Università di Torino
Consulting for the design and development of the Klips project, an information system for academic didactics in University. The consulting has been organized in several 3-4 days sessions with on-site coachingFrom the Klips site:
Klips is the Academic IT system of the Turin Faculty of Economics. The aim of the project is to provide students with their own IT-based personal facilities for study, communication and collaboration.
Entirely accessible via web, Klips is for the use of both the students and teaching staff of the Faculty and offers a range of different functions:
- it enables lecturers to manage the teaching activities of their courses, using the calendar, and make materials available to their students, including the option of providing specific materials linked to individual lectures
- it enables students to access information and materials regarding the various courses, manage and organise their studies, and interact with teaching staff and other students.
Launched in October 2004, Klips currently hosts around 280 courses held in the various Faculty campuses. It is accessible to all Faculty teaching staff and over 11,000 students. For the duration of the project new functions are set to be added, and in the future Klips is destined to gather together a number of different IT services currently provided by other systems.
Klips was created by LIASES (the “Giorgio Rota” Applied IT Laboratory for Economic and Social Sciences) of the Università degli Studi di Torino, which guarantees its development and updates.
The project
Setting up Klips is part of the project “An integrated study and communications environment for teaching staff and students” (A757-36-2004-0), presented by LIASES in 2003 in the context of the Regional Directive for Building on Professional Degrees. The project was approved and received funding from Regione Piemonte.
The project also aims to prepare students for the entering the world of work, providing them with professional skills with regards to the methods and tools for computer-based interpersonal communications.
The accent is on methods and tools for the purposes of creating a
study network, communications and interactions between teaching staff
and students in the academic environment, as well as IT tools used for
collaboration between students during the course of their education.
(C) 2003-2006 LIASES - Università di Torino
