International Journal of Educational Technology in Higher Education welcomes submissions to the thematic series on 'Learning design for in situ continuous professional development'.
Building on recent advances in learning design and focusing on higher education, this thematic series addresses the specific challenges that designers of learning arrangements face when designing in situ professional development (such as workplace learning). As always, such designs should cover the activities that learners engage in, the social setting (fellow learners, facilitators) and the context in which learners carry out their activities. If the workplace is the context and the learners are professionals, designers face unprecedented challenges. For example, how can educators be convinced to become genuine designers who cast aside their default constraints of school, curriculum, lecture and embrace the opportunities of online or blended learning? How can learning activities be designed that are at the very leas compatible with but better still make sense in a workplace setting? How can team learning be facilitated? How can the transition from merely learning in a team to learning in a large, personal networked learning environment be made? And also, how should this kind of learning be implemented in a workplace environment that has been spoon fed on training sessions with mere knowledge transfer, often in settings away from the workplace? We welcome papers that focus on these and other challenges typical for the design of in situ professional development arrangements. Although such papers may be situated in any workplace setting, papers addressing the topic of teacher professional development are of specific interest.
Potential topics include but are not limited to:
- Learning design
- Design thinking
- Professional development
- Continuous professional development
- Workplace learning
- online learning
- Technology-enhanced learning
- Blended learning
Submission Instructions
Before submitting your manuscript, please ensure you have carefully read the submission guidelines for International Journal of Educational Technology in Higher Education. The complete manuscript should be submitted through the International Journal of Educational Technology in Higher Education submission system. To ensure that you submit to the correct thematic series please select the appropriate thematic series in the drop-down menu upon submission. In addition, indicate within your cover letter that you wish your manuscript to be considered as part of the thematic series on 'Learning design for in situ continuous professional development'. All submissions will undergo rigorous peer review and accepted articles will be published within the journal as a collection.
Deadline for submissions: 20 December, 2016
Lead Guest Editor
Muriel Garreta Domingo, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain
Guest Editors
Peter B. Sloep, Open University of the Netherlands, Netherlands
Davinia Hernández-Leo, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain
Yishay Mor, P. A. U. Education, Spain
Submissions will also benefit from the usual advantages of open access publication:
- Rapid publication: Online submission, electronic peer review and production make the process of publishing your article simple and efficient
- High visibility and international readership in your field: Open access publication ensures high visibility and maximum exposure for your work - anyone with online access can read your article
- No space constraints: Publishing online means unlimited space for figures, extensive data and video footage
- Authors retain copyright, licensing the article under a Creative Commons license: articles can be freely redistributed and reused as long as the article is correctly attributed
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