Donatella Persico

Donatella Persico is research director at the Institute for Educational Technology of the National Research Council of Italy. She has been active in the field of educational technology since 1981. Her major research interests include learning design, e-learning, self-regulated learning, teacher training, game-based learning and learning analytics. She was research fellow at Bradford university, UK, in 1985 and at Exeter, UK, in 1986, visiting scholar at the Glasgow Caledonian Academy, UK, in 2013, and at the Universidade de Santiago e Compostela in 2018. She has been involved in several teacher training programmes as a lecturer in educational technology. She is author of educational material and scientific publications of various kinds, including books, educational software, multimedia material and research papers concerning various aspects of educational technology. She is editor of the Italian Journal of Educational Technology (formerly TD Tecnologie Didattiche), sits on the editorial or scientific board of international and national journals and conferences on Educational Technology and has a long standing experience in the management of national and international projects. She also sits on several editorial and professional boards and belongs to the “Collegio di dottorato” (PhD board) of the doctoral programme in Philosophy and Educational Sciences of the Ca’ Foscari university of Venice.