Ivana Fratter, PhD in Linguistics, is Lecturer of Italian at the University of Padua. She has over 25 years’ of classroom experience as teacher of Italian as second language and experience in online distance education and mobile language learning.
Her current areas of interest and research include the use of emerging technologies in the teaching and learning of foreign language (MALL, CMC, MOOCS), he is particularly interested in design-based research, learner needs and development of soft skills.