New Information Technology and Applications in Social
Education and Local Community
Session Chair:
Wei Zhou,
Beijing Jiaotong University, China
Session Co-Chair:
Binyue Cui,
Hebei University, China
Email:
wzhou at bjtu.edu.cn, binyuec at heuet.edu.cn
There is a surge of IT application in social education and
community fields recent years. Up-to-date Information
technologies make it available to help people to learn easily,
conveniently and even lived happily in local community. AR
(augmented Reality) and 3D technology let people have immersive
experiments to learn and play; Big data make individual learning
in a personal way into reality; Indoor-location technology make
items interact with persons around them; social media allow
people to share ideas and learning materials freely and quickly,
etc. All these practices can be used to broadcast knowledge and
local culture via enhance users learning and entertainment
experiences.
This session will be a good opportunity for researchers and
engineers to share and present their latest researches, new
discoveries and what they are concerned themselves with in
theory and practice of both social education and community.
Topics are included but not limited to:
●Analytic approaches，Theories and Concepts: Innovations in
pedagogic theories, learning sciences, conceptual models of
knowledge sharing and social learning and education, local
community development etc.
● Applications and Practices: Methods and system development to
fulfill in social education organizations or local community,
such as museum, library, campus, local city/town/village, etc.,
Applications and practices to develop social education and
community based on new technologies such as AR, VR, GPS, open
source, web and mobile communication, big data analysis, etc.
