Universities as learning communities

This is a joint project by USI-Università della Svizzera italiana, SUPSI – Scuola universitaria professionale della Svizzera italiana and UNILU – University of Lucerne. The project is financed by swissuniversities within the P-8 programme “Strengthening Digital Skills” (2021-2024).

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The project

General intent

The project aims to build on the lessons learnt during the COVID-19 emergency period and in (some of) the 1st phase P- 8 projects (2019-2020) promoted by USI – Università della Svizzera italiana, SUPSI – Scuola Universitaria professionale della Svizzera italiana, and UNILU – University of Lucern, in order to design and implement a series of shared training and coaching activities related to the digital skills needed by the different publics of the partner institutions: students, lecturers, researchers (including PhD students and postdoctoral researchers) and administrative/scientific collaborators.

The general objectives of the training activities are to raise the awareness about the importance of the proposed digital skills in the addressed publics, to build the corresponding skills in them.

Public

The majority of the courses courses is adressed to the members of the three univerisities (USI, SUPSI and UNILU). Certain activities/events will be open to the general public.

Formats

The training activities will be designed and delivered in different formats: they may be offered either entirely in presence or online or in a hybrid version; they will include, among others, academic courses, summer schools, workshops/webinars, public events, and coaching activities.

Topics

In general terms, the contents will orbit around the following topics (but not exclusively):

instructional design for online teaching
security in the digital world
academic integrity in the digital world
legal aspects of online teaching and learning
online evaluation; digital media production;
learning analytics; creating an effective video lesson
managing the workload in online activities
tools and methodologies for research data handling
tools and methodologies for data visualization
tools and methodologies for online interaction
effective use of digital tools for the universities’ administrations

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Current activities

Generative AI in higher education – Brown bag series for the academic and administrative staff

Current

Fall Semester 2024 (current) We are happy to invite all members of the academic and administrative staff from USI and SUPSI to participate to a series of brown bag lunches designed to encourage lively and interactive conversations about the use of Generative AI in a...

Excel (intermediate/advanced)

Current

Course contents and learning objectives This is a hands-on Excel course that will help you acquire practical skills useful for your professional career. The course was designed with a limited amount of theoretical notions, and will have a focus on practical "real...