Abstract

New means of communication offer enormous potential for processes of social, didactic and technological innovation within the university system. We live in a liquid society in which information is ubiquitous, services are global and populations move constantly. In this context, where new learning forms are emerging, the role of the university must change. The University of Urbino improves organizationally its consolidated tradition of didactic services to students and teachers thanks to the institutionalization of CISDEL (Integrated Centre for University Didactic Services and E-Learning), which becomes an interesting case-study for the present contribution. CISDEL promotes an innovative didactic model which combines new contents and teaching/learning strategies with ICT through three different online platforms: elearning.uniurb.it, dedicated to distance learning; blended.uniurb.it, which adds new tools and learning modes to traditional didactics; and education.uniurb.it, which offers high education life-long learning courses.