Call for articles for IJTEL
 | The International Journal of Technology Enhanced Learning (IJTEL) seeks original manuscripts for a Special Issue on Mash-Up Personal Learning Environments to appear in 2010.
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Learner centre stage
A change in perspective can be certified in the recent years to technology-enhanced learning research and development: More and more learning applications on the web are putting the learner centre stage, not the organisation. They empower learners with capabilities to customize and even construct their own personal learning environments (PLEs). These PLEs typically consist of distributed web-applications and services that support system-spanning collaborative and individual learning activities in formal as well as informal settings.
Mash-ups
Technologically speaking, this shift manifests in a learning web where information is distributed across sites and activities can easily encompass the use of a greater number of pages and services offered through webbased learning applications. Mash-ups, the 'frankensteining' of software artefacts and data, have emerged to be the software development approach for these long-tail and perpetual-beta niche markets. Core technologies facilitating this paradigm shift are Ajax, javascript-based widget-collections, and microformats that help to glue together public web APIs in individual applications.
Focused issue
The International Journal of Technology Enhanced Learning (IJTEL) dedicates a focused issue on collecting the research on understanding and engineering mash-up personal learning environments.
Topics
- Visions: architectures, frameworks, strategies, models
- (Collaborative) authoring tools
- Data interoperability: with e.g. microformats, streaming data, mixed media data
- User interfaces: concepts, metaphors, workflows
- Development methodologies
- Innovative widgets and services: e.g. for instruction, reflection, personal information
- Interoperability standards for e.g. content recombination or PLE configuration
- User studies & evaluation methods: evaluating e.g. performance,
- Usability, specific design features, training methods
About IJTEL
IJTEL fosters multidisciplinary discussion and research on technology enhanced learning (TEL) approaches at the individual, organisational, national and global levels. Its key objective is to be the leading scholarly scientific journal for all those interested in, researching and contributing to the technology enhanced learning episteme. For this reason, IJTEL delivers research articles, position papers, surveys and case studies aiming:
- Provide a holistic and multidisciplinary discussion on technology enhanced learning research issues
- Promote international collaboration and exchange of ideas and know how on technology enhanced learning
- Investigate strategies on how technology enhanced learning can promote sustainable development
Papers submitted to this special issue must follow the criteria used by IJTEL and defined by the nature of this special issue, namely by covering the following mandatory items:
- Presenting original research;
- Offering a critical review of the state of the art in the field;
- Providing methodologically sound and innovative technological insights;
- Illustrating the application in real-world cases;
- Performing the evaluation of the proposed ideas.
Submitted articles must not have been previously published or be currently submitted for journal publication elsewhere. As an author, you are responsible for understanding and adhering to our submission guidelines. You can access them at http://www.inderscience.com/mapper.php?id=31
The journal is now accepting submissions for this special issue through its Online Submissions and Peer-Review System at http://www.inderscience.com/papers, which provides instructions about formatting and length. If you have any questions, please contact submissions@inderscience.com or the guest editors at the addresses listed below. Please include the title of the Journal in your email and give as much detail as possible about your query or problem.
Important dates
- Paper Submission: January 8th, 2010
- Results Notification: February 8th, 2010
- Revisions: March 8th, 2010
- Notification of Final Acceptance: March 21st, 2010
- Final versions: April 21st, 2010
Reviewers
- Abelardo Pardo (University Carlos III de Madrid, Spain)
- Dai Griffith (University of Bolton, UK)
- Denis Gillet (EPFL, Switzerland)
- Effie Law (University of Leicester, United Kingdom)
- Felix Mödritscher (Vienna University of Economics and Business, Austria)
- Graham Atwell (Pontydysgu, United Kingdom)
- Gytis Cibulskis (Kaunas Technical University, Lithuania)
- Mart Laanpere (Tallinn University, Estonia)
- Martin Wolpers (Fraunhofer FIT, Germany)
- Mohamed Amine Chatti (RWTH Aachen, Germany)
- Ralf Klamma (RWTH Aachen, Germany)
- Nikos Karacapilidis (University of Patras, Greece)
- Scott Wilson (University of Bolton, United Kingdom)
- Stéphane Sire (EPFL, Switzerland)
- Tony Hirst (Open University, UK)
- Ernie Ghiglione (Macquarie University, AU)
