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First CfP SLERD 2021 - 6th International Conference on Smart Learning Ecosystems and Regional Development
/Apologies for unintended cross-mailing/
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*6th International Conference on Smart Learning Ecosystems and Regional
Development - SLERD Reload**
**Smart Learning Ecosystems and the Regional Development after the
pandemic.*
*June 24-25, 2021*
/*Bucharest, Romania (blended)*/
slerd2021.uniroma2.it
Contacts:
1st: traian[dot] rebedea[at] cs[dot] pub[dot] ro /(conference chair)/
or mihai [dot] dascalu [at] upb [dot] ro
2nd: aslerd [dot] org [at] gmail [dot] com
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Deadline for paper submission: *March 15, 2021
*call for papers
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*SLERD 2021* is organized by /University Politehnica of Bucharest /in
collaboration with /ASLERD/ /./
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Please Note: The intention of the organizing committee is to hold SLERD
2021 as a blended conference with the possibility to alternatively
attend it physically or virtually.
If the pandemic is not attenuated, as expected by June 2021, SLERD will
take place in a fully blown virtual conference format such as the
previous 2020 SLERD.
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*SLERD 2021* is proud to invite colleagues - researchers and
practitioners - from all over the world to share the efforts concerning
the development of smart learning ecosystems and, contributions on how
to build together a brilliant post pandemic future, where smart learning
ecosystems and smart education will be even more central in the
education of future citizens, and in the promotion of social innovation
and territorial development.
/*Short Intro*/
In 2020 the pandemic has affected the learning processes all over the
world and learning ecosystems have reacted showing different degrees of
resilience and promptness with emergence of similarities, differences
and inequalities. Among the similarities, a tendency of the individuals
to remain in a comfort zone and a general unpreparedness to operate in a
full virtual space. Suddenly the two dimensions that characterizes the
smart learning ecosystems - physical and virtual - started to be
perceived somewhat as antithetical and it came out that the e-maturity
of a learning ecosystem is not sufficient to explain and predict its
transformation. Many factors concur - processual, social, individual -
to determine the technological evolution of learning ecosystems and
their smartness. For sure the pandemic has generated a higher awareness
about the intrinsic nature of the smart learning ecosystems and it is
likely that they will no longer be the same after the pandemic. Some
scholars refer to an age characterized by a so-called new normality.
What should we expect for future learning ecosystems? How smart
learning ecosystems are already changing? How such changes may be
related to the achievement of a better learning for a better world as
a contribution to the United Nations 2030 Agenda for Sustainable
Development Goals (SDGs) ? How will they contribute to the reduction of
inequalities?/
Smart /referred to /learning ecosystems,/ in ASLERD and SLERD contexts,
does not simply means technology enhanced. The smartness is a more
complex multilayered construct related to the wellbeing of the players
operating in the ecosystems and is affected by the improvement of any
relevant aspects of the learning processes and ecosystem functioning,
especially if connected with territorial development and social innovation.
Technologies are mediators. Hopefully they should be included but they
are not a sine qua non.
The achievement of the learning ecosystems smartness is a process that
need a long term vision, multidisciplinary competences, an attitude to
understand people and contexts and to mediate point of views, a dynamic
resilience to keep on track to achieve, step by step, the foreseen goals.
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*//*Topics of interests*/
can be grouped under three big themes:
/* places for smart education
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future of institutional learning
interplay between formal and informal learning
new educational models and settings
continuity-discontinuity of time, technology, place/space, processes
in learning
role of, and case studies of, games and gamification in smart education
dual education and other alternate scheme approaches
monitoring and benchmarking of smartness (individual, institution,
city, region)
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/* people in place centered design for smart education*/
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general frameworks and methodological advances
design, data and other relevant literacies
smart citizens literacies, skill and competences
communities and co-design in smart learning
sharing & participatory practices
open access to any resource and disparity
cultural influences
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/* supportive learning technologies for smart education*/
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intelligent tutoring systems and interfaces
semantic web technologies and applications
text/opinion mining and sentiment analysis
real/virtual communities and social network analysis
interoperability and application of open/smart data and services
safety & security in education
IoT, ubiquitous and wearable technologies
adaptability to educational contexts and citizens
role of VR in education
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/*Important dates:*/
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Deadline for papers submission: *March**15, 2021*
Notification to the authors: April 30, 2021
Camera ready paper: May 15, 2021
Conference: June 24-25, 2021
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/*Proceedings:*/
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*Proceedings*, as for previous editions, will be published by *Springer*
in the Series *Smart Innovation, Systems and Technologies*
that will be indexed by SCOPUS,
EI-Compendex and Springerlink.
(Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Smart Learning
Ecosystems and Regional Development is among the top used publications
on SpringerLink that concern one or more of the United Nations
Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs))
*Extended version of selected papers* will be also included in a
*special issue of IxD&A Journal
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(ISSN 1826-9745, e-ISSN 2283-2998) that is indexed by SCOPUS and
Emerging Sources of Web of Science
SLERD welcomes short (max. 8 pages) and long contributions (max. 12 pages).
Papers should be written according to the */Spinger Instruction for
Authors/* of the series /Smart Innovation, Systems and Technologies/:
https://www.springer.com/us/authors-editors/conference-proceedings/conference-proceedings-guidelines
Link to the /*paper submission page on easy chair:*/
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=slerd2021
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Join ALSLERD and share our vision on the future of Smart Learning
Ecosystems: Timisoara declaration
See ASLERD website for
Request of membership, membership fees and legal
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