Calls for Papers (special): International Journal of Knowledge Society Research (IJKSR)

Special Issue On: Opportunities, Threats, and Innovations in Integration of Social Media and Healthcare

Submission Due Date
10/9/2016

Guest Editors
Basit Shahzad (King Saud University, Saudi Arabia)
Miltiadis D. Lytras (The American College of Greece, Greece)

Introduction
TheInternational Journal of Knowledge Society Researchh seeks original manuscripts for a Special Issue on “Opportunities, Threats, and Innovations in Integration of Social Media and Healthcare” scheduled to appear in an early 2017 issue.

Objective
Social media has enabled information sharing across massively large networks of people without spending much financial resources and time that are otherwise required in the print and electronic media. Mobile-based social media applications, in particular, have overwhelmingly changed the information sharing perspective. However, with the advent of such applications in an unprecedented scale, the privacy of the information is compromised to a larger extent if breach mitigation is not adequate. Since healthcare applications are also being developed for mobile devices so that they also benefit from the power of social media, the privacy concerns for such sensitive applications have become critical. This special issue aims to discuss the architecture of a typical mobile healthcare application, and highlights the security and privacy issues that it may face in a multi-cloud environment. Considering the role of the individuals in a healthcare system, customized privacy levels are defined for the individuals participating in the system.

Submission Procedure
Authors should follow the IJKSR Journal manuscript format described at the journal site http://www.igi-global.com/calls-for-papers/international-journal-knowledge-society-research/1180 and submit their paper online to the system: http://www.igi-global.com/submission/submit-manuscript/?jid=1180

All inquiries should be directed to the attention of:
Basit Shahzad (King Saud University, Saudi Arabia)
Email: basit.shahzad@gmail.com
Miltiadis D. Lytras (The American College of Greece, Greece)
Email: mlytras@acg.edu
International Journal of Knowledge Society Research (IJKSR)

Special Issue On: Quality of IT Enabled Services in Academic Institutions in Middle East and Gulf Cooperation Council Countries

Submission Due Date
10/10/2016

Guest Editors
Basit Shahzad (King Saud University, Saudi Arabia)
Miltiadis D. Lytras (The American College of Greece, Greece)
Wadee Alhalabi (King Abdulaziz University, Saudi Arabia)

Introduction
The International Journal of Knowledge Society Research seeks original manuscripts for a Special Issue on “Quality of IT Enabled Services In Academic Institutions in Middle East: Innovations, Opportunities and Challenges” scheduled to appear in an early 2017 issue.

Objective
Access to education is a fundamental right of each child and making this access better is an obligation of the government. The emergence of IT and its utilization in the education sector has helped the students at all level, to improve their capability to learn and without memorizing text. IT has played its role in making the teaching and learning, not only interesting but also effective in the recent years. The role of the IT enabled services to disseminate effective teaching has increased over time and still improving with a great pace with emerging needs of the students and the teachers. This special issue is focused to identify and investigate the quality of IT enabled services in the higher education institute in Middle east. The innovations, opportunities, and challenges are discussed in this special issue, and some guidelines are expected to be formed to better develop and deploy the It enabled services in the higher education institutes in the middle east.

Submission Procedure
Authors should follow the IJKSR Journal manuscript format described at the journal site http://www.igi-global.com/calls-for-papers/international-journal-knowledge-society-research/1180 and submit their paper online to the system: http://www.igi-global.com/submission/submit-manuscript/?jid=1180

All inquiries should be directed to the attention of:
Basit Shahzad (King Saud University, Saudi Arabia)
Email: basit.shahzad@gmail.com
Miltiadis D. Lytras (The American College of Greece, Greece)
Email: mlytras@acg.edu
Wadee Alhalabi, King Abdulaziz University
Email: wsalhalabi@kau.edu.sa
International Journal of Knowledge Society Research (IJKSR)

Special Issue On: Educational Innovations in Robotics, Emerging Technologies, and Interdisciplinary Research

Submission Due Date
6/12/2017

Guest Editors
Linda Daniela, University of Latvia
Miltiades Lytras, American College of Greece
--Editors-in-Chief


Introduction
Innovative pedagogical methods, different technologies and technological solutions have an immeasurable potential to broaden the range of methods applied in education, to promote learning and to introduce changes in the pedagogical process. Innovations serve as the teachers’ assistant to share the good practice, to develop learning platforms, to change the cooperation forms and to ensure in real life a teaching/learning process that places children youth and adults in the centre. However, the greatest challenge still is – how to help teachers personalize the teaching/learning content according to pupils’/students’ (learners’) individual needs and interests, to ensure a possibility for all learners to improve their potential, to provide equal opportunities for all to support and promote their learning. How to ensure that technological solutions serve not only as a help for the teacher to transform the learning principles but also facilitate pupils’ and students’ participation in the learning process, in searching creative solutions and in elaborating innovations? How to verify that the application of different innovative pedagogical methods and technologies, the change of learning forms is meaningful? What research methods should be used? These are questions to discuss.

Objective
This journal special issue will collect the best articles from the ATEE Spring Conference 2017, “Innovations, technologies and research in education,” to discuss use of robotics and other educational technologies in education.

Recommended Topics
• Educational innovations
• Technology enhanced learning
• Technology enhanced learning
• Bettering experiences in teacher education
• Educational robotics
• Emerging technologies
• Educational novelties in a changing society


Submission Procedure
Researchers and practitioners are invited to submit papers for this special theme issue on Educational Innovations in Robotics, Emerging Technologies and Interdisciplinary Research on or before 12th June, 2017. All submissions must be original and may not be under review by another publication. INTERESTED AUTHORS SHOULD CONSULT THE JOURNAL’S GUIDELINES FOR MANUSCRIPT SUBMISSIONS at http://www.igi-global.com/publish/contributor-resources/before-you-write/. All submitted papers will be reviewed on a double-blind, peer review basis. Papers must follow APA style for reference citations.

All inquiries should be directed to the attention of:
Linda Daniela
E-mail: linda.daniela@lu.lv