Università degli Studi di Firenze

Faculty Member, Department of Education

Adjunct Professor

About

PhD in “Telematics and Information Society”, she is an aggregate professor at the Dipartimento di Scienze dell’Educazione e dei Processi culturali e formativi of the Università degli Studi di Firenze. Since 2001 she has been involved in the research activities of the "Educational Technology Laboratory" (http://www.lte.unifi.it) of the Università degli Studi di Firenze and in the post graduate Masters Programme in “Designing and Managing Online Education”. Her main research areas include theory and methodology relating to media and technology in education, as well as work around teachers’ practices and students' learning. On these topics she published several papers and books, among which: E-learning: modelli e strategie didattiche, Erickson, Trento, 2005; E-tutor: identità e competenze, Erickson, Trento, 2005 (with M. Rotta); Formazione e cyberspazio. Divari e opportunità nel mondo della rete, ETS, Pisa, 2006; Fondamenti di didattica. Teoria e prassi dei dispositivi formativi, Carocci, 2007 (with G. Bonaiuti and A. Calvani); La competenza digitale nella scuola. Modelli per valutarla e svilupparla, Erickson, Trento, 2010 (with A. Calvani and A. Fini); Media Education in Action. A Research Study in Six European Countries, FUP, Firenze, 2010 (with A. Parola); Valutare la competenza digitale, Erickson, Trento, 2011 (with A. Calvani and A. Fini); Le insidie dell'ovvio. Tecnologie educative e critica della retorica tecnocentrica, ETS, Pisa, 2011.
With regards to m-learning, she has coordinated (with G. Bonaiuti) the European Project “ENSEMBLE”, whose aim was to explore the pedagogical potential of m-learning to promote social inclusion of immigrant citizens in Italy and France (see: Ensemble. Mobile Learning to Promote Social Integration, http://www.scribd.com/doc/41268962/Ensemble-Mobile-learning-to-promote-social-integration). She is member of the panel of reviewers of the “British Journal of Educational Technology”, "Computer & Education" and  the “Journal of E-Learning and Knowledge Society”, the official review of the Italian e-Learning Society. Maria is currently a partner in the EU-funded (Grundtvig) My Mobile project (http://www.mymobile-project.eu/) and team leader of the Stellar Theme Team - SoMobNet (http://www.somobnet.eu/).