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*10th International Conference on Smart Learning Ecosystems and Regional
Development**
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*2025:A decade of SLERD - facts and future directions
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*June 12-13, 2025*
/*on-line format*/
www.slerd.org <https://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/ <http://www.aslerd.org>/./
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*DEADLINE EXTENSION -> April 1st 2025* (new hard deadline)*
*call for papers <https://www.slerd.org/call-for-papers/>
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SLERD 2025 Keynotes:
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• Charles B. Hodges (Georgia Southern University)*/
/*EVOLVING LABELS, CONSISTENT ROOTS: THE LASTING POWER OF INSTRUCTIONAL
DESIGN*/
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*//*• 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 <https://www.slerd.org/contest/>
/(first deadline for proposals submissions: April 15th)
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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
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* 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 theIxD&A Journal
<https://doi.org/10.55612/s-5002-000>(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
athttps://ixdea.org/authors-guidelines/.
<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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