Call for Papers: The Internet and Higher Education Special Issue: Social Media in Higher Education

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Call for papers
Special Issue: Social Media in Higher Education

Guest editors
Stefan Hrastinski, Assistant Professor, KTH Royal Institute of Technology
Vanessa Dennen, Associate Professor, Florida State University

The social media hype has created a lot of speculation among educators on how these media can be used to support learning. In this special issue, we would like to explore how social media can be taken advantage of in higher education to support informal and formal learning. It is well agreed upon that most learning takes place outside school in our everyday lives. On campuses, there are common spaces such as hallways, lounges, libraries, and cafés, which support informal learning better than classrooms or lecture-halls. Social media have potential to support learning in both informal and formal settings, as well as creating an entirely new setting in which learning may take place. We can learn a lot from how students are already using such media to support learning in each of these areas.
Although most would agree that emerging social media support learning in new ways, we still know little about how students currently use social media to support learning. Prensky put forth the dichotomy of “digital natives” and “digital immigrants” when arguing that technology has dramatically changed the way students of higher education live and learn. Similar arguments have labeled today’s students the net generation, millenials, homo zappiens, generation M and generation Y – labels intended to differentiate their relationship to and use of technology from that of previous generations of learners.  However, a growing body of literature questions whether there is really a sharp and fundamental break between today’s young people and previous generations in terms of their adeptness with technology and how they learn. Although we see today’s youth using many social media tools, some tools are more frequently used by older people. Similarly, some are readily adopted by students for personal use, whereas other social media tools have been relegated to as-required or as-assigned use and have been met with resistance. Thus, there are many perceptions of the role social media plays in education, some of which are myths and other are realities. We believe it is time to go beyond the simple dichotomies of the digital natives debate in order to understand how emerging social media can support students’ informal and formal learning. We need to move forward from saying that “students learn in new ways” towards conducting rigorous research that can help us understand the role of social media in higher education.

In this issue, we seek articles that present the outcome of rigorous studies of social media use in higher education as well as articles that help provide strong theoretical guidance for the directions future research might take.

Authors are requested to submit manuscripts via the Elsevier Editorial System (EES) no later than March 15, 2011. You need to select “Social Media in Higher Ed” when you reach the “Article Type” step in the submission process.

Contact the Special Issue Editors if additional information is required:

Dr. Stefan Hrastinski
Assistant Professor
KTH Royal Institute of Technology
stefanhr@kth.se

Dr. Vanessa Dennen
Associate Professor
Florida State University
vdennen@fsu.edu

Important dates
Deadline for paper submission: March 15, 2011
Notification of acceptance: May 15, 2011
Camera-ready version of accepted papers: July 15, 2011
Publication date: End of 2011

Conferences!

SITE (Society for Information Technology and Teacher Education - AACE) 2011 Final call January 10th. The dates for this conference are  March 7-10th.

Global Time (AACE)  Final call January 14th. The dates for this ONLINE conference are February 22-24th.

ICALT (IEEE International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies) Final Call January 17th. The dates for this conference are July 6-8th.

Web-based Communities and Social Media. Due date for proposals is January 24th. The conference dates are July 22-24th.

e-Society. Due date for proposals is January 28th. The conference dates are March 10-13th.

Call for proposals: TCC (Technology, Colleges, and Community). Due date for proposals is January 28th. The dates for this ONLINE conference are April 12-14th.

 AECT (Association for Educational Communications and Technology). Due date for proposals is February 15th. Conference dates are November 9-12th.

Association of Internet Researchers/Internet Resarch 12. Due date for proposals is March 1st. The dates for the conference are October 10-13th.

Special Issue Call for Papers (The Internet and Higher Education)

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The Internet and Higher Education

Special Issue Call for Papers on

Emotions in Online Learning Environments: Theory, Research, and Practice

Special Issue Editor: Anthony R. Artino, Jr. Ph.D.

Scholars have recently called for more inquiry on the role of emotions
in education.  Although the dynamics of emotions that emerge during
online learning may be less apparent than those experienced during
traditional classroom instruction, limited empirical evidence suggests
that emotions are important contributors to learning and achievement
in online environments.  However, educators currently know little
about the complexity of student and teacher emotions and their
potential influence on academic outcomes in online contexts.
Accordingly, The Internet and Higher Education (INTHIG) invites papers
for a special issue focusing on understanding the role of emotions in
online learning environments (OLEs).  Specific areas of interest
include, but are not limited to:

How emotions develop and evolve in OLEs;
How students and teachers regulate their emotions in OLEs;
Emotional states and traits in online learning processes;
Assessing emotions in OLEs;
The influence of emotions on cognition, motivation, behavior,
collaboration, and achievement in OLEs;
The emotional experience of being an online instructor;
How emotional factors can be integrated into existing theories of
online learning; and
OLE design features and instructional activities that impact student
and teacher emotions.

Manuscripts that focus on theoretical, empirical, and practical issues
will be considered, and manuscripts that employ qualitative,
quantitative, and mixed-methods designs are welcomed and encouraged.
All submissions should follow the usual format for INTHIG submissions
and should adhere to existing INTHIG Author Guidelines, which can be
found on the submission website (see link below).

Authors are requested to submit manuscripts via the Elsevier Editorial
System no later than June 1, 2011.  The submission website can be
found at http://ees.elsevier.com/inthig.  To ensure all manuscripts
are correctly identified for inclusion into the special issue, authors
are asked to please select << Emotions in OLEs >> when they reach the
“Article Type” step in the submission process.

To request additional information, please contact the Special Issue Editor:

Anthony R. Artino, Jr., Ph.D., Assistant Professor
Department of Preventive Medicine and Biometrics
Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences
4301 Jones Bridge Road, Bethesda, Maryland 20814
Phone: (301) 319-6988, Email: anthony.artino@usuhs.mil (email preferred)

Proposals: 27th Annual Conference on Distance Teaching & Learning

The call for proposals is now open for the 27th Annual Conference on Distance Teaching & Learning. The deadline for proposals is January 19, 2011. The conference will be held in Madison,Wisconsin August 3-5, 2011. For more information visit: http://www.uwex.edu/disted/conference/.

Reminder: Paul Marty Seminar Speaker Today

Paul Marty from Florida State University is our seminar speaker on Friday, December 3, 12-1pm. Dr. Marty will present to us about his Habitat Tracker Project (for more info see: http://www.fsu.com/News/FSU-wins-1.2M-grant-to-turn-schoolchildren-into-habitat-trackers ).

Seminar Speakers: Jim Klein & Paul Marty

Jim Klein from Arizona State University is our seminar speaker on Monday, November 22nd from 11-12. Dr. Klein's presentation is titled "The Instructional Design Knowledge Base: From Theory to Practice."


Paul Marty from Florida State University is our seminar speaker on Friday, December 3, 12-1. Dr. Marty will present to us about his Habitat Tracker Project (for more info see: http://www.fsu.com/News/FSU-wins-1.2M-grant-to-turn-schoolchildren-into-habitat-trackers ).

SITE 2010 Call for Proposals

The Society for Information Technology and Teacher Education 2011 conference is in Nashville, Tennessee March 7-11th. Proposals are due January 3rd.  For more information about the conference, visit the conference website.