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Deadline extension -> new deadline: January 10, 2022
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Special Issue on
Smart Learning Ecosystems and Regional Development: toward the
'new normal'
to be published at the
Interaction Design and Architecture(s) Journal (IxD&A)
(ISSN 1826-9745, eISSN 2283-2998)
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Guest Editors:
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• Mihai Dascalu, University Politehnica of Bucharest
• Tania Di Mascio, Università de L’Aquila, Italy
• Óscar Mealha, University of Aveiro, Portugal
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Important dates:
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• Deadline: January 10, 2022 (extended)
• Notification to the authors: February 21, 2022
• Camera ready paper: March 10, 2022
• Publication of the special issue: to be defined
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Overview
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The guest editors are proud to invite and welcome contributions from
researchers and practitioners from all over the world involved in
the development of Smart Learning Ecosystems and Smart Education, as
engines of social innovation and territorial development. At the
core, the adjective smart comprises terms like intelligent, purpose
oriented, supportive, artful, clever and the like. Thus, smart does
not necessarily include the usage of technology (neither does it
exclude technology!).
The COVID-19 pandemic has been extremely challenging to address
several research contexts, suddenly the two dimensions that
characterises the smart learning ecosystems – physical and virtual –
started to be perceived somewhat as antithetical and it came out
that the e-maturity of a learning ecosystem is not sufficient to
explain and predict its transformation. Many factors concur –
processual, social, individual – to determine the technological
evolution of learning ecosystems and their smartness. For sure the
pandemic has generated a higher awareness about the intrinsic nature
of the smart learning ecosystems and it is likely that they will no
longer be the same after the pandemic. Papers that report on work
that nurtures a post-pandemic view and strategy for a better
learning world are specially welcome.
This special issue is supported by the Association for Smart
Learning Ecosystems and Regional Development (ASLERD) and welcome
the submission of substantially extended version of the papers
presented at SLERD 2021.
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Topics of Interest
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Topics of interests can be grouped under three big themes: places
for smart education, people in place centered design for smart
education, supportive learning technologies and tools for smart
education. All of which, can also include studies that nurtures a
post-pandemic view and strategy for a better learning world.
Places for smart education
future of institutional learning
interplay between formal and informal learning
new educational models and settings
continuity-discontinuity of time, technology, place/space, process
in learning
role of and case studies of games and gamification in smart
education
dual education and other alternate scheme approaches
monitoring and benchmarking of smartness (individual, institution,
city, region)
People in place centered design for smart education
general frameworks and methodological advancement
design, data and other relevant literacies
literacies, skill and competences of smart citizens
communities and co-design in smart learning
sharing & participatory practices
open access to any resource and disparity
cultural influences
Supportive technologies and tools for smart education
intelligent tutoring systems and interfaces
semantic web technologies and applications
text/opinion mining and sentiment analysis
real/virtual communities and social network analysis
interoperability and application of open/smart data and services
safety & security in education
IoT, ubiquitous and wearable technologies
adaptability to educational contexts and citizens
role of VR in education
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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: Smart Learning Ecosystems and Regional Development: toward the
'new normal' ")
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:
Smart Learning Ecosystems and Regional Development: toward the
'new normal'
• mihai [dot] dascalu [at] upb [dot] ro
• tania [dot] dimascio [at] univaq[dot] it
• oem [at] ua [dot] pt
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