The “pollicina” project: a social learning management system in the cultural heritage domain.

The Pollicina project is aimed at defining a collaborative coordinated learning environment called Educational Social Network (EduSN) which allows to create knowledge itineraries in the cultural heritage domain (museums, churches, archaeological sites, etc.). The adopted approach is the flipped learning paradigm according to which the contents are proposed and articulated through interactive channels and the students elaborated them in a collaborative way. The goal of EduSN is to provide a learning environment where the social aspects (e.g. collaborating, networking and information sharing capabilities) become central for all the activities to improve the practices of learning. Students will be involved in problem solving activities: given a topic from the teacher, the students will be logically grouped for creating personalized itineraries in preparation to cultural heritage visits. This paper presents the “Data Filling” service aimed at bringing the students closer to cultural heritage. This service is the first service of the Pollicina project. The students are organized within editorial committees, where each student reviews the work of peers. The proposed editorial process is supported by a novel workflow for managing the steps of the editorial process with a focus on the collaborative aspects. The interactions among peers are monitored by the teacher and the work is assessed by a team of cultural heritage experts one for each cultural institution belonging to the Pollicina project. The Pollicina project is supported by the Regional Operational Program of the European Fund for Regional Development 2014 -2020 (POR FESR 2014-2020).