COURSE - Università Roma Tre

Degree Course: E-Learning and media education A.Y. 2023/2024

Expected learning outcomes Syllabus Italian version

FIRST YEAR

First semester

Course	Credits	Scientific Disciplinary Sector Code	Contact Hours	Exercise Hours	Laboratory Hours	Personal Study Hours	Type of Activity	Language
22910281 - Formazione nella società della conoscenza (objectives) Formation in the knowledge-based society Educational objectives: The course sets out to explore the concept of formation in the knowledge-based society in light of the revolution digital technology has operated by supplying pedagogic categories for coordination and planning of educational interventions in different professional areas, as well as for the setting up of online educational environments through cooperative and collaborative forms and styles, thus rethinking education in a complex and plural manner, for the common good. Expected learning outcomes: Knowledge and understanding: At the end of the course the student will have matured knowledge regarding the transformations connected to the concept of formation in light of the arrival of new information technology in the knowledge-based society. Thus understanding the evolution of knowledge’s organization and of its construction and transmission, keeping the concept of common good as a paradigm and complexity as a challenge. Applying knowledge and understanding: Through the critical and conscious use of communication technology, keeping in mind how distinctive present formation is, with its being continuous and diffuse, and reflecting on the real meanings of pedagogic work, at the end of the course the student will be able to choose and integrate the most suitable methodologies for setting up learning environments in the planning of formative paths. Making judgements: At the end of the course the student will have matured autonomy in orienting him/herself in the analysis and construction of texts and audio-visual and multimedia products, evaluating ethic and social implications for the planning and managing of creative, expressive and partecipatory formation interventions. Communication skills: At the end of the course the student will know how to organize effective communication within the coordination structures of socio-educational services, but also how to create a network among experts, choosing forms and products which can better add value to the processes. Learning skills: Through a critical and conscious use of instruments and analysis, at the end of the course the student will know how to autonomously enhance and update his/her knowledge and professional competence, as well as knowing how to detect widespread formation needs while taking into account the results of the contemporary scientific and cultural debate.	6	M-PED/01	36	-	-	-	Core compulsory activities	ITA
22910286 - Information and Media Law (objectives) Information and Media Law Educational objectives: The course aims to tackle information and media law, with specific attention to be paid to new technologies. The aim of the course is to understand the influence of the technological evolution of information on constitutional rights (not only on the freedom of expression) and State organization, especially in the internet age. Expected learning outcomes: Knowledge and understanding: - know the information and media law, in its constitutional, primary or supranational dimension; - know the influence of the technological evolution of information on constitutional rights and State organization. Applying knowledge and understanding: - recognize the legal implications of the use of new technologies in the field of information and media. Making judgements: - develop the ability to critically evaluate the functioning of information and media, in the light of its legal framework. Communication skills: - acquire technical-legal language, at least in the field of information and media law. Learning skills: - develop the ability to observe the evolution of information and media, understanding the legal consequences of the use of different technologies.	6	IUS/09	36	-	-	-	Core compulsory activities	ITA
22910280 - Progettazione didattica per l’e-learning e l’educazione mediale	Also available in another semester or year
22910283 - Philosophy and ethics of technology (objectives) Philosophy and ethics of technology Educational objectives: The course aims at giving the students awareness, understanding, and autonomy of judgment in regard to the ethical implications of the introduction of the new technologies in the field of media education and e-learning. In this light, we will discuss questions such as the pervasiveness of algorithmically-based decision-making, the right to privacy, the morally controversial advancements of Artificial Intelligence, and the risks that the infosphere poses to individual autonomy. Expected learning outcomes: Knowledge and understanding: the students will be able to understand the ethical dimensions and problems generated by the development of artificial intelligence. Applying knowledge and understanding: the students will be able to figure out their way in the complex world of A.I, by identifying its most problematic features. Making judgements: The students will acquire critical abilities in regard to the world of AI and will be able to understand both its potentialities and risks from the ethical point of view. Communication skills: the students will be able to deal with and elucidate the information connected with the ethical problems of AI, in its various forms. Learning skills: the students will be able to use the analytic tools and methods learned during this course in order to understand the ethical problems of the future development of AI.	6	M-FIL/03	36	-	-	-	Core compulsory activities	ITA
22910287 - History of educational use of media and/or technology. (objectives) History of Education and Communication Processes Educational objectives: The course aims to introduce the study of the history of education and communication processes as the history of education; to promote awareness of the application of historical-educational knowledge in the educational professions and in different contexts of training; to stimulate autonomy in the consultation of scientific literature; to encourage the development of listening skills, relationship, communication in the context of educational processes; to build, in a historical perspective, reflective skills aimed at critically interpreting the complexity of phenomena and communication processes. Expected learning outcomes: Knowledge and understanding: Understand the epistemological foundations of the discipline and today's communicative context in its complexity and historical-educational perspective. Applying knowledge and understanding: Acquire and apply knowledge of the history of education and communication processes and specific historiographic methodologies. Making judgements: To be able to critically and independently rework disciplinary knowledge, identifying the relationships that historically exist between communicative and educational processes, with particular reference to the evolution in the technological and digital fields and the symbolic reality constructed by media. Communication skills: Acquire disciplinary vocabulary and know how to socialize acquired knowledge in the group dimension. Learning skills: Knowing how to construct autonomous paths of in-depth study of the specific themes addressed in the course through the interpretive tools proper to the methodology of historical-educational research. Knowing how to consult the sources and the scientific literature of reference.	6	M-PED/02	36	-	-	-	Related or supplementary learning activities	ITA
22910288 - Strumenti e metodologie informatiche per l'e-learning	Also available in another semester or year

Second semester

Course

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Type of Activity

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22910280 - Progettazione didattica per l’e-learning e l’educazione mediale (objectives)

M-PED/03

Core compulsory activities

ITA

22910282 - PSICOLOGIA DELL'EDUCAZIONE E APPRENDIMENTO MULTIMEDIALE (objectives)

M-PSI/04

Core compulsory activities

ITA

22910290 - English language (advanced course) (objectives)

English language

Educational objectives:
The course aims to allow the development of the linguistic skills necessary to enact relational as well as communicative, and organisational abilities and competences acquired within the educational path of the CdLM on media education and distance learning. Furthermore, the course will propose the enhancement of linguistic skills and abilities allowing to understand, critically interpret, and use in original ways the languages of the technologies of communication, in order to analyse social texts and practises, to produce communicative texts, and to plan training and education paths.
Expected learning outcomes:
Knowledge and understanding: the student will acquire the linguistic structures to sustain him or her in understanding: documentary sources of the mediatic production; contaminations of new narratives and new languages; cinema texts and audio-visual texts.
Applying knowledge and understanding: this student will be able to produce and analyse audio, video and cross-media texts, developing the ability to recognise and analysie gender formulas in cinema and audio visual texts, and to critically evaluate the linguistic medium in the conscious use of mass-media in the educational field.
Making judgements: the student will acquire linguistic competences aiming to: acquire critical sense, orientation autonomy, as well as capacities of analysing texts and audio-visual and multimedia products; formulate judgments on the planning, managing, and evaluation phases of educational interventions in media education perspective; perfecting the linguistic instruments of critical analysis of mass-media production.
Communication skills: the student will acquire linguistic competences aiming to: manage and spread information through efficacious communication processes; promoting communicative relationship; interacting in presence and online.
Learning skills: students will be able to: use language analysis tools and to apply them to learning methods developed to autonomously deepen and update their own knowledge; spot linguistic instruments and tools adequate to the synergic development of their linguistic, cultural and specialised competences in their professional field.

L-LIN/12

Core compulsory activities

ITA

22910288 - Strumenti e metodologie informatiche per l'e-learning (objectives)

INF/01

Core compulsory activities

ING-INF/05

Core compulsory activities

ITA

SECOND YEAR

First semester

Course

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Type of Activity

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22910291 - Digital humanities ed editoria digitale

Also available in another semester or year

22910289 - Progettare e valutare nell’e-learning e nella media education (objectives)

Designing and assessing e-learning in media education

Educational objectives:
At the end of the course, students should be able to: Examine the planning of curricula and designing digital learning experiences; explore instructional design models to support synchronous and asynchronous learning; understand the role of assessment in determining the effectiveness of online learning; measure the effectiveness of e-learning design, development and delivery; synthesise key features of behaviourism, cognitivism and constructivism to facilitate online learning; select best practices for encouraging experiential learning in an online community.
Expected learning outcomes:
With the course "Designing and assessing e-learning in media education" the student will be able to achieve the following learning objectives.
Knowledge and understanding:
Knowledge and understanding of the basic concepts of behaviourism, cognitivism and constructivism in relation to e-learning; knowledge and understanding of the theoretical and methodological foundations of empirical research in the field of distance education; knowledge and understanding of the theoretical, methodological and technical foundations of educational evaluation in online learning contexts.
Applying knowledge and understanding:
To analyse the relationship between learning and technological media, to know how to use and manage platforms for e-learning and networked learning; to distinguish propositions related to in-presence learning versus those peculiar to distance education; to establish paths for critical review of online learning courses; to design effective networked learning paths aimed at maximising outcomes in relation to the set learning objectives.
Making judgements:
Distinguish between different approaches to networked learning; identify the strengths and weaknesses of different methods that can be used in digitally supported distance education.
Communication skills:
Subject words and concepts of educational language to critical review with particular reference to distance education environments.
Learning skills:
To deepen one's knowledge using manual and scientific texts in the field.

M-PED/04

Core compulsory activities

ITA

22910301 - Tirocinio

Also available in another semester or year

Optional Group: Nuovo gruppo OPZIONALE - II anno - (show)

22910284 - Sociologia dei media digitali (objectives) Sociology of digital media The objectives of the course are: - provide the theoretical and methodological tools to analyze the digital media scenario in the contemporary era; - promote the ability to understand and interpret the educational implications of digital media in formal and informal contexts. Expected learning outcomes: Knowledge and understanding: ability to analyze and interpret the digital media scenario with particular attention to the change of education / socialization processes. Applying knowledge and understanding: ability to appropriately use the conceptual and methodological tools necessary to analyze and understand digital media environments and products also in educational and training contexts. Making judgements: ability to develop a critical reflection on the relationship between digital technologies, education and society. Communication skills: communicative, socio-relational skills that allow you to work in a group and plan innovative educational actions aimed at specific and differentiated targets. Learning skills: ability to continually update and renew the wealth of knowledge making it usable in the workplace.	6	SPS/08	36	-	-	-	Core compulsory activities	ITA
22910285 - Arti audiovisuali per la media education	Also available in another semester or year

Optional Group: Nuovo gruppo OPZIONALE - II anno a scelta dello studente - (show)

Second semester

Course

Credits

Scientific Disciplinary Sector Code

Contact Hours

Exercise Hours

Laboratory Hours

Personal Study Hours

Type of Activity

Language

22910291 - Digital humanities ed editoria digitale (objectives)

Digital Humanities and Digital Publishing

Educational objectives:
The course aims to provide participants with a general knowledge of the fields of digital humanities and digital publishing, together with a more specific focus on the evolution of digital textuality, on reading and learning devices and tools, and on the editorial features of learning content. Specific laboratorial activities will be devoted to the practices of content production and curation, providing participants with a practical introduction to the main tools and methodologies used in the field.

Expected learning outcomes:
Knowledge and understanding: Upon completion of the course, the participants will have acquired essential knowledge and skills in the fields of digital publishing and digital humanities, and more specific knowledge and skills on the practices of editorial production of learning content, with the ability to understand the main strategies for their organization and digital care. They will also have acquired a general understanding of the practices and of the market reality of educational digital publishing, including the main roles and competencies involved.

Applying knowledge and understanding: Upon completion of the course, the participants will be able to apply the acquired competencies in evaluating the effectiveness and the editorial quality of digital content and in choosing the most appropriate practices for their design, production and distribution, also in the context of work teams.

Making judgments: Upon completion of the course, the participants will be able to independently and critically assess the effectiveness and features of different types of editorial and learning content, and to analyze their structural organization; they will also be able to evaluate costs and benefits in choosing between different methods of production, selection, organization of editorial content.

Communication skills: Upon completion of the course, also by means of the collaborative activities provided, the participants will be able to actively participate in a work team in the field of digital publishing, and to master the specific language used in the field.

Learning skills: Participants will acquire the skills and autonomy necessary for fostering the acquisition of new knowledge and competencies in the field, both in the context of collaborative content production activities, and through training and self-organized learning.

Modalities of connection with other courses:
The course will be closely connected with the course ‘Learning design for e-learning and media education’ and with the course ‘Tools and methodologies for e-learning’. Furthermore, it will be connected, in the form of integrated learning and within the laboratory and project work activities, with the audio-video laboratory and the platform laboratory.

M-STO/08

Related or supplementary learning activities

ITA

22910299 - Laboratorio piattaforme digitali (objectives)

Other activities

ITA

22910300 - Laboratorio regia e montaggio audio-video (objectives)

Other activities

ITA

22910301 - Tirocinio

200

Per stages e tirocini presso imprese, enti pubblici o privati, ordini professionali (art.10, comma 5, lettera e)

ITA

22910302 - Prova finale

Final examination and foreign language test

ITA

Optional Group: Nuovo gruppo OPZIONALE - II anno - (show)

22910284 - Sociologia dei media digitali	Also available in another semester or year
22910285 - Arti audiovisuali per la media education (objectives) Audiovisual arts for Media Education Educational objectives: At the end of the course, students will be able to know and understand the development of audiovisual arts and the central role they play in contemporary societies, also related to the new forms of interactive communication. Furthermore, students will possess the ability to interpret and critically analyze audiovisual texts and products, and will be aware of the educational function of media as well as the social, cultural and ethical consequences of media education. Expected learning outcomes: Knowledge and understanding: students will have the understanding of the significant role played by media and the knowledge of the main aspects of media education. Furthermore, students will have the necessary knowledge of the main contemporary narratives as well as the formal aspects of cinematic and audio-visual texts. Applying knowledge and understanding: the student will be able to use and critically analyze audio-visual and cross-media documents, also in order to recognize rhetorical strategies in films and audio-visual texts. Making judgements: students will have a critical awareness with respect to digital media and the ability to analyze audio-visual texts and narratives. Communication skills: students will be able to interact online as well as in person, by creating networks, managing and promoting communication and information. Learning skills: students will be able to apply the learning skills developed, in order to improve their professional knowledge.	6	L-ART/06	36	-	-	-	Core compulsory activities	ITA

Optional Group: Nuovo gruppo OPZIONALE - II anno a scelta dello studente - (show)

22910293 - Psicologia della percezione e delle arti (objectives) Psychology of perception and of the arts Educational objectives: The aim is to provide the skills to understand the content of images and works of art, through the perception analysis of the structural and compositional characteristics of the object. Another aim is to be able to use this knowledge and to apply it, through a critical analysis, to the observation of new media digital contexts. Lastly, the capacity to communicate the knowledge learned to other people. Expected learning outcomes: Knowledge and understanding: The graduates student will be able to understand the languages used in various media. He will be aware of the cognitive and affective processes underlying the different forms of communication in digital media. He will demonstrate competence in different communication contexts, in understanding languages and in the user/media relationship Applying knowledge and understanding: The graduate student will be able to apply the learned knowledge in the use of different forms of digital technologies in different communication contexts: training and learning processes, comparison between the different forms of traditional and multimedia languages. He will be able to apply the knowledge learned in the integrated design of the different forms of communication that takes into account images, text, symbols in a multimedia context. Making judgements: The graduate student will be equipped with knowledge and skills that demonstrate independence of evaluation and judgment in the understanding and the interpretation of the various multimedia languages. He should be able to have a critical sense and possibly innovative capacity in the activities he will face. Communication skills: The graduate student will be able to communicate efficiently in the various sectors in which he will plan interventions. An important aspect is to be able to manage networks of experts in both face-to-face and online activities. He will have different languages (verbal, visual, etc.) that will allow him to fully express his thoughts and the analysis of the systems he will use. Learning skills: The graduate student will be able to use different methods, taught during the course, to update his/her knowledge in lifelong learning. This learning abilities must be demonstrated during the course of study and subsequently will allow him/her to apply the knowledge to the different systems that it will be used. Modalities of connection with other courses: It would be advisable that the student had followed courses in Psychology of Education and Multimedia Learning, History of Education and Communication Processes and Sociology of Digital Media.	6	M-PSI/01	36	-	-	-	Elective activities	ITA
22910295 - Diritto penale dell’informatica (objectives) Criminal Law of Information Technology Educational objectives: The course aims to ensure knowledge of cyber-criminality phenomena and of the criminal law of Information Technology currently in force in Italy, with particular regard to the different categories of offenses provided for in the criminal code or in complementary legislation, to the criminal liability of internet service providers, website operators, online newspapers or blogs, both as individuals and as collective entities pursuant to Legislative Decree no. 231/2001. Expected learning outcomes: Knowledge and understanding: the student will know the structure of the different categories of cybercrimes and the related responsibilities of natural and legal persons. Applying knowledge and understanding: the student will be able to understand the issues underlying the application of different cybercrimes and the articulation of the related responsibilities as addressed by the most recent jurisprudence. Making judgements: the student will acquire autonomy of orientation and critical analysis skills in relation to criminal liability for cybercrimes so as to be able to make judgments on the adequacy of the current regulatory framework and on any regulatory intervention needs. Communication skills: the student will be able to promote, through effective communication processes, knowledge of cybercrime phenomena and the analysis of the related risks for natural and legal persons. Learning skills: the student will be able to identify, find and critically analyze regulatory texts, doctrinal sources and case law (leading cases) on computer crimes with particular regard to the most topical issues.	6	IUS/17	36	-	-	-	Elective activities	ITA
22910296 - Diritto amministrativo delle nuove tecnologie (objectives) Administrative law of new technologies Knowledge and understanding: at the end of the course, the students will have knowledge and understanding of the administrative system in which they will work, having regard to the activities of public administrations, expecially in the light of the issues which arise from the use of the new technologies, and in particular the E-government, E-governance, the tools provided by the Italian Code of digital administration and the protection of the privacy. Applying knowledge and understanding: after having followed the course, the student, having acquired an understanding of the Italian administrative reality and the related digitalisation process, will be able to apply this knowledge in any working context to operate in a more aware and critical manner, also in light of a greater familiarity acquired with the texts regulations and doctrinal elaborations. Making judgements: the course aims to develop the ability to understand and evaluate the Italian administrative system especially considering the use of new technologies, encouraging the acquisition of a critical analysis capacity regarding individual regulatory texts, as well as administrative law as a whole and the problems related to the use of new technologies. Communication skills: the course aims to develop the understanding of the technical-legal language and of the most relevant issues of administrative law, in the context of a more general reflection regarding the use of new technologies regarding the activity of public administrations also in the relationship with citizen users. Learning skills: the course, through the analysis of the relevant legislation and doctrinal elaborations, aims to develop the ability to analyze and understand the legal instrument in particular linked to administrative law, in order to obtain a greater and autonomous understanding of the reality also in the workplace, in an increasingly technological context. Connection with other courses: the course Administrative law and new technologies is particularly connected with the other legal courses of the degree course, to obtain a greater understanding of the legal-regulatory reality and the acquisition and knowledge of the related concepts and dynamics.	6	IUS/10	36	-	-	-	Elective activities	ITA

TOTAL

120

Università Roma Tre

Degree Course: E-Learning and media education A.Y. 2023/2024

Expected learning outcomes Syllabus Italian version

Conoscenza e capacità di comprensione

Capacità di applicare conoscenza e comprensione

Autonomia di giudizio

Abilità comunicative

Capacità di apprendimento

Requisiti di ammissione

Prova finale

Orientamento in ingresso

Il Corso di Studio in breve