Technological innovation and changes in the university : by edited by Antonio Calvani.

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Putting together all or many of these skills for new functions, essentially raises the issue of redefining and reorganizing the current approach to teaching, learning and research, via collaborative work relations in a new, and hopefully flexible, educational space. It is therefore clear that roles of this type will change, also in response to the typology of the user, in order to guarantee that the introduction of increasingly more innovative technologies takes place in a new and efficacious support for teachers and students.

Apart from being able to produce educational contents and activities, the educators must also be able to provide the necessary support required by the students, promote interaction, provide explanations and demonstrations, practical cases, feedback, challenges and encouragement, in the aim of promoting the student’s active participation process. For this reason pedagogical environments are necessary that support all the phases of delivering the educational contents and activities. The Hypermedia Learning Environments (HMLE) are considered as environments with a great potential for the promotion of learning that is accessible to everyone, and for acquiring specific skills like self-regulation, cognitive flexibility, and the capacity to solve problems and manage differentiated resources.

Information and Knowledge, intended as resources and people, are considered as the true capital that the virtual university is called on to manage, organize and prepare in order to make the education system available.