Università Roma Tre

The course in "Design, assessment and evaluation in education and training institution and in media education" is divided into two modules of 36 hours, corresponding to 72 hours and 12 ECTS.
The main objective is to support students in designing, implementing and evaluating projects carried out in education and training courses. At the end of the course, students will be able to use and apply the most common tools and the most appropriate strategies to develop all the phases of a project.
The course will be held in both the first and the second semester; in both modules, alongside with traditional lessons, students will be involved in labs and individual and group activities.

o Torre, E.M., Dalla progettazione alla valutazione: modelli e metodi per educatori e formatori, Roma, Carocci, 2022.
o Paradiso, L., La progettazione educativa e sociale. Modelli, metodologie, strumenti, Milano, Mondadori, 2020, chapters 1, 3, 4, 6, 7, 10, 12, 13, 14.
o Horton, W., E-learning by design, John Wiley & Sons, Pfeiffer; 2° edizione (14 dicembre 2011), 2012.
o Felini, D., & Trinchero, R., Progettare la media education. Dall’idea all’azione, nella scuola e nei servizi educativi, 2015.

The Design and Evaluation in Educational, Training and Media Education Services course for students on the Master's Degree Course in Pedagogical Sciences consists of two 36-hour modules, totalling 72 hours and 12 CFU.
The aim of the course is to encourage students to acquire the basic skills to design, implement and evaluate planning in educational and training services. At the end of the course students will know how to orientate themselves in the complex practice of planning through the use of the main tools and the application of appropriate working methodologies.
The course will be spread over two semesters; both modules will be implemented through alternating lectures and workshops, with individual and group work.


Specific Objectives

The objectives of the course, in the two segments of which it is composed, are as follows

- Module I (6 CFU, Prof. Cinzia Angelini):
o to acquire the basic elements of design
o understand the life cycle of a project (planning, monitoring, evaluation);
o to know the possible sources of funding
o understand the links between types of people in training, training needs and aims and project strategies;
o design an educational or training pathway, according to defined, reproducible and monitorable phases;
o define the recipients of an educational or training pathway and their needs, starting from a previously designed and empirically conducted needs analysis;
o identify general and specific objectives of a training or educational intervention;
o define possible descriptors of the achievement of objectives;
o disseminate/communicate the results of a training or educational project;
o communicate a financial plan by macro items of expenditure, aimed at applying for national or international funds to finance training.


- Module II (6 CFU, Prof. Francesco Agrusti):
o acquire the basic elements of designing digital learning experiences;
o examining curriculum planning and designing digital learning experiences;
o explore instructional design models to support synchronous and asynchronous learning;
o understand the role of assessment in determining the effectiveness of networked learning and training;
o measure the effectiveness of the design, development and delivery of an e-learning course;
o synthesise the key features of behaviourism, cognitivism and constructivism to facilitate online learning;
o select best practices for encouraging experiential learning in an online community;
o understand the main teaching and assessment designs in e-learning and media education;
o know the results of the main national and international surveys on media and online education.

o Torre, E.M., Dalla progettazione alla valutazione: modelli e metodi per educatori e formatori, Roma, Carocci, 2022.
o Paradiso, L., La progettazione educativa e sociale. Modelli, metodologie, strumenti, Milano, Mondadori, 2020.
o Horton, W., E-learning by design, John Wiley & Sons, Pfeiffer; 2° edizione (14 dicembre 2011), 2012.
o Felini, D., & Trinchero, R., Progettare la media education. Dall’idea all’azione, nella scuola e nei servizi educativi, 2015.