[AISWorld] Call for Chapters: Impact of Economic Crisis on Education and the Next-Generation Workforce

Mon Sep 15 11:12:01 EDT 2014

Call for Chapters: Impact of Economic Crisis on Education and the Next-Generation Workforce

Editors
Patricia Ordóñez de Pablos (University of Oviedo, Spain)
Robert D. Tennyson (University of Minnesota, USA)

Call for Chapters
Proposals Submission Deadline: September 30, 2014
Full Chapters Due: October 30, 2014

Introduction

For release in the Advances in Educational Marketing, Administration, and Leadership (AEMAL)<http://www.igi-global.com/book-series/advances-educational-marketing-administration-leadership/73677> Book Series.

Series Editors: Siran Mukerji (IGNOU, India) and Purnendu Tripathi (IGNOU, India)
ISSN: 2326-9022

The Advances in Educational Marketing, Administration, & Leadership (AEMAL) Book Series strives to provide publications that address all these areas and present trending, current research to assist professionals, administrators, and others involved in the education sector in making their decisions.

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In its Commission Work Programme 2013, the European Commission (2012) states that:

“Education and training systems are not keeping up with changing labour market needs – resulting in shortages in key areas like science, mathematics and e-skills. Higher education is not sufficiently connected to research and innovation activities and is slow to build capacity in areas like ICT – which both reflects and contributes to a lack of internationalization. Life-long learning is still developing, and public policy and business practices do not reflect the need for older workers to extend their working careers” (p.7).

The evolution of information technologies, mobile devices and social media as well as the needs of students, workers and academics has experienced rapid changes in the last years. This complex and dynamic reality requires new forms of delivery of learning contents to students, the building of special learning environments and new teaching methodologies for academics. Old teaching practices (from the building of teaching material to the evaluation processes and tutorial services) need to be adapted to provide customized and context adapted learning opportunities. There are drivers, barriers and success factors of distance and mobile learning that need to be explored, such as widespread availability or the lack of policy support.

European Commission has funded a number of successful R&D projects focused on mobile learning and several EU countries (such as Denmark, The Netherlands and UK) have supported the used of mobile learning in schools and universities.

The purpose of this book is to analyze the challenges of the new labour market, policies for the new educational challenges, future roles of academic staff, and challenges of distance and mobile learning in higher education today. The book will reveal real experiences of higher education institutions and academics implementing distance and mobile education courses.

Objective

The primary goal of the book is to provide comprehensive coverage and understanding of the learning processes, its complexities and challenges in the context of higher education and the role of information technologies for mobile and distance learning.

The book will offer a collection of chapters that bring together researchers in the field of technology and pedagogy, both theoretical and practical contributions, to help readers in the development and dissemination of new approaches to both mobile and distance learning.

Target Audience
Professors in academia, deans, heads of departments, director of masters, students (undergraduate and postgraduate level) , politicians, policy makers, corporate heads of firms, senior general managers, managing directors, information technology directors and managers, libraries, etc.

Recommended Topics
Recommended topics include, but are not limited to, the following:

  *   Challenges for education in the new labour market
  *   Higher education and reforms
  *   IT and education
  *   Long life learning
  *   Mobile and distance learning in higher education
  *   New labour market
  *   Problems of the current labour market
  *   Role of faculty and new labour markets
  *   Virtual universities

Submission Procedure
Researchers and practitioners are invited to submit on or before September 30, 2014, a 2-3 page chapter proposal clearly explaining the mission and concerns of his or her proposed chapter. Authors of accepted proposals will be notified by September 30, 2014 about the status of their proposals and sent chapter guidelines. Full chapters are expected to be submitted by October 30, 2014. All submitted chapters will be reviewed on a double-blind review basis. Contributors may also be requested to serve as reviewers for this project. All proposals should be submitted through the link at the bottom of this page.

Publisher
This book is scheduled to be published by IGI Global (formerly Idea Group Inc.), publisher of the "Information Science Reference" (formerly Idea Group Reference), "Medical Information Science Reference," "Business Science Reference," and "Engineering Science Reference" imprints. For additional information regarding the publisher, please visit www.igi-global.com<http://www.igi-global.com/>. This publication is anticipated to be released in 2015.

Important Dates
September 30, 2014: Proposal Submission Deadline
October 2, 2014: Notification of Acceptance
October 30, 2014: Full Chapter Submission
January 5, 2015: Review Results Returned
February 5, 2015: Final Acceptance Notification
February 28, 2015: Final Chapter Submission

Inquiries
Patricia Ordóñez de Pablos
University of Oviedo, Spain
patriop at uniovi.es<mailto:patriop at uniovi.es>

Robert D. Tennyson
University of Minnesota, USA
rtenny at umn.edu<mailto:rtenny at umn.edu>
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