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<br>• Deadline extension: *December 18, 2018
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<br>Special Issue on
<br>*Smart Learning Ecosystems - technologies, places, and human-centered 
<br>design*
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<br>/*Interaction Design and Architecture(s) Journal (IxD&A)*/
<br>(ISSN 1826-9745, eISSN 2283-2998)
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<br>*Guest Editors:*
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<br>/• Hendrik Knoche, Aalborg University, Denmark
<br>• Elvira Popescu, University of Craiova Romania
<br>• Antonio Cartelli, Università degli Studi di Cassino e del Lazio 
<br>meridionale, Italy/
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<br>*Important dates:*
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<br>• Deadline: *December 18, 2018 (extended)*
<br>• Notification to the authors: January 25, 2019
<br>• Camera ready paper: February 15, 2019
<br>• Publication of the special issue: end of February, 2019
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<br>*Overview*
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<br>Learning ecosystems are getting smarter and play a central role in 
<br>regional development and social innovation. “Smart,” thus, are not 
<br>simply technology-enhanced learning ecosystems but, rather, learning 
<br>ecosystems that promote the multidimensional well-being of all players 
<br>of learning processes (i.e., students, professors, administrative 
<br>personnel and technicians, territorial stakeholders, and, for the 
<br>schools, parents) and that contribute to the increase of the social 
<br>capital of a “region,” also thanks to the mediation of the technologies. 
<br>Elicited work should inform the understanding of learning ecosystems and 
<br>accompanying design for “smartness,” foster the development of policies 
<br>and action plans, or support technological impact.
<br>This special issue is supported by the Association for Smart Learning 
<br>Ecosystems and Regional Development (ASLERD ).
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<br>*Topics of Interest*
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<br>Topics of interest include research papers that understand, conceive, 
<br>and promote innovative human-centric design and development methods, 
<br>education/training practices, informal social learning, and citizen 
<br>involvement. Sub-topics can be grouped into (i) places for learning, 
<br>(ii) learning technologies, and (iii) human-centered design.
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<br>/*Human-centered design*/
<br>• frameworks, literacies (data, design, digital, etc.), learning through 
<br>design, methodological advances (HCD, participatory design, action 
<br>research, etc.)
<br>• outreach: community involvement, designing dissemination
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<br>/*Places*/
<br>• visions of institutional learning, interplay of formal and informal 
<br>learning, novel educational models, mixed educational approaches, 
<br>cultural influences, (dis-)continuity of time, technology, places, 
<br>spaces, and processes
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<br>*/Technologies/*
<br>• topics on data (management): open, smart, interoperable, safety, 
<br>security, privacy, trustworthiness, veracity and quality assurance, 
<br>mining, ubiquitous, open access, sharing, wearables, geo-localization, 
<br>context awareness and adaptation, monitoring and benchmarking of 
<br>smartness on different levels (personal, organization, region)
<br>• case studies of the technologies above as well as games, VR, and IoT
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<br>/*Submission guidelines and procedure*/
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<br>All submissions (abstracts and later final manuscripts) must be original 
<br>and may not be under review by another publication.
<br>The manuscripts should be submitted either in .doc or in .rtf format.
<br>All papers will be blindly peer-reviewed by at least two reviewers.
<br>Authors are invited to submit 8-20 pages paper (including authors' 
<br>information, abstract, all tables, figures, references, etc.).
<br>The paper should be written according to the IxD&A authors' guidelines
<br>->http://ixdea.uniroma2.it/inevent/events/idea2010/index.php?s=101&a=7 
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<br>(Please upload all submissions using the Submission page. 
<br>When submitting the paper, please, choose the section:
<br>"SI: Smart Learning Ecosystems - technologies, places, and 
<br>human-centered design")
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<br>More information on the submission procedure and on the characteristics
<br>of the paper format can be found on the website of the IxD&A Journal
<br>where information on the copyright policy and responsibility of authors,
<br>publication ethics and malpractice are published.
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<br>For scientific advice and queries, please contact any of the 
<br>guest-editors below and mark the subject as:
<br>/IxD&A SI: Smart Learning Ecosystems - technologies, places, and 
<br>human-centered design/
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<br>• popescu_elvira [at] software [dot] ucv [dot] ro
<br>• cartan [at] unicast [dot] it
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