Paolo Tosolini

Interview

• "On line learning" (Milan, 04/10/1999 )

Biography

Born in Bergamo and a graduate in International Political science from the University of Trieste, since 1998 Paolo Tosolini has been Web Marketing Manager at Asymetrix Learning Systems, Inc., a leading provider of enterprise online learning solutions designed to enable organisations to more effectively capture and deploy knowledge as a competitive advantage. Tosolini has worked for Asymetrix for some years.

From 1996 to 1998 he was International Product Marketing Manager. Among his major achievements he introduced RealNetworks G2 streaming video technology in product demonstrations and corporate Web sites and managed Asymetrix's advertising campaign on Netscape Netcenter, Lycos and AltaVista.

He also managed the redesign of the new corporate intranet and external site and developed ToolBook II Assistant 7 trial CD, a key sales tool distributed by Asymetrix worldwide. Project Manager of ToolBook II Instructor 6.0, Assistant 6.0, CBT Systems Edition and corporate promotional CDs, he also managed the beta program for ToolBook II Instructor 6.0.

He developed a corporate marketing intranet and the Asymetrix Italy Web site and has participated in numerous conferences and projects in Italy and abroad. He worked in South Africa at the Intec College of Cape Town on the hypermedia courseware prototype to be distributed over the Web; in the United States he developed technical specifications for hypermedia kiosks that were remotely modifiable through the Internet and one of the first Windows authoring applications to create 360 degree panoramic views.

In 1992 in C&C Research Laboratories NEC Corporation in Tokyo he was involved in research on multimedia/graphical user interfaces and developed a virtual tour of a downtown Tokyo area using a time based proprietary authoring system by NEC. In Italy in 1995 he worked at the Department of Italian Studies at the University of Trieste and developed online learning modules to teach palaeography over the Internet

In 1994 at the Computing Centre of the University of Trieste he pioneered the development of technical specifications for distributing multimedia ToolBook applications over the Web.

In 1993, at the Department of Linguistics at the University of Bologna he developed a gesture based interface for the disabled, a project granted by the Italian National Research Council (CNR).