Call for papers SPECIAL ISSUE: Digital Technologies in Education: Focusing on Ethics

13-04-2022

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Editors of the Special Issue:

Publication date of the issue: march 2023

Keywords: Digital ethics / Digital citizenship / Digital teaching and learning / Values / Sustainable technology

 

Introduction:

The last two years have been decisive in diluting all, or most, of the reluctance and barriers to the incorporation of digital technologies in presence school and university education, and also in other educational contexts. This period has also seen an unprecedented boost in online training and the use of social networks and the Internet for educational purposes. In addition to the sporadic or relatively frequent use in the classroom of applications, digital educational resources or internet searches, activities, practices and dynamics have been incorporated. These have been more or less innovative from a pedagogical point of view, and successful in terms of learning. Improvements in infrastructure and equipment have also contributed to consolidating the use of digital technologies in education. At the same time, learning analytics, big data, artificial intelligence, social robots or robotics and computational thinking are increasing their presence in education and opening up new perspectives, demands, scenarios and educational challenges.

All of this raises questions and dilemmas of an ethical, moral and deontological nature that should be considered so that technologies in education are not just a product, a means or an end in themselves and are considered with a more humane, fair, sustainable and inclusive vision. Although the most relevant and essential questions are those that each educator, teacher or researcher may ask themselves individually or collectively in their professional environment, we share some that seem particularly relevant to us. Is the right to digital education being addressed efficiently? Are values considered, and how, in digital education? What do technologies contribute, and in what way, to personal and collective ethical development? Does the school contribute to the construction of an integral digital identity? Does it promote, from childhood, a respectful, responsible, critical and safe presence in the digital universe? Does it help the development of healthy digital habits in media consumption? How prepared are educators to contribute to ethical digital education? Is the use of digital resources in the classroom lawful and legal? Are digital educational resources and materials ethical? What about the algorithms used in educational data analysis and learning analytics? To what extent can the incorporation of social robots in educational contexts lead to the depersonalisation of education? Will artificial intelligence contribute to a more personalised and inclusive education or will it facilitate the segregation/homogenisation of students? How are ethics present in machine learning?

This special issue opens the door to researchers and professionals to share the results of their studies and experiences or to share their reflections, reviews and essays on the importance and impact of ethics in digital technologies in education in any of the many ways in which it is, or should be, present.

Topics or lines of interest:

  • Ethical principles and values in digital education
  • The right to digital education
  • Critical and responsible digital citizenship
  • Ethical and educational commitment to the SDGs
  • Ethical construction of digital identity and online reputation
  • Respectful, non-discriminatory and inclusive digital interaction
  • Ethical creation of digital educational content and resources
  • Sustainable use of digital technologies in education
  • Training in digital ethics
  • Ethical dimension of digital competence
  • Ethics in teachers' digital competence
  • Healthy digital habits in media consumption in education
  • Plagiarism, academic fraud and appropriate use of digital resources
  • Ethics of learning analytics and algorithms
  • Robotics and artificial intelligence in education from an ethical perspective
  • Ethical dilemmas about machine learning and deep learning
  • Data protection in education
  • Safety in social and educational networks

Important deadlines:

  • Initial date for submitting paper:  1 June 2022
  • Notification to the authors: <<Extended deadline>> 27 November 2022
  • Publication of the special issue: March 2023

 

Profile of the editors:

Xavier Carrera Farran

PhD in Psychopedagogy and in 2004 extraordinary doctoral award.

Professor in the area of Didactics and School Organization of the Department of Pedagogy at the University of Lleida (Spain). Coordinator of the 2017 SGR 1700 research team (COMPETECS - Competences, Technology, Society in Education) recognised by the Generalitat de Catalunya.

 

Adolfina Pérez Garcias

Professor of Educational Technology, researcher in the Educational Technology Group at the University of the Balearic Islands (Spain). Co-director of the EDUTEC journal.

 

GUIDELINES FOR AUTHORS AND SUBMISSION OF CONTRIBUTIONS

We welcome original contributions, written in English or Spanish that thoughtfully engage:

  • Research projects reports, extension of 5000-6500 words.
  • Innovation experiences scientifically reviewed and susceptible of being transferred to other contexts and situations, extension of 5000-6500 words.
  • Systematic literature reviews, extension of 5000-6500 words.

Manuscripts must be sent through the journal management system selecting the special issue [Digital Technologies in Education: Focusing on Ethics]: http://www.edutec.es/revista/

Publication rules: manuscripts must be submitted following the regular structure of the EDUTEC-E journal available at: http://www.edutec.es/revista/

Last call for the reception of manuscripts: 30 October 2022

Editorial process: Submitted manuscripts will be under revision following established criteria for published manuscripts (editorial board and blind review). Once the Editorial Board has completed all the admission procedures, authors will receive anonymous scientific evaluation reports informing on their acceptance or rejection. More information about the review process and its communication is available at: http://www.edutec.es/revista/

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