CFP: IJDL Special Issue on Digital Libraries and Education

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CFP: IJDL Special Issue on Digital Libraries and Education
	2007-01-25 22:10:02
**apologies for multiple postings** Call for Papers: Special Issue on Digital Libraries and Education International Journal on Digital Libraries http://www.dljournal.org/ --Special Issue Editors-- * Lillian Cassel, Villanova University, lillian.casselvillanova.edu * Sarah Giersch, National Science Digital Library; Association of Research Libraries, sgierschbellsouth.net * Mimi Recker, Utah State University, mimi.reckerusu.edu --Important dates-- * Submissions are due: 1 June 2007 * Acceptance notifications: 20 July 2007 * Final manuscripts due: 17 August 2007 * Anticipated publication of the special issue: late Fall 2007 CFP URL: http://ia.usu.edu/ijdl.html --Background and Significance-- Recent widespread availability of educational resources on the World- Wide Web holds great potential for transforming education. In science education, for example, students can now access real-time images from space exploration. They can also download data and partner with other students and scientists to analyze simulations of complex weather events. In mathematics, students can interact with virtual tools and manipulatives that help make abstract concepts more concrete. Across all disciplines, teachers can effectively and efficiently tailor instructional activities to meet curriculum standards and the unique interests and educational needs of their students. In short, through interacting with Web content, students can now engage in highly personalized learning experiences, instead of relying on a one-size- fits-all textbook. In recognition of this potential, several large-scale initiatives are developing digital libraries containing catalogued online learning resources (or, learning objects), including: * the United States' National Science Digital Library (htttp:// nsdl.org); * the Australian Lerning Federation (http:// www.thelearningfederation.edu.au); * the European Union’s Ariadne Foundation (http://www.ariadne-eu.org/); * EduSource Canada (http://www.edusource.ca). Key objectives of the initiatives are to provide teacher and learner access to high-quality learning objects in order to help improve the effectiveness and efficiency of education at all levels and across all disciplines. Emerging research issues include: collecting and assessing high-quality learning objects of varying levels of granularity; cataloging to facilitate effective information retrieval by non-specialist audiences; services and tools that support the use and re-use of learning objects; systems interoperability; and, policy issues associated with integrating technical systems into existing social and educational systems. As such, these initiatives are concerned with many of the same research issues that the international digital library community has been grappling with for the past decade. The purpose of this special issue is to critically examine the role that digital libraries can and should play in education. Papers are invited on the technical, social, and policy dimensions of digital libraries for education. Topics to be considered include, but are not limited to: * The design, use, evaluation, and sustainability of innovative digital library technologies in education; * Critical examinations of educational practices using these technologies; * Interdisciplinary aspects; international cooperation; * Metadata frameworks for education; * Knowledge organization systems and subject access for education; e.g., thesauri, ontologies, and other terminologies; * Quality issues related to learning resources; * Indexing, retrieval, and discovery of resources and data for education; * Digital curation, provenance, repository, privacy, and preservation issues associated with digital libraries for education; * Teacher/Learner needs and user interfaces for creating, managing, customizing, annotating, and collaborating; * Accessibility of and to technologies by diverse teacher / learner communities Due to the emerging nature of this field, we welcome a broad variety of lengths and publication types. However, all submissions need to relate to the field of digital libraries for education. Please contact one of the editors for feedback and guidance. --Submissions-- * Papers must be submitted via the web site (will go live in March 2007): http://www.softconf.com/start/IJDL_educationDL * Manuscripts must be written in English and should include a cover page with title, name and address (including email address) of author (s), an abstract, and a list of keywords. * Authors are encouraged to follow the formatting instructions at: http://cimic.rutgers.edu/~ijdl/submission_index.htm * Questions concerning this call should be addressed to the special issue editors --Important dates-- * Submissions are due: 1 June 2007 * Acceptance notifications: 20 July 2007 * Final manuscripts due: 17 August 2007 * Anticipated publication of the special issue: late Fall 2007 * CFP URL: http://ia.usu.edu/ijdl.html ____ ________________________________________ Asis-l mailing list Asis-lasis.org http://mail.asis.org/mailman/listinfo/asis-l