The healthcare emergency has also made the Accademia di Brera find new innovative technological solutions in order not to compromise its training role.

Innovative training programmes that, once the crisis phase is over, will remain valuable and complementary resources to the essential real, tangibile and immanent relationship between students and the Accademia.

Thanks to the tutorial prepared by Bruno Aliprandi, the Chief Information Officer of the Accademia, you can get to grips with the basics and start using the Accademia’s B learning system.

SYLLABUS ECDL 5

TO BE READ THE FIRST TIME BEFORE STARTING

Welcome, before starting A brief introduction is required

As informal as possible
We have tried to be as “informal” as possibile in preparing these courses. IT is a boring topic and self-learning courses- slow and pedantic by nature- certainly do not help. It would also have been quite cumbersome to make you take a compulsory course, where, 80% of what was being taught, you probably would have already known. In short , an unpleasant situation however you looked at it. However, web tools are at hand. Over the last couple of years there has been a tendency to develop witty, upbeat training tutorials. Simple products that aim to be quicker and as less cumbersome as possible. That is how the idea of 4e48 came about:make it easier on poor students to tackle tough topics. We hope to have made some progress there.

Our objective is not to teach but to integrate skills you already have
Another thing to know is that the educational objectives of the course are not really to teach computer science, but to ensure that all students have the appropriate skills to cover the Syllabus ECDL 5.0 in modules 1.2 and 7 as set down by the European Union. The difference lies in the fact that you most certainly already have part of the required skills and our task is simply to check them and integrate them when there is a lack of know-how.

Theoretical web based courses: quizzes and Wikipedia cross-references
Within these Syllabus modules there is theoretical as well as practical knowledge. For theoretical know-how we proceed in this way:the quiz related to the Syllabus set questions. If you answer correctly, you move on to the next question. If, however, you answer incorrectly, it proposes the Wikipedia link where the concept is explained. Once you have repeated the quiz, no longer making any mistakes, you know the subject matter at hand.

Practical web based Courses: focus entirely on things you don’t know how to do
For “practical expertise” it is slightly more difficult.For “practical expertise” it is slightly more difficult.
Practical expertise means knowing how to do an operation on a program inside an operating system. And that means, therefore, a truly infinite number of variations. We chose a version of Explorer, one of Windows, one of Word and so on. We knew this would not be to your liking but there was no other choice: we could not produce 20 different yet extremely similar tutorials just to be politically correct!
The tutorials work like this: a video shows you how to do a given operation (for example to copy and paste) then using a clickable screen you have to reproduce the steps. Here the limitation is immediately obvious: in Windows there are at least three different ways to do the same operation but the course accepts only one. To do otherwise would have meant making everything nine times longer and much more complicated. And at the end of the day our mission is  that you know at least one way.
And finally, on top of that, as if the previous objections were not enough, any operating system becomes obsolete in a few years. The course was done using Microsoft Vista, the most common system at the time of creating the tutorials, but which already be out of date in a year’s time.
How should you approach the practical tutorials?
The answer is simple: focus entirely on things you don’t know how to do!
 If you are able to use the copy and paste function on your operating system in one of three possible ways, then that really is enough, it is not necessary to know how to do so in the way we explain using Microsoft Vista.