Smart Education, Smart e-Learning, Smart Universities and Smart Pedagogy are emerging and rapidly growing areas. They have a potential to transform existing teaching strategies, learning environments, educational activities, and supporting technology in a classroom. They are focused at enabling instructors to develop new ways of achieving excellence in teaching in technological smart classrooms and smart universities, and providing students with new opportunities to maximize their success and select the best options for their education, location, learning style, and mode of learning content delivery.

The 9th international conference on Smart Education and e-Learning (SEEL) will be held on June 20-22, 2022 at the Rhodes Island, Greece at the Sheraton Hotel and Resort. It will host the 2022 International Forum of Ph.D. Students who are involved in conference-related doctoral studies and research (2022 Ph.D. Student Forum). It is a major international forum for Ph.D. students to present innovative ideas, approaches, concepts, technologies, systems, preliminary or final findings and outcomes of research activities and Ph.D. studies in the emerging areas of smart education, smart e-learning, smart pedagogy, smart analytics, applications of smart technology and smart systems in education and e-learning, smart classrooms, smart universities, and knowledge-based smart society.

Main Topics
The main topics of the 2022 Ph.D. Student Forum are grouped into several clusters and include but are not limited to:

Smart Education (SmE cluster): conceptual frameworks for smart education; smart university; smart campus; smart classroom; smart learning environments; stakeholders of smart university; mathematical modeling of smart university; academic or institutional analytics; university-wide smart systems for teaching, learning, research, management, safety, security; research projects, best practices and case studies on smart education; partnerships, national and international initiatives and projects on smart education; economics of smart education;

Smart Pedagogy (SmP cluster): innovative smart teaching and learning technologies; learning-by-doing; active learning; experiential learning, games-based learning and gamification of learning; collaborative learning; analytics-based learning; flipped classroom; crowdsourcing-based learning; project-based learning; adaptive learning; badging-based learning; productive failure-based learning; smart learning analytics; research projects, best practices and case studies on smart pedagogy; smart curriculum and courseware design and development; smart assessment and testing; smart university’s student/learner modeling; faculty modeling, faculty development and instructor's skills for smart education; university-wide smart systems for teaching and learning; learning management systems; smart blended, distance, online and open education; partnerships, national and international initiatives and projects on smart pedagogy;

Smart e-Learning (SmL cluster): smart e-learning: concepts, strategies and approaches; Massive Open Online Courses (MOOC); Small Personal Online Courses (SPOC); assessment and testing in smart e-learning; serious games-based smart e-learning; smart collaborative e-learning; adaptive e-learning; smart e-learning environments; courseware and open education repositories for smart e-learning; smart e-learning pedagogy, teaching and learning; smart e-learner modelling; smart e-learning management, academic analytics, and quality assurance; faculty development and instructor's skills for smart e-learning; research, design and development projects, best practices and case studies on smart e-learning; standards and policies in smart e-learning; social, cultural, and ethical dimensions of smart e-learning; economics of smart e-learning;

Smart Technology, Software and Hardware Systems for Smart Education and e-Learning (SmT cluster): smart technology-enhanced teaching and learning; adaptation, sensing, inferring, self-learning, anticipation and self-organization of smart learning environments; Internet-of-Things (IoT), cloud computing, RFID, ambient intelligence, and mobile wireless sensor networks applications in smart classrooms and smart universities; smart phones and smart devices in education; educational applications of smart technology and smart systems; mobility, security, access and control in smart learning environments; smart gamification; smart multimedia; smart mobility;

“From Smart Education to Smart Society” Continuum (SmS cluster): smart school; applications of smart toys and games in education; smart university; smart campus; economics of smart universities; smart university’s management and administration; smart office; smart company; smart house; smart living; smart healthcare; smart wealth; smart life-long learning; smart city; national and international initiatives and projects; smart society;

“Smart University as a Hub for Students' Engagement into Virtual Business and Entrepreneurship (SmB cluster): 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 and case studies).

Publication of Accepted papers and Indexing
All accepted papers by Ph.D. students will be published by Springer as book chapters in a volume of the Smart Innovation Systems and Technologies series (https://www.springer.com/series/8767), and submitted for indexing in Scopus and Thomson Reuters Conference Proceedings Citation Index (CPCI) and the Web of Science.

“Best Ph.D. Student Paper” Award
The winner of the “Best Ph.D. Student” Award will be identified by members of the International Program Committee. A list of IPC members is available on the 2022 Ph.D. Student Forum’s web site (see below). The winner will be awarded with a plaque and actual award.

Stay in touch
For further information about 2022 PhDForum please email: eaboldyreva@itmo.ru or visit www.seel-phdforum.com