Attività di Ricerca / Reasearch Activity

The research activity of Agostino Marengo takes place, in 1994, above all in the field of didactical methodologies implemented by the use ICT technologies, in particular the development of e-learning web-based platforms LMSs and CMSs to facilitate the introduction of distance learning technologies in traditional courses, availing of the didactical methodologies that such technologies imply and emphasize (active learning, constructivism and socio-constructivism), with the purpose to improve the effectiveness of the intervention of traditional didactic activity in presence, and coming in this way to the best known blended formula.

Recently his research plan is to build a System Prototype of a Learning Machine on which running the management of different kinds of Reusable Learning Objects to evaluate:

 1. The fixing of the relationships between “semantic web scheme” and “ontology model”;

 2. The building of specific ontologies for the RLO (Reusable Learning Objects) and building the repository for a “pilot teaching topic”;

 3. The integration of the defined ontologies with the Semantic Web inside the LMS using RDF/OWL language and the creation of the Intelligent Software Agent;

The goal of the research is setting up an e-learning course (preferably in System Dynamics) structure, implemented on a Learning Management System (web based and Open Source), on which evaluate Semantic Web applications using the Intelligent Software Agent, built during the research development, to plan and build a learning path.