Hybrid mediation to faculty developers: didactic and organisational intersections in the TLC Uniba

The growing use of technologies in university teaching represents a strong factor of change in the context of higher education thanks to more flexible and accessible virtual spaces. The research specifically investigates the experience of Distance Learning, to bring out the changes in teaching practice, paying particular attention to didactic mediation and evaluation,. In order to facilitate the actions of change and innovation in higher education, universities usually target one or more figures acting as manager of Faculty Development actions and programs [11]: these are the faculty developers, "agents of change" [12] and promoters of the improvement of didactics within the departments. They act within the Teacher and Learning Centers (TLC) and are involved in processes of negotiation, construction and tuning of knowledge, skills and identity with the organisational context. The University of Bari structured, in 2021/2022, a curricular training model for faculty. This contribution presents the peculiar features of the experience.