7th International Conference on Smart Learning Ecosystem and Regional Development
2022: towards the polyphonic construction of a new normality
Bucharest 2022, 5-6 July
After a first tour of Europe Timisoara (East), Aveiro (West) and Aalborg (North), Rome (South) and two virtual editions – SLERD 2020 and SLERD 2021 – the seventh edition SLERD 2022 will be organized by the University Politehnica of Bucharest with the support of the University of Aveiro and, as for previous editions, by ASLERD.
SLERD 2022 welcomes researchers and practitioners from all over the world involved in the development of Smart Learning Ecosystems and Smart Education, as engines of social innovation and territorial development.
At the core, the adjective smart comprises terms like intelligent, purpose oriented, supportive, artful, clever and the like. Thus, smart does not necessarily includes the usage of technology (neither does it exclude technology!).
Smart referred to learning ecosystems in ASLERD and SLERD contexts, thus, does not simply means “technology enhanced” (to include expert systems or AI). The smartness is a more complex multilayered construct related to the wellbeing of the players operating in the ecosystems, that hopefully are also in relation with the territory (see Declaration of Timisoara, the wikipedia page of ASLERD, the proceedings of the previous SLERD conferences published by Springer (Aveiro, Aalborg, Rome , SLERD2020 and SLERD2021 on-line) and the special issues (N.16, N.17, N.20, N.27, N.31, N.35, N.39, N.43, N.47 and N.51 in preparation) devoted to SLERD by IxD&A journal). Smartness is affected by the improvement of any relevant aspects of the learning processes and ecosystem functioning, especially if connected with territorial development and social innovation.
Technologies are mediators. Hopefully they should be included but they are not a “sine qua non”.
The achievement of the learning ecosystems’ smartness is a process that needs a long term vision, multidisciplinary competences, an attitude to understand people and contexts and to mediate point of views, a dynamic resilience to keep on track to achieve, step by step, the foreseen goals: in short a design literacy from which to make emerge projects and processes capable to reify them, all aimed at achieving a people centered smart education, social innovation and territorial development.
• Philippe Dessus (Université Grenoble Alpes)
Intelligent Classrooms to Understand Instructional Events: an Ecological Approach
• Yves Punie (EC JRC – Unit Human Capital and Employment)
Shifting to competence-based learning and digital education in Europe. A view from European research and policy.
Le tecnologie digitali per le life-skills a scuola
(Digital technologies for life-skills at school)
Satellite on-line Open Debate (in Italian)
July 4 – 15.00-17.00 CET
Watch the video on the Youtube ASLERD channel