[AISWorld] Reminder: CFP ET&S Special Issue on "Knowledge Visualization and Knowledge Management in E-Learning"‏

[maggie wang]

*Call for Papers*

*Journal of Educational Technology & Society*

*(ISSN 1436-4522)*

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*Special Issue on*

*“Knowledge Visualization and Knowledge Management in E-Learning”*



Due to its access flexibility and just-in-time delivery, e-learning is
emerging as a popular approach adopted by educational institutions and
organizations. It provides a learning mode that students or employees learn
through interactions with a wide range of multimedia resources and through
communications with peers. While e-learners are provided more freedom in
knowledge acquisition and construction, they often suffer from cognitive
overload as well as conceptual and navigational disorientation. In this
context, a coherent mental representation of knowledge structure is
essential. A variety of paper and pencil methods were used for knowledge
externalization and visualization, while computer-based technologies expand
the capacity by virtue of machine-processable knowledge modeling,
visualization, reasoning, and analysis. Visualization methods help people to
construct knowledge, organize information, and communicate learning with
others. With the emergence of social media and Web 2.0 technologies,
knowledge construction and knowledge management practices have been well
supported through social networking and communities of practice. In the
meantime, knowledge visualization has been extended to visualizing social
network structure for effective communication and collaboration in
e-learning and knowledge management.



Although the importance of knowledge visualization has been well recognized
and discussed, there have only been isolated approaches with diverse
perspectives. This special issue is dedicated to innovations in knowledge
construction and visualization mechanisms and approaches in digital learning
and knowledge management. The focus is on explicit representation of
knowledge structure, learning process, and social networking for support of
active learning and knowledge management. Relevant topics include but not
limited to:



- Knowledge visualization of complex subject matter
- Knowledge mapping and curriculum design
- Visualization in hypermedia design
- Interactive learning with dynamic visualization
- Collaborative knowledge construction and visualization
- Social network analysis and visualization
- Knowledge construction in Web-based learning communities
- Visualization of argument
- Visualization of knowledge acquisition process
- Cognitive mapping for problem solving
- Visualization for cognitive scaffolding



*Special Issue Guest Editors*



Maggie M. Wang, Faculty of Education, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
(magwang at hku.hk)



Michael J. Jacobson, Faculty of Education and Social Work, The University of
Sydney, Australia (michael.jacobson at sydney.edu.au)





*Important dates*



Submissions due:                                   25 October 2010

First decision:                                         25 December 2010

Revised manuscripts due:                      1 February 2011

Feedback on revised manuscripts:         5 March 2011

Final manuscript due:                             30 March 2011

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*Submission guideline*



The manuscripts should be original, unpublished, and not in consideration
for publication elsewhere at the time of submission to Educational
Technology & Society and during the review process.



The manuscripts must be within 7000 words (including everything - title,
author names, affiliations, abstract, keywords, main body, references,
appendices - everything).



Please carefully follow the author guidelines at
http://www.ifets.info/rev.php?pub=true

while preparing your manuscript. To get familiarity with the style of the
journal, please see a previous issue at http://www.ifets.info/





All manuscripts should be in WORD format and submitted via email to the
guest editor (magwang at hku.hk).



All manuscripts will be subject to the usual high standards of peer review
at ETS Journal. Each paper will undergo double blind review.



The Educational Technology & Society Journal is included in the Thomson
Scientific Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI) *with impact factor of
1.067* according to Thomson Scientific 2009 Journal Citations Report.
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