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Learning Between Real and Virtual. Narrative and Cognitive Elaborations of University Teaching

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Cognitive styles express the preferential way of engaging personal resources in learning processes and represent one of the most important predictors of success in academic paths. The mental representations of university students related distance and presence learning are in some way related to these styles, which orient personal dispositions towards one or another mode of teaching organization. The present research work explores these representations and identifies the variables that students take as a reference point to establish the personal meaning attributed to the experiences of learning in presence and at at distance.

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    [Cognitive Style] Cognitive style “is not a skill, but rather a preferred way of using a skill. The distinction between style and skill is crucial. A skill refers to the degree of skill with which a person can do something. A style refers to the way a person likes to do something” Sternberg, R. Teorie dell’intelligenza. Una teoria tripolare dell’intelligenza umana, Bompiani, Milano (1987), p. 24 [19] (Translated by Author).

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Piccinno, M. (2021). Learning Between Real and Virtual. Narrative and Cognitive Elaborations of University Teaching. In: Agrati, L.S., et al. Bridges and Mediation in Higher Distance Education. HELMeTO 2020. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 1344. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-67435-9_10

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