Overview of the current use of monasterium.net in education at the Institute of History / University of Naples.

1. Monasterium from research to didactics at University of Naples Vienna, 2010/11/25 Antonella Ambrosio

3. UNINA and Monasterium project Since 2007 UNINA has carried out: Research activities : Creating currently online digital archives (profitably collaborating with archivists, historians, researchers, young scholars) Innovative educational activity: Diplomatics and Exegesis of Historical Sources (academic year 2009 – 2010) for the Master in Library and Archival Science and Methodology of the Research (prof.Antonella Ambrosio)

6. What is a learning environment? The definition currently suggests an educational psychological approach of constructivist kind: It focuses on the learner but not on what he is learning . In this perspective we are able to define the learning environment as a ‘context of activities prepared by the teacher as the learning process we intend to promote happens in the best way as possible’.

11. EditMOM

13. A learning environment in Monasterium is community-centered We mean a constructivist social-cultural community The learner must not remain isolated but he must be involved into actions, discussions, reflections which are meaningful for the community he belongs to: because learning is a social phenomenon In this case, learning is optimal within a community of practice

16. Problems requiring future optimal solutions Acting on the pictures with a marking tool making the teacher and the student mark specific components characteristics and parts of the document (such as graphics manipulation software) remember that EditMOM has didactic potential but is not created specifically for teaching!

18. conclusions Educational model built in Monasterium was much more effective and acceptable to students Next step: experimenting here the environment of learning until delineated under other conditions, with a different number of students, in different times, comparing itself with similar experiences contemporarily effecting in Germany, in Austria, in the Czech Republic, in Hungary.

19. Thank you for your attention! Antonella Ambrosio Ricercatrice di Paleografia e Diplomatica Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II Dipartimento di Discipline storiche “Ettore Lepore” [email_address]