Topics
Contributions under the umbrella rethinking education in the knowledge society may come from a range of disciplinary fields and should address, directly or indirectly, one of the following “hot topics” in the field of digital technologies and learning:
- Sustainability: Innovative learning designs, (partly) incorporating learning technologies, are often introduced with high expectations and unrealistic promises to improve teaching and learning practices. Which organizational and/or mental preconditions promote the introduction of innovative learning designs? Which kinds of learning cultures are needed to make innovations sustainable? Which factors support their diffusion from the pioneering stage to a broader acceptance and implementation? Which research designs may support an evidence-based implementation of learning innovations?
- Orchestration: How do technologies support teachers in managing multiple individual, collaborative or class-wide activities? Does the physical layout of digital artefacts have an influence on learning activities? Do multi-touch interfaces enable new learning approaches? Will paper documents be eradicated or are they integrated into new educational practices around augmented paper? Which technologies could capture workplace experiences to support corporate training?
- Informal Learning: The spread of web 2.0 technologies has paved the road for new forms of informal learning. What do people actually learn by using these technologies? Do these technologies also impact on formal education? Do they change the way learning is understood both locally and globally? Do they erase the frontier between learning technologies and media in general? How do we distinguish an evolution that embeds a shift of paradigm versus a simple evolution of tools? What is the potential of informal training in corporate contexts?
