Lorenzo Cantoni graduated in Philosophy and holds a PhD in Education and Linguistics. L. Cantoni is full professor at USI – UniversitĂ  della Svizzera italiana (Lugano – Switzerland), Faculty of Communication Sciences, where he served as Dean of the Faculty in the academic years 2010-2014.

He is currently director of the Institute for Communication Technologies and scientific director of the laboratories webatelier.net, NewMinE Lab: New Media in Education Lab, and eLab: eLearning Lab.

L. Cantoni is chair-holder of the UNESCO chair in ICT to develop and promote sustainable tourism in World Heritage Sites, established at USI, and president of IFITT – International Federation for Information Technologies in Travel and Tourism.

His research interests are where communication, education and new media overlap, ranging from computer mediated communication to usability, from eLearning to eTourism, and from ICT4D to eGovernment.

Contacts
e-mail: lorenzo.cantoni@usi.ch
phone: +41 (0)58 666 4720

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Stefano Tardini is the executive director of eLab, the eLearning Lab of USI, since its foundation in 2004. After the discussion of his Ph.D. thesis about the linguistic and semiotic aspects of virtual communities (UniversitĂ  Cattolica, Milan, Italy) in 2002, he started to collaborate with the Faculty of Communication Sciences of USI as a teacher and as a researcher. His research interests include a socio-historical approach to ICT-mediated communication and eLearning, the study of online communities and social networks from the perspective of cultural semiotics, and argumentation theory. He lives in Varese (Italy) with his wife Daniela and his five children (Gabriele, Silvia, Maria, Benedetto, Maddalena).

Contacts
e-mail: stefano.tardini@usi.ch
phone: +41 (0)58 666 4527
Skype ID: bas3072

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Christian Milani was born and raised in Mendrisio and in 2003 graduated in computer science from SUPSI. Before beginning his path to graduation, he attended for one year an internship at Ticinonline SA, where he could lay the foundations of his future work in informatics and computer science. Since January 2004, he is an eLab research assistant at USI. He has extensive experience in customization of e-learning platforms, which also deals with Moodle. He is one of the administrators of the platform icorsi.ch, which represents most of his work. He also follows several research projects, as a computer technician.

Contacts
e-mail: christian.milani@usi.ch
phone: +41 (0)58 666 4760

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Anna Picco-Schwendener was born in Zürich and moved to Lugano in 1998 in order to study Communication Sciences. She graduated in 2002 with a major in Communication Technologies.After her degree she worked for several years in the communication and IT field of an important steel trading company (Duferco SA), where she was responsible for the company’s Intranet, worked on Oracle Applications and was in charge of designing and teaching internal, IT-related courses.
Currently she is a researcher at the eLab and NewMinE Lab where she is involved in different projects. Since May 2010 she is enrolled as a PhD students at the Communication Sciences Department of the UniversitĂ  della Svizzera italiana under the supervision of Prof. Lorenzo Cantoni. Her research interests include Wireless Communities, Motivations, Wi-Fi usages/needs in different contexts, Municipal Wireless Networks, Mobile city & uni apps, Mobile Learning and Digital Copyright for eLearning.

Contacts
e-mail: anna.picco.schwendener@usi.ch
phone: +41 (0)58 666 4674

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Mattia Pera è un giovane designer in comunicazione visiva e si occupa principalmente di curare il design dei prodotti web, cartacei e video dell’eLab. Ha mosso i primi passi nel campo della grafica conseguendo il diploma federale quale poligrafo presso la Tipografia Verbano. In seguito ha poi conseguito una laurea in Comunicazione visiva presso la SUPSI di Trevano. Da Novembre 2010 è impiegato presso l’eLab il servizio eLearning dell’USI e parallelamente collabora con il servizio grafica&web centrale dell’universitĂ  della svizzera italiana. Segue inoltre, in qualitĂ  di assistente esterno alla didattica, alcuni corsi di Bachelor nel percorso in Comunicazione visiva presso la SUPSI di Trevano.

Contacts
e-mail: mattia.pera@usi.ch
phone: +41 (0)58 666 4527

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Yann Cuttaz was born in Geneva and moved in 2005 to Ticino. He graduated in 2014 in computer programming at SPAI. Now, he studies computer engineering at SUPSI doing evening classes. During his studies at SPAI, Yann worked for four years at The Post of Bellinzona, in the IT Services. After his apprenticeship, he did an internship for two months in the municipality of Serravalle, and then, in October 2014 he started to work at eLab. He deals with the development of hybrid mobile applications, and the development of modules on iCorsi2 platform.

Contacts
e-mail: yann.cuttaz@usi.ch
phone: +41 (0)58 666 4760

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Goran Josic is technical collaborator at eLab. Graduated at SUPSI in Manno as computer scientist in 2003, he has been working at eLab since 2004. He designs and develops web based applications and utilities. He values the UNIX philosophy and applies its principles in the everyday work. Particularly interested in GNU/Linux systems and the FOSS movement he believes in open formats and uses them whenever he can.He is fascinated by new technologies, astronomy, oriental philosophies, music, cinema and animation.

Contacts
e-mail: goran.josic@usi.ch
phone: +41 (0)58 666 4760

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Shondel Bervini Monkow was born in Mendrisio in 1992. After her schooling she entered the business school in Massagno, and once obtained the diploma, she was admitted to the film academy in Lugano, where she graduated in 2014. She always had many interests as a young girl, she carries out different activities and passions that turned into part-time jobs, mainly in the field of dance, music and photography. After being on tour one month between Europe and the United States as the only dancer for Camilla Sparksss, from January 2015 she collaborates at the eLab as a filmaker.

Within eLab Shondel deals with video and photo productions needed and mainly the realization of the project Mooc’s video lessons.

Contacts
e-mail: shondel.bervini@usi.ch
phone: +41 (0)58 666 4760

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Riccardo Mazza is graduated in Computer Sciences graduate at the university of Pisa in Italy. In 2004 he received a Ph.D. in Communication Sciences at the University of Lugano with a dissertation on the visual representation of students’ tracking data in Web-based distance education. Since November 1997, he has been a teaching assistant at the Institute of Communication Technologies of the University of Lugano. Since September 1999 he has also been a researcher and teacher in the Department of Innovative Technologies at the University of Applied Sciences of Southern Switzerland. He has been involved in several research projects founded by the Swiss National Science Foundation and the European Union. His main research interests focus on Information Visualization, student modeling and external graphical representations in distance education.

Contacts
e-mail: riccardo.mazza@usi.ch
phone: +41 (0)58 666 4544

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Giorgia Mora was born in Lugano and, in 2010, she moved to Fribourg in order to study Educational Science. In 2016 she obtain a Master in “Innovation and training” and ” Comparative and Intercultural Education”. During her studies in Fribourg, Giorgia performed several internships in the field of educational research. She worked for a company working in the field of professional reintegration.

Since February 2016, Giorgia is part of the eLab’s team and she is involved in several eLearning projects, in particular the MOOC (Massive Open Online Courses) promoted by the University (USI).

Contacts:

e-mail: giorgia.mora@usi.ch

phone: +41 (0)58 666 4760
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Laura Libertino, grew up in Locarno, she has joined USI as instructional designer in March 2016. She received her Master’s Degree at the University of Fribourg in March 2016 in Innovation and Education. She worked for the company Cegos Swiss based in Geneva for 3 years as Pedagogical Engineer for international projects with corporates. She is interested in the development of new technologies in order to implement and allow deeper learning and holds a degree in “Trainer of the Trainers” received in Paris in 2015. After the certification she could take over as trainer at some well-known companies in Switzerland to train the staff

Contacts

e-mail: laura.libertino@usi.ch

tel: +41 (0)58 666 4760

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