Abstract:

The moment we find ourselves writing this paper, is a time strongly marked by a worldwide crisis due to the pandemic caused by the corona virus. Even university teaching itself has been completely overwhelmed and perhaps, for the first time, we have had to radically change the lessons in attendance in order to create learning activities that could be followed in an exclusively e-learning way. A new challenge to which our General Didactics course, both in presence and in blended mode, has tried to face by rethinking every didactic proposal, designed to be able to activate a constant interaction with and among students.

The steps followed by all the professors of the degree course in Primary Education Sciences at the University of Milan Bicocca included: an initial training in the use of the platform and their resources, a subsequent moment of individual experimentation and discussion with colleagues, and finally a moment of evaluation. From the beginning the need was that they should not be long and only verbal lessons, but individual "pills" that developed the topics in a defined way. Each pill had to be accompanied by an operational proposal that included not only the response of the individual, but the activation of a discussion between the various students.

This contribution contains a reflection on university teaching, especially on the production of individual activities related to contents, the use of forums, chats and repositories. In summary, it wants to propose a cross-section of the evolution of the course itself, still in progress, tabulating the participation data of the students themselves and the training methods they have chosen.

Keywords:

Teaching, learning, university, e-learning.