Claudio Dondi

Biography

Claudio Dondi, born in Modena in 1958 and an industrial economist as a university background, is the President of SCIENTER – a non-profit research organisation based in Bologna and active Europe-wide in the field of innovation of education and training systems – since its establishment in 1988. In this position his main activities are the co-ordination of large national and European projects, as well as policy advice and evaluation at regional, national and international level. His other positions include: Member of the Board of the MENON EEIG (enabling eLearning) in Brussels, Member of the Editorial Board of the European Journal of ODL, President of EFQUEL – the European Foundation for Quality in eLearning

Publications

  
• C. Dondi, “MARKET DEVELOPMENT, PRACTICES AND POLICIES”, World Education Market Conference, Lisbon, 20-23 May 2003.
• C. Dondi, “ICT in Adult and non-Formal Learning in Europe”, OECD/NCAL International Roundtable, Philadelphia – Pennsylvania, 12-14 November 2003.
• C. Dondi, The introduction of VLE in a conventional university contexts: an institutional perspective, in Barajas, M. (Ed., 2003): Virtual Learning Environments in Higher Education: A European View. Barcelona, Publicacions de la Universitat de Barcelona.
• C. Dondi, THE APPROACH OF ITALIAN UNIVERSITIES TO ICT FOR TEACHING AND LEARNING: CONTEXTUAL ELEMENTS, ACHIEVEMENTS AND FUTURE PROSPECTS, in Van der Wend, M. and ven de Ven, M. (Eds., 2003), The Use of ICT in Higher Education. Utrecht, Lemma Publishers.
• C. Dondi “L-CHANGE - EUROPEAN OBSERVATORY ON IST RELATED CHANGE IN LEARNING SYSTEMS”, Asia-Europe Institute University Malaya, Kuala Lampur, April 2003.
• C.Dondi and M. Moretti, TEACHER TRAINING in Handbook on Information Technologies for education and training - Springer-Verlag Berlin- Heildelberg, 2002.
• C. Dondi, E.Mancinelli, Human Interaction as a key success factor in e-Learning systems, EBTN Conference proceedings, 3-5 October 2001, Rome – Italy.
• C. Dondi, An overview of European policies to support ODL and eLearning, September 2001.
• C. Dondi (2001) ICT – Supported Innovation In Regional Training Systems, AGORA, 15-16 March 2001, Thessaloniki, Greece.
• C. Dondi, Maybe learning at home, but not alone: how ict can support the building of learning communities, 21-23 March 2001, Eskilstuna – Sweden.