BRIDGES_symposium_1: Online learning symposium “Bridging Educational Emergency to Digital Pedagogies” Vipava, Slovenia Vipava, Slovenia, September 20-22, 2022

"Online learning" symposium - Bridging Educational Emergency to Digital Pedagogies

September 20-22, 2022, Slovenia, Vipava

Hybrid event

Description

"Online Learning Symposium" will be co-located with Open Education for Better World Eduscope 2022 and is planned to take place on  September 20-22,  2022 in Vipava, Slovenia and will be co-organized by the project BRIDGES – “Bridging Educational Emergency to Digital Pedagogies” project (Erasmus+), and the University of Nova Gorica and UNESCO Chair on Open Technologies for Open Educational Resources and Open Learning at Jožef Stefan Institute.  The event will be organized in a hybrid format with the possibility to present online via the MiTeam platform.

BRIDGES is an Erasmus + project that supports the transition from Emergency Remote Teaching to Digital Education through evidence-based, open, and innovative practices of teaching and learning. Its ultimate goal is to improve the quality of education, regardless of the existing differences in the educational systems of European countries, thus providing equal opportunities for personal development for all European citizens.  This event, is, therefore, also a multiplier event for the project.

An international online mentoring program Open Education for a Better World (OE4BW) has been developed to unlock the potential of open education in achieving the UN Sustainable Development Goals. The program provides an innovative approach to building Open Educational Resources, connecting developers of educational materials with experts volunteering as mentors.

Aims and scope

During the 3-day event, the participants will become familiar with open education design processes, methods and tools. They will learn from OER experts and practitioners how to align open education with developmental and strategic goals. Furthermore, OER projects developed through the 2022 OE4BW Mentoring Programme will be presented with short pitches and receive direct feedback in a panel discussion. This event builds on the last three successful OE4BW Eduscopes, held as live conferences in Vipava, Slovenia, and online in 2020 and 2021. The conference aims to share ideas and experiences, create new opportunities for people to network and create together, promote diversity of goals, backgrounds and cultures, and contribute to the implementation of the UNESCO recommendation on open educational resources, while addressing various sustainable development goals.

At the same time, the event will host an Online Learning Symposium: “Bridging Educational Emergency to Digital Pedagogies”, a multiplier event of the BRIDGES project. The project and the event focus on the transition from Emergency Response Teaching to digital pedagogies. The project BRIDGES aims to create research-based faculty development framework and guidelines, a European Digital Hub, collaborative curriculum and content (re-)design, storage, interactive community-based tutorials/training including practical and pedagogical tips.

Submission Guidelines

All papers must be original and not simultaneously submitted to another journal or conference. The following paper categories are welcome:

The workshop contains research and experience tracks. Full research and experience papers describing new and innovative results on scientific or practical experiences on the positive technologies for the open education domain.  We welcome submissions describing theoretical advances as well as system design, implementation, and experimentation. We also welcome work-in-progress papers targeting the main topics of the workshop.

Relevant topics for the conference include, but are not limited to the following:

• State-of-the-art and current needs to transition from Emergency Response Teaching to New Normal
• Conceptual and theoretical explorations of New Normal (what it consists of and what we need for this transition)
• Networked learning
• Teacher professional and faculty development for digital education (K12 and higher education contexts)
• Evaluating Open Educational Resources
• Assessment, Interaction and Technology in Distance Education
• Digital transformation and educational innovation: the meaning, the makings of and the prospects
• Educational technology tools and transformative practices 

Submission of papers

The working language of the workshop is English. All papers are limited to 10-page papers for the research track and 6-pages for the experience track (including authors' information, abstract, keywords, all tables, figures, references, etc.).   The springer conference template is required. The template can be downloaded from here.

When submitting an abstract/paper, please, indicate the track in the keywords, after the abstract with a keyword: research or experience. Please, put one of the two keywords as an initial one. 

 Awards

The Organizing Committee will select the Best Paper submitted to the event. Authors will be awarded a Diploma and they will participate in the roundtable that will take place after the paper discussion.

Paper acceptance

All papers will be peer-reviewed by at least two reviewers. The workshop proceedings of the event will be published in an Open Access proceeding, hosted in the  University of Southampton’s ePrints installation. The sessions will be recorded by VideoLectures.NET and will be openly published on VideoLectures.Net with automatically created subtitles and translations. Accepted research papers will be published on ceur workshop proceedings (Scopus indexed) - to be confirmed.

No-show Policy

The “OE4BW Eduscope 2022” and "Online learning symposium" project Organizing Committee reserves the right to exclude a paper from the proceedings if the paper is not presented at the workshop physically or in the online form.

Committees

Program Committee

• Maka Eradze, University of Foggia, Italy​​​​​​
• Manuel Leon Urrutia, Southampton University, UK
• Nic Fair, Southampton University, UK 
• Ayse Saliha Sunar, Bitlis Eren University, Turkey 
• Andrea Tinterri, University of Foggia, Italy 
• Anna Dipace, University of Foggia, Italy
• Donatella Solda, Wonderful Education, Italy

Organizing committee

• Mitja Jermol, UNESCO Chair on Open Technologies for Open Educational Resources and Open Learning at Jožef Stefan Institute, Slovenia
• Pablo Castillo, Octaedro Editorial, Spain
• Tanja Urbančič, Dean of School of Engineering and Management, University of Nova Gorica, Slovenia
• Anja Polajnar, Jožef Stefan Institute, Slovenia
• Tijana Ilić, Univeristy of Nova Gorica,Slovenia
• Monika Kropej, Jožef Stefan Institute, Slovenia
• Špela Sitar, Jožef Stefan Institute, Slovenia
• Kim Sevšek, Jožef Stefan Institute, Slovenia
• Matija Ovsenek, Jožef Stefan Institute, Slovenia
• Franc Dolenc, MiTeam, Slovenia

Contact

All questions about submissions should be emailed to maka.eradze at unifg.it.

Questions on organizational issues should be emailed to anja.polajnar at ijs.si