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Dalla gestione di dati geolitologici in ambito GIS alla costruzione del Modello Tridimensionale Digitate del Sottosuolo (DTUM): problemi metodologici
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Building Wider Team Cooperation Projects from Lessons Learned in Open Communities of Practice
No full textCommunities of Practice (CoP) are a
cornerstone in the design and innovation process of
knowledge acquisition and knowledge transfer. This
paper presents an empirical evaluation of an
experimental Open Community of Practice (OCoP),
designed to deliver a programming course. The
empirical model fosters cooperation between
communities which share similar learning objectives.
The results show that knowledge transfer is highly
increased when a formation paradigm is used
together with a set of cooperation tools. A scalability
model has been extracted from the results of this
experimental community. The model is currently
being used as a launching platform to start an open
collaborative learning environment to connect two
communities of practice, one located in Italy and the
other in the United States
La complessità nella gestione dei progetti di sviluppo cooperativo del software: ETC plus ed il caso di studio Federico II-Kent state University
No full textIn this paper we explore the use of collaboration in software development in educational environments. The empirical learning model used is shaped around the creation of communities of practices from educational environments that share similar learning objectives. The model is implemented on a joined platform that supports an open collaborative learning environment and that provides asynchronous connection within the community of practice. An experiment has been carried between the University of the Naples in Italy, and the Kent State University in the United States. A community of practice has been designed around two courses of Computer Programming and Design and a set of software development activities have been generated to observe how the collaboration affected the learning experience. The initial results show that knowledge transfer is highly increased when a formation paradigm is used together with a set of cooperation tools. Assessment of complex process has been defined and is in advanced phase of developing
Increasing Consonance and Resonance in Agile Teaching Methodologies
Full text linkIn a cooperative environment technical excellence and high quality students’ artifacts is what Computer Science teachers strive to achieve while educating students and facing the challenges of this new century. When agile techniques and accelerators and injected in the process in a cooperative environment the consonance and resonance in groups increases. This speeds up the learning process and the quality of the material produced by the students improves. Two observational studies at Kent State University at Stark and Ohio University are described in this paper. The studies observe the usefulness of using agile teaching techniques and analyze the quality of deliverables produced. A post questionnaire gathered students’ feedback. The observation shows that cooperative learning produces better results than individual learning however consonance and resonance must be reached before the speed is achieved
ETCplus: a project for the creation of an innovative university
No full textETCplus found its life from the best practices identified in the ETC1(Enforcing Team Cooperation) project. After being applied in about 50 different projects involving Italian universities, ETC has been extended to produce an experiment of cooperation between two diverse communities of practice cooperating around two selected academic courses: one in Italy, the other one in the United States. The ETCplus project is designed to create a collaborative learning environment by joining students and teachers of two international academic communities. The project will focus on i) sharing teaching material, ii) collaborative development of virtual projects and iii) educational formation of the participating students. In this paper we describe the project design issues and we discuss the problems related to the cooperation of two communities with two very different realities. The model of the process of collaboration is designed on top of a shared IBM Jazz platform. Several teaching methodologies and activities have been designed including forum of the most compelling topics, programming camp, and role exchanges
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
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