Innovascuola is an Italian government-backed portal that aims to foster digital didactics. It provides a directory of digital education content, materials for teaching teachers about e-learning, and a social network for connecting educators and students. The portal targets three main areas - content, teaching methodology, and its social network. It also has minor sections like a dictionary, news, and prizes. The goal is to provide vetted educational resources and train teachers on using technology in the classroom.

1. Innovascuola
Case study
Giorgio Sironi
NEST project
Alta Scuola Politecnica 7th cycle

2. Description
 Portal for fostering digital didactics
1)directory of digital contents
2)education material about technology
3)social network
 Public backing (Italian government)
 Goals
 Providing selected, categorized and human-
reviewed material
 Educating teachers about e-learning
 Connecting teachers and students in their
communities

3. Homepage

4. Homepage
 Targets to the three thematic areas
 Content
 Didactics (methodology)
 Social network
 Also minor, classic areas
 Dictionary
 Prizes
 Newsletter
 News

5. Directory of contents

6. Directory of contents
 Search-based
 Criteria
 Payment required
 Target students (age)
 Subject (math, arts...)
 Textual query
 Contains reviews for some of the material
 Human selection can be activated as a filter

7. Didactics

8. Didactics
 Dedicated to adults
 Different channels
 By target
 Professors
 Parents
 By topic
 Web 2.0
 Interviews
 By frequency of updating
 Newsletter
 Columns

9. Social network

10. Social network
 Profiles for professors
 Personal space and newsfeed
 Classical web tools: forum, chat, wiki
 Creation
 Communities (student census)
 Content
 Goal: connect professors and experiences from
different schools

11. Syndication

12. Syndication
 Feeds for the different channels
 Can be followed in an aggregator
 Can be filtered or mashed up in other tools
 Public content
 Creative Commons license
 Distribution with attribution
 Non-commercial use, Share-alike (derivative works
must maintain the same license)

13. Business model
 Government funding
 Targeted advertising from content providers
 Platform to improve the efficiency of didactic
material market
 Expand supply
 Makes supply and demand communicate easily
 Gathers demand for electronic content

14. Conclusions
 Public-backed initiative, presenting externalities
 Its goal is not to make money
 Take-aways
 A single platform as a point of reference can
improve the market for digital content
 Social networks allows for the best targeted
advertising, as user preferences are continuously
collected
 Educational activity for adults (professors and
parents) in this domain must not be ignored