Online exams organization increased during the Covid-2019 pandemic. E-proctoring tools represented one of the systems used to take tests and monitor students’ behaviour and integrity. Previous studies on the theme analysed the ease, technical issues and reliability of the system, students’ academic results and digital skills in using online tools, effect of proctored testing on anxiety and performances. The paper presents the results of the questionnaire administered to 541 students at University of Modena and Reggio Emilia to define how the use of e-proctoring systems for exams affects students’ perceptions about their performances and teachers’ role and impacts on concentration, attention, time management, anxiety, understanding, and motivation. The sample was predominantly divided into two equivalent groups in the answers: students who found positive elements in the experience, and students who saw the anxiety worsening using Smowl; students who were ready to use this tool with or without teachers also in the future, and students who found worrying the distance from the teacher. The exception to these results is students in Digital Education course degree who demonstrate greater confidence in proctored testing. The inquiry underlines teachers’ necessity to accurately design the exams and communicate with students in all teaching moments (include assessment).

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In recent years, due to technological advancement, research has been directed to the development and analysis of resources and tools related to educational robotics with particular attention to the field of special needs and training actions aimed at learners, teachers, professionals, and families. The use of robotics in all levels of education can support the development of logical and computational thinking, interaction, communication, and socialization, and the acquisition of particularly complex work practices, for example, in the medical field. The adoption of successful educational robotics training practices can be a potential tool to support rehabilitation interventions for disabilities and comprehensive training for students or future professionals in healthcare. A scoping review was conducted on the main topics “education” AND “robotics” with three specific focuses on complementary themes in educational research about ER: (1) teaching and computational thinking, (2) training in the health sector, and (3) education and special needs. The authors systematically searched two online databases, Scopus and Web of Science, up to April 2022. A total of 164 articles were evaluated, and 59 articles were analyzed, in a particular way N = 33 related to computational thinking, N = 15 related to e-health, and N = 11 related to special needs. The following four questions guided our research: (1) What are the educational and experimental experiences conducted through robotics in transdisciplinary fields? (2) What tools and resources are most used in such experiments (educational robotics kit, humanoid robots, telepresence robots etc.)? (3) What are the constitutive elements of the experiments and studies involving robotics and health in educational contexts? and (4) What are those explicitly related to students with special needs? In this study, part of the research project “Robotics and E-health: new Challenges for Education” (RECE) activated at the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia. RECE aims to investigate the training, educational, cognitive, and legal processes induced by the increasing diffusion of educational robotics and telemedicine in clinical and surgical contexts.

MEDINA -Mediterranean network for the valorization and fruition of inscriptions preserved in museums is a two years lasting project, funded by the European Union with the ENPI -CBC Med programme, aimed at promoting the Ancient Near East Cultural Heritage, in particular of Lebanon and Jordan. In order to enhance awareness of this often unjustly neglected cultural heritage, both in the local and in the international community, MEDINA intends to increase knowledge exchanges among institutions of the Mediterranean basin and to encourage the use of innovative digital technologies for its communication to the young generations and the general public.In this view, relevant archaeological and epigraphic collections related to the Phoenician, the Nabataean and the South-Arabian civilizations, preserved into the National Museum of Beirut, the Museum of Jordanian Heritage of the Yarmouk University and the Museo Nazionale d'Arte Orientale "Giuseppe Tucci" in Rome were selected. Inscriptions and archaeological objects, have been catalogued by using a relational database, developed within the ERC funded project DASI, to digitize pre-Islamic Arabian inscriptions. This ready-to-use system is provided with a specific module for the transcription and the XML encoding of the inscriptions, compliant with EpiDoc recommendations, and is used by several research groups and institutions. MEDINA is thus allowed to get involved into a large and continuously expanding community, that helps sharing knowledge and competences.Whereas DASI will continue to work as digitization database for scholars, curators and conservation specialists, a further step is needed to better explain to the general public the multiple and stratified meanings of the collections involved into the project and to engage young people. Among the many models of virtual museums and online exhibitions that are becoming even more common in museums, libraries, archives, education and cultural institutions, that borrowed from the world of the digital libraries, combined with virtual tours of the physical displaying rooms, has been chosen.The materials digitized will be made accessible to the general public through the MEDINA Digital Library. DASI will interact with an OAI-PMH repository, which in turn will be provided with a user interface aimed at entering metadata and resources, searching and browsing the repository content. Metadata from DASI will be mapped into standards suitable for works of art, material culture and related visual documentation description, namely CDWA Lite in addition to Dublin Core. Omeka, a free and open source web publisher platform, launched by the George Mason University, Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media, is the most suitable digital library management system according to the objectives of MEDINA. A easy-to-use and open source software is required to allow even to small museums, lacking of considerable financial and human resources, to build and manage digital collections.Users will be enabled to browse single items and permanent co...