[spectre] LEA call: The Culture of Digital Education: Innovation in Art, Design, Science and Technology Practices, Leonardo Electronic Almanac

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The Culture of Digital Education: Innovation in Art, Design, Science 
and Technology Practices, Leonardo Electronic Almanac

Senior Editors for this volume: Lanfranco Aceti, Nina Czegledy and Oliver Grau
Editor: Wendy Coones
Junior Editor: Manuelle Freire

Following the special event at the ISEA2011 Istanbul Education 
Workshop titled Brain Drain/Brain Gain in Art, Science and 
Technology, the Leonardo Electronic Almanac is pleased to announce a 
special edition that will investigate current pedagogic issues with a 
special emphasis on art & science & technology education. In addition 
we will include in this publication summary papers of various 
international educational events and workshops from the last five 
years.

Over the last two decades, we have witnessed the global emergence of 
both institutional and informal/hybrid education initiatives. New 
departments have been created, new academic positions inaugurated and 
brand new curricula developed. In addition, an increasing number of 
international educational exchange programs are facilitated and 
implemented in the area of art & science & technology education each 
year.

The trans-disciplinary approach in education brings together arts, 
science and technology experts and looks at responsive knowledge 
transfer for the 21st century. Due to this radical shift in education 
- the learning environment has completely changed. In this context 
new paradigms in trans-disciplinary approaches vary from place to 
place and are often shaped by the nature of the organizations and/or 
institutions as well as financial and socio-cultural considerations.
Despite the widespread interest in digital culture and education, a 
tension remains between academic and vocational education.

The inclusion of practice based models involving academia are 
especially important, because limited funding, escalating class sizes 
and threatened course closures continue to be a serious challenge to 
effective training.
In an era of fast technological growth and transforming art forms 
there is an increasing need for educational flexibility by academic 
institutions. It is essential to keep in mind that the profile of 
higher education in the 21st century is going to be very different to 
what it used to be.
What is our role in this changing environment and how do we proceed?
Deliberations on the prevalent trends and the future of education 
indicate that "innovation" combined with breakthrough partnerships 
are considered keys to the future.

The Leonardo Electronic Almanac (LEA) is inviting proposals from 
academics, critical theorists and artists for this special issue 
investigating the changes and innovation in the new culture of 
digital education. Relevant areas of interest addressed by the 
issue's contributors could include, but are by no means limited to:
* Education, art, science and technology
* Education and social media
* Innovation at the intersection of interdisciplinary teaching and 
learning practices
* Crisis in the digital classroom?
* e-learning: give me that video link of your recorded lecture and let me be!
* Learning and teaching in interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary practices
* Ownership and copyrights of learning materials
* Economic crisis and classroom crisis: rethinking the economy of learning
* Brain Gain/Brain Drain: who gains and looses in the contemporary classroom
* Emerging countries, emerging universities and emerging 
interdisciplinary practices
* Hacktivist class: the class as research center
* Hybrid educational models
* Tactical Media and its progeny
* Histories of classroom methodologies and contemporary innovative approaches.

Guidelines for paper proposals:
(a) Subject heading: The Culture of Digital Education
(b) Deadline for Abstract, around 500 words: November 1, 2012
(c) Deadline for full articles: around 5,000 words
(e) Deadline for submission of full articles: January 15, 2013
(f) images at 72 dpi resolution no larger than 800 pixels width (for 
initial consideration)
(g) Links to previous work, videos or personal websites
* For scholarly papers, please, submit the final paper ready for peer 
review. Your contribution will be reviewed by at least two members of 
the LEA board and revisions may be requested subject to review.
* For themed and pictorial essays, please, submit an abstract or 
outline for editorial consideration and further discussion.
* Please keep your news, announcements and hyperlinks brief and 
focused; include contact details and a link to an external site where 
relevant.
* We reserve the right to sub-edit your submissions in order to 
comply with LEA policies and formats. Where material is 
time-sensitive, please, include both embargo and expiry dates.
* In all cases, specify special system considerations where these are 
necessary (platform, codecs, plug-ins, etc.)

For further information or image submission, contact Ozden.Sahin at leoalmanac.org

We look forward to hearing from you!
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