Calvino, il Barone e il Metaverso

A partire da un recente caso studio riguardante la resa virtuale di un celebre romanzo italiano, l’articolo si propone di dimostrare come e quanto le tecnologie digitali, con particolare riferimento al Metaverso e alle nuove frontiere del game based learning, possano modificare procedure consolidate nelle discipline umanistiche, quali ad esempio la lettura di un libro o più in generale la fruizione di contenuti letterati; con ricadute significative in ambito educativo-didattico ma non solo. N...

Nonparametric efficiency and artificial intelligence techniques in higher education: a systematic literature review and bibliometric analysis

In a sector that needs to work as efficient as possible, artificial intelligence (AI) can guide the efficiency improvements of higher education institutions (HEIs). This paper explores both the AI literature and the efficiency literature as applied to HEIs following the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Review guidelines. The goal is to identify the relevant research that uses nonparametric efficiency and AI techniques within the HEI sector by examining articles published up to March 2...

Pensare l'infinito. A partire da Questioni cartesiane III di J.-L. Marion

Corruption and its relatives: facing the relationship between economic health and quality of government

The prevailing orientation in the existing literature on corruption is on its consequences for the socioeconomic dimensions, on a national basis. Using a promising proxy for quality of government (QoG) with substantial potential for further research, we examine the relationship between gross domestic product (GDP) per capita and QoG across 198 European regions from 2009–2022. We enrich the relatively sparse but relevant body of literature on this issue by testing and demonstrating that the re...