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Innovative Education and
Multimedia Communication Lab
at Politecnico di Milano, Italy

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multidisciplinary multitalented multimedia

HOC-LAB is a laboratory at the Department of Electronics, Information and Bioengineering of the Politecnico di Milano.
Founded in 1997, it is characterized by a multidisciplinary approach to multimedia communication.
The main application field is education.

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PoliCollege

PoliCollege offers high school students (11th and 12th grades) short higher education level online courses on STEM subjects, held by professors of the Politecnico di Milano.

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PoliCultura

PoliCultura is a digital storytelling competition, open to schools of all levels. It has been active non-stop since 2006.

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EVOLI

EVOLI is a video-annotation tool to support the hybrid and flexible instructional model. It allows students to insert feedback linked to a specific time instant in the video and teachers to analyze the progress of the lesson through customized dashboards to maximize the educational process.

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DOL (Diploma On Line)

DOL is a first and second level master of the Politecnico di Milano, aimed at teachers on the job. The focus is on how to infuse technologies into the classroom, in a meaningful way.

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TalkyTutor

TalkyTutors are chatbots that support learners, helping them to go through the items of an online course. The underlying innovative technology (aCHAT) allows to build customized pathways of items and also to customize the conversation.

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Base 5G

Base 5G is a project promoted by the Lombardy Region (Italy) to bring Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality, enhanced by 5G, into the classroom (from pre-school to high-school).