Current call: Learning Tech 16

Call for papers: Learning Tech 16 – Didactic Quality and Qualification of Learning Materials and Technology

There are many suggestions on what constitutes quality in teaching, and this is widely discussed. When examining teaching quality, different perspectives can be applied. For instance, one might focus on how participants in a lesson experience and perceive its immediate quality. Another approach could be to examine the qualities intended in the planning phase before the actual teaching takes place. A third possibility is to focus on the evaluation and assessment of teaching quality based on specially defined quality criteria or standards. These are just three ways of investigating teaching quality.

Learning materials and technologies are part of any teaching. They help qualify the teaching, but in order for them to be qualifying, they themselves must be qualified. Learning materials and technologies can possess varying didactic qualities. This quality lies in their design and is expected to have an impact in teaching. However, the quality may also lie in their actual use in teaching, which might not align with expectations. This can lead to a requalification of the materials and technologies based on the new knowledge and experience gained. One might be pleasantly surprised when the quality turns out to be better than expected. Qualification is the process of achieving a certain quality. With this call, we invite all who wish to contribute knowledge providing insight into various aspects of the theme of didactic quality and the qualification of learning materials and technology. Examples of questions that can serve as focal points for articles in this special issue include:

• How can teaching and learning be qualified through specific learning materials?
• How can teacher guides function as tools for (subject) didactic quality and the upgrading of the teacher?
• What does recent research say about the assessment of the quality of learning materials?
• How do certain (digital) technologies help enhance or impair teaching quality?
• How can the didactic use of technology be qualified?
• How can the use of videographic methods help qualify (subject) teaching?
• What is the significance of games and playful technologies for teaching quality?
• How can we theoretically understand the concepts of quality and qualification within didactic research on learning materials and learning technologies?
• How can the interaction between theory and practice help qualify the use of learning materials and learning technologies in teaching?

Deadlines and Practical Information:

Contributions in Danish, Norwegian, Swedish, and English are welcome. We accept research articles that present new national or international research based on empirical studies or theoretical analyses.

Abstracts must be submitted no later than March 1 2024 to this email address:
LearningTech@ucl.dk

Abstracts must be submitted by October 21, 2024 to the guest editors:

Hildegunn Juulsgaard Johannesen, hjoh@ucsyd.dk
Thomas R.S. Albrechtsen, trsa@ucsyd.dk  
Anne Mette Hald, amh@pha.dk  

The article must be uploaded by March 1, 2025 in OJS on tidsskrift.dk. You must register (if you are not already registered) and then upload the article.

Double-blind peer review will be conducted in March/April 2025. Revisions can be made, with the deadline for the final manuscript being June 1, 2025.

It is expected that the author(s) ensure thorough proofreading of the manuscript, and that references adhere to APA style, 7th edition, and are correctly formatted.

Learning Tech 16 is scheduled for publication on July 1, 2025.

Theme Editors:

• Hildegunn Juulsgaard Johannesen, Associate Professor, PhD, UC South Denmark
• Thomas R.S. Albrechtsen, Associate Professor, PhD, UC South Denmark
• Anne Mette Hald, Associate Professor, PhD, University College Absalon

You can find the journal’s guidelines and templates here.