SECOND CALL FOR CHAPTER PROPOSALS
Proposal Submission Deadline: April 28, 2008
Full Chapters Due: July 31, 2008

Introduction
With the proliferation of mobile devices such as wireless laptops, PDA, mobile phones, digital interactive TVs, iPhones and iPods etc., there is a need to examine how e-learning systems could be developed to support and provide appropriate learning content to these mobile devices. In this context, an e-learning system that supports a multitude of access devices is called a multiplatform e-learning system. The multiplatform e-learning system (sometime also known as a multi-device e-learning environment or as ubiquitous learning) is an emerging technology that provides researchers with the opportunity to investigate various critical issues, such as design frameworks, the appropriate use of pedagogies, the adoption and extension of existing standards, the new authoring tools, the adaptation, transformation and delivery of integrated learning content, the appropriate users’ evaluation and assessment methodologies, and the scaffolding of the existing mobile learning experience toward multiplatform e-learning systems.

Mission and Objectives of the Book
The objective of the book is to provide researchers and e-learning adopters and practitioners from various institutions with the most current information about the concepts, theories, evaluations, design, and implementation technologies and issues in the emerging area of multiplatform e-learning systems.

Target Audience
This new publication will be distributed worldwide and will be of great value to academic and professional organisations and will be instrumental in providing researchers, scholars, students, and professionals with access to the latest knowledge related to design, implementation, and evaluation of multiplatform e-learning systems.

Organization of the Book
Section I provides an introduction and the theoretical foundations and frameworks of the multiplatform (multi-device) e-learning systems. Section II focuses on design perspectives that leverage on the theoretical frameworks. Section III will present implementation technologies and real cases on multiplatform e-learning systems. Finally, in Section IV, user evaluation methodologies on multiplatform e-learning systems will be presented. Each section will be preceded by an introduction, and the book will conclude with a summary.

Recommended topics include, but are not limited to, the following:
• New theories, frameworks and pedagogy issues for multiplatform and ubiquitous learning
• Informal and lifelong learning
• Games based learning
• User interface design and evaluation issues
• HCI guidelines for multiplatform and Ubiquitous learning
• On-line and off-line design issues
• Synchronous and asynchronous issues
• Design architecture and implementation
• Real cases and prototypes
• Multidimensional mobility issues
• Methodology for system and user evaluations, users studies
• Content adaptation and transformation issues
• Device identification and device capabilities issues
• Smart sensor networks for mobile and ubiquitous learning learning
• Communication and networking issues
• Learning content design and development issues
• Content reusability issues
• Adaptive learning issues
• Technologies and design tools
• User tracking and user modelling issues
• Device Independent Authoring Language for multiplatform and Ubiquitous learning
• Web ubiquitous access for multiplatform and Ubiquitous learning
• Web 2.0 and Web 3.0 technologies for Ubiquitous learning
• Collaboration based mobile and ubiquitous learning
• Agent supported mobile and ubiquitous learning
• Smart and context-aware learning environments
• Architectures and infrastructures for mobile and ubiquitous learning
• New tools, technologies and new platforms

Submission and Review Process
Researchers and practitioners are invited to submit on or before April 28, 2008, a 2-3 page manuscript proposal clearly explaining the objective and concerns of the proposed chapter. Authors of accepted proposals will be notified by May 30, 2008 about the status of their proposals and sent chapter organizational guidelines. Full chapters should be about 6000-8000 words in length and expected to be submitted by July 31, 2008.
All chapters will be subject to a double-blind peer review process. Authors will also be asked to peer review another chapter submitted for the book and will have one month for the review process, which is anticipated to take place in August/September 2008.

The book is scheduled to be published by IGI Global, formerly Idea Group, Inc., in 2010. IGI Global, www.igi-global.com, is the publisher of the Information Science Reference (formerly Idea Group Reference) and Medical Information Science Reference imprints.

All other enquiries and submissions should be forwarded electronically or by email to:
Dr. Tiong-Thye Goh
School of Information Management
Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand
Phone: +64-4-4636860
Fax: +64-4-4635446
E-mail: tiong.goh@vuw.ac.nz