Scuolavisione
Scuolavisione is a project of the Vocational Education and Training Division in collaboration with the Swiss Federal Institute for Vocational Education and Training and the Radiotelevisione svizzera di lingua italiana with the support of the State Secretariat for Education, Research and Innovation.
The project explores the possibility of creating interactive videos using small pieces of footage, to promote learning in vocational education and training. Scuolavisione allows teachers, with no particular computer science background, to customise and structure didactical material for their own teaching activities, using existing footage and transforming it into a hypervideo linking additional resources of various kinds (text documents, images, audio files, etc.) to the source video.
The objectives of the intervention are two-folded: first of all, Scuolavisione pursued the development-oriented objective of developing software to create, use, and share interactive videos; secondly, the pilot implementations made it possible to establish a set of criteria and guidelines for effective use of hypervideos to be disseminated primarily to vocational school teachers.
Mainly design-based research (Brown, 1992; Collins, 1992; DBRC, 2003), with field studies in collaboration with teachers in the VET context. The project also entailed monitoring activities to assess the acceptance of the tools, both among teachers (for the authoring tool) and apprentices (for the player tool), through questionnaires (based on Technology Acceptance Model – Davis, 1989; Venkatesh et al., 2003. – and USE model – Lund, 2001) and practical tests. Data collection also included some interviews with a group of teachers who pioneered the use of Scuolavisione.