Social Computing in Higher Learning Environments:
How Media, Tools, and Platforms Change Learners' Behavior
Editors
Bebo White, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Menlo Park, CA, USA
Irwin King, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Philip Tsang, Caritas Institute of Higher Education, Hong Kong
You are invited to propose chapters for a book on Social Computing in Education. The book is planned to be published by Springer, Heidelberg, Germany in 2011.
Dates | Description |
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May 15, 2010 | Deadline for Extended Abstract |
June 1, 2010 | Notification of Decision |
August 1, 2010 | First Complete Submission |
October 1, 2010 | First Review Feedback |
November 15, 2010 | Only Revised Submission |
January 15, 2011 | Final Camera-ready Submission to Springer |
March 2011 | Book Published |
With the advent of Web 2.0 and related technologies, Social Computing has become a new paradigm for the ways we communicate, learn, and educate. Social Media such as Wikis, blogs, tweets, online groups and forums, podcasts, Web mashups, virtual worlds, social networking Web sites, recommender/evaluation systems, social tagging/bookmarking, knowledge sharing, and other related technologies are enabling novel ways that we are able to acquire, access, manipulate, process, retrieve, present, and visualize information in the teaching and learning space. The social media for education has become dynamic, ubiquitous, distributed, real-time, collaborative, bottom-up, many-to-many, value-based, and personalized.
This volume seeks original research work on the use of social media and related technologies for education, the emerging applications of Web 2.0 as an educational platform, as well as the privacy, risk, security, and other pertinent policy issues associated in “Social Computing for Education 2.0.”
The proposed book will provide a current snapshot of unique, innovative, and effective uses of Social Media in education for teaching and learning. More specifically, the volume aims to explore in depth about the tools and platforms that are currently being used in a learning environment. Moreover, we intend to highlight upcoming cutting-edge systems to better the learning space.
The book chapters will follow a coherent theme in the use of social media in the teaching/learning context. However, each chapter in the book will explore in greater detail a different approach or methodology within that theme.
The relevant and important questions the book will address include:
You are invited to submit an extended abstract of no more than 5 pages describing the focus of your chapter. The proposal should include but not limited to: title, abstract, section headings with summaries of your chapter.
Electronic submissions are required. Please email your chapter proposal or questions to Bebo White bebo@slac.stanford.edu with subject Springer-Chapter-Proposal.
Bebo White SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory Stanford University Menlo Park, CA 94025
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