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Which competencies do students expect to achieve by attending University? How deep is the gap between School and University concerning skills and competencies provided and requested? Are school programs and usual methodologies able to prepare them properly to enter Higher Education studies? Which role can play Informal learning in Formal education to reduce this gap? Answering these questions firstly means focusing on both the main competencies students should have acquired and the learning paths they have to follow for improving and developing them.

Healthy Cities is one of the central themes addressed in the Sustainable Development
Goals. The World Health Organization’s new Urban Health Initiative creates a paradigm shift
in health systems approaches by focusing on the urban environment as a prerequisite for
healthy lifestyles - and disease prevention. In Europe, the Zagreb declaration pointed out its
attention to strengthen and champion action on health through healthy cities networks.
Architects and engineers play a strategic role in building this future and activating actions

Per il quarto anno consecutivo, i Saloni dello studente Campus sono stati sede della ricerca Teen’s Voice, che si propone come osservatorio di ascolto dei giovani in uscita dal sistema scolastico. Dare voce ai giovani vuol dire ascoltare in modo attivo, nel nostro approccio proponendo domande e problemi che generino risposte interessanti.

Per il quinto anno consecutivo, i Saloni dello studente Campus sono stati sede della ricerca Teen’s Voice, che si propone come osservatorio di ascolto dei giovani in uscita dalla scuola secondaria di secondo grado. Dare voce ai giovani vuol dire ascoltare in modo attivo, nel nostro approccio proponendo domande e problemi che generino risposte interessanti.

Aim: The purpose of this study was to investigate the process that lead to academic adjustment of undergraduate students in the first year of higher education, by testing a predictive model based on self-determination theory with the inclusion of self-efficacy. The model posits that perceived autonomous forms of support from parents and teachers foster autonomous motivation and self-efficacy, which in turn predict academic adjustment. Method: A two-wave prospective design was adopted.

This contribution focus on the peer-feedback activities carried out in a blended university course inspired by the Trialogical Approach to Learning. The course lasted 10 weeks divided into 3 modules; 109 students participated to the activities (M: 27 - F: 82), working in 11 groups of about 10 members. During the course students build knowledge products and are asked to improve them through mutual feedback.

This paper describes the degree course in Psychological Sciences and Techniques delivered from 2017 by Sapienza and Unitelma Sapienza University of Rome. This is an entirely online course in which the designers decided to integrate classic e-Learning with a participatory and collaborative approach, safeguarding the strengths of both models. To this end, the degree course is based on three fundamental pillars: a theoretically anchored design, an experienced team of teachers and tutors, a flexible and rich Learning Management System such as Moodle.

The contribution describes and problematizes the use of learning analytics within a blended university course based on a socio-constructivist approach and aimed at constructing artefacts and knowledge. Specifically, the authors focus on the assessment system adopted in the course, deliberately inspired by the principles of formative assessment: an ongoing assessment in the form of feedback shared with the students, and which integrates the teacher’s assessment with self-assessment and peer-assessment.