[AISWorld] Call for Chapters: New Technologies for Teacher Support (due date extended)

[ruichi at bnu.edu.cn]

Call for Chapters
 
Book title: New Technologies for Teacher Support
 
Publisher: Springer
 
Educational Technology has been firmly entrenched as a means to offer supplementary high-quality learning experiences to students, targeting not only the improvements in student grades, but also in, among others, enhancing their capacity to learn subject matter knowledge, fine-tuning the application of cognitive traits that yield positive results, and eliciting their persistence to follow a disciplined approach to study.  Correspondingly, contemporary teaching methods aspire to incorporate pedagogical strategies that enable seamless and sustainable integration of educational technologies in teachers¡¯ professional practice. For this aim to succeed, one should adhere to well-established and global teaching standards oriented around established theories and effective practices, which also accommodate frameworks to evaluate the utility of such an integration. This book offers an in-depth exploration of established and upcoming standards and practices in technology-oriented teaching methods as they escalate towards a competency-focused, pedagogy-explicit and highly-personalized teaching. Such a notable shift would boost the ability of teachers to precisely balance their teaching load, to dynamically measure their instructional capacity, to proactively heighten their sensitivity to learners¡¯ needs, to willingly predict the attainment of instructional goals and finally, to meaningfully sustain a positive learning climate.
 
We invite chapters that focus on various aspects related to new technologies for teacher support The scope of the book includes but is not limited to:
 
* Impact on ICT in teaching, learning and achievement
* ICT4D through teacher training
* Analytics in teaching and teacher training
* Case studies, theories and practices on instructional design
* Standardized testing vs. competency-oriented assessment
* Innovation in educational technology for professional development
* Influential pedagogical methods
* ICT4D, equity and marginalization in educational technology
* Adaptation, transfer, and scalability of technologies in teacher education 
* Personalization, privacy, ethics and security in ICT for education
* Cognition and cognitive computing in learning and teaching
* Artificial intelligence in teacher education and teaching
* Educational technology for deep learning
* Monitoring and evaluation of influence of technology in teaching
* Big data analytics and visualization for teaching through technology
* Case studies of teacher support using technologies
* Cost-benefit analysis and institutional efficiencies for teacher support
* Policies for educational reform through ICT in teacher support
 
Important Dates:
October 20, 2016 ¨C Abstracts due (using suggested template)
November 20, 2016 - Feedback on abstract provided
February 20, 2017 ¨C Full chapters due (in Springer's author template)
April 20, 2017 - Review and feedback on chapters
May 20, 2017 - Final camera-ready chapters due
 
Guidelines for the Extended Abstract:
Please submit 3-page extended abstract (no more than 1500 words) by September 20, 2016 at:
 https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=newtechteachersuppor

In the extended abstract, please include the following headings in bold. Do not merge or delete or leave any section blank.
- Suggested Title(s): At least one, but preferably two or three alternative titles for your chapter. Prioritize (rank 1-3) according to preference.
- Author(s) Details: Name, Affiliation (Institution/Organisation), Mailing address (including country), email, phone and fax (if any) numbers
- Connection with the underlying theme: Connection of your chapter to the underlying theme of the book " Big data in education".
- Proposed Chapter Organization: Kindly create an outline of the content of your chapter with different headings and subheadings, and a brief description of the content under each heading. Please explain the connection between the different elements (headings and subheadings).
- Contribution of the chapter: New knowledge or information that your chapter will contribute to the underlying theme of the book " Big data in education".
 
Editors:
Vive Kumar, Athabasca University, Canada.
Yanyan Li, Beijing Normal University, China.
Zhizhen Zhang, Beijing Normal University, China.
 
Inquiries:
Ms. Rui Chi, Editorial Assistant, ruichi at bnu.edu.cn
 
Further details:
 http://learninganalytics.ca/research/?page_id=2656



Rui Chi 

Senior Assistant,
International Cooperation Centre,
Smart Learning Institute,
Beijing Normal University

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