Academic teaching
Current
Responsible of the module Education and Research within the Bachelor program (training of pre-primary and primary education teachers) and Master program (training of secondary education teachers) at DFA. I also developed the concept Teaching educational research at DFA which informs research courses and thesis work at all DFA programs.
2010
Consultor at the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya. Online instructor in Diseño de materialed formativos hypermedia in the master program in Educational Technologies. I also serve as master thesis advisor and evaluator. Teaching language: Spanish (since 2006) Online instructor in Teaching processes with ICT in the certificate in e-learning. Teaching language: English (since 2007).
2009
Bachelor course in Game Design at the Faculty of Communication Sciences of the Università della Svizzera italiana (November-December, 1,5 ECTS)
Doctoral online course on Motivation, Engagement and Learning within the red-ink doctoral school. Includes a special podcast interview with J. P. Gee (September, 3 ECTS).
2008
Designer and facilitator in the doctoral course History of eLearning within the red-ink doctoral school at the University of Lugano.
Media Production Lab (master in Communication, Education and Training), a practice-oriented lab for instructional development with Web editors, Photoshop, Flash, audio and video editing tools. Teaching language: Italian (since 2004, 4 years).
eLearning Lab (master in Technologies Enhanced Communication for Cultural Heritage), a practice-oriented design and development lab for e-learning in the cultural heritage domain. Teaching language: English (since 2004, 4 years).
Teaching assistant of Instructional Design with Rick Kenny (online course, co-author as well) and Educational Technologies with Lorenzo Cantoni. Teaching language: English (since 2004, 4 years).
The History of Games and Education. Graduate students seminar at the ICT Department at State University New York, college at Potsdam (videoconference session).
2007
Contract professor in Communication Theory and Web and e-commerce at the Università della Valle d'Aosta. Teaching language: Italian (since 2005/2006, for two academic years). As professor, I supervised 5 bachelor thesis.
Learning Objects in the Practice. Graduate students seminar at the Instructional Psychology and Technology Department at Brigham Young University (videoconference session, January).
Games, videogames and education. Lecture for the Master in Tutor for Social work, Cometa Formazione and Università Cattolica di Milano (January)
2006
Games and Education. 1-day seminar in the Summer School in Media Education promoted by the Italian Association for Media Education and the Università Cattolica di Milano.
High School Courses
I like teching young people in high school, and I've been invited as guest several times for this. The areas which my contributions addess, is media education and technology critical literacy. The topics I usually propose are Introduction to Communication, Searching in the Web, Website Design, Electronic Communication, Effective Communication (Rhetorics) and the Media.