WHY, WHAT, WHO, HOW: BUILDING UP ONLINE COURSES
A REPORT FROM A SOUTHERN ITALY UNIVERSITY

Bianca Arcangeli and Paolo Diana
Dipartimento di Sociologia e scienza della politica
Università degli Studi di Salerno
Italy

Cinzia Massa
Smile
Italy

Vincenzo Moretti
Area didattica di Sociologia, Facoltà di Lettere
Università degli studi di Salerno
Italy

This work is based upon an online experimentation realized by the didactical area of sociology at the University of Salerno (Italy). It seeks to identify its points of strength and of weakness and to establish guide lines for further planning. In particular, it systematically describes and compares two courses which have used different approaches, methodologies and platforms and their results. To conclude the authors underline the importance of the study of the context, of giving an active and significant role to the students as well as to the teachers and of building up a dialogue between traditional and ITC-based tools.

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