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Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSN › Conference contribution/Paper › peer-review
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TY - GEN
T1 - Equipping higher education students with media literacy skills
AU - Di Blas, N.
AU - Paolini, P.
AU - Rubegni, E.
AU - Sabiescu, A.
PY - 2010
Y1 - 2010
N2 - This paper introduces an innovative approach for teaching higher education students how to professionally communicate using advanced technologies. It is based on a large scale experience with 266 students from the Università della Svizzera italiana (Switzerland), Faculty of Communication Sciences. Although a basic mastering of technologies is also taught in the curriculum, the courses where "multimedia communication" is taught focus on design and communication, not programming, by means of a hands-on approach. Three toolkits are used: IDM (Interactive Dialogue Model), a design methodology, and two authoring tools (1001stories and MEDINA) that allow the creation of multimedia multichannel narratives, and more traditional websites respectively. These three tools are trivial in terms of technological competences required to handle them, but powerful in terms of communication outcomes. By using them, students are stimulated to focus almost exclusively on communication issues. The paper presents the pedagogical approach, the results and the learning benefits achieved by students. © 2010 IEEE.
AB - This paper introduces an innovative approach for teaching higher education students how to professionally communicate using advanced technologies. It is based on a large scale experience with 266 students from the Università della Svizzera italiana (Switzerland), Faculty of Communication Sciences. Although a basic mastering of technologies is also taught in the curriculum, the courses where "multimedia communication" is taught focus on design and communication, not programming, by means of a hands-on approach. Three toolkits are used: IDM (Interactive Dialogue Model), a design methodology, and two authoring tools (1001stories and MEDINA) that allow the creation of multimedia multichannel narratives, and more traditional websites respectively. These three tools are trivial in terms of technological competences required to handle them, but powerful in terms of communication outcomes. By using them, students are stimulated to focus almost exclusively on communication issues. The paper presents the pedagogical approach, the results and the learning benefits achieved by students. © 2010 IEEE.
KW - ELearning
KW - Media literacy
KW - Multimedia authoring
KW - Advanced technology
KW - Authoring tool
KW - Design Methodology
KW - Dialogue models
KW - Hands-on approaches
KW - Higher education
KW - Innovative approaches
KW - Media literacies
KW - Multi-channel
KW - Multi-Media authoring
KW - Multimedia communication
KW - Pedagogical approach
KW - Switzerland
KW - Technological competence
KW - Communication
KW - Curricula
KW - Education computing
KW - Innovation
KW - Multimedia systems
KW - Students
KW - Teaching
U2 - 10.1109/IPCC.2010.5529810
DO - 10.1109/IPCC.2010.5529810
M3 - Conference contribution/Paper
SN - 9781424481453
SP - 30
EP - 37
BT - 2010 IEEE International Professional Comunication Conference
PB - IEEE
ER -