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Reinventing America: Stories from the Presidency

«If you give me your vote - we won’t just win the election - together we will change the country and change the world« pledged Barack Obama during his 2008 presidential campaign. A promise and a statement of confidence in America’s ability to reinvent itself, which he has recently repeated in his 2011 State of the Union Address – «That's what Americans have done for over 200 years: reinvented ourselves». Obama’s election to the US presidency has already been heralded as a sign of change and ...

Introducing ELSE: A Quest for Eco/logical Learning and Simulation Environments

This paper will present an overview of a thirty-month Erasmus + Project, ELSE (Eco/logical Learning and Simulation Environments in Higher Education), involving eleven European Universities, of which the author, with her university, is a member partner, and Entropy-KN, an Italian IT firm specialized in Technology Enhanced Learning (T. EL.). ELSE aims to promote pedagogical innovation in higher education through novel applications of digital technologies particularly tailored to the teaching of...

WHEN GRADE IS NOT A MOTIVATIONAL FACTOR IN FOREIGN LANGUAGE LEARNING… YOU MAY WANT TO FLIP

What motivates students to learn a foreign language? A question that has obtained multiple answers and which keeps stimulating research on the topic. Although most recent studies seem to deny the effectiveness of grades on motivating students, traditional literature sees a significant relation between grades and extrinsic/instrumental motives, at least in second and foreign language achievements. But when you teach a Pass or Fail University Language Course whose exam outcome won’t affect stud...

TRAINING CLIL TEACHERS: AN ITALIAN EXPERIENCE

In March 2010, the Italian Ministry of Education, University and Research officially introduced CLIL (Content and Language Integrated Learning) to the Italian school system as part of a larger reform of the upper secondary education. Defined as “a dual-focused educational approach in which an additional language is used for the learning and teaching of both content and language” (EuroCLIC 1994), CLIL aims principally to improve foreign language competences with the teaching of non-linguistic ...

Open Educational Resources: an Italian Case Study

In 2002, UNESCO coined the expression Open Educational Resources, defining OER as "technologyenabled, open provision of educational resources for consultation, use and adaptation by a community of users for non-commercial purposes" ([1], p. 23). Over the years, OERs have come to be intended as “any digital resource which can be freely accessed and used for educational purposes”, a broader definition including not only digital learning objects but also software tools, textbooks, simulations or...

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