LEGO Real Time Web (Mandate)
Project owner: Lorenzo Cantoni
Project staff: -
Period: October 2007 … and still in progress
Funding agency: Private funding and internal funding
Website: http://www.seriousplay.com/ (this is the official LSP web site)
The LEGO Serious Play methodology is a structured approach to consultancy and project planning the uses LEGO bricks.
This project, in collaboration with Trivioquadrivio (the Italian LEGO SP representative, based in Milano), aims at developing a new application for the collaborative requirement analysis and initial design of web applications. Potentially, the same methodology can be expanded to the design of online learning applications.
This project is in collaboration with webatelier.net.
E-ethnography (Mandate)
Project owner: Emanuele Rapetti
Project staff: Snjezana Misic, Marina Butti Romanova
Period: October 2008 to June 2009
Funding agency: internal funding
Website
This research aims to study, with qualitative-ethnographic methodology, how people learn, in the knowledge society, observing e-learning experiences and studying ICT use at work.
The main goal is to understand deeply what has been changing in learning experiences ever and ever more technology addicted (at school as well as at job).
All the studies concerning generation of people born after 1980 (so-called “Y”), claim that these person should be really involved in the online world and well-skilled in using any kind of ICT.
We want to observe this dynamics in depth at the University and on the job. At the university, we have proposed the research proposed by JISC consortium aiming to listen and make hear the “learners’ voices”. The main question in “which ICT are used by learners and for which activities?”. The project is structured in two phases: quantitative (an online questionnaire) and qualitative (ethnographic interviews). On the job, we’re working with Network USIMPRESA companies. The research’s goal is to describe how “gen Y” people learn to work in the knowledge society.
We have customized the LEGO SERIOUS PLAYING methodology ad hoc to discover the technological potential of the HR.
Download a short presentation for companies.
We should provide a customized lego session for HR needs…
Contact us at:
+41 58 666 4609
Theses
The NewMinE lab values the work of students as an opportunity to get new ideas, explore new fields and meet young talents. This page collects ideas and topics for possible bachelor or master theses.
- “New millennial learners” vs “Generation Y”: the US and UE way to be digital natives (contact Emanuele Rapetti)
- How it changes the way we learn, we learn to work, we work in the knowledge society (contact Emanuele Rapetti)
- Web culture(s) at university (contact Emanuele Rapetti)
This list is an ongoing work-in-progress. Check back to see updates!
Rapetti Emanuele (PhD student)
Emanuele graduated in Education in 2007 (Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore – Milan – Italy). Member of Red-InK Doctoral School (Rethinking Education in the Knowledge Society, program funded by Swiss National Science Foundation), he’s having his PhD about e-learning, particularly studying how it’s changing the way people learn in the knowledge society.
Since 1 April 2008 he’s teacher assistant in faculty of Communication and researcher at NewMinElab, involved in several project; on of the most remarkable was Bridge4Peace. Previously, he worked as educator (in a community for risky children), media educator, teacher for handicapped people in a secondary school and teacher assistant at Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore.
His research interests are: Pedagogy and Educational Issue for Third Millennium, E-learning, Media Education, E-ethnography, E-evaluation, Qualitative methods in educative-social research.
View Emanuele’s profile on red-ink.
View Emanuele’s page at USI.
Meet Emanuele on Linkedin
Contact Emanuele at
Tel. +41 (0)58 666 4547
Mobile: +41 77 461 43 66
Mail: emanuele.rapetti@usi.ch
Blog: materialieducativi.blogspot.com
Skype: emanuele.rapetti
