The Campus Satellitare del Salento: a scalable and transparent e-learning application

The CSS (Campus Satellitare del Salento) is an e-learning application developed by the University of Lecce (in Italy) that integrates live, interactive and on-demand services over not only the Internet but also the satellite infrastructure. This paper presents the CSS realized as a solution to face the problem of guiding large classrooms of students and of developing didactic models very transparent like traditional ones. As such, CSS gains scalability making use of a satellite data network and of a remote monitoring tool. Moreover, transparency is obtained using screen-recording and open learning environment in which the learning material (multimedia data) is organized into an easy and a modular structure. Even though these solutions have been adopted to solve a local problem, it seems to have a wide range of potential implementations.