Editorial for EAIT issue 5, 2020
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Editorial for EAIT issue 5, 2020 Arthur Tatnall 1 Published online: 13 August 2020 # Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature 2020
Education and Information Technologies (EAIT) is the official journal of the Technical Committee on Education (TC3) of the International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP). It covers the complex relationships between information and communication technologies and education, from the micro of specific applications or instances of use in classrooms to macro concerns of national policies and major projects; from classes of five year olds to adults in tertiary institutions; from teachers and administrators, to researchers and designers; from institutions to open, distance and lifelong learning. The journal’s breadth of coverage allows EAIT to examine fundamental issues at all levels, discuss specific instances and cases, draw inference and probe theory. This journal is embedded in the research and practice of professionals. While the pandemic and lock-down appears to be having a profound effect on education with many schools and universities around the world offering only online teaching, the editors believe that at present there has not been sufficient time to identify and research all the factors that the COVID-19 crisis might have introduced into education. While many of the writings published in newspapers and other journals so far are interesting they are not, and cannot be characterised by depth or perspective. There has not been enough time for educators to identify and conduct empirical research studies that integrate technology design accommodating all the factors and complexities that the COVID-19 crisis introduced into education. Much of what has been written so far is descriptive or conceptual. Ideas need to be reinforced by experimental practice to analyse and validate, and formal and well-founded research studies are needed. EAIT will be offering a Special Issue on this subject later this year (deadline for submissions of 31st January 2021). You can find details of this (later this year) at https://www.springer.com/journal/10639 - Journal Updates, View all Updates. Keep a close watch on this and offer a well-researched article in a few months. To begin this issue we have an article from Sheshadri Chatterjee and Kalyan Kumar Bhattacharjee (Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, India) titled: Adoption of artificial intelligence in higher education: a quantitative analysis using structural equation modelling. The authors point out that the application of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in
* Arthur Tatnall [email protected]
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Victoria University, Melbourne, Australia
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Education and Information Technologies (2020) 25:3425–3441
higher education in India has opened new possibilities and challenges and will bring in effective change of governance in Indian Institutes of higher education. AI could be used in investigation of educational applications: how teachers would enrich them, how students would learn, and how accurate and prompt decisi
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