Object: Programme of academic year 2016 - 2017

Methodologies s of vocational training(Laboratory)

First part -Theory

Learning theories

  • Learning psychology and learning psychology foradult people
  • Pedagogy andmethodologyfor the education study
  • Knowledge construction

Learning and training in the information society

  • Knowledge and training in the information society
  • Competences and strategic competences
  • Lifelong learning and lifewide learning

Secondpart–Theories and methods of training

Training models and professional training

  • Training plan
  • Methodologies of training
  • Professional training
  • The whole cycle of a training project
  • The integrated project of training

Third Part– Models and strategies for the training in the information society

Relationship between ICT and training

  • The influence of ICT in the training
  • E-learning
  • On-line training
  • Blended training

Training and learning in the information society

  • Individual learning and collaborative learning in the web
  • The on-line training and the blended learning in the constructive theory
  • FabLab:training for the development of computational thinking and digital fabrication

Goals of laboratory

The laboratory activities start from some specific, fundamental theories in order to enable the students to perform training models through the moodle platform.

The laboratory intends firstly to give the essential theories of the professional training in relation to sciences such as pedagogy, psychology, philosophy, sociology, epistemology and training methodology. Secondly, the laboratory carries out the strategies to get the training projects.

The study of the models of the professional training is done in relation to some characteristics of the knowledge society, in particular in relation to the large diffusion of ICT and e-learning models of training.

These concepts are also studied in relation to the European policies for the development of the knowledge society and diffusion of educational activities which should allow individuals to face the challenges of flexibility and the rapid changes inthe labour market. More specificallyreference is done to the concepts of lifelong learning and lifewide learning,competence and strategic skills, the ability of learning and learning to learn,toe-learning, toon –line training and to the blended learning, tocomputational thinking and digital fabrication.

The aim is to arrive at model of professional training as a set of tools by which to face the challenges of the Knowledge Society, namely as a set of flexible tools though which individuals can continuously adapt themselves to the changes taking place in theirworking and social environment.

Thanks to the course, students will be able to plain e-learning and blended learning training models

Suggested books

V. Castello e D. Pepe (eds.), Apprendimento e nuove tecnologie. Modelli e strumenti, FrancoAngeli, Milano, 2010.

D. Lipari e S. Capogna (eds.),Nuove parole della formazione, Palinsesto, Roma, 2014

Web site

D. Pepe “Innovazione e inclusione sociale”, testo consultabile al sito:

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