Special issue on Adaptive technologies and methods in e/m-Learning and Internet

[Journal home] http://www.wiley.com/bw/aims.asp?ref=0266-4909&site=1
[CFP download] http://www2.fiit.stuba.sk/~bielik/jcal-cfp.html

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Print ISSN: 0266-4909, Online ISSN: 1365-2729
Frequency: Bi-monthly
ISI Journal Citation Reports® Ranking: 2006: 47/100 (Education & Educational
Research)
Impact Factor: 0.532
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<Important Dates>

Submission deadline: May 22, 2009
Notification of acceptance: September 18, 2009
Expected publication date: End of 2009 or Beginning 2010

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<Call for Papers>

We are currently witnessing the remarkable impact of Internet and
World-Wide-Web Technologies on education as a whole, which revolutionized
traditional learning concepts and philosophies throughout the diffusion of
more sophisticated techniques that are being developed to support new
learning paradigms. Nowadays, more and more educational scenarios occur
across different locations and learning contexts, where the focus is on
the mobility of the educator/learner. Thus, in parallel to e-learning,
mobile-learning (m-learning) takes advantage of the prospects offered by
portable technologies, the Internet and web services. In addition,
an emerging interest in group-centred teaching and learning mechanisms
leads towards adaptive instruction and collaborative learning models
for Web 2.0, social networks and communities. Adaptive instruction offers
the learners the possibility to satisfy their learning needs more
efficiently with pedagogical procedures designed to accommodate their
individuality, while collaborative learning provides opportunities for
developing social and communication skills (e.g. critical though, dialogue,
exchange of ideas, shared understanding etc). Although several approaches
are constantly being deployed, advanced issues and concepts of such distance

learning models still need to be studied and developed in the context of
adaptive technologies and methods. Thus, researchers need to explore and
study the plethora of challenges that emergent technologies bring
to e/m-Learning and Internet-based education. This special issue aims
at increasing the awareness of researchers in these fields, providing
an in-depth investigation on various research and deployment issues,
as well as examining the performance characteristics of various approaches
in Internet-based education among different learning contexts.

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<Topics>

We invite researchers from both academia and industry
to submit papers addressing the topics covered by this special
issue including:

* Pervasive, dynamic and efficient training patterns
in e-learning/m-learning environments and scenarios,

* Recent advances in e-learning/m-learning platforms (e.g. whiteboard,
chat channels, discussion forums, e-Tutoring systems),

* Intelligent networks and ubiquitous learning

* Emergent IP-based technologies for distance education,

* Assistive / Adaptive / Personalized educational environments according
to the users’ abilities and/or disabilities

* Assistive technologies on continuous education and training /
Life-long learning

* Adaptive educational content authoring

* Social networks, community structure and collaborative recommendation
technologies for e-learning/m-learning environments

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<Submission Guidelines>

- Submitted papers should not have been previously published nor be
currently under consideration for publication elsewhere. All submitted
papers for this special issue will be peer-reviewed.

- A guide for authors, sample copies, and other relevant information for
submitting papers are available at the publishers web page
http://www.jcal.info/guidelines_for_authors/index.htm.

Manuscripts should be emailed as pdf, or word format to the corresponding
editor at janag@aegean.gr

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<Guest Editors>

Ioannis Anagnostopoulos (Corresponding Editor)
Department of Information and Communications Systems Engineering,
University of the Aegean,
Karlovasi, Samos, Greece,
janag@aegean.gr

Mária Bieliková
Institution of Informatics and Software Engineering,
Faculty of Informatics and Information Technologies,
Slovak University of Technology
Ilkovic(ova 3, 842 16 Bratislava, Slovakia
bielik@fiit.stuba.sk