Antonio Vantaggiato

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Antonio Vantaggiato is Professor of Computer Science with Universidad del Sagrado Corazón. He studied Computer Engineering at the University of Rome “La Sapienza” (Italy) and later founded the first Artificial Intelligence lab in Puerto Rico with Johnson & Johnson’s sponsorship (1992). He has been directing the successful STEMmED project throughout 2008-2010, and since 2011 to the present, thereby contributing to a renaissance of science culture at USC, aiming to attract and retain students in the sciences. In 2000 he founded and directed the Distance Learning Institute until 2005, creating a Web-based education culture on campus which produced quality on-line courses and Web-based software. He founded the Puerto Rican Congress series on Web e-ducation. His group pioneered the adoption of Open Source Learning Management Systems in Puerto Rico. Dr. Vantaggiato was also President of the Puerto Rican Association of Distance Learning, 2007-2009. His current research interests are the educational changes triggered by Web technologies and the myths of teaching and learning. Such research is being aggregated in the project Zen Of Teaching website: http://zenofteaching.us, and was started while a Scholar-in-Residence with NYU’s Faculty Resource Network.

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Project Zen of Teaching, a research on the myths of teaching, learning & technology, begun while a Scholar-in-Residence at NYU, June 2011 & 2012. http://zenofteaching.us The mythology around the role of technology in society has had a profound impact on education. Language use shows how deeply-rooted beliefs still influence our pedagogy: For instance, while believing that constructivism is a winning pedagogy, we keep talking of 'delivering' classes and lectures, a clear connotation of our true behavioral bias on teaching, while we read in the media that students 'watch' online classes, and 'attend' face-to-face sessions. Such deep beliefs still mold our educational system, and impede the necessary reform that the Web 2.0 and new media revolution have triggered. At the same time, I focus on the revolution brought by the new media and the Web 2.0, and the new pedagogies that are emerging and discuss the best examples of innovative, concrete pr

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