METHODS AND TECHNIQUE OF DESIGN ORGANIZATION AND EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH

The course aims to provide theoretical knowledge and methodological skills aimed at designing and organizing educational research activities in educational contexts. Students and students at the end of the course should know the main approaches and models of design and organization of activities and educational research, techniques and tools suitable for their evaluation.

The lessons will be held in mixed mode: the first part of the course will take place according to the traditional method with laboratory exercises, which will have an exclusively formative function (they will affect the didactics, not the final grade), the second part of the course will take place according to the didactic approach of the flipped classroom in compliance with the international didactic experimentation in which the teaching is part (Erasmus Research Project + Task 21, Key Action 2: Cooperation for innovation and the exchange of good practices. Strategic Partnerships in the field of higher education. Topic: EdTech & AI: Creating pedagogical material for the 21st century; resolution of the Cds Scienze pedagogiche e progettazione educativa of 10.09.2019 http://www.disfor.unict.it/sites/default/files/files/Verbale%20LM-85%2010_09_2019%20senza%20nomi.pdf).

If the teaching is given in mixed mode or at a distance, the necessary variations can be introduced with respect to what was previously stated, in order to comply with the program provided and reported in the syllabus.

The topics to be discussed and studied are: approaches and models of design and educational research; the design of research phases in educational and training contexts; the design of flipped classroom paths in university contexts; didactic technologies in university contexts; design of e-learning paths; analysis of reflective, empirical and scientific thinking according to John Dewey. Furthermore, examples of research, experiences and tools applied in different educational contexts will be presented.

- Cecconi L. (ed.), Intento e azione nella progettazione educativa, Franco Angeli, Milano, 2012, pp.240

- Bevilacqua A., Flipped learning in ambito universitario, Pensa MultiMedia, Lecce, 2018, pp. 239.

- Ardizzone P., Rivoltella P. C., Didattiche per l’e-learning. Metodi e strumenti per l’innovazione dell’insegnamento universitario, Carocci, Roma, p. 147.

- Dewey J., Come Pensiamo, Raffaello Cortina, Milano, 2019, p. 277.