Irish Journal of Technology Enhanced Learning: Announcements
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description: The Irish Journal of Technology Enhanced Learning is an open access, peer reviewed journal published by the Irish Learning Technology Association. ISSN: 2009-972X
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items: Special Issue Call: Irish Journal of Technology Enhanced Learning (IJTEL) Special Issue Call: Celebrating 25 Years of the ILTA EdTech Conference EdTech You: Digital Learning From How to Who
items: Call for Expressions of Interest: Co-editor and associate editor positions for the Irish Journal of Technology Enhanced Learning
items: Irish Journal of Technology Enhanced Learning: Call for Special Issue Proposals
items: IJTEL Updates - New Submission Categories Added!
items: Special Issue Call - Vol 8, Issue 1 (2024)
items: Irish Journal of Technology Enhanced Learning (IJTEL) Special Issue Call: The Games People Play: Exploring Technology Enhanced Learning Scholarship & Generative Artificial Intelligence

Special Issue Call: Irish Journal of Technology Enhanced Learning (IJTEL) Special Issue Call: Celebrating 25 Years of the ILTA EdTech Conference EdTech You: Digital Learning From How to Who
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description: Irish Journal of Technology Enhanced Learning (IJTEL) Special Issue Call: Celebrating 25 Years of the ILTA EdTech Conference EdTech You: Digital Learning From How to Who Introduction Since the Irish Learning Technology Association (ILTA) first convened its annual EdTech conference in IT Sligo, (now the Atlantic Technological University) in 2000, we have collectively lived through the rise of the VLE, mobile learning, the MOOC moment, a pivot to emergency remote teaching, and now the generative AI era. Through each of these shifts, the ILTA EdTech conference has remained a connection point for practitioners, researchers, and thinkers who care deeply about what technology means for teaching, learning, and the humans at the heart of both. This special issue of the Irish Journal of Technology Enhanced Learning marks a special milestone. It takes its title and its guiding question directly from the 2026 conference theme: EdTech You: Digital Learning From How to Who. Rather than asking only what technologies can do, we ask who gets to design, develop, and deploy them, for whom, and why. Who has been present in EdTech conversations over the past 25 years, and who has been missing? What does the history of this community reveal about our assumptions, our blind spots, and our aspirations? We invite submissions that are grounded in the 2026 EdTech conference and in the longer arc of 25 years of Irish learning technology scholarship and practice. Scope and Focus Submissions to this special issue should engage with one or more of the following threads, drawn from the EdTech 2026 conference theme: Who was, is, and should be part of the EdTech community: including questions of equity, access, diversity, and inclusion in the design and deployment of educational technology. Retrospective and historical perspectives: what has changed, what has persisted, and what the past 25 years of EdTech practice and scholarship can teach us about where we are heading. Participatory and relationa…
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date: %2026-%03-%04

Call for Expressions of Interest: Co-editor and associate editor positions for the Irish Journal of Technology Enhanced Learning
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description: Call for Expressions of Interest Co-editor and associate editor positions for the Irish Journal of Technology Enhanced Learning An exciting opportunity has arisen for a co-editor position and/or 1-2 associate editor roles, for the Irish Journal of Technology Enhanced Learning (IJTEL). We are looking for colleagues with a strong connection to the Irish Higher Education sector to serve in editorial roles. The new co-editor will replace the position currently held by Dr Tom Farrelly (MTU) whose vision and dedication were pivotal in establishing the journal and driving its success, and to whom IJTEL is eternally grateful. The role involves collaborating with co-editors to support the continuing dissemination of research in educational technology and technology-enhanced learning. IJTEL’s current editors and editorial board are listed here. They will contribute to the journal’s strategic development by overseeing peer review, setting editorial standards, and helping to shape the journal’s research agenda. The new associate editor(s) will engage with the editors in an ancillary role that offers an excellent introduction to scholarly publishing. The appointments will be for three years, with the opportunity to renew for a subsequent term. About the Journal The Irish Journal of Technology Enhanced Learning (IJTEL) is an open access, peer-reviewed journal published by the Irish Learning Technology Association (ILTA). As an interdisciplinary publication dedicated to scholarly excellence, the journal promotes research within the Irish educational technology community and provides an important dissemination channel for research and scholarship from individual, organisational, national, and international perspectives. The journal publishes across multiple categories including original research, extended reports, spotlight on scholarship, position papers, short reports, book and multimedia reviews. All content is made freely available under Creative Commons CC-BY 4.0 licensing to …
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date: %2025-%09-%30

Irish Journal of Technology Enhanced Learning: Call for Special Issue Proposals
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description: Irish Journal of Technology Enhanced Learning: Call for Special Issue Proposals The Irish Journal of Technology Enhanced Learning (IJTEL) invites you to submit a proposal for a special issue that will showcase research and scholarship in technology enhanced learning and educational technology. As the open access journal of the Irish Learning Technology Association (ILTA), we seek to publish thematic collections that reflect the evolving landscape of digital learning research from Irish, European, and international perspectives. What We Seek We welcome proposals for special issues that address emerging trends, innovative or creative practices, and critical challenges related to technology in education. We particularly encourage proposals that bridge theory and practice, offering both scholarly insight and practical implications for educators, technologists, and policymakers. Editorial Responsibilities Special issue editors serve as scholarly leaders who shape important conversations within the technology enhanced learning community. The role requires: Process Coordination: Being able to manage the complete editorial workflow, from initial call for papers through to final publication. This includes coordinating with IJTEL's editorial team, overseeing the double-blind peer review process, and ensuring timelines are met. Quality Assurance: Maintaining IJTEL's high scholarly standards by identifying appropriate reviewers, synthesising reviewer feedback, and making editorial decisions aligned with the journal's academic mission and standards. Community Engagement: Promoting the special issue within relevant academic and professional networks to attract high-quality submissions and readership. Time Commitment Special issue editors should anticipate a 12-18 month commitment, encompassing proposal development, manuscript solicitation, peer review coordination, and final publication. The process requires consistent engagement, particularly during the review phases where timel…
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IJTEL Updates - New Submission Categories Added!
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description: The IJTEL Editorial Team is delighted to share exciting updates to The Irish Journal of Technology Enhanced Learning. Based upon feedback from the Editorial Board, journal submission type categories have been updated. In addition to our Original Research, Original Research (Extended), Position Papers, and Short Reports we are excited to share two new categories for submission: Spotlight on Scholarship and Book and Multimedia Reviews. Spotlight on Scholarship provides scholars the opportunity to present key findings from recently completed postgraduate research, highlighting contributions to technology enhanced learning. Authors should concisely present their research problem, methodology, findings, and implications, while including critical reflection on the research process. This category was developed to encourage emerging researchers to share their work with the wider academic community. Book and Multimedia Reviews allow authors to thoughtfully examine resources that shape our understanding and practice of technology enhanced learning. Moving beyond simple evaluation, these pieces explore how books, software, digital tools, or online resources contribute to our collective knowledge and practice. Reviews should weave together description, analysis, and reflection to help readers appreciate the resource's potential impact on teaching and learning. The submission portal is open and we welcome new submissions! We also always welcome new reviewers to our reviewer pool. Reviewer guidance has been updated and we will be holding a peer review workshop in the near future, stay tuned!
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date: %2025-%03-%20

Special Issue Call - Vol 8, Issue 1 (2024)
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description: As an extension of the ILTA EdTech Conference 2024 we cordially invite submissions from presenters for inclusion in the next issue of IJTEL. The Irish Journal of Technology Enhanced Learning (IJTEL) is a diamond open access, peer reviewed journal published by ILTA. It is an interdisciplinary journal dedicated to scholarly excellence and to the promotion of research in the Irish educational technology community. Practitioner research helps bridge theory and practice, enhancing educational outcomes in real and complex teaching contexts. A primary objective in establishing ILTA’s journal was to create a platform for practitioners in our community to share their knowledge beyond the EdTech conference event itself. Therefore, a special section of the next issue (Vol 8, Issue 1) will be dedicated solely to Short Reports of 2,500 words or less from EdTech 2024. Short reports may take novel or innovative formats and are an opportunity to disseminate practitioner research in a peer reviewed journal. We hope this upcoming special issue will provide a platform for practitioners to share their work beyond the EdTech conference. Examples of short reports might include practitioner reports on case studies or descriptive, practice-driven articles (practice reports), or subjective discussion-oriented articles (viewpoint reports), or reviews of research of some kind (review reports). If your work does not fit into one of these short report categories, please consider submitting to one of our other submission categories (e.g. original research). All articles are to be submitted by the 2nd of August. See the full timeline for submissions. Learn more on https://sites.google.com/view/ijtel
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date: %2024-%07-%08

Irish Journal of Technology Enhanced Learning (IJTEL) Special Issue Call: The Games People Play: Exploring Technology Enhanced Learning Scholarship & Generative Artificial Intelligence
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description: While generative artificial intelligence has been a part of the wider artificial intelligence (AI) since its inception, it’s only recently that new advancements have been released for public consumption (and production.) We are all awash with the stories (Bozkurt, et al., 2023; Concannon et al., 2023; Sharples, 2022) and controversies (Glesson, 2022; Liang et al. 2023), promises (Baidoo-Anu & Owusu Ansah, 2023) and pitfalls (Costello, 2023; Wang et al. 2023) of AI. Recent guidelines produced by the National Academic Integrity Network (2023) state that educators should “be familiar with these tools and their availability, and recognise their limitations and affordances.” (p.8.) This special issue is intended to provide a transparent academic space to explore, play and discover how AI intersects with technology enhanced learning scholarship and practice. As we are all working to wrap our collective (human) minds around AI, we are inviting submissions explicitly and transparently written with AI. What does AI really know about technology enhanced learning? What happens when you go “all in” with AI? We believe that facing generative AI in this way will provide an innovative, playful and scholarly platform for capturing and documenting this phenomenon in the moment. What does engaging in this process say not only about our discipline, but, our humanity and identity as scholars? As scholars we need spaces to develop our own critical AI literacies - and this is an exercise and opportunity to make the process of our own learning transparent (which is by no coincidence a suggestion for “countering” AI in the classroom.) For this special issue, we invite you to generate a submission that contains three distinct sections: 1) an introduction; 2) the paper/report/or book review written by AI and 3) a critical reflection on the process. Here is a bit more guidance on each section: Introduction (not generated with AI) 500-1000 words At minimum, the introduction should include: you…
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