[AISWorld] Springer Book - Call for Chapters - Perspectives on Wearable Enhanced Learning: Current Trends, Research and Practice

Tue Jun 20 09:01:55 EDT 2017

Perspectives on Wearable Enhanced Learning:

Current Trends, Research and Practice

An edited volume by

Ilona Buchem

Ralf Klamma

Fridolin Wild

to be published by Springer, New York

Springer website:  <http://www.springer.com> http://www.springer.com

Dedicated website:  <http://ea-tel.eu/special-interest-groups/well>
http://ea-tel.eu/special-interest-groups/well 

EasyChair submission:
<https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=wellspringer2018>
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=wellspringer2018 

Introduction

Wearable technologies - such as smart glasses, smart watches, smart objects,
or smart garments - are potential game-changers, breaking ground, and
offering new opportunities for learning. These devices are body-worn,
equipped with sensors, and integrate ergonomically into everyday activities.
With wearable technologies forging new human-computer relations, it is
essential to look beyond the current perspective of how technologies may be
used to enhance learning. 

Scope

This edited volume "Perspectives on Wearable Enhanced Learning" aims to take
a multidisciplinary view on wearable enhanced learning and provide a
comprehensive overview of current trends, research, and practice in diverse
learning contexts including school and work-based learning, higher
education, professional development, vocational training, health and healthy
aging programs, smart and open learning, and work. This volume will feature
current state of the art in wearable enhanced learning and explore how
wearable technologies begin to mark the transition from the desktop through
the mobile to the age of wearable, ubiquitous technology-enhanced learning.

Contents

The edited volume is divided into seven parts:

Part I The Evolution and Ecology of Wearable Enhanced Learning 

This part includes chapters describing an evolution of technology-enhanced
learning from the desktop to wearable era, the different phases in the
evolution of technologies for learning, introducing in the technological and
conceptual shifts from e-learning through m-learning to ubiquitous learning.
This part introduces the reader to the topic and provides both a historical
perspective and a conceptual framework for a socio-cultural ecology of
learning with wearables.

Part II The Topography of Wearable Enhanced Learning

This part includes chapters giving an overview of current trends and uses of
wearable enhanced learning including examples of projects, use cases, case
studies. This part provides an overview of real-life examples and aims at
illustrating the breadth of uses of wearable technologies for learning in
different application contexts such as education, work, health and open
learning.

Part III Technological Frameworks, Development and Implementation

This part includes chapters providing insight into different technological
aspects of wearable enhanced learning focusing both on the hardware and the
software. This part also gives an overview of different development and
implementation methodologies applied in wearable enhanced learning.

Part IV Pedagogical Frameworks and Didactic Considerations

This part includes chapters providing insight into different pedagogical
frameworks and didactic/instructional design approaches applied in wearable
enhanced learning. This part also discusses pedagogical affordances of
wearables as technologies for learning and the consequences for a
didactically sound design and integration of wearables in learning
settings/environments.

Part V Design of User Experience 

This part includes chapters providing insight into different aspects of user
experience design including approaches for enhancing user engagement such as
gamification and information visualisation as well as human-computer
interaction and interface design. This part also discusses how current
insights from research and development in wearable computing, which
represents the forefront of HCI innovation, may be applied to designing user
experience in learning settings.

Part VI Research and Data

This part includes chapters providing overview of current empirical research
results in wearable enhanced learning touching upon the different dimensions
of learning including cognitive, social and embodied dimensions. This part
also discusses how data can be gathered and exploited in wearable enhanced
learning which includes such topics as wearable learning analytics, turning
data into information and data-driven approaches to enhancing learning in
wearable enhanced learning.

Part VII Synopsis and Prognosis

The final part includes a chapter providing a synopsis and a prognosis for
the future development in the field of wearable enhanced learning.

Call for Chapters 

Prospective authors (co-authors are welcome) are invited to submit a chapter
proposal (via EasyChair:
<https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=wellspringer2018>
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=wellspringer2018) in form of an
abstract (max. 300 words) with the title, names of authors, five keywords
and the part of the book for the contribution not later than 30 September
2017. The proposals for chapters should be a previously unpublished work. 

Upon acceptance of the chapter proposal and notification of authors by 20
October 2017, the final chapter should be completed not later than 01
February 2018. 

Contributions will be double blind reviewed and returned with comments by 31
March 2018. Finalised chapters are due no later than 30 April 2018. The
final contributions should not exceed 20 manuscript pages. Guidelines for
preparing your chapter will be sent to you upon acceptance of your proposal.

Proposed Timeline

The following represents a timeline for completing this volume:

*         20 June 2017: Call for Chapters open

*         30 September 2017: Abstracts due (title, authors, abstract,
keywords & book part)

*         20 October 2017: Notification and additional information for
authors and templates

*         01 February 2018: Chapters due (according to the template)

*         31 March 2018: Chapters returned with reviewers' comments

*         30 April 2018: Final chapters due (ready for publication)

*         31 May 2018: Book manuscript delivered to Springer

Inquires and Submissions

Please forward your inquiries to:

The Editors: Ilona Buchem, Ralf Klamma and Fridolin Wild

E-mail:  <mailto:sig-well at dbis.rwth-aachen.de> sig-well at dbis.rwth-aachen.de 

Web:  <http://ea-tel.eu/special-interest-groups/well>
http://ea-tel.eu/special-interest-groups/well 

Twitter: @mediendidaktik @klamma @fwild

Please submit your proposal to:

EasyChair:  <https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=wellspringer2018>
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=wellspringer2018

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