Calls for papers

 

International Journal of Mobile Learning and Organisation

 

Special Issue on: "Technology-Transformed Learning: Going Beyond the One-to-One Model?"

Guest Editors :
Lung-Hsiang Wong, National Institute of Education, Singapore
Hiroaki Ogata, Tokushima University, Japan

The advance of personal computing devices, from personal computers to mobile devices, has been gradually changing the landscape of the technology-transformed learning. This facilitates the incorporation of one-to-one computing into education and opens up endless possibilities for the design and enactment of innovative teaching and learning models (or the enhancement of pre-existing models), such as perpetual and ubiquitous learning, personalized learning, authentic and contextualized learning, seamless learning, digital classroom, rapid knowledge co-construction, among others.

This leads to the further empowerment of the learners in deciding what, where, when and how they would learn and whom they would learn with/from. After the initial hype, however, there have been voices within the researcher community to reassess the notion of one-to-one computing in classroom and informal learning, such as whether and how one-to-one settings may impact peer collaboration and teachers' roles, the issues of student, teacher, school and social readiness, as well as the explorations of alternative or hybrid settings of many-to-one, one-to-many, many-to-many, and one-to-one configurations.

This special issue deals with the fundamental concerns and challenges in adopting one-to-one computing in either or both classroom and informal learning settings. The collection of papers will serve as an international forum for researchers and practitioners to exchange their thoughts and contributions and set future directions in one-to-one technology-transformed learning.

Authors of selected outstanding papers published at the pre-conference workshop on the same theme at International Conference on Computers in Education 2011 (“ICCE 1:1 workshop” hereafter) will be invited to submit revised and expanded version of their papers to this special issue. In addition, this call for papers is open to any interested party to submit their work. For the latter case, authors are required to submit a proposal of 300-500 words (with paper title and authors’ names/affiliations) to icce1to1@gmail.com by October 24, 2011.

Subject Coverage
Suitable topics include but are not limited to:

• Theories behind one-to-one technology-transformed learning
• One-to-one technology-transformed learning pedagogy and learning design
• Constructions of one-to-one technology-transformed learning infrastructure
• Government and school policies for one-to-one technology-transformed learning
• Socio-cultural perspectives and implications of one-to-one technology-transformed learning
• Teachers’ professional development for translation and scaling up of one-to-one technology-transformed learning models
• One-to-one technology-transformed learning for self-directed, collaborative and socio-constructivist learning
• Seamless learning: theories, infrastructure, pedagogy, practices, parental and community factors
• One-to-one technology-transformed learning on special platforms, e.g., GroupScribbles, Web 2.0 tools
• Comparative studies between one-to-one, many-to-one, one-to-many, many-to-many and/or hybrid settings

Notes for Prospective Authors

Submitted papers should not have been previously published nor be currently under consideration for publication elsewhere. (N.B. Conference papers may only be submitted if the paper was not originally copyrighted and if it has been completely re-written).

All papers are refereed through a peer review process. A guide for authors, sample copies and other relevant information for submitting papers are available on the Author Guidelines page

Important Dates

Deadline for invitees from ICCE 1:1 Workshop to express their interest in contributing to the special issue: 15 October, 2011

Proposal submission deadline for papers NOT arisen from ICCE 1:1 workshop: 14 November, 2011

Notification of proposal acceptance: 30 November, 2011

Full paper submission deadline: 31 January, 2012

Notification of paper acceptance: 6 April, 2012

Camera-ready version due: 30 April, 2012