Vittorio Midoro

Interview

• "Going to school with a computer" (Rome, 9-11-1997)

Biography

Born 19 January 1948, Vittorio Midoro (midoro@itd.ge.cnr.it) ) lives and works in Genoa, where he graduated in engineering in 1772. He is a senior research fellow at the Istituto Tecnologie Didattiche (CNR) (http://paradiso.itd.ge.cnr.it ). He has been working in the field of educational technology since 1974 and has contributed to the definition and development of the field in Italy and internationally.

He has been responsible for numerous research projects into both methodological issues (definition of methodologies, prototypes and tools for courseware production, the definition of project methodology in the field of environmental education etc.) and theory (use of Petri Nets in courseware production and applications of Pask's conversation theory to instructional processes).

His research interests include educational technology, environmental education and technical education, cognitive science and education, multimedia systems for learning and information, artificial intelligence and education, the methodology and instruments for the development of learning systems, educational evaluation and the instruments for information technology education.

He is currently responsible for the LABNET project, aimed at developing a network of environmental education laboratories. He is the editor of the review "TD", the Italian review of educational technology (http://paradiso.itd.ge.cnr.it/td/td_fr.htm ). From 1982-1985, he was the Italian representative for the UNESCO "New Technologies in Education" project.

Vittorio Midoro is a member of several scientific and publishing councils, including the Consiglio Scientifico dell'Istituto Tecnologie Didattiche, Genoa, the Editorial Board of the international review "International Journal of Structural Learning", Gordon and Breach Science Publishers, N.Y., London, Paris; the Executive Committee of the company AI-ED (Artificial Intelligence and Education); and the Association for Educational and Training Technology (AETT). He is also the Italian representative to the TC3 group of the international association IFIP and of the European Expert Network (EENET), a network of leading experts in technical education in Europe.

He has been a consultant on the planning of training systems and multimedia educational material for a number of companies, including IBM, UNISYS, Hewlett Packard, SEI, RAI, ANCIFAP, LEGA delle Cooperative, and the Regione Liguria. In 1984 he was awarded the "1984 Informatics Award" (Cilea/Sperry-Univac) for his contribution to the field of applied information technology education.