BJET special issue - Emerging Technologies and Changing Learning/Teaching Practices

We are proud to announce a call for papers for a special edition on "Emerging Technologies and Changing Learning/Teaching Practices". Two of our project team members, Prof. Dick Ng’ambi and Prof. Vivienne Bozalek, will be guest editors.

This Special Journal Issue on Emerging Technologies and Changing Learning / Teaching Practices, BJET Volume 44, Issue 4, will be published in July 2013.

Overview:

The education sector in general and higher education in particular is under pressure to respond to concerns of the effectiveness and outcomes of teaching and learning. Both educators and students are exploiting ubiquitous and emerging technologies to respond to various teaching and learning challenges. Some of the consequences of emerging technologies include the rise in personal learning environments, decrease in reliance on institutionally regulated learning environments, need for more integration of formal with informal learning; life-wide with life-long learning; and demand for ‘flexible student-centered learning, where students can access learning at times and places which are personalized and suitable for them’ (Johnson et al., 2010). There is no doubt that changes in teaching and learning environments are increasingly being impacted by uses of emerging technologies. However, the extent to which the uses of emerging technologies contribute to effectiveness and or outcomes of teaching and learning remain unexplored. This special edition will focus on how emerging technologies are being used to transform teaching and learning practices in higher education, which may lead to qualitative outcomes in education. We are therefore inviting submission of papers for BJET Special Issue located at the intersection of emerging technologies, teaching/learning challenges, and emergent practices

For more information visit the BJET website.