Wednesday, March 29, 2017 06:43 AM
ICDE launches open call for Insight Paper 2: Blended Learning
ICDE is seeking authors to write the second paper in our Insight series on the topic of State of the nation: blended learning. Insight papers are between 5 -7.000 words long and written in an accessible language style for a wide audience. Authors and researchers should be considered by their peers as experts in the field and may not necessarily be ICDE members.
The ICDE Research and Innovation Report (2015) recommended that ICDE develop a series of Insight papers that could reflect the emerging research and innovation issues that members were interested in. The first Insight Papers on Learning Analytics were published in November 2016 and are accessible from ICDE’s website.
This second call to action seeks writers and researchers who can collaborate with ICDE to produce a new Insight paper on the topic Blended Learning. Blended learning is a mainstream approach to learning in higher education. Teachers are commonly drawing upon a mix of digital technologies and face to face approaches to enhance the learning outcomes of their students. The term itself blended learning has many definitions which are varied in the explanation. There appear to be many interpretations of exactly what it is, how it works and what the benefits are. ICDE is seeking authors to write the second paper in our Insight series on the topic of State of the nation: blended learning.
The Insight paper will be desk-top published and launched at the ICDE World Conference in Toronto in October 2017, and through various ICDE media channels. Upon completion authors may even wish to develop the Insight paper into a research article for the ICDE Praxis Journal or present the work at later ICDE Conferences.
Insight papers are between 5 -7.000 words long and written in an accessible language style for a wide audience. The audience could be both practitioners and leaders.
Authors and researchers should be considered by their peers as experts in the field and may not necessarily be ICDE members. The Insight paper will need to be founded on evidence and provide a synthesis of the current state of play with critical insights for various audiences.
A draft Insight paper is due by June 30th, 2017 and the final version by August 30th, 2017. Upon receipt of the final paper an honorarium will be due 450 Euro /500 US dollars.
Evaluation criteria:
Relevance to the announced topic
Actuality to the field of praxis
Degree of new insight on the topic
The Insight paper will be published under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-SA 4.0)
If you or someone you know is interested in undertaking this work, please send an expression of interest of no more than 500 words stating your expertise, approach and confirm your ability to meet the stated deadlines plus a CV demonstrating your expertise in the field.
Enquiries of interest are due 19th April, 2017, and should be addressed by email to: [log in to unmask]
Queries may be addressed to Torunn Gjelsvik, ICDE Secretariat: [log in to unmask]
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