Newly activated for the a.y. 2025-26
Starting from a.y. 2025/2026, the Media education programme changes its name to Digital learning and media education.
The Graduate Degree Programme in Digital Learning and Media Education, belonging to class LM-93 "Theories and methodologies of e-learning and media education", is aimed at integrating knowledge related to education and training with that related to communication, including technologically mediated communication. This integration aims at the training of a plurality of professional figures able to operate in the different areas of convergence between education and communication, in training contexts of an institutional, corporate and third sector nature.
Thanks to the blended mode, the teaching organization provides for the definition and distribution of teaching hours between face-to-face lessons and distance learning, every other week. Face-to-face classes are concentrated in two intensive days.
Skills
The degree programme involves the acquisition of solid disciplinary and methodological skills in both areas of communication and education, as well as their functional integration. At the end of the programme, graduates in Digital Learning and Media Education will have in-depth knowledge of: the design, implementation and evaluation of educational interventions, both in presence and in the different formats of blended education and e-learning that involve the use of communication technologies and the net in training processes; forms of educational intervention aimed at developing a critical sense, autonomy of orientation, analytical skills and conscious and responsible use of technologies, of services and of audiovisual, multimedia and network products, with particular attention to risk prevention in adolescence; teaching methodologies to integrate traditional learning strategies with multimedia, interactive, collaborative and distance learning strategies; the management and coordination of communication/educational processes and services in the various contexts of training (institutional, private, associative, non-profit); the design and creation of products and communicative environments of an educational or training nature; the design of research and development activities in the field of Media education and e-learning.
Graduates in Digital Learning and Media Education will therefore be able to enter formal, non-formal and informal educational environments with the qualification of Educationalist, where they will be able to carry out functions of planning, coordination and evaluation of educational and training consultancy interventions. They will be able to act in different work contexts such as: services and territorial bodies of a socio-educational and social integration nature (public bodies, third sector, private companies); vocational training institutions; the training of teachers and school principals on issues related to the use of communication technologies in schools, media literacy and digital citizenship; the university and higher education environment; services and organisations aimed at risk prevention work in pre-adolescence and adolescence; the field of cultural animation, leisure and cultural production of an editorial, audiovisual and multimedia nature; the various sectors that deal with the training of trainers (school, profit and non-profit, public, health).
If you would like to receive more information, you can book an orientation interview with Prof. Aroldi, programme coordinator, by sending an email to: piermarco.aroldi@unicatt.it
The Edunext project
The Degree Programme in Digital Learning and Media Education participates in the Edunext project, promoted by the Ministry of University and Research (MUR), which involves the collaboration of 35 Italian universities (non-telematic universities) and 5 AFAM (Alta Formazione Artistica e Musicale - Higher Artistic and Musical Education) Institutions, supported by 55 partners (regional institutions, cultural bodies, associations and companies) and which aims to promote quality education accessible to all through digital tools. The teaching and technological innovation proposed by the participating Degree Programmes allows a better adaptation to the varied learning pace of the students.