context of K-12 teaching. The purpose of this study is to investigate the relationship between teachers’ self- efficacy and their technology use, and design and validate a self-efficacy measure to assess teachers’ beliefs about technology use in their profession. This...
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Thèse de doctorat : Università della Svizzera italiana, 2014 ; 2014COM004.
Technologies are changing the world around us, and education is not immune from its influence: the field of teaching and learning supported by the use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs), also known as Technology Enhanced Learning (TEL), has witnessed a huge expansion in recent years. This wide adoption happened thanks to the massive diffusion of broadband connections and to...
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Thèse de doctorat : Università della Svizzera italiana, 2012 ; 2012COM006.
Since the 1990s, a wide debate has been generated around the "learners-new media dichotomy", with a consequent journalistic reverberation. In particular, expressions like “digital natives”, “Y” generation, or “net-generation” contributed to diffuse the hypothesis that– since the 1980s – a generation of learners with typical characteristics related to their great familiarity with...
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Thèse de doctorat : Università della Svizzera italiana, 2011 ; 2011COM010.
Il dottorato, in questo ultimo ventennio caratterizzato dalla massificazione e dall’internazionalizzazione dell’istruzione superiore, ha progressivamente assunto importanza, prima negli Stati Uniti, in Australia e Nuova Zelanda, e successivamente in Europa. In Europa, l’interesse scientifico per il dottorato nasce nel clima di cambiamento prodotto dalla convergenza delle due iniziative...
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Thèse de doctorat : Università della Svizzera italiana, 2011.
The present dissertation has as a main goal to identify and describe relevant design and communication processes taking place during co-design meetings, in a way suitable to inform practice in similar settings in the field of eLearning design and development. The need for such a research emerges from the inadequacy of prescriptive models that can guide professionals in their communication...
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Thèse de doctorat : Università della Svizzera italiana, 2011.
Strategy in universities has been a controversial issue in scholarly debate. On one side higher education institutions have been considered specific organizations whose essential nature hinders strategy and the coordination and control functions thereby entailed. On the other side, new public management reforms requiring strategic capability to be developed have been the object of critical...
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In: Higher education, 2011, vol. 61, no. 2, p. 157-178
This paper contributes to the debate on strategic capability of academic organizations by presenting three case studies of Swiss Higher Education Institutions. Strategies are conceived as instruments by which universities manage their organizational processes and deal with their environments in order to select a portfolio of activities and find an appropriate position in the higher education...
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