[AISWorld] Final CFP: KM&EL Special Issue on Smart Cities of the Future: Creating Tomorrow’s Education toward Effective Skills and Career Development Today

maggie wang maggiemhwang at gmail.com
Wed Jul 30 09:56:02 EDT 2014


*Call for Papers*



*Knowledge Management & E-Learning (KM&EL)*

*KM&EL Journal Metrics (Scopus):*

*2013 SNIP (Source Normalized Impact per Paper): 1.052 | Ranking: 218/643
Education | 45/113 Management of Technology and Innovation*
*2013 SJR (SCImago Journal Rank): 0.431*



*Special Issue on*



*Smart Cities of the Future: Creating Tomorrow’s Education **t**oward*
*Effective
Skills and Career Development Today*



*Guest Editors*



*Dr. Fanny Klett (IEEE Fellow)*

Director,

German Workforce ADL Partnership Laboratory, Germany

Email:  fanny.klett.de at adlnet.gov



*Dr. Maggie M. Wang*

Faculty of Education,

The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

Email: magwang at hku.hk





Cities are growing and increasingly suffer from rapid urbanization.
Governments and businesses start thinking about technology as critical
enabler to solve the rising urbanization issues and improve the cities’
environments according to a set of priorities. Wireless and network
technologies, the Internet of Things, cloud computing and artificial
intelligence are only few of the solutions toward products and services
that are expected and applied to make the cities "smarter", and comfortable
in the context of transport, climate, food, energy, buildings, health,
products, etc. A Smart City concept refers to acknowledged initiatives,
such as e-Home, e-Office, e-Government, e-Health, e-Education and
e-Traffic. It is based on self-monitoring and self-response by pooling
server and network infrastructures, and respective clients together to
ensure the effective interconnection of the urban substructures, for
example administration, education, healthcare, transportation, public
safety, real estates, and implying intelligent adaptation to the citizens’
needs. Against this background, smart environments concentrate on automatic
computing, self-awareness, self-configuration, self-protection, and
self-optimization.



This special issue of the KM&EL international journal is dedicated to
recent opportunities, experiences and expectations that the emergent number
of cities, applying the Smart City concept, face in designing and providing
education that is striving to shape the new generation of the Smart Citizens
.



Barcelona and Chicago, Malta and Dubai, Singapore and Amsterdam, Sejong,
Bilbao, Suzhou, Kazan, Alexandria, New York…This is a non-embracing list of
continuously emerging Smart City projects around the globe. Various
definitions that evolved from Digital City through Wireless City to Smart
City and recently Smart City of the Future make us aware that technology
and infrastructures are the leading aspect of the Smart City concept.
However, there is no single approach to a Smart City, and no
one-size-fits-all approach to a Smart City.



Exactly this fact evolves to an opportunity for educational arrangements in
Smart Cities and represents the focus of this Special Issue that calls for
a broad spectrum of education technology, curriculum design and methodology
design experiences, theories and implementations in a Smart City setting by
considering a wide-ranging variety of aspects including new opportunities
for learning and instructional theories, technology-enhanced learning,
curriculum, skills and career development in a highly interconnected
networked environment, knowledge management, assessment, etc. This special
issue aims to provide a forum for academics and practitioners to explore
issues related to the design, application and evaluation of the Smart City
concept in education, and human performance development.



The topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

·           Next generation learning, training and assessment environments
for higher education, open learning, lifelong learning, family and
community learning

·           Infrastructures for skills and career development

·           Next generation learning design

·           Infrastructures for knowledge management and quality management
by highlighting the interrelationship between e-Home, e-Office,
e-Government, e-Health, e-Education and e-Traffic

·           Curriculum development and the need for a fast changing
adaptation

·           Impact of technology on learning by highlighting ecological
monitoring and visualization of data flows for smart/adaptive learning,
mobile social media for ubiquitous learning, use of open data and
ubiquitous information, privacy and security

·           Interrelationship between e-Education and e-Health by
highlighting technology-enhanced clinical practice and training, digital
media for healthcare knowledge dissemination, use of social media for
disease and health management, online patient communities and
clinician-patient collaboration

·           Interrelationship between e-Education and social inclusion by
highlighting open and museum education, strengthening cultural profiles of
citizens through active partnerships among institutions, building social
and cultural capital using digital media

·           Obstacles, future needs, and measures of success of the Smart
City concept toward education and interrelated settings



We are interested in both theoretical and practical papers that aim to
improve learning and human performance in a Smart City by applying the
latest technological advances toward user-oriented solutions. We would like
to stimulate interest in the issues across academia, practice, industry,
research and policy, and therefore we welcome focused papers from all
sectors.



*Important Dates*

Submission due: 30th Aug 2014

Notification of acceptance: 30th Sep 2014

Publication schedule: Dec 2014 (Vol.6, No.4)



*Submission Instructions*

Electronic submission by email to Guest Editors is required (
fanny.klett.de at adlnet.gov or magwang at hku.hk ).



Papers must not have been published, accepted for publication, or presently
be under consideration for publication elsewhere. A standard double-blind
review process will be used for selecting papers to be published in this
special issue. Authors should follow the instructions outlined in the KM&EL
Website (see URL
http://www.kmel-journal.org/ojs/index.php/online-publication/about/submissions#onlineSubmissions
)



For more information about the KM&EL, please visit the web site:

http://www.kmel-journal.org/ojs/index.php/online-publication
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