Call for Papers: Special Issue Theme: Learning individually: life-
long perspective
'Educational Technology & Society' (ISSN 1436-4522) peer-reviewed
journal
http://ifets.gmd.de/periodical/
One cannot survive in quickly changing technological world
without upgrading one's knowledge and skills, mastering new tools
and procedures. Learning, which was attributed to the childhood
and youth, became a life-long activity. Understanding of this
fact requires reconsideration of educational process and training
tools, but also motivates new design decisions for wide range of
software applications. Life- long learning cannot be covered by
traditional re-training courses, it requires new forms, new
solutions, integration of results of cognitive science,
artificial intelligence, instructional design and many others.
This issue will focus on the needs of individual learner and
technological innovations that may enhance the learning, making
it efficient and fascinating, focused and flexible, deep and
diverse.
We invite submissions discussing:
* specifics of the adult learning, advises of psychologists and
findings of tutors;
* innovative technology-enhanced re-training methods;
* tools and resources for learning individually;
* knowledge-based performance support systems, open learning
environments; and
* other relevant issues.
that fall into one of the following categories:
* full length articles describing research results, presenting
thorough discussion and comparative analysis of methods or
tools (about 7000 words);
* short feature articles presenting case studies, and work in
progress (about 3000 words); and
* critiques, reviews, individual experience (about 1500 words).
Initial proposals should be concise and contain the main theses
of the proposed paper. They should be forwarded to the guest
editor as a plain text in a body of email message by Friday April
16th 1999. Your proposals will be considered on first come-first
service basis thus allowing for more flexible planning of your
further work.
** Special issue guest editor
Katherine Sinitsa
Senior Researcher
International Research and Training Centre
for Information Technologies and Systems
(IRTC ITS) UNESCO/IIP
P.O. Box 933, Kiev-87,
252087, Ukraine
E-mail:
kath@umod.kiev.ua
** Important dates
Deadlines for proposals: Friday April 16th, 1999
Deadlines for first draft: Thursday July 1st, 1999
Deadlines for papers for review: Friday August 13th, 1999
Review results: Friday October 1st, 1999
Approval of final version: Monday November 1st, 1999
Publication: Saturday January 1st, 2000
** Submission procedure
Upon invitation of the guest editor, all submissions should be
forwarded to her as attached files (preferably in Word, HTML or
ASCII) to
kathy@tel.dlab.kiev.ua. Please, use
kath@umod.kiev.ua
for any other communication with the guest editor.
For figures, BMP, GIF and JPEG (JPG) are the preferred formats.
Please supply separate figures in one of these formats even if
they are embedded in text.
Articles should be subdivided into numbered or unnumbered
sections as appropriate, using short, meaningful sub-headings. An
informative abstract of 75 to 200 words must be included just
after the main title and authors' details. The abstract should
present the main points of the paper and the author's
conclusions. Four - five descriptive keywords should follow the
abstract. The references should be listed in alphabetical order
at the end of the article under the heading 'References'. Tables
and figures should be included in the text at appropriate places.
Captions must be provided for every table and figure and must be
referenced in the text.
Please provide following details with each submission:
- Author(s) full name(s) including title(s)
- Job title(s)
- Organisation(s)
- Full contact details of corresponding author including email
address, postal address, telephone and fax numbers
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