From E-learning to Mobile Learning: New Opportunities

Abstract

This chapter focuses on an experience of blended learning that is still ongoing for the training of managers of Technological Transfer (TT), who work in an Italian Scientifi c Technological Park (STP). Their main activity is linked to tech-nological transfer. In the STP the technological transfer manager is the key fi gure in the management of the transmission of scientifi c knowledge from the research world to the industrial dimension. The aim of this project is to conduct an experiment in a “Training course for the TT manager ” in order to satisfy their training needs. The course is based on a blended learning model, with the use of combined traditional educational methodologies: (1) e-learning methodologies and face to face and (2) m-learning methodologies and face to face. This chapter will focus on the blended m-learning experience.