Sara graduated in 2006 in Foreign Languages and Literature at the University of Bologna, Italy, with a dissertation focused on the rescue of of the Mapuche aboriginal culture, in collaboration with the Universidad Católica de Temuco, Chile.
She has therefore accrued almost three years of experience working in the Internet field and developed a great interest [...]
Overcoming the “generation Y” perspective KFPE University Exchange Program
Involved Persons and Institutions: NewMinELab & UWIOC
@ New Media in Education Lab
Phd student- jeune chercheur: Emanuele Rapetti (contact)
Supervisor: Prof. Lorenzo Cantoni (contact)
Co-ideator: Isabella Rega (contact)
@ Open Campus - University of West Indies
Responsible: Prof. Stewart Marshall (contact)
Period: October 2009 to December 2009
Funding agency: SDC
Website: www.kfpe.ch
Project Goal
The project aims at investigating the actual uses of [...]
Professor Tim Unwin, UNESCO Chair in ICT4D at the Royal Holloway University of London, held a seminar at Università della Svizzera italiana titled On the richness of Africa: implications for eLearning.
Project owner: Isabella Rega
Project staff: Francesca Fanni, Stefano Tardini
Period: November 2008 to October 2011
Funding agency: SER
MELISSA (Measuring E-Learning Impact in primary Schools in South African disadvantaged areas) joint research project will study the impact of ICTs (Information and Communication Technologies) training on primary school teachers in the Western Cape province. The study focuses on their perception of [...]
Online courses for Brazilian primary school teachers (Mandate)
Project owner: Isabella Rega
Project staff: Lorenzo Cantoni
Period: September 2004 to June 2006
Partners: Novacaritas and Centro de Estudio e Assesoria Pedagogica
In the context of the educational policy of the Brazilian governemnt, the Centro de Estudio e Assesoria Pedagogica (CEAP) develops curricula for primary school teachers needing a higher education certificate. NewMinE Lab will develop two online [...]
Project owner: Isabella Rega
Project staff: Francesca Fanni
The evaluation concerns the Sustainable Multimedia Telecentre project run by Microsoft in collaboration with COMMUNITAS and the municipality of São Paulo. This study measures the impact of the Entrepreneurship program offered within the Sustainable Multimedia Telecentre project to young people living in underserved areas. It takes into consideration two [...]
Isabella Rega holds a master in Communication Sciences and completed an executive master in Intercultural Communication from the Università della Svizzera italiana (USI).
She is currently a researcher and Ph.D. candidate with a thesis on the role of tele-centers in socio-economic development. Within the NewMinE Lab at the USI, Isabella is currently involved as project manager [...]
Project owner: Isabella Rega
Project staff: Silvia De Ascaniis, Chrysi Rapanta, Emanuele Rapetti, Stefano Tardini
Period: Summer 2008
Funding agency: Associazione di Terra Santa - ATS
Website: http://www.pontiperlapace.it
An educational project promoting twinnings between schools in order to enable Italian students and students of the Holy Land to meet and become friends.
Elab is in charge of developing and maintaining the [...]
Project owner: Isabella Rega
Project staff: Francesca Fanni, Stefano Tardini
Period: October 2005 to March 2009
Funding agency: SDC + SNF
Website: http://www.betk12.net/
BET K-12 (Brazilian elearning Teacher training in k-12) is a project funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation and the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation under the Joint Research Partnership Program. The project partners are the [...]
After a degree in Classical Philology, in 2002 he got a Ph.D. in language sciences, with a thesis on the linguistic and semiotic features of virtual communities.
He is managing director of eLab (eLearning Lab) and researcher at NewMinE Lab.
His research interests include ICT mediated communication and eLearning, virtual communities and online social networks, cultural semiotics [...]