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The LEAD project is about computer-mediated communication during face-to-face discussions within the existing school setting. The LEAD project aims at changing face-to-face interactions and it takes into account the social, cognitive and developmental processes that make a difference during this form of technology-enhanced learning.
 

News

Version 4.0 of CoFFEE available

25 november 2008
LEAD is happy to announce version 4.0 of CoFFEE, the last official version within the LEAD project.
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CoFFEE wins IBM Jazz award

21 november 2008
CoFFEE is one of only a few international winners of the 2008 IBM innovation award. IBM anounced on November 20th 2008 that it will award Prof. Vittorio Scarano and his ISIS lab team
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LEAD wins Italian Award

22 October 2008
The LEAD project has won its first prize – the Italian Aldo Fabris award for training. The prize was awarded to LEAD for both its pedagogical methodology and its technological achievement.
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Video

Coming up

CoFFEE with plugins!

Already in the oven, although not yet publicly available: CoFFEE plug-ins, additional tools made by 3rd parties in the open-source community. The infrastructure, a structured development environment, is being given the last polish. Vittorio Scarano spills the (CoFFEE) beans...

Recent publications

  • De Chiara, R., Di Matteo, A., Manno, I., Scarano, V. (2007), CoFFEE: Cooperative Face2Face Educational Environment, in Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Collaborative Computing: Networking, Applications and Worksharing (CollaborateCom 2007), New York, USA, November 12-15, 2007. more...
  • Grieco, R., Malandrino, D., Palmieri, G., Scarano, V. (2007), Face2Face social bookmarking with recommendations: WebQuests in the classrooms, in Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Collaborative Computing: Networking, Applications and Worksharing (CollaborateCom 2007), New York, USA, November 12-15, 2007. more...