Red-ink doctoral school (in progress)

red-ink stands for Rethinking Education in the Knowledge Society - a challenging and important task for our doctoral students!
The red-ink doctoral school has the goal of understanding the complex issues related to the introduction, management and impact of educational technologies and eLearning in the perspective of the new context of the knowledge society.
To this purpose, [...]

Schmeil Andreas (PhD student)

Andreas holds a German Master’s degree in Computer Science from Ulm University. His research at the NewMinE Lab focuses on Visual Collaboration and Learning Practices in 3D Virtual Environments. He aims to help improve remote team collaboration  and distance learning by visual communication and embodied group interaction.
Andreas is a member of the Red-Ink Doctoral School [...]

Rapanta Chrysi (PhD student)

Chrysi was born in Greece, where she graduated in Psychology in 2004. After that she moved to Spain (Barcelona, Malaga, Granada) where she spent her time learning and answering questions such as ‘What is creativity?’, ‘How do people learn?’, ‘How can we evaluate argumentation?’ etc.
Finally the Spanish decided to give her the research sufficiency, so [...]

De Ascaniis Silvia (PhD student)

She is a collaborator of the eLearning Lab (eLab) at the Università della Svizzera Italiana and she is part of the Red Ink Pro*Doc programme, within which she is developing a PhD in the field that overlaps education, argumentation theory and ICTs.
She was born in Giulianova (Italy) but she has been living in Lugano since [...]

Cantoni Lorenzo - NewMinE director (Prof.)

Lorenzo Cantoni graduated in Philosophy and holds a PhD in Education and Linguistics.
He is professor at the University of Lugano (Switzerland), Faculty of Communication Sciences, where he is also deputy-director of the Institute of Public Communication and Education. He’s vice-Dean of the Faculty.
Lorenzo Cantoni is director of the laboratories webatelier.net: production and promotion over the [...]

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 [...]