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10th International Conference on Smart Learning
Ecosystems and Regional Development
2025: A decade of
SLERD - facts and future directions
June 12-13, 2025
on-line format
www.slerd.org
Contacts:
1st: elvira
[dot] popescu [at] gmail [dot] com (Elvira Popescu - conference chair)
2nd: aslerd [dot] org [at] gmail [dot] com
SLERD 2025 is organized by University of Craiova in
collaboration with ASLERD.
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DEADLINE EXTENSION -> April 1st 2025 (new
hard deadline)
call for papers
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SLERD 2025 Keynotes:
• Charles B. Hodges (Georgia Southern University)
EVOLVING
LABELS, CONSISTENT ROOTS: THE LASTING POWER OF INSTRUCTIONAL
DESIGN
•
Helen Crompton (ODUGlobal & Old Dominion University)
AFFORDANCES
and LIMITATIONS of GENERATIVE AI in EDUCATION
6th edition of the Student Scientific Design Contest ->
see call for proposal and
demo
(first deadline for proposals submissions: April 15th)
and
much more ... stay tuned!
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Early bird registration to the main conference, SLERD 2025, is now
open:
https://www.slerd.org/registration-form/
Deadline for early bird registration to SLERD 2025: May 15th
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Short Intro
On occasion of
the 10th edition of the SLERD conference – themed “A Decade
of SLERD: Facts and Future Directions” – we intend to
reflect on a journey of impactful research, transformative
insights, and collaboration that followed the evolution of smart
learning ecosystems. Over the past ten years, SLERD has become a
venue for academics, practitioners, and students worldwide,
fostering innovative approaches to education that prioritize the
human factor, social innovation, inclusivity, and accessibility.
This milestone conference is an invitation to both celebrate the
achievements of the past decade and engage in discussions that
will define the future of smart learning environments. As SLERD
2025 unfolds, participants will contribute to shaping a vision
that aligns technological advancements with the needs of diverse
communities, ensuring that the future of education is adaptive and
inclusive.
The themes for this year’s conference emphasize the overarching
nature of smart learning ecosystems: places for smart
education, people-centered design, and supportive technologies.
Through these lenses, SLERD 2025 will address evolving models of
institutional learning, the role of design and co-creation, the
integration of AI and immersive technologies, and ethical
considerations essential to a sustainable educational future.
Topics
of interests
SLERD 2025
is proud to invite colleagues - researchers and practitioners -
from all over the world to share the efforts concerning the
development of smart learning ecosystems and, contributions on how
to build together a brilliant future, where smart learning
ecosystems and smart education will be even more central in the
education of future citizens, and in the promotion of social
innovation and territorial development.
General topics of interests can be grouped under three big themes:
• places for smart education
- future
of institutional learning
- interplay
between formal and informal learning
- new
educational models and settings
- continuity-discontinuity
of time, technology, place/space, processes in learning
- role
of, and case studies of, games and gamification in smart
education
- dual
education and other alternation scheme approaches
- monitoring
and benchmarking of smartness (individual, institution, city,
region)
• people in place centered design for smart education
- general
frameworks and methodological advances
- design,
data and other relevant literacies
- teachers’
and students’ continuous training (literacies, skills and
competencies)
- initial
teacher education
- smart
citizens’ literacies, skill and competences
- communities
and co-design in smart learning
- sharing
& participatory practices
- open
access to any resource and disparity
- educational
design for all
- cultural
influences
- ethical
aspects in smart learning
• supportive learning technologies for smart education
- general
frameworks and methodological advances
- design,
data and other relevant literacies
- teachers’
and students’ continuous training (literacies, skills and
competencies)
- initial
teacher education
- smart
citizens’ literacies, skill and competences
- communities
and co-design in smart learning
- sharing
& participatory practices
- open
access to any resource and disparity
- educational
design for all
- cultural
influences
- ethical
aspects in smart learning
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Important dates:
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• Deadline for papers submission: April 1st, 2025
(extended deadline)
• Notification to the authors: May 1st, 2025
• Camera ready paper: June 1, 2025
• Conference: June 12-13, 2025
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Submissions:
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Accepted
papers also presented at the conference will be published in a
special issue of the IxD&A
Journal (https://ixdea.org/; ISSN
1826-9745, e-ISSN 2283-2998) indexed by SCOPUS and Emerging
Sources of Web of Science (Citescore: 2.5).
Papers
should be written according to the Instruction for Authors
available at https://ixdea.org/authors-guidelines/.
Papers submission is handled through OJS – https://ojs.ixdea.org/index.php/ixdea/about/submissions. SLERD and IxD&A follow a double-blind reviewing process, thus papers need to be fully anonymized.
In submitting your contribution please select one of the following sections: SI: SLERD 2025 – long paper or SI: SLERD 2025 – short paper
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Request of membership, membership fees and legal
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