Cognitive artifacts in the didactic design: the role of visual communication in higher education. From cinema for teaching to video pedagogy. An experimental research in university teaching

This research project comes from the need - and from the attempt - to reflect, in a global sense, on formative practices and their prototypes, lastly focusing on the consequences, not always unequivocal, that one and the other have towards behaviours and learning. The specific aim of this research is to analyse the main epistemological paradigms that guide university professors in the use of cognitive artifacts, paying particular attention to audiovisual and multimedia resources (going from a multimedia presentation to a web conference). These resources are by now increasingly fully or partially used in substitution or/and as integration of lectures and teachings. The objective of this experimental research is to control with rigorous procedures the effects of the teaching innovation described.