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    <b>Smart Learning Ecosystems - technologies, places, and
      human-centered design</b> <br>
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    <b>Guest Editors:</b><br class="">
    
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    <i>• Hendrik Knoche, Aalborg University, Denmark<br>
      • Elvira Popescu, University of Craiova Romania<br>
      • Antonio Cartelli, Università degli Studi di Cassino e del Lazio
      meridionale, Italy</i><br class="">
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    <b>Important dates:</b><br class="">
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    • Deadline: <b>November 30, 2018</b><br>
    • Notification to the authors: January 10, 2019<br>
    • Camera ready paper: January 30, 2019<br>
    • Publication of the special issue: mid February, 2019<br>
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    <b>Overview</b><br class="">
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    Learning ecosystems are getting smarter and play a central role in
    regional development and social innovation. “Smart,” thus, are not
    simply technology-enhanced learning ecosystems but, rather, learning
    ecosystems that promote the multidimensional well-being of all
    players of learning processes (i.e., students, professors,
    administrative personnel and technicians, territorial stakeholders,
    and, for the schools, parents) and that contribute to the increase
    of the social capital of a “region,” also thanks to the mediation of
    the technologies. Elicited work should inform the understanding of
    learning ecosystems and accompanying design for “smartness,” foster
    the development of policies and action plans, or support
    technological impact.<br>
    This special issue is supported by the Association for Smart
    Learning Ecosystems and Regional Development (<a
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    <b>Topics of Interest</b><br class="">
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    Topics of interest include research papers that understand,
    conceive, and promote innovative human-centric design and
    development methods, education/training practices, informal social
    learning, and citizen involvement. Sub-topics can be grouped into
    (i) places for learning, (ii) learning technologies, and (iii)
    human-centered design.<br>
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    <i><b>Human-centered design</b></i><br>
    • frameworks, literacies (data, design, digital, etc.), learning
    through design, methodological advances (HCD, participatory design,
    action research, etc.) <br>
    • outreach: community involvement, designing dissemination<br>
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    <i><b>Places</b></i><br>
    • visions of institutional learning, interplay of formal and
    informal learning, novel educational models, mixed educational
    approaches, cultural influences, (dis-)continuity of time,
    technology, places, spaces, and processes<br>
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    <b><i>Technologies</i></b><br>
    • topics on data (management): open, smart, interoperable, safety,
    security, privacy, trustworthiness, veracity and quality assurance,
    mining, ubiquitous, open access, sharing, wearables,
    geo-localization, context awareness and adaptation, monitoring and
    benchmarking of smartness on different levels (personal,
    organization, region)<br>
    • case studies of the technologies above as well as games, VR, and
    IoT<br>
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