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Betreff: [AISWorld] EAI Transactions on e-Education and e-Learning - Open access journal, fee waived temporarily
Datum: Wed, 24 Jul 2013 12:49:11 -0400
Von: Giovanni Vincenti <giovanni.vincenti@icst.org>
An: aisworld@lists.aisnet.org


EAI Endorsed Transactions on e-Education and e-Learning - Call for Papers

http://eai.eu/transaction/e-education-and-e-learning

Scope
Education is one domain that has accompanied civilization through the 
centuries, adapting its tools to fulfill the expectations of the 
students and the needs of the teachers. Such tools can be as obvious and 
traditional as pencils and a notebook, or as complex and innovative as 
websites and multi-user virtual environments. Typical in-person learning 
environments, such as classrooms and meeting rooms, are at times not the 
best solution to enable and maximize a student’s ability to learn. 
Although they do fulfill their purpose of giving students the 
possibility of reaching course material and instructors, they also 
create a barrier that cannot be easily overcome.

Web-based instruction and multi-user virtual environments break the 
time-limited barrier innate to typical lectures and explore, through 
innovative technologies, a concept as old as humankind: socialization 
and the feeling of belonging to a community. Many universities, public 
institutions and private businesses are projecting themselves on the 
Internet and in virtual worlds to reach the customer at any time, giving 
them the idea of virtual presence that cannot be delivered through a 
simple website.

Topics to be discussed in this journal focus on (but not limited to) the 
following concepts:
• Teaching / Educational Models and Frameworks
• Accessibility and usability of web-based instruction in the classroom
• Best Practices
• Developing courses and content to be used in on-line educational 
environments
• Student engagement
• Experiments
• Impacts of on-line on traditional teaching and learning strategies

Editors in Chief
Giovanni Vincenti, Towson University, Towson, MD, USA
James Braman, Towson University, Towson, MD, USA

Unique Advantages of Publishing with ICST/EAI
The authors will not be charged with any publication fees and all 
published papers in the journal will be Open Access under the terms of 
the Creative Commons with Attribution license.
ICST/EAI offers authors the revolutionary e-SCRIPTS system – a Web 
2.0-based peer-review and manuscript management application that 
guarantees objective and fast reviewing, through an innovative reviewer 
bidding process that automatically matches the most qualified reviewer 
to the paper based on internationally recognized indicators such as 
H-index. Also based on that, acceptance decisions are expected to be now 
made in weeks instead of many months. In addition, ICST/EAI provides 
extremely short publication times by posting the paper on-line 
immediately after acceptance and extreme visibility/impact to the 
scientific community via synergies with the other ICST/EAI tools such as 
EU Digital Library and a broad abstract dissemination channel without 
compromises on the protection of authors’ intellectual property. All 
these innovative aspects are coupled with traditional elements of 
technical excellence, such as indexing by ISI, Scopus, EI, DBLP, INSPEC, 
Google Scholar, and all other major indexing organizations, as well as 
ISSN registration.

In short: open access publication, fast and high-quality review; rapid 
publication; innovative publishing tools; and decision-making really 
open to the community.

Special Issues Proposals
EAI Endorsed Transactions on e-Education and e-Learning is aiming at 
devoting space for special issues on specific topics proposed by Guest 
Editors. We welcome special issues proposals: for instructions on their 
submission, please contact the giovanni.vincenti@icst.org or eeel@icst.org.

What to submit
Original unpublished contributions are solicited that can improve the 
knowledge and practice in the field. Tutorial and survey articles of 
permanent reference value are also welcome.

Submissions must be original and should not have been published, or 
submitted for publication, elsewhere. Authors are encouraged to submit 
extended versions of papers previously presented at a conference or 
workshop with clear indication of how the paper has been extended for 
the journal submission.

This journal is being submitted to ISI, Scopus, EI, DBLP, INSPEC, Google 
Scholar, and all other major indexing organizations. ISSN # 2032-9253

When to submit
The EAI Endorsed Transactions on e-Education and e-Learning are always 
accepting submissions from authors on a rolling basis.

How to submit
To submit a paper to the journal, please register at:
http://escripts.icst.org/publication/e-education-and-e-learning

Manuscript preparation instructions may be found at:
http://eai.eu/transactions

For any further info, please feel free to contact:
giovanni.vincenti@icst.org or eeel@icst.org

For more information on ICST and its Publications Program, please email:
publications@icst.org

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