Call for Papers - SEEL 2024

SEEL 2024: 11th International Conference on Smart Education and E-Learning

19-21 June, 2024 Santa Cruz, Madeira, Portugal

http://seel-24.kesinternational.org/

Part of KES Smart Digital Futures event which groups AMSTA-24, IDT-24, HCIS-24, InMed-24, SEEL-24 and STS-24 in one venue.

http://sdf-24.kesinternational.org/

Aim

SEEL is a major international forum for the presentation of innovative ideas, approaches, technologies, systems, findings and outcomes of research and design and development projects in the emerging areas of smart education, strategies and approaches for smart teaching, learning, and e-learning, applications of smart technology and smart systems in education and e-learning, smart classrooms and smart universities, and knowledge-based smart society.

SEEL will provide an excellent opportunity for scholars, Ph.D. students, faculty, administrators, and practitioners to meet well-known experts from all over the world and to discuss innovative ideas, approaches and novelties in smart teaching and learning, advances in smart technology, intelligent systems and state-of-the-art software and hardware systems for education, research findings and outcomes, best practices and case studies, national and international projects, institutional standards and policies, and many other topics related to innovative smart education, smart universities and smart schools.

Dates, Conference and Publication

• Submission Deadline: 15 January 2024

• Acceptance Notification: 19 February 2024

• Camera Ready Submission: 11 March 2024

• Presentation at Conference: 19-21 June 2024

• Publication: Springer; Series on Smart Innovation, Systems and Technologies

Scope

1. Smart Education (SmE Track)
- Conceptual frameworks for smart education
- Innovative smart teaching and learning technologies
- Best practices and case studies on smart education
- Smart pedagogy
- Smart classroom (features, characteristics, infrastructure, etc.)
- Smart curriculum and courseware design and development
- Smart assessment and testing
- Smart education analytics
- Faculty development and instructor's skills for smart education
- University-wide smart systems for teaching, learning, research, collaboration, communication, management, security
- Smart blended, distance, online and open education
- Partnerships, national and international projects on smart education
- Standards and policies in smart education
- Economics of smart education

2. Smart e-Learning (SmL Track)
- Smart e-learning: concepts, strategies and approaches
- Smart e-learning teaching strategies
- Massive Open Online Courses (MOOC)
- Small Personal Online Courses (SPOC)
- Assessment and testing in smart e-learning
- Serious games-based smart e-learning
- Courseware design and development for smart e-learning
- Smart e-learning environments
- Hardware and software systems, portals and platforms for smart e-learning
- Smart e-learning pedagogy
- Smart e-learner modelling
- Smart e-learning management, analytics, and quality assurance
- Faculty development and instructor's skills for smart e-learning
- Best practices and case studies on smart e-learning
- Benefits and effectiveness of smart e-learning
- Partnerships, national and international projects on smart e-learning
- Standards and policies in smart e-learning
- Social, cultural, and ethical dimensions and challenges of smart e-learning
- Economics of smart e-learning

3. Smart Technology Applications in Education and e-Learning (SmT Track)
- Smart technology enhanced teaching and learning
- Internet-of-Things (IoT) in smart learning environments
- Smart phones and smart devices in education
- Smart technologies and systems for education and e-learning
- Educational applications of smart technology and smart systems
- Smart technology-based educational software and hardware systems
- Mobility, security, access and control in smart learning environments
- Smart gamification (fusion of smart technology and serious games)
- Smart multimedia (fusion of smart technology and rich multimedia technology)
- Smart mobility (fusion of smart technology and mobile technology)

4. From Smart Education to Smart Society" Continuum (SmS Track)
- Smart school
- Applications of smart toys in education
- Smart management and administration
- Smart campus and smart university
- Economics of smart universities
- Smart house
- Smart healthcare
- Smart wealth
- Smart cities
- Smart society

5. Smart University as a Hub for Students' Engagement into Virtual Business and Entrepreneurship (SmB Track)
- Entrepreneurship and innovation at university: student role and engagement
- Student engagement with virtual businesses and virtual companies
- Virtual teams and virtual team working (technology, models, ethics)
- University curricula for entrepreneurship and innovation (core and supplemental courses)
- New student goal - start his/her own business (instead of getting a job in a company)
- Students and start-up companies (approaches, models, best practices

Call for Invited Sessions

An invited session consists of a presentation session of 6 to 12 or more papers on a specific conference topic, organised as half or full day mini-conference. We invite senior scientists who have a special interest in a specific conference topic to take responsibility for an invited session, gathering papers from a range of research expertise around the world.

Researchers who would like to organise one or more Invited Sessions on topics falling within the scope of the conference are invited to submit a proposal for consideration.


For details of the sessions accepted so far please see here: http://seel-24.kesinternational.org/cmsISdisplay.php

IS01: Navigating the AI Revolution: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Education

IS02: Smart Pedagogy: Innovative and Creative Ways to Increase the Effectiveness of Teaching and Maximize Student Learning in the Classroom

IS03: Integrating Metaverse, Augmented Reality, and Virtual Reality for Smart 21st Century Education

IS04: Models in Smart E-Learning System Theory and Practice (MSTP)

Submission Guidelines and Review Process

Authors are invited to submit original, unpublished papers which are not under review for another conference, workshop, or journal by the time of submission. The contributors should address one or more research areas included above.

Detailed submission information is available on the conference page

Submitted papers will undergo double-blind peer review by at least two members of the program committee. Prior to submission, please ensure that you have removed any information from your paper which could identify the authors.

Paper acceptance is based on the following criteria: novelty, technical soundness, practical or theoretical impact, clarity, and presentation. At least one author per paper submission is required to register for the conference, and to present the paper.

Organisation

General Chair: Prof. Vladimir Uskov, Ph.D. Professor, Department of Computer Science and Information Systems, Co-Director, InterLabs Research Institute. Bradley University, U.S.A.


Honorary Chair: Prof. Lakhmi C. Jain, KES International, Australia


Executive Chair: Prof. Robert Howlett, Visiting Professor, 'Aurel Vlaicu' University of Arad, Romania and Visiting Professor, Bournemouth University, UK

International Programme Committee

The list of the IPC members will be added shortly to the conference page
Conference Awards

Best Conference Paper award
Best Graduate/Ph.D. Student award


Collaborating Organisations

KES International (UK)
InterLabs Research Institute, Bradley University (USA)
Institut Superieur de l'Electronique et du Numerique ISEN-Brest (FRANCE)
Silesian University of Technology (POLAND)
Multimedia Apps D&R Center, University of Craiova (ROMANIA)
Science and Education Research Council COPEC (BRAZIL)
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