Manuel Pestano Perez Universidad Europea de Canarias, Spain
PhD in Education (CUM LAUDE, with International Mention) from the University of La Laguna and the University of Bologna. With over ten years of experience, he has led R&D&I projects and managed innovation in both the public and private sectors, focusing on the application of ICT in education, quality management in public policies, and training in advanced digital skills. His work also encompasses bridging the digital divide, technology transfer, and open innovation, contributing to the strategic direction of innovation policies and strengthening the research ecosystem through scientific dissemination and the creation of synergies between the public, private, and academic sectors.
Natale Salvatore Bonfiglio E-CAMPUS UNIVERSITY, ITALY, Italy
Associate Professor of Psychometrics at eCAMPUS University. His research focuses on the psychological aspects and measurement systems related to the use of new technologies and serious games, particularly in areas such as technostress, digital addiction, and user experience evaluation. His work emphasizes the validation and reliability of measurement tools in these domains, ensuring their psychometric soundness.
MARCO di FURIA Learning Sciences Institute (LSi), Department of Humanities University of Foggia, Italy
The proposed seminar will focus on online collaborative learning and the figure of the community manager in education. Some useful platforms for developing online collaborative learning units suitable for students of all ages will be presented (in particular: a) Padlet; and b) Miro). The seminar, consisting of a theoretical part and a practical part.
Marco di Furia is a Ph.D. candidate in Neuroscience and Education at the University of Foggia and collaborates with a research fellowship at the Learning Sciences Institute of the same university.
Cosimo Di Bari, Ph.D. Associate Professor of General and Social Pedagogy University of Florence, Italy
His research topics include media education, philosophy of education, sports pedagogy, pedagogy of narrative and pedagogy of play. His publications with Anicia include Educare childhood in the world of media (2016) and La neo-Bildung in the USA (2017); recent publications include Nature and digital technologies (Junior, 2021), Digital natives do not exist (Uppa, 2023).
Martina Rossi Learning Sciences Institute (LSi), Department of Humanities University of Foggia, Italy
The course aims to provide not only a solid theoretical foundation, but also concrete and applicable tools to transform teaching and meet the needs of teaching that is increasingly geared toward student interaction and engagement.
Martina Rossi is a pedagogue, Ph.D. candidate in “Neuroscience and Education” and an expert in EdTech. Her main research interests are innovative educational technologies and methodologies. A particular interest is in Augmented Learning and its use in promoting inclusive education.
Guendalina Peconio, Ph.D. Learning Sciences Institute (LSi), Department of Humanities University of Foggia, Italy
The proposed seminar will focus on motivational strategies in digital education and the potential of interactive tools like Mentimeter in enhancing student engagement. It will explore how gamification, live polling, and real-time feedback can transform passive learning into an active and participatory experience.
Guendalina Peconio is a research fellow at the University of Foggia (Italy). She holds a Ph.D. in Neuroscience and Education and is a psychologist. Her research interests focus on teacher training, with particular emphasis on human capital development and entrepreneurship education.
Alessandro Soriani, PhD Senior assistant professor (fixed-term) - 11/PAED-02 Methodologies of Teaching and Special Education, Department of Education Studies “G.M. Bertin”, University of Bologna
The digital environment and technologies provide unprecedented means and opportunities for people to express themselves in different ways, to discover, learn and create, and to communicate and socialise. But they also bring new challenges. Digital citizenship is the capacity to participate actively, continuously and responsibly in communities online and offline, through competent and positive engagement with digital technologies (by creating, working, sharing, socialising, investigating, playing, communicating and learning).
The seminar, that will be held on the 28th of January 2025, is the perfect occasion to get to know about the most relevant concepts that stand behind the definition of Digital Citizenship Education. The session will also address on of the most interesting strands that the Council of Europe developed withing the framework of Digital Citizenship Education: Video Game Culture. Video Games can offer a very fertile ground to develop Digital Citizenship Education and we will try to understand why and how.
Piergiorgio Guarini is a PhD in Neuroscience and Education. He is currently waiting to defend his PhD thesis. The thesis explores the evolution of the Italian teachers’ training system, the digital competences definition and evolution in the Italian, European and OCSE scientific production and some good practises of digital competences teachers’ training in several European Countries. His interests include digital gamification and digital Serious Games. He is a Project Writer and Project Manager, with a great expertise on Erasmus+ Projects KA220, main topic digital technologies for higher education. He collaborates with Professor Raffaele Di Fuccio from Pegaso University (Italy), Professor Siri Sollied Madsen from University of Tromsø (Norway), Professor Lukasz Tomczyk from Jagiellonian University (Poland) and Professor Daniel Mara from “Lucian Blaga” University of Sibiu (Romania). Senior assistant professor (fixed-term) - 11/PAED-02 Methodologies of Teaching and Special Education, Department of Education Studies “G.M. Bertin”, University of Bologna