From: Miltiadis Lytras
mdl@ELTRUN.GR
International Journal of Technology Enhanced Learning (IJTEL)
ISSN (Online): 1753-5263 - ISSN (Print): 1753-5255
http://www.inderscience.com/browse/index.php?journalCODE=ijtel
Published in 4 issues per year
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:
* To provide a holistic and multidisciplinary discussion on technology
enhanced learning research issues
* To promote the international collaboration and exchange of ideas and
know how on technology enhanced learning
* To investigate strategies on how technology enhanced learning can
promote sustainable development
Objectives
Technology enhanced learning is the best term to describe the domain of
knowledge society technologies as applied in the learning context. "Learning
for anyone, at any time, at any place" is the motto. With the shift towards
the knowledge society, the change of working conditions and the high-speed
evolution of information and communication technologies, peoples' knowledge
and skills need continuous updating.
Learning, based on collaborative working, creativity, multidisciplinary,
adaptiveness, intercultural communication and problem solving, has taken on
an important role in everyday life. The learning process is becoming
pervasive, both for individuals and organisations, in formal education, in
the professional context and as part of leisure activities. Learning should
be accessible to every citizen, independent of age, education, social status
and tailored to his/her individual needs. To meet these social challenges is
a leading issue of research on the use of technology to support learning
(e.g. The Technology Enhanced Learning Action within the 7th Framework
Program for Research and Technological Development).
In the context of the knowledge society, the focus of research in this area
has been set on applications of technologies for user-centered learning,
building on the concept of human learning and on sound pedagogical
principles, with the key objectives to be:
* To increase the efficiency of learning for individuals, groups
* To facilitate transfer and sharing of knowledge in organisations
* To contribute to a deeper understanding of the learning process by
exploring links between human learning, cognition and technologies
* To promote humanistic visions for a better world based on open
learning for all
Readership
IJTEL aims to establish value-adding knowledge transfer and personal
development channels in three distinctive areas: academia, industry and
government, which summarise the three pillars where a new scientific
publication can play a significant role.
Contents
IJTEL publishes original research papers providing significant results, and
also short communications about innovative ideas and news, announcements and
reviews regarding the topics of the journal.
Subject Coverage
Subjects covered include, but are not limited to:
Technology Enhanced Learning: An Emerging Episteme
* The technology enhanced learning domain: philosophical routes,
demonstration of various communities, success stories, lessons learned
* Technology enhanced learning key issues: effective strategies,
learning models and theories
* Deploymenent of ICTs in education, policy issues of TEL, integration
issues, extensibility, interoperability
Technology Enhanced Learning: The Theories
* Pedagogical theories and models of TEL
* Constructivist approaches to TEL
* Collaborative/context aware/personalised TEL approaches
* Communities of learners and TEL
Technology Enhanced Learning: The Technologies
* Web 2.0 and TEL
* Semantic web and TEL
* Adaptive and personalised hypermedia for TEL
* Metadata and content standards and TEL
* Free and open source software for TEL
* Ubiquitous and pervasive technologies for TEL
* Intelligent agents for TEL
* Learning management systems
* Emerging technologies
* Grid technologies for learning
Technology Enhanced Learning: The Practices
* TEL practices in different educational/learning contexts
* Surveys of TEL adoption in education
* Future of TEL
Technology Enhanced Learning: The Applications in Domains
* TEL tools/emerging technologies and new generation TEL
* Challenges for the future; specification of government policies for
the promotion of TEL in education
* Roadmaps for the future
Specific Notes for Authors
Submitted papers should not have been previously published nor be currently
under consideration for publication elsewhere.
All papers are refereed through a double blind process. A guide for authors,
sample copies and other relevant information for submitting papers are
available on the Submission of Papers web-page.
You may send one copy in the form of an MS Word file attached to an e-mail
(details of file formats in Author Guidelines) to Dr. Miltiadis Lytras or
Dr. Ambjorn Naeve, below, with a copy to:
IEL Editorial Office
E-mail:
ijtel@inderscience.com
Please include in your submission the title of the Journal