Building, Testing and Assessing a Learning Management System

This paper summarizes the experiences of our research group in managing the full process of building, testing and assessing a Learning Management System for a educational institution. We will show how we moved across the “make or buy” dilemma that normally educational institutions have to face when deciding to implement a support for online and distance learning activities. We will deal with this theme by referring to systems and prototypes developed by our research group. Specifically, we will describe our experiences in realizing systems for making didactic material available on Internet, such as in the Learning Management Systems - LMS. This experience is based on what has been developed, tested, and put to use in some faculties of the University of Trento, where non-traditional learning environments in which students require more than the traditional face-to-face lessons are becoming ever more important. The prototypes produced are based on platform-independent technologies, and they make it possible to broaden one’s horizons, even for those students, such as lifelong learners, who want freedom from time constraints and also freedom from some technological constraints that are imposed by some forms of distance education currently available on the market. Some extensions to mobile tools like PDA, tablet PC, cellular phones etc. are presented, with regards to the impact of their introduction on the LMS and in general on the information system of the institution

Connessi! Scenari di Innovazione della Formazione e nella Comunicazione

Le tecnologie della informazione e della comunicazione hanno cambiato radicalmente e tumultuosamente il mondo. Da studiosi, educatori, tecnologi desideriamo capire ed essere attori di questo process

The Use of SCORM in a Community Based Learning Management System

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lifelong learning and virtual communities in the public administration a case study in italy

This work introduces our experience in developing L3, a project that aims at developing an educational and collaborative environment oriented towards public employees of our provincial administration (Autonomous Province of Trento - P.A.T. - Italy). Our research group has been involved for years in the design and development of e-learning applications; in the new L3 system we realized that the simple re-design of a traditional e-learning system was too limited with respect to the needs, especially concerning users' active participation in a more "social" sense. This work presents the first results of the project, which has a three year duration, and its development towards a future "Private Community Environment"

Cysteinyl Leukotrienes as Potential Pharmacological Targets for Cerebral Diseases

Cysteinyl leukotrienes (CysLTs) are potent lipid mediators widely known for their actions in asthma and in allergic rhinitis. Accumulating data highlights their involvement in a broader range of inflammation-associated diseases such as cancer, atopic dermatitis, rheumatoid arthritis, and cardiovascular diseases. The reported elevated levels of CysLTs in acute and chronic brain lesions, the association between the genetic polymorphisms in the LTs biosynthesis pathways and the risk of cerebral pathological events, and the evidence from animal models link also CysLTs and brain diseases. This review will give an overview of how far research has gone into the evaluation of the role of CysLTs in the most prevalent neurodegenerative disorders (ischemia, Alzheimer's and Parkinson's diseases, multiple sclerosis/experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis, and epilepsy) in order to understand the underlying mechanism by which they might be central in the disease progression

Time-domain cognitive sensor networking

Because of the increasing number of low-cost wireless applications, the unlicensed spectrum is quickly becoming a scarce resource. In voice-oriented wireless networks, such as, cellular systems, it has been shown that a relevant portion of the licensed spectrum is underused [1], thus yielding significant inefficiencies. A better performance can be obtained using new techniques, such as dynamic spectrum access (DSA), that allow a secondary network to exploit the white spaces in the licensed spectrum of a primary network, owing to cognitive capabilities. Most of the research activity on cognitive systems focuses on efficient spectrum utilization, in the realm of cellular systems. However, in the case of wireless sensor networks (WSNs), a network typically generates bursty traffic over the entire available bandwidth.SCOPUS: ch.binfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishe