The ‘Sophisticated’ Knowledge of e-Teacher. Re-shape Digital Resources for Online Courses

The following exploratory study aims to investigate the e-teacher’s adaptation of multimedia teaching materials and deepen how the specific disciplinary contents have been digitally mediated to promote students’ learning. It took place structuring a single case-study through the Yin’s procedures for multiple-case-study protocol: definition of the units of analysis, selection of the comparable ‘entities’, data analysis and triangulation. This method allows to analyze qualitative and quantitative data regarding the digital contents of the on- line course ‘General Didactics and Educational Technologies’ in the degree L-19 ‘Sciences of Education’ at Giustino Fortunato University of Benevento. The opening analysis presented has been carried out on the visual material setting three ‘units of analysis’: content; disciplinary content; digitalized disciplinary content. The results allow to obtain information about the process of ‘mediatization’, realized by the e-teacher, and guidance information for the study on the effectiveness of the digitized disciplinary contents used and on the effect they have on learnings of students.