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Learning Technologies, Open Access, and Sustainable Futures

A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Sustainable Education and Approaches".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (1 June 2018) | Viewed by 3875

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College of Education, School of Information Science & Learning Technologies, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO 65203, USA

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Office of the Provost, Lesley University, Cambridge, MA 02138 USA

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

This journal special issue will take a broad approach to sustainability and learning technology in order to facilitate an interdisciplinary and comprehensive approach to learning technology and its impact on a sustainable future for individuals, institutions, and society. The special issue invites empirical work with different appraoches to the topic not limited to the following:

  • Sustainable selection, maintenance and support of technology on an institutional level within education
  • Teaching sustainability and sustainable futures through innovative learning technologies
  • Developing open access strategies with learning technologies to support sustainable access to high quality education and learning resources
  • Developing models of learning technology that take into account environmental sustainability and human resource sustainability
  • Learning technologies as a means to grow and develop countries and communities
  • Learning technologies as a lever for developing critical thinking skills so the educational space helps people develop for future jobs (learning technologies are sensitive to the skills needed—facilitating learners as writers (creators and producers) not just readers (consumers))

Prof. Dr. Johannes Strobel
Dr. Heather Tillberg-Webb
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Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Sustainability is an international peer-reviewed open access semimonthly journal published by MDPI.

Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 2400 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.

Keywords

  • Learning technology
  • sustainability
  • open access
  • digital divide
  • sustainable computing

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Smart, Digitally Enhanced Learning Ecosystems: Bottlenecks to Sustainability in Georgia
by Eka Jeladze and Kai Pata
Sustainability 2018, 10(8), 2672; https://doi.org/10.3390/su10082672 - 30 Jul 2018
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Abstract
This paper stems from the need to identify the sustainability bottlenecks in schools’ digital transformation. We developed the conceptual model of the smart, digitally enhanced learning ecosystem to map transformation processes. We posit that the notion of sustainability is central to conceptualize learning [...] Read more.
This paper stems from the need to identify the sustainability bottlenecks in schools’ digital transformation. We developed the conceptual model of the smart, digitally enhanced learning ecosystem to map transformation processes. We posit that the notion of sustainability is central to conceptualize learning ecosystems’ smartness. The paper presents the mapping results of Georgian public schools’ data using the interviews from 62 schoolteachers, ICT managers, and school principles. The qualitative content analysis revealed that even the schools with comparative digital maturity level could not be considered as smart learning ecosystems that are transforming sustainably. The findings call for the design of technology integration in the school as a dynamic transformation that balances two sustainability intentions—to stabilize the current learning ecosystem with its present needs, while not compromising its pursuit to test out possible future states and development towards them. We suggest schools build on the inclusion of different stakeholders in digital transformation; nourishing their resilience to ruptured situations; widening the development, testing, and uptake of digitally enhanced learning activities; weaving internal networks for sharing new practices; conducting outreach to change the socio-technical landscape; and developing feedback loops from learning, data, and information flows to manage the changes. Full article
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Learning Technologies, Open Access, and Sustainable Futures)
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