/Apologies for unintended cross-mailing/ ========================================================= *9th International Conference on Smart Learning Ecosystems and Regional Development** * *2024:**LOOKING FOR TRACES OF THE FUTURE IN THE PRESENT: SUPPORTING WELL-BEING GROWTH FOR ALL* *June 27-28, 2024* /*Troyes, France (hybrid)*/ slerd.org <https://www.slerd.org/> Contacts: 1st: ines [dot] di_loreto [at] utt [dot] fr 2nd: aslerd [dot] org [at] gmail [dot] com ========================================================= *DEADLINE EXTENSION -> April 5th 2024* (new hard deadline) call for papers <https://www.slerd.org/call-for-papers/> ========================================================= SLERD 2024 Keynotes: - *Élise Lavoué* (Jean Moulin Lyon 3 University) TAILORED GAMIFICATION FOR LEARNER ENGAGEMENT AND MOTIVATION - *Carmel Cefai *(University of Malta) A SYSTEMIC, WHOLE-SCHOOL APPROACH TO WELL-BEING - *Isabella Chiodi *(ISF) PROJECT ITac@ – IT ACADEMY FOR WOMEN 18-50 : challenges and preliminary results /*5th edition of the **Student Scientific Design Contest *-> link <https://www.slerd.org/contest/> (first deadline for proposals submissions: April 15th) / /*Open debates*/ on*/Artificial Intelligence and (human) Learning /*/-> link <https://www.slerd.org/programme/online-open-debate/>/ ============================================================= To keep updated join the ASLERD LinkedIn page -> link <https://www.linkedin.com/groups/5103530/> Facebook page -> link <https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100063631144119> *========================================================= * *SLERD 2024* is organized by /*Université de Technologie de Troyes* /in collaboration with /ASLERD//./ * * /*Short Intro*/ After the shock of the pandemic, learning ecosystems – and in particular schools, universities, and territorial learning communities – all over the world – are facing a new phase characterized by the search for and the experimentation of ways to their “*new normality*“. This is within a world that seeks to protect at best and incentivize the economic recovery that although relevant is still subjected to enormous risks. Among the main areas on which most of the industrialized countries and Europe are focusing on, there are: the transitions towards a green and circular economy, smart digitization of the production processes, social innovation, active citizen participation supported by technologies, and, finally, the education for all. In such a context,*collaboration*is emerging as an approach and an attitude of considerable relevance that stays also at the basis of the polyphonic construction of the future of learning ecosystems. Alongside/collaboration/, on the technological side, it continues to rise the relevance of intelligent systems, generically collected under the label of*Artificial Intelligence*(AI); concurrently, on the pedagogical side,*competences*have become the goal of future education, also in the attempt to close the skill gap, which represents one of the greatest dangers for the transition towards smarter productive systems and societies. Competences and AI, by the way, are also topics that intersect and influence each other and rise questions of*ethical nature*. Last but not least, they are likely to require an organizational and didactic revolution of the learning ecosystems, thus requiring to question the possible consequences in order to build a more adequate future. In turn, this step requires inspiration from best practices to leverage the advantage of the growth of individuals and the expectations of the communities. What should we expect for future learning ecosystems? How “smart learning ecosystems” are changing? How such changes may be related to the achievement of “a better learning for a better world <http://www.mifav.uniroma2.it/inevent/events/aslerd/docs/TIMISOARA_DECLARATION_F.pdf>” as a contribution to theUnited Nations 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) <https://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/post2015/transformingourworld>? How will they contribute to the reduction of inequalities and, at the same time, to the empowering of each individual according to his expectations and talents? /**//*Topics of interests*/ *SLERD 2024* is proud to invite colleagues - researchers and practitioners - from all over the world to share the efforts concerning the development of smart learning ecosystems and, contributions on how to build together a brilliant post pandemic future, where smart learning ecosystems and smart education will be even more central in the education of future citizens, and in the promotion of social innovation and territorial development. can be grouped under three big themes: /*• 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, processes 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 advances • design, data and other relevant literacies • smart citizen’s literacies, skill and competences • communities and co-design in smart learning • sharing & participatory practices • open access to any resource and disparity • cultural influences * /*• supportive learning technologies for smart education*/ * **• AI for smart learning ecosystems: ethical aspects, tools and H-AI interaction** • 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 * ========================================================= /*Important dates:*/ --------------------------------------------------------- • Deadline for papers submission: *April **5, 2024 *(new hard deadline) • Notification to the authors: April 25, 2024 • Camera ready paper: May 10, 2024 • Conference: June 27-28, 2024 ========================================== /*Submissions:*/ --------------------------------------------------------- SLERD contributions of min. 4500 words and max. 14 pages. Papers should be written according to the */Spinger Instruction for Authors/* of the  series /Smart Innovation, Systems and Technologies/: https://www.springer.com/us/authors-editors/conference-proceedings/conferen… Link to the /*paper submission page on easy chair:*/ https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=slerd2024 <https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=slerd2024> =========================================================