Open and innovative education has been rapidly developing and increasingly practised, in all higher education institutions (both conventional and online universities/colleges). Education is becoming, and should keep being innovative in various aspects, such as delivery modes, curricula, and learner engagement. The International Conference on Open and Innovative Education (ICOIE) serves as an international platform for academic exchanges and the sharing of quality research in relevant areas.
Papers on the following topic areas are welcome:
1. Agile/blended/agile-blended learning
2. Artificial intelligence in education
3. Big data/academic analytics
4. Use of technology in education
5. Engaging students and learning design
6. Gamification for learning
7. Innovations in curriculum and pedagogy
8. Knowledge and competence assessment
9. Microcredentials
10. Multimode operations
11. Open education/OERs/MOOCs
12. Pedagogical innovations
13. Social media and technology-mediated learning communities
14. Technology-enabled student advising
15. VR/AR/MR in education
Papers submitted for presentation should normally be in correct English. The oral presentation must be done in easily comprehensible and fluent English. Papers must be presented by the authors themselves. No one will be allowed to present any paper on behalf of its author.
Papers may also be written in Chinese and presented in Putonghua. In such a case, an English version of the abstract should be submitted together with the Chinese version.
Quality is the most important requirement. All papers to be presented should have concrete contributions to fields relevant to open and/or innovative education. All submissions will be reviewed for relevance, originality, clarity, soundness, and significance by at least two reviewers.
Each abstract accepted for oral presentation will be allocated a timeslot for paper presentation if at least one of the authors completes the registration. (Each paper presentation requires at least one registration at the early-bird or regular rate.)
For abstract submission, please follow the abstract guidelines.
For full paper submission*, please follow the guidelines for full papers.
*For inclusion in the electronic proceedings.
Student authors are welcome to submit abstracts/papers to the Conference and present their work in the student presentation session(s) during the Conference. The author of the abstracts/papers must meet the following eligibility criteria.
The above submission deadline and submission guidelines mentioned in this page are also applied to the submissions to student presentation session.
Abstracts/papers must be submitted through the online system (i.e. Easychair system) below, by following the instructions on the page “New Submission”.
