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Extended Deadline is approaching: September 27, 2020
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Special Issue on
Learning and learning ecosystems in the time of Covid-19
to be published at the
Interaction Design and Architecture(s) Journal (IxD&A)
(ISSN 1826-9745, eISSN 2283-2998)
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Important dates:
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• Deadline: September 27, 2020
• Notification to the authors: November 10, 2020
• Camera ready paper: November 20, 2020
• Publication of the special issue: end of November, 2020
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Overview
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The shock caused by the pandemic on learning processes all around
the world has no equal in the history of education. During previous
pandemics the application of the social distancing has already led
to the closure of schools but it was not possible to even imagine
the continuation of teaching activities as it is happening in the
present days, albeit within a virtual dimension.
On average, in less than two weeks after the lock down all the
actors of the educational processes - students, teachers and
families - have been forced to use technologies that many of them
would have never considered before as relevant for learning. In a
short time, educational technologies that have always struggled to
establish themselves as a significant support to the learning
processes have become the standard. A so abrupt transition from
physical to virtual has contributed to amplify the regret for the
many opportunities lost in the past by several national and
supranational educational systems in supporting and coordinating the
development of technologies that could have generated a significant
impact on the learning ecosystems. At the same time it has emerged
the critical state of the tertiary education that has not been able
to renew in depth pedagogical and didactic approaches to educate
present and future teachers to significantly integrate technologies
into traditional educational processes. Nonetheless, thanks to the
many environments derived from the domain of the collaborative work,
to the vast plethora of apps considered in the past as niche
products, to the good will of many teachers, to a constant learning
by doing (that in many cases has become a continuous field
experimentation) schools and universities are accompanying their
students towards the end of the school/academic year.
This special issue aims at gathering the most significant studies
and experiences that have been carried on during the pandemic period
to make sure that at least a part of such body of knowledge will
not be completely lost. We need them, and we need to reflect on
them, hoping that they could guide us in the development of a new
way of thinking about learning ecosystems and, more in general,
about educational processes.
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Topics of Interest
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The indicative list of topics of interest for this special issue
devoted to 'Learning and learning ecosystems in the time of
Covid-19' includes, but is not limited to:
• Research and case studies on organizational aspects
• Research and case studies on didactic aspects
• Research and case studies on monitoring and evaluation aspects and
strategies
• Research and case studies on the unconventional use of
conventional technologies, or on the use of unconventional
technologies to support educational processes
• Research and case studies on the functional rethinking of physical
or phygital places for learning
• Research and case studies on the transformation of learning
ecosystems and of the perceptions' of the main actors of the
learning processes.
• Future visions
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Submission guidelines and procedure
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All submissions (abstracts and later final manuscripts) must be
original and may not be under review by another publication.
The manuscripts should be submitted either in .doc or in
.rtf format.
All papers will be blindly peer-reviewed by at least two reviewers.
Authors are invited to submit 8-20 pages paper (including authors'
information, abstract, all tables, figures, references, etc.).
The paper should be written according to the IxD&A
authors' guidelines
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Authors' guidelines
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Link to the paper submission page:
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(Please upload all submissions using the Submission page.
When submitting the paper, please, choose the section:
"SI: Learning and learning ecosystems in the time of Covid-19")
More information on the submission procedure and on
the characteristics
of the paper format can be found on the website of the
IxD&A Journal
where information on the copyright policy and responsibility
of authors,
publication ethics and malpractice are published.
For scientific advice and queries, please contact the IxD&A
scientific editor marking the subject as:
Learning and learning ecosystems in the time of Covid-19
• carlo [dot] giovannella [at] uniroma2 [dot] it
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Forthcoming issues:
http://ixdea.uniroma2.it/inevent/events/idea2010/index.php?s=102
• Autumn 2020
focus section on
'Augmenting Space:
The role of
immersive
technologies in
future cities'
Guest editors:
Callum Parker,
Soojeong Yoo,
Waldemar Jenek,
Youngho Lee
• Winter 2020
'Tools,
Pedagogical and
Ludic Strategies,
Co-Design
supporting Smart
Learning
Ecosystems and
Smart Education'
Guest editors:
Oscar Mealha,
Traian Rebedea,
Matthias Rehm
• Springer 2021
'Collaborative
multimedia
applications in
technology'
Guest editors:
César A. Collazos,
Sandra Cano,
Freddy Paz, Habib
Fardoun
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