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Telecommunications, seen as access to information nodes and to remote resources, was at first an experience reserved for the few. Now it has become a very cheap resource available to all. In just a few years, it has led to the development of a...

This paper describes an activity developed at the Department of Electronic (Dipartimento di Elettronica) - Politecnico of Torino in the field of computer based training in electronic instrumentation and measurements, where the author was a...

The term multimedia has been around for several decades. Until recently, the term has meant the use for several media devices, sometimes in a coordinated fashion. The computer plays a central role in this environment and it coordinates the use of...

This work presents two different educational projects that have involved two secondary schools in Italy (students aged 17-19). The aim of these projects is the preservation of the regional identity. The Internet plays an decisive role in the...

The Internet has changed the process of communication in these years. The net or cyberspace provides much useful information as we navigate URL's, browsers and hyperlinks. The explosive growth of the Internet and the convergence of information and ...

Multimedia technologies can modify the learning environment. This paper describes the results of three different experiences which involve the use of multimedia technologies in cognitive and educational processes (in High Schools and in...

The aim of this paper is to present two different experiences which involve the Internet in educational paths in high school and university. In first experience, named Web Learning Environment (WLE), we have studied the use of the WEB and its...

The aim of this paper is to present two different experiences which involve the Internet in educational paths in high school and university. In first experience, named Web Learning Environment (WLE), we have studied the use of the Internet and its...

The increasing need of education in contemporary society and the reduction of overall costs and study flexibility, together with the availability of powerful telecommunications and computer systems have fostered investigation and implementation of ...

The term multimedia describes a number of diverse technologies that allow visual and audio media to be taken and combined in new ways for the purpose of communicating. The aim of this paper is to present some examples of the use of multimedia...

"The net of the nets" is changing the learning processes. In fact the Internet can be used to modify the teaching methods and the process of learning using synchronous and asynchronous education. The aim of this work is to present how to use the Web ...

Imagination and creativity are among the qualities of a good mathematician. The academic mathematics course has become, for many students, a highly structured sequence of definitions, theorems, and proofs that lead only to additional definitions,...

The computer plays a central role in educational environment, for this reason I describe an educational approach where some mathematical concepts are presented with their artistic connections, using also the hypermedia, and the Web. For example,...

Constructivism is learning which takes place when learners actively construct their own reality and/or knowledge or least interpret it based upon their perceptions of experience. Constructivism, as theory of learning, is a subject which educators...

This work describes a project developed at the Department of Electronic Politecnico of Torino in the field of multimedia technologies in educational process. The goal was to allow the students to carry out a pre-training activity outside the...