EC-TEL Konferenz 2024

Conference Theme Responsive and Sustainable Educational Futures This year’s conference builds on the theme of the last year’s conference and focuses on sustainable teaching and learning practices in the post-pandemic educational ecosystem. In the past few years, during the COVID-19 pandemic, many educational institutions were forced to adopt numerous educational technologies to continue serving their students. For many of these institutions, it was a novel practice, and they needed to adapt fastly by implementing different strategies, tools, services, and digital platforms to provide learning opportunities for a wide range of students. As we are discovering a “new normal”, educational institutions can follow three trajectories when responding to learners’ and teachers’ needs in the post-pandemic world: a return to the status quo pre-pandemic, a short-term focus on remediating learning loss, or an organized effort to reinvent education to be more human-centered, responsive in addressing current needs of both teachers and students in a rapidly changing world, and responsible in providing education to all and protecting students’ privacy when using tracking technologies. We dedicate this year’s conference to exploring the third proposition and are calling for papers that can improve our understanding of how such an organized effort can be designed and implemented sustainably. We are looking for contributions addressing different educational technologies and pedagogies that support teachers and learners. Importantly, we welcome papers that address not only technologies that aim to enhance learning and teaching, but also examine organizational, social and responsible aspects of teaching and learning with technologies in post-pandemic educational settings. We invite contributions for research papers, demonstrations, posters, and workshops. A doctoral consortium will be organised concurrently with the workshops.