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We describe the lessons learned in a hands-on project on instructional design techniques and e-learning technologies. Our experience showed that, though each course designed within this experiment improved its results, the global results of the students were not completely satisfactory. Indeed, the restructured courses absorbed the attention of the students to the detriment of traditional programs. We argue that this side-effect is due to peculiarities of the Italian university system.
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Cerioli, M., Ribaudo, M. (2009). Great Is the Enemy of Good: Is Perfecting Specific Courses Harmful to Global Curricula Performances?. In: Cress, U., Dimitrova, V., Specht, M. (eds) Learning in the Synergy of Multiple Disciplines. EC-TEL 2009. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5794. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-04636-0_63
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