Call for Chapters: Cases on Innovative and Successful Uses of Digital Resources For Online Learning
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Editors
Pamela Sullivan, James Madison University, United States
Brian Sullivan, James Madison University, United States
Jessica Lantz, James Madison University, United States
Call for Chapters
Proposals Submission Deadline: May 5, 2021
Full Chapters Due: September 2, 2021
Submission Date: September 2, 2021
Introduction
This text will be a resource for students, teachers, researchers, and stake holders in the field of education. The goal of this text is to evaluate and describe successful initiatives in remote and hybrid learning during the pandemic disruption to traditional schooling for early childhood through college and job training levels. Digital technologies promote project-based learning and facilitate engagement in the curriculum. However, previous studies of technology integration have shown that it is most effective when integrated into an existing curricular purpose and utilized within a strong conceptual framework of combined academic and technological goals. During the pandemic disruption, remote and hybrid tools were adopted rapidly and often without the benefit of such careful utilization. This text provides an opportunity to conduct that careful consideration in the past tense, looking at what worked during the disruption so that successful practices may be considered for the future. The case studies contained within this text will provide an opportunity for scholars, teachers, and stake holders in education to examine and learn from examples of successful instruction utilizing digital tools for remote and hybrid learning.
Objective
Education at all levels will continue to be dominated by technology for the foreseeable future. The rush to respond to the health concerns of the pandemic led to a mass adoption of online learning tools, without the careful consideration and placement within a conceptual framework that would have occurred prior to adoption in best practices scenarios. As the education field reflects and moves forward, this text can help by highlighting cases in remote or hybrid learning that were successful, despite the rushed nature of the change. We hope this text becomes a resource for teachers, policy makers, stake holders in education, researchers, and students of pedagogy.
Target Audience
Teachers will use this book to discover and reflect upon new or innovative pedagogical techniques. University faculty will be able to use this book to demonstrate possible teaching techniques or to facilitate critical thinking about reflective practice. Researchers will utilize this book to gain insights into methodology by which the digital technologies may be reviewed or evaluated.
Recommended Topics
1. Augmented reality and visualization in comprehension strategy instruction. 2. Home school connections in the digital age. 3. Multimodal texts in the classroom. 4. Vocabulary development with digital technology. 5. Writing skills with digital technology. 6. Picture books aligned with digital tasks for early literacy classrooms. 7. Comprehension strategies with online texts. 8. A comparison of traditional and online spelling tasks. 9. Assessment of early childhood academic skills with digital technologies. 10. Online games as literacy skill building techniques. 11. Study skills with digital technologies. 12. Fluency practice as a technology task. 13. Responsible digital technology explorations with preservice teachers. 14. Comparisons of learning with different math online tools. 15. Successful migration of instruction onto Zoom. 16. Prioritizing equity and inclusion in remote learning
Submission Procedure
Researchers and practitioners are invited to submit on or before May 5, 2021, a chapter proposal of 1,000 to 2,000 words clearly explaining the mission and concerns of his or her proposed chapter. Authors will be notified by May 19, 2021 about the status of their proposals and sent chapter guidelines.Full chapters are expected to be submitted by September 2, 2021, and all interested authors must consult the guidelines for manuscript submissions at https://www.igi-global.com/publish/contributor-resources/before-you-write/ prior to submission. All submitted chapters will be reviewed on a double-blind review basis. Contributors may also be requested to serve as reviewers for this project.
Note: There are no submission or acceptance fees for manuscripts submitted to this book publication, Cases on Innovative and Successful Uses of Digital Resources For Online Learning. All manuscripts are accepted based on a double-blind peer review editorial process.
All proposals should be submitted through the eEditorial Discovery® online submission manager.
Publisher
This book is scheduled to be published by IGI Global (formerly Idea Group Inc.), an international academic publisher of the "Information Science Reference" (formerly Idea Group Reference), "Medical Information Science Reference," "Business Science Reference," and "Engineering Science Reference" imprints. IGI Global specializes in publishing reference books, scholarly journals, and electronic databases featuring academic research on a variety of innovative topic areas including, but not limited to, education, social science, medicine and healthcare, business and management, information science and technology, engineering, public administration, library and information science, media and communication studies, and environmental science. For additional information regarding the publisher, please visit https://www.igi-global.com. This publication is anticipated to be released in 2022.
Important Dates
- May 5, 2021: Proposal Submission Deadline
- May 19, 2021: Notification of Acceptance
- September 2, 2021: Full Chapter Submission
- October 31, 2021: Review Results Returned
- December 12, 2021: Final Acceptance Notification
- December 26, 2021: Final Chapter Submission
Inquiries
- Pamela Sullivan James Madison University sullivpm@jmu.edu
- Brian Sullivan James Madison University sulli2ba@jmu.edu
- Jessica Lantz James Madison University lantzjl@jmu.edu
