IJSmartTL focuses on the design, application and assessment of smart learning technologies, highlighting how smart learning technologies should be properly implemented in education to enhance smart learning. This perspective acknowledges not only the significance of emerging smart learning technologies but also the importance of educational outcomes those technologies bring. IJSmartTL encourages researchers and educators to be reflective of the use of smart educational technologies and focus on its fundamental goals.

Topics covered include

Smart Technology

  • Smart Technology trends in education, e.g. cloud computing, wearable technology, mobile/game-based learning, open content, etc.

  • Design and development of learning environments using various smart technologies

  • Evaluation of smart technology-based learning environments

  • Influence of different smart technology-based learning environments on learning, achievement and motivation


Smart Learning

  • Various learning strategies supporting smart learning: formal/informal, personalised, adaptive, social, self-directed etc.

  • Understanding smart learning processes

  • Applications of learning analytics and educational data mining

  • Role of monitoring and assessment in smart technology-based learning

  • Effectiveness of different types of monitoring approaches, assessment and evaluation


Smart Teaching

  • Pedagogical frameworks for integrating smart technology into learning environments

  • Role of learning sciences, educational psychology and instructional theory in smart teaching

  • Role of teachers in smart technology-based learning

  • Challenges and barriers teachers face when adopting smart emerging technologies

  • Models/frameworks that guide the professional development of smart teachers

Editional Board

Editor in Chief

  • Gu, Xiaoqing, East China Normal University, China
    (guxqecnu@gmail.com)

Associate Editor

  • Lin, Lin, University of North Texas, USA

Assistant Editor

  • Li, Jingshu, East China Normal University, China

Regional Editors

  • Mason, Jon, Charles Darwin University, Australia

  • Yin, Chengjiu, Kyushu University, Japan

  • Yuan, Li, University of Bolton, UK

Editorial Board Members

  • Bennett, Rick, University of New South Wales, Australia

  • Bonk, Curt, Indiana University, USA

  • Chang, Hua-hua, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA

  • Crook, Charles, University of Nottingham, UK

  • Giovannella, Carlo, University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy

  • Hartnell-Young, Elizabeth, University of Melbourne, Australia

  • Jin, Hui, Shanghai International Studies University, China

  • Joiner, Richard, University of Bath, UK

  • Kaur, Abtar, Open University Malaysia, Malaysia

  • Lee, Mimi, University of Houston, USA

  • Mbwette, Tolly, Open University of Tanzania, Tanzania, United Republic of

  • Meng, Qi, Shanghai Normal University, China

  • Sánchez, Jaime, University of Chile, Chile

  • Slotta, Jim, University of Toronto, Canada

  • So, Hyo-Jeong, Pohang University of Science and Technology, South Korea

  • Specht, Marcus, Open University of the Netherlands, Netherlands

  • Sullivan, Florence, University of Massachusetts, USA

  • Tamura, Yasuhisa, Sophia University, Japan

  • Vidal, Gérard, ENS de Lyon and IFÉ , France

  • Wegerif, Rupert B., University of Exeter, UK

  • Wong, Lung-Hsiang, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

  • Wu, Ying-Tien, National Central University, Taiwan

  • Zhang, Jianwei, University at Albany – SUNY, USA

  • Zhang, Yi, Central China Normal University, China

  • Zhao, Jianhua, South China Normal University, China


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