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IntroductionThe concept of Self Regulated Learning refers to a set of abilities and competencies fororganizing and managing the learning process. The existing literature on the topic points out theimportance of some basic variables for developing SRL, such as awareness and control of theelements involved in the learning process. Moreover, context, motivational elements and emotionsseem to be crucial.The analysis of the relation between ICT and SRL is an interesting field of research,considering also that ICT requires some degree of self-regulation.The project TELEPEERS, aiming to analyse the support to SRL provided by TELEs -Technology Enhanced Learning Environments – gives us useful suggestions and tools forevaluation. A TELE is defined as every learning environment supported by the use of ICT, such asan educational software tool, a multimedia program, a whole course.The present document is an analysis of a TELE consisting in an online master forgraduated students run by University of Genoa, carried out by applying the Telestudents-SRL, anevaluation tool developed within the TELEPEERS project.The Telestudents-SRL is an evaluation tool for TELE, developed for being filled in bystudents using the TELE for their learning. This tool is freely downloadable from the web sitehttp://www.lmi.ub.es/telepeers.The considered TELE is a master for graduated students titled “’E-Learning in school,University and Industry" 1 . The course has been organized and run by the Learning ScienceDepartment of the University of Genoa, the Educational Technology Institute of CNR (Genoa) andby the Italian Association for Artificial Intelligence. The master has been developed almostcompletely online (there were only three face-to-face meetings within the course) and its totallength was 800 hours (including 180 hours for internship activity).The platform used was EifFE-L (Environment for Freedom in E-Learning – see figure 1 -)developed in CampusOne-CRUI. It is an e-learning environment consistent with the ADL-SCORMmodel and with the current availability policies. It is an open source platform published - withGeneral Public License - on the site SourceForge.net.1 The web site of the course is: http://masterelearning.unige.it/2
Figure 1 The home-page of the online courseObjectives of the course were the acquisition of scientific, technological, methodologicaland cultural competencies for the construction and management of online learning tools andenvironments. The various subjects and topics addressed during the course can be subdivided intofive macro-areas: 1) projecting e-learning activities 2) constructing and delivering learning material3) groups management 4) assessment 5) cross-curricular subjects (English language, law for thenet, economics for the web).Several educational activities were proposed by the teachers: both individual groupactivities of study and research, construction of learning objects, simulations, production of papers,practical stages. Several application programs were used to carry out these activities: software foroffice automation, graphical editors, html editors, communication platforms. All activities werecarried out trying to exploit the potential of communication and collaboration among theparticipants, following a constructivist educational methodology.All interaction among all subjects were carried out mostrly through the the tools put atdisposal by the (in-house built) communication environment: forums, chat, posting board, mailbox;sometimes, these were integrated by direct communications, telephon calls or private mail.The tutors played a fundamental role. They always helped the teachers in their educationalactivity, facilitated learning and kept alive the interaction with the students.The master was followed by ten students, all adults with a varied socio-cultural background.In analysing this master with the telestudents-SRL, the point of view adopted was my own,that is that of a student who has followed the master and looks at it as a complex environmentwhere different fundamental elements take part: the educational strategy, teachers and tutors, theknowledge learned, the educational activities, ICT. Because of the articulation of the environment,3
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