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<p style="TEXT-ALIGN:center" class="MsoNormal" align="center"><font face="Times New Roman"><b><i><span style="COLOR:blue;FONT-SIZE:14pt" lang="EN-US">Knowledge Management & E-Learning (KM&EL)</span></i></b><b><i><span style="COLOR:blue;FONT-SIZE:14pt" lang="EN-US"></span></i></b></font></p>
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<p style="TEXT-JUSTIFY:inter-ideograph;TEXT-ALIGN:center;MARGIN:0cm 0cm 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style lang="EN-US"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman"><em>2013 SNIP (Source Normalized Impact per Paper): 1.052 | Ranking: 218/643 Education | 45/113 Management of Technology and Innovation</em></font></font></span></p>
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<p style="TEXT-ALIGN:center" class="MsoNormal" align="center"><font face="Times New Roman"><b><span style="COLOR:blue;FONT-SIZE:14pt" lang="EN-US">Smart Cities of the Future: Creating Tomorrow’s Education </span></b><b><span style="COLOR:blue;FONT-SIZE:14pt" lang="EN-US">t</span></b><b><span style="COLOR:blue;FONT-SIZE:14pt" lang="EN-US">oward</span></b><b><span style="COLOR:blue;FONT-SIZE:14pt" lang="EN-US"> </span></b><b><span style="COLOR:blue;FONT-SIZE:14pt" lang="EN-US">Effective Skills and Career Development Today</span></b><b style><span style="COLOR:blue" lang="EN-US"></span></b></font></p>
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<p style="TEXT-ALIGN:center;MARGIN:0cm 0cm 0pt" class="MsoNormal" align="center"><font face="Times New Roman"><i style><span style="FONT-SIZE:14pt" lang="EN-US">Dr. Fanny Klett (IEEE Fellow)</span></i><i style><span style="FONT-SIZE:14pt" lang="EN-US"></span></i></font></p>
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<p style="TEXT-ALIGN:center;MARGIN:0cm 0cm 0pt" class="MsoNormal" align="center"><span style lang="EN-US"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman">German Workforce ADL Partnership Laboratory, Germany</font></font></span></p>
<p style="TEXT-ALIGN:center;MARGIN:0cm 0cm 0pt" class="MsoNormal" align="center"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman"><span lang="EN-US">Email</span><span style lang="EN-US">: </span><span lang="EN-US"><span style> </span></span><span style lang="EN-US"><a href="mailto:fanny.klett.de@adlnet.gov"><font color="#0000ff">fanny.klett.de@adlnet.gov</font></a></span></font></font></p>
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<p style="TEXT-ALIGN:center;MARGIN:0cm 0cm 0pt" class="MsoNormal" align="center"><font face="Times New Roman"><i style><span style="FONT-SIZE:14pt" lang="EN-US">Dr. Maggie M. Wang</span></i><i style><span style="FONT-SIZE:14pt" lang="EN-US"></span></i></font></p>
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<p style="TEXT-ALIGN:center;MARGIN:0cm 0cm 0pt" class="MsoNormal" align="center"><span style lang="EN-US"><font face="Times New Roman"><font size="3">The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong</font></font></span></p>
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<p style="TEXT-JUSTIFY:inter-ideograph;TEXT-ALIGN:justify;MARGIN:0cm 0cm 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><font face="Times New Roman"><font size="3"><span lang="EN-US">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</span><span style lang="EN-US">.</span></font></font></p>
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<p style="TEXT-JUSTIFY:inter-ideograph;TEXT-ALIGN:justify;MARGIN:0cm 0cm 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><font face="Times New Roman"><font size="3"><span lang="EN-US">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</span><span style lang="EN-US">.</span></font></font></p>
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<p style="TEXT-JUSTIFY:inter-ideograph;TEXT-ALIGN:justify;MARGIN:0cm 0cm 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><font face="Times New Roman"><font size="3"><span lang="EN-US">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</span><span style lang="EN-US">.</span></font></font></p>
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<p style="TEXT-JUSTIFY:inter-ideograph;TEXT-ALIGN:justify;MARGIN:0cm 0cm 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><font face="Times New Roman"><font size="3"><span lang="EN-US">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</span><span style lang="EN-US">.</span></font></font></p>
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<p style="TEXT-JUSTIFY:inter-ideograph;TEXT-ALIGN:justify;MARGIN:0cm 0cm 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman">The topics of interest include, but are not limited to:</font></span></p>
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<p style="TEXT-JUSTIFY:inter-ideograph;TEXT-ALIGN:justify;MARGIN:0cm 0cm 0pt 48pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="FONT-FAMILY:Symbol" lang="EN-US"><span style><font size="3">·</font><span style="FONT:7pt 'Times New Roman'"> </span></span></span><span style lang="EN-US"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman">Obstacles, future needs, and measures of success of the Smart City concept toward education and interrelated settings</font></font></span></p>
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<p style="MARGIN:0cm 0cm 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style lang="EN-US"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman">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.</font></font></span></p>
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<p style="MARGIN:0cm 0cm 0pt" class="MsoPlainText"><span style="FONT-FAMILY:'Times New Roman','serif';FONT-SIZE:12pt" lang="EN-US">Publication schedule: </span><span style="FONT-FAMILY:'Times New Roman','serif';FONT-SIZE:12pt" lang="EN-US">Dec 2014 (Vol.6, No.4)</span></p>
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