Sabrina Leone

Sabrina Leone, PhD in eLearning at the Faculty of Engineering of the Università Politecnica delle Marche (UNIVPM), is a researcher and a teacher. Her current research focuses on lifelong learning, Personal Learning Environments, ubiquitous learning, smart working, adaptive learning environments, and Social Semantic Web. She holds a honours degree in Foreign Languages, one in Business Management and one in Sciences of Linguistic Mediation. Her career has developed in the fields of education (teacher and consultant, specialised in adult learning), business consultancy (quality systems designer and manager), and linguistic mediation. She has studied and worked in Italy and abroad, and she has been involved in international research projects. Before joining the UNIVPM, she was a lecturer and a coordinator in Italian Studies at the University of Wollongong, Australia, appointed by the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. She is a European Commission’s independent expert for research and innovation assignments. She has authored and co-authored several publications on referred journals and books.

Publications

An Open Learning Format for Lifelong Learners' Empowerment

Open, lifelong, and ubiquitous learning, cloud computing, and smart city frameworks are the pillars of the change that is replacing the traditional education and work models and...

Integrated Paper-Based and Digital Learning Material for Smart Learners

Smart learners are lifelong learners whose potential is unleashed by the seamless use of smart technologies (i.e., smartphones, tablets, tablet PCs, sensor network nodes...

Ubiquitous Teachers' Training and Lessons Learned With the uProf! Model

This chapter illustrates features and outcomes of the experiences with uProf!, a model for teachers' professional training in ubiquitous learning by tablets and quick...

Sustainable Cloud Computing Frameworks for E-Government: Best Practices in Italian Municipalities

Computerizing the country is a priority for the Italian government, which has set up the Digital Agenda for innovation driven by information and communication technologies to...

An Open Learning Format for Lifelong Learners' Empowerment

Open, lifelong and ubiquitous learning, cloud computing and smart city frameworks are the pillars of the change that is replacing the traditional education and work models and...

Integrated Paper-Based and Digital Learning Material for Smart Learners

Ubiquitous Teachers' Training and Lessons Learned with the uProf! Model

This article illustrates features and outcomes of the experiences with uProf!, a model for teachers' professional training in ubiquitous learning by tablets and Quick...

Exploring the Social Semantic Web for Lifelong Learners

The Social Semantic Web, also referred to as Web 3.0, is the current net evolution, providing representation mechanisms that interconnect people and objects in an interoperable...

Lifelong Learning and Technology Revolution

Lifelong Learners and the Shift from Formal to Informal Learning

Learning Environments for 21st Century Adult Lifelong Learners

Theories and Definitions of Personalisation of Learning: An Overview

Implicit and Explicit Personalisation of Learning: Adaptive Mechanisms and Social Semantic Web Tools

Integration of Formal and Informal eLearning Environments

Needs analysis, Paradigm and Learning Strategies in the SSW4LL Format

Technological Architecture: the SSW4LL System

Organization, Evaluation and Assessment, and Recommendations for an Optimal Implementation of the SSW4LL Format

Sustainable Cloud Computing Frameworks for E-Government: Best Practices in Italian Municipalities

Computerizing the country is a priority for the Italian government, which has set up the Digital Agenda for innovation driven by information and communication technologies to...

Sustainable Cloud Computing Frameworks for E-Government: Best Practices in Italian Municipalities

Computerizing the country is a priority for the Italian government, which has set up the Digital Agenda for innovation driven by information and communication technologies to...

Synergic Integration of Formal and Informal E-Learning Environments for Adult Lifelong Learners

Recently, there has been an increased understanding that learning occurs outside of the traditional classroom setting, particularly for adult lifelong learners. This perspective...

Google Apps as a Cloud Computing Solution in Italian Municipalities: Technological Features and Implications

The Agenda Digitale Italiana, the strategic plan for the implementation of the Digital Agenda for Europe 2020 in Italy, aims to help citizens and businesses to get the most out...

PLE: A Brick in the Construction of a Lifelong Learning Society

Pedagogical Sustainability of Interoperable Formal and Informal Learning Environments

Nowadays interaction and networks appear to be crucial. The impact that new technologies have had in every field has flowed into a rethinking of knowledge, knowledge management...

PLE: A Brick in the Construction of a Lifelong Learning Society

The attainment of lifelong learning objectives is being mediated by a complex process of innovation in education and society, by the integration of institutional actions and by...