Instilling Digital Competencies Through Educational Robotics (Advances in Educational Technologies and Instructional Design)

Educational robotics is a new teaching technology that aims to provide an interactive, creative, and innovative learning environment in which children can use robotics to investigate subjects such as physics and mathematics. Instructive, creative, and inspirational, this technology provides a number of benefits to education. In order to appropriately utilize this technology, further study on the opportunities and challenges of its successful integration into the classroom is required. Instilling Digital Competencies Through Educational Robotics outlines the new work culture and training guidelines emerging from innovative educational robotics practices present in the new educational and training ecosystem. The text also provides guidelines to prepare younger generations to handle new human and technology paradigms as well as acquire effective working capability for Industry 4.0 and digital transformation scenarios. Covering topics such as working culture, digital skills, and STEM education, this reference work is essential for instructional designers, educational software specialists, academicians, administrators, managers, scholars, practitioners, researchers, instructors, and students.

Ezio Fregnan is Comau’s Academy Director, for which he coordinates worldwide innovative training programs for executives, professionals, and young talents. He was also Comau's Human Resources Training Director, for which he managed company training processes in 12 different countries around the world. He was also member of the FCA Global Training Committee, Coordinator of the FCA Global Manufacturing Training Community, Fregnan is an expert and Executive PHD Researcher on Work Organizational Psychology, Organizational behaviors, Change Management, Train the Trainers, Instructional Design, Educational Robotics, Industry 4.0 and Digital Transformation. He is also a member of General Counsel of Confindustria Innovative & Technology Services. Affiliate Professor at Catholic University of Milan and ESCP Europe Business School of London, he is the coordinator of many specializing and executive master’s degree programs, focused on Industrial Automation, Digital Transformation, and Innovation & Technology Management. Currently, he is attending an Executive Phd on Work Organization Psychology. Ezio Fregnan is author of numerous publications, including: “Gestire la formazione in una grande azienda”, Guerini e Associati, 2006; “Project and People Management: an operational toolbox”, Mc Graw Hill, 2011 published globally in Italian, English and Chinese; “Managing Challenges Across Cultures” Mc Graw Hill 2015 published globally in English and Chinese; “Giovani, Università e Azienda: il Nuovo Perimetro Formativo”, Pearson 2018.

Donatella Pinto is co-founder and Senior Partner of Arca Partners, an Advisory Company specialized in manufacturing related activities. Donatella is also lecturer at the Catholic University of Milan of the Work Psychology and Smart Working Course within the Master of Science Innovation & Technology Management since 2018. She is the author of the books '' Learning Agility 4.0 – Ecosystems and Cultural Transformation '', “Young people, universities and companies: the new training perimeter” and “Project and People Management – An operational guide. The Comau experience in the world”. She carried out her career in the Stellantis Group (formerly FCA) holding various positions in the field of human resources, dealing with various projects of Change Management, Merger & Acquisitions and Development of Strategic Plans, to support the business. In FCA she covered several roles of Human Resources Business Partner: Fidis S.p.A. Group, Consumer Services Business Unit, Alfa Romeo Business Unit and Commercial Operations area. From January 2007/ December 2020 Donatella has been Chief Human Resources at Comau (Automation Systems Company part of FCA) and since October 2019 to May 2021 held simultaneously the position of Head of Global Learning at FCA. Then, always in Comau, Donatella has been Consultancy and Education Business Unit Leader from January 2021 to December 2021.

Giuseppe Scaratti is Full Professor of Work and Organizational Psychology at the Department of Human and social sciences, University of Bergamo, Italy. His research interests include the study of knowing, learning and change in organizations; reflexivity in organizations; qualitative methodologies for the study of organizational life; evaluation and assessment of complex and transformative actions. He is Past Coordinator of the Italian Psychology Association – Section: Organizational Psychology (AIP), associated with EAWOP (European Association of Work and Organizational Psychology), from 2009 to 2013. He has taught Work and Organizational Psychology (English course in Master of Science in Management, Faculty of Economics, Catholic University of Milan), and Smart working and organizational psychology (English course in Master of Science in Innovative Technology Management, Catholic University of Milan) in the past years. Prof. Scaratti has published numerous articles and chapters, published in Management Learning, Qualitative Inquiry, Social Responsibility Journal, Journal of Workplace Learning, Qualitative Research in Organizations and Management: An International Journal, Journal of Business and Technical Communication, Journal of Health Organization and Management, Learning, Culture and Social Interaction, Journal of Management Inquiry, Human Relations, British Journal of Management. He is also a founding member of Digital KBC (Knowledge Boundaries Crossing) and of the CREIAMO (Center of Research, Education, Innovation, Action Managerial and Organizational).