Overview

The focus of this special track will be to explore the possible ways immersive-reality technology might change future education. In this we take a very broad vision for the delivery of education stretching from formal education at (say) university through industrial training to informal lifelong learning. The special track will seek to engage with the immersive education community in providing an opportunity for authors to write imaginative accounts of how they foresee immersive learning technologies and pedagogies changing the nature of future education. While the track will encourage papers that make use of the Science-Fiction Prototyping methodology, it will be open to any narrative vision of the future education.

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Author Info

All accepted full papers will be published in Springer’s C​CIS conference proceedings series.​

The submitted papers must not exceed 4-6 pages (short paper) or 10-12 pages (full paper). Contributions are welcome on work-in-progress, research results, technical development, and best practices. Research, development, and best practices contributions will be accepted according to their quality and relevance either as full or short papers. Work-in-progress will only be accepted as short papers.

Submitted papers must follow the same guidelines as the main conference submissions. Please visit http://immersivelrn.org/ilrn2016/author-info/ for guidelines and templates.

For submitting a paper to this special track, please use the submission system https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ilrn2016 , log in with an account or register, and select the track “Special Track 3: The Future Of Education” to add your submission.


Standard reviewing procedures will be adopted using a programme committee drawn from both the Creative-Science and iLRN communities (we will not contact them before we know if this track is approved, but the application are well connected and assembling this committee will not be a problem). Submission and reviewing deadlines will be set to match those outlined in the main conference

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Special Track Chairs

Vic Callaghan, University of Essex, UK
Michael Gardner, University of Essex, UK
Jonathon Richter, Salish Kootenai College, USA

Program Committee

To be announced