People - 29 Maggio 2019 Katia Passerini: An Italian Woman at the Top of a University Career in the US How a student from Rome arrived in the United States to finish a thesis and in her forties found herself at the top of her university career in America: in this interview Katia Passerini explains the organization of the American academic system based on the connection with the job market, while "the difficulty of the Italian system lies in transferring the important amount of knowledge into a practical and professional outlet ".
Lifestyles - 16 Febbraio 2018 Education in the 21st Century: Is the Idea of Culture Dead? Ask Google For today’s college students the idea of education as “culture” may be dead. Why? Maybe because rapidly changing technology keeps us looking forward instead of backward in order to keep up with it? Or maybe because our fragmented society has rejected any idea of there being a common culture to transmit. Many of the books that I used to assign even five years ago, are unreadable for today’s students.
Arts - 7 Luglio 2016 Social Media Go to College and Study Italian Social media can connect Italian language and culture communities and learners in innovative online learning spaces that extend traditional physical boundaries of the classroom and provide real-life, socially relevant situations with authentic exchanges, engaging learners in Italian