Beyond blended e-learning: a case study at the University of Cagliari

VALENTINA FAVRIN;ELISABETTA GOLA;EMILIANO ILARDI

2015-01-01

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Abstract

At the time of convergence culture, social network, and transmedia storytelling - when social interactions are constantly ri-mediated - e-learning, especially in universities, can not be conceived any more as a practice completely self-guided and separated from the other educational environments. In order to build an effective Learning Environment, online instructional setting, multimedia courseware, and other virtual education tools, should become smoother and able to fade out the closed learning environments as software platform and classrooms (either virtual or not). In this paper we will show the experience of the Communication Sciences degree program of the University of Cagliari, which is supplied through an e-learning method). In the ten years since its foundation, the approach has evolved from a blended learning with two kinds of activity (online activity and face- to-face lessons) to a much more dynamic learning experience, in which many new actors are involved in educational and teaching process: communication companies, local government, public-service corporations on the one hand, the universe of new media and social networks on the other.