LEGO Real Time Web (Mandate)

Project owner: Luca Botturi
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 [...]

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 [...]

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.

Games for learning: the relationship between game-play, narrative and content (contact Luca Botturi)
LEGO bricks for design: manipulative for online learning instructional design [...]

Botturi Luca (Dr.)

Luca Botturi holds a Ph.D. in Communication Sciences and Instructional Design from the Università della Svizzera italiana in Lugano, Switzerland.
He worked as researcher and practitioners in the new media in Italy, Switzerland, Canada, Spain and the USA. Luca is currently instructional designer at the eLearning Lab, researcher for the NewMinE Lab at the same institution, [...]

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 [...]