Abstract
Internet has completely changed the ways of producing and communicating knowledge. Today it is possible to attend University without any space or time limitation. The International Telematic University UNINETTUNO (UTIU) has been developing an organizational and psycho-pedagogical model and a technological structure, which, thanks to Internet, give everyone the possibility to attend the University anywhere in the world. Thanks to this model, UTIU has been committed in supporting the national socio-economic environment, through bilateral agreements and joint projects with trade unions and companies, in order to update and upgrade workersâ?? competences and to help them entering into the global markets. It is shown here the results of the outcomes deriving from an agreement signed with the Italian biggest telecommunication company: Telecom Italia. This agreement, which offers to Telecom Italiaâ??s employees the opportunity to enrol at UTIU degree programmes with the economic support of their employer, represents an innovative example of collaboration among a Company, a University and the Trade Unions, with the purpose of fostering human resourcesâ?? training and professionalization. The agreement derives from Telecom Italiaâ??s need for training its personnel. Thus, with the aim of improving their competences, Telecom Italia has counted on the innovative technologies provided by distance learning, acknowledging UTIUâ??s psycho-pedagogical model as the best solution available. As an innovative element, for the first time in the negotiation history the Trade Unions and a Company has agreed on the possibility for the employees to enrol for a degree programme, thus improving their social and cultural status.
Highlights
Internet has completely changed the ways of producing and communicating knowledge
The agreement provides that Telecom Italia pays the fees for the successive years only for the students passing at least 50% of exams included into the annual study programs This system was adopted to incentivize students and make them more responsible for their study process
All courses comprised in all degrees involve three different teaching categories: video professors who are full professor from Italian and international universities who designed and recorded the video course; teaching professors who are responsible of the course on behalf of UNINETTUNO; tutors are Ph.D. and Researchers both from Italian traditional universities and from UNINETTUNO, and are the real didactic interface between students and the online institution, providing support, motivation, real time tutoring sessions, guiding practical activities
Summary
In the knowledge society the idea itself of education and training is changing. Education should reach diversified mass users even in terms of age. UNINETTUNO launched cooperation relations among academic institutions and businesses of various countries aimed at jointly producing educational contents to be posted in the virtual spaces of the Internet to jointly create a new model of distance university This cooperation gave rise to a multicultural partnership facilitating the University’s internationalization processes as well as the realization of curricula allowing to create the competences needed to live in a globalised and interconnected labor world and society. In this framework the activities supporting the national socio-economic situation carried on by the International Telematic University UNINETTUNO and realized through bilateral and joint projects in cooperation with trade unions, with professional association as well as with companies aiming at retraining and upgrading the workers’ skills and help them to access global markets. The question is to create opportunities for personal and professional growth of employees, men and women, to make education not select and separate people, but promote and unites them
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