Special Issue of the “International Journal of Digital Literacy and Digital Competence- IJDLDC” on ‘Connectivism and Liquid Society: the challenge for the future’

Deadline February 28, 2010

The Journal is an official publication of the Information Resources
Management Association
www.igi-global.com/ijdldc

Editor-in-Chief: Antonio Cartelli, University of Cassino, Italy
Published: Quarterly (both in Print and Electronic form)

MISSION OF IJDLDC:
Prospective authors are invited to submit manuscripts for possible
publication in the special issue of the International Journal of
Digital Literacy and Digital Competence. The primary objective of
IJDLDC is to provide a platform for experts, scholars and all
stakeholders involved in digital literacy, digital competence and the
use of ICT in education to share theories, studies, experiences,
projects, instruments, and applications. To hit the above target the
journal will include contributions from engineers, researchers,
scientists, educators, practitioners and others who are experts in the
creation of hardware-software instruments and in everyday education,
training and school work.  By means of this journal, the ideas
concerning digital literacy and digital competence will penetrate the
whole society and will create shared and commonly accepted educational
paradigms to be used in education by means of a practice-theory-
practice paradigmatic approach to education.

RECOMMENDED TOPICS:
Topics to be discussed in this journal include (but are not limited
to) the following:
-        Frameworks for digital literacy and digital competence
analysis
-        Definitions/features for digital literacy and digital
competence
-        Digital Competence Assessment
-        Digital Divide and Digital Literacy
-        Digital Literacy and Digital Competence interaction with:
o        Psycho-pedagogical paradigms
o        School Curricula
o        Construction of learning environments
o        Teacher profession/updating
o        Computer Science Education
o        Web Technologies
o        Information Systems
o        Ubiquitous Computing
o        Virtual Learning Environments
o        New Teaching Paradigms
o        Social Networking
o        Social-Technical approach to MIS use
o        Communities of practice
o        Learning Organizations
o        Knowledge Management
-        Digital Literacy, Digital Competence and Knowledge Society
with a special attention to
o        The Net Generation
o        Multicultural Society
o        E- Citizenship
o        E-government
o        Lifelong Learning
o        Personal Learning Environments
o        Personal Knowledge Management
-        Digital Literacy, Digital Competence and Diversely Able
People
-        National and International Policies for Digital Literacy
-        National and International Initiatives for Digital Literacy
-        Digital Literacy in Developing Countries

SUBMITTING TO IJDLDC:
Prospective authors should note that only original and previously
unpublished articles will be considered. INTERESTED AUTHORS MUST
CONSULT THE JOURNAL?S GUIDELINES FOR MANUSCRIPT SUBMISSIONS at
http://www.igi-global.com/development/author_info/guidelines
submission.pdf,
PRIOR TO SUBMISSION.
All submissions must be forwarded electronically to cartan@unicas.it .

PUBLISHER:
The International Journal of Digital Literacy and Digital Competence
is published by IGI Global (formerly Idea Group Inc.), publisher of
the ?Information Science Reference? (formerly Idea Group Reference)
and ?Medical Information Science Reference? imprints. For additional
information regarding the publisher, please visit www.igi-global.com.

All inquiries and submissions should be should be directed to the
attention of:

Dr. Antonio Cartelli
Editor-in-Chief
International Journal of Digital Literacy and Digital Conference
E-mail: cartan@unicas.it
www.igi-global.com/ijdldc
www.competenzedigitali.it/journ-e.htm