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Innovation and Sustainability in Higher Education: Lessons Learnt from the Case Study of an Online University

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Information Technology and Open Source: Applications for Education, Innovation, and Sustainability (SEFM 2012)

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The need for higher educational systems to undergo a radical process of innovation is recognized worldwide, but how such a process has to be triggered, managed and sustained is far from being fixed. The paper illustrates the case study of a small Italian online university where a number of actions (i.e. a preliminary analysis of the existing system, the development of a new platform, a training course addressed to teachers and staff, a pilot test of the new system) were carried out to make technological and methodological innovation proceed hand in hand and to drive innovation towards a higher quality of teaching and learning experience. The paper describes context, method and outcomes of the approach adopted and then discusses its strengths and weaknesses.

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    Moodle is a well-known LMS featuring various functions, among which storage and use of multimedia material and the possibility for users to communicate in an asynchronous way, http://moodle.org/.

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    http://www.elluminate.com/

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    Donatella Persico, Stefania Manca & Francesca Pozzi

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  1. United Nations University, Macau, Macao

    Antonio Cerone

  2. Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Genoa, Italy

    Donatella Persico

  3. United Nations University, Macau, Macao

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  4. Coventry University, Coventry, United Kingdom

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  5. Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece

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    Siraj Ahmed Shaikh

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Persico, D., Manca, S., Pozzi, F. (2014). Innovation and Sustainability in Higher Education: Lessons Learnt from the Case Study of an Online University. In: Cerone, A., et al. Information Technology and Open Source: Applications for Education, Innovation, and Sustainability. SEFM 2012. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 7991. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-54338-8_3

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