Biografia del relatore
Rosario Sica, a physicist with a master degree in marketing and social communication, is the CEO of Semantic Internet Innovation. He has experience in the experimentation of innovative pedagogical methods. He has been consultant and project manager in Chile for the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, in Vietnam for Médecins sans Frontires, in Italy for Learning Technologies, A. De Little, RSO, Ministry of Social Affairs and Elea. He has published many articles about the application of new technologies in learning processes and he is author of the book "Il computer elementare (elementary computer)" edited by Apogeo, (2003). Member AICA, W3C.
Giancarlo Luxardo is the CTO of Semantic Internet Innovation. He has an extensive experience in software engineering including: pre-competitive projects supported by research laboratories, commercial products developed by software and hardware vendors, customer-oriented solutions provided by system integrators. He has worked in the following countries: France, Switzerland, Italy, Israel and Germany, mostly in the context of international partnerships. His most recent experience was developed primarily on three areas of application: healthcare, publishing and e-learning.
Abstract
Semantic Internet Innovation (SII) provides integrated solutions
for various types of organizations which require on-line training:
- higher education institutions,
- non-profit organizations,
- SMEs.
Common requirements are encountered in these organizations:
- move on-line educational content,
- efficient document retrieval based both on full-text search and
metadata,
- and also foster collaborative work through community-oriented
tools.
However, IT resources (humans and machines) are limited in the organization. Small-sized organizations cannot afford the deployment cost of an LMS. Therefore the ASP model represents a cost saving alternative. SII offers this approach to the e-learning market focusing on service activities. SII is the first Italian company to support .LRN, an open source enterprise platform for collaborative learning, based on the OpenACS Web application framework, and used today by a quarter million users in more than eighteen countries worldwide.
