Papers are invited for the mini-track on Advances in Teaching and Learning Technologies as part of the Collaboration Technology track at the Hawaii International Conference on Systems Science (HICSS).
The Advances in Teaching and Learning Technologies mini-track encourages research contributions that deal with learning theories, cognition, tools and their development, enabling platforms, communication media, distance learning, supporting infrastructures, user experiences, research methods, social impacts, and/or measurable outcomes as they relate to the area of technology and its support of improving teaching and learning. Appropriate usage environments range from same-time, same-place to anytime, anywhere that increase interactions among the learners and the teacher/facilitator.
In this respect, this mini-track is intended to include all aspects of teaching
and learning technologies from the original inceptions of theories and tools
through the measurement of learning outcomes. On an increasing basis, these
types of activities take place in collaborative settings, both academic
and industrial, thus providing a natural fit within the Collaboration Systems
and Technology Track.
Special interest is placed upon papers that address the following topics for either facilities-based or distributed education programs:
- New software tool development that addresses XML, wireless,
or other recent technologies
- Innovative, theoretically grounded course tools with demonstrable learning
outcomes.
- Case studies or Action Research that investigates the effects of technology
on learning
- Cases or qualitative accounts of TSL adoption/diffusion that identify
cause and effect factors that contribute to the success or failure of diffusion
across multiple courses, degree programs, or schools.
- Social, political, and ethical issues relating to TSL
The purpose of this mini-track is to:
- Increase understanding of learning phenomena,
- Examine the role of Information Technology in support of learning in the
workplace and in schools
- Provide a forum for intellectual interchange in the domain of IT and learning
- Distribute research findings on Technology-supported Learning
- Foster a community of technology researchers working in the learning domain
Potential topics related to learning may focus on but are not limited to:
* TECHNOLOGIES
- Just-in-time learning tools
- Group Support Systems for learning
- AI and Computer-aided instruction,
- On-line tutorials
- Hypermedia and learning Internet for learning
- Technology for asynchronous course work
- Other learning support tools
* LEARNERS
- The nature of learning and implications for technological intervention
- Processes and techniques for successful use of automated learning
- Philosophical analysis of the role of electronic tools in learning
* FACULTY
- Technology and the changing role of the instructor and student
- Emerging skills required for teaching in technology-enhanced environments
- Philosophical analysis of the role of technology to change learning processes
* PEDAGOGY TRANSFORMATION / EVALUATION
- Telelearning and teleteaching
- Changing pedagogy for changing technology
- Simulations and games
- Methods and techniques for teaching with IT
- New approaches to on-line tutorials
- Comparisons of new tools and techniques to traditional methods, as well
as comparisons of new techniques to one another
- Descriptive and interpretivist field research that documents problems
relating to technology supported learning
* INSTITUTIONAL AND SOCIETAL CHANGE
- Implications of learning support technologies on the workplace, institutions
of learning, and society
- Technology and Organizational Learning
* TECHNOLOGY TRANSITION IN THE LEARNING COMMUNITY
- Theoretical foundations for transition
- Field experience with adoption and diffusion
- Pragmatic and academic approaches to transition
This will be the ninth year of a learning-related mini
track at HICSS. Although past sessions have been well attended, many of
the topics listed above remain unexplored. Although many of the major IS
journals have published special issues on technology-supported learning,
we have just begun to marry the learning theorists with the technologists.
A vast unexplored array of issues looms before us.
Minitrack Chairs:
Eric Santanen
Department of Management
Bucknell University
Lewisburg, Pennsylvania 17837
Office: (570) 577-3652
esantane at bucknell dot edu
http://www.facstaff.bucknell.edu/esantane/David Spencer
New Jersey Institute of TechnologyRutgers UniversityPO Box 173Lebanon, NJ 08833(908) 213-8908dspencer at pegasus dot rutgers period edu
Important Details and Deadlines can be found at the HICSS web site
If you would be willing to review papers for this minitrack,
please send your name and e-mail address to Eric at the address above. This
process would consist of reviewing 1-2 papers.
Thank you.
NOTE: Because HICSS is a nonprofit activity funded entirely by registration fees, all participants and speakers are expected to have their university/organization bear the costs of their expenses and registration. HICSS is not able to subsidize registrations or offer reduced fees.