CALL FOR CHAPTER PROPOSALS: Literary Education and Digital Learning

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CALL FOR CHAPTER PROPOSALS

Proposal Submission Deadline: 05/30/2008

Full Chapters Due: 10/31/2008



Literary Education and Digital Learning:

Methods and Technologies for Humanities Studies

A book edited by Willie van Peer, University of Munich, Germany

Sonia Zyngier, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Vander Viana, Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil





Introduction

We live at a time of enormous realignments in the use of media. Each
day more information can be retrieved from the Internet. The world is
not one of knowing how to access and manage information rather than
storing and processing it. In the area of literature, ever more
information on literary production is being disseminated and retrieved
in electronic form. This has considerable consequences for the form
and use of such information. It also has consequences for learning and
research environments at educational institutions. Today's
popularization of modern technologies has allowed scholars in the
Humanities, including literature specialists, to access an array of
novel opportunities in the digital medium, which have brought about an
equal number of challenges and questions. In spite of the vast amount
of information now at hand, very little has been provided for the
advance of literary education.



Objective of the book

This volume aims at providing a deep probe into the most relevant
issues in literary education and digital learning. The chapters will
be organized into two categories: research and education. The first
group will collect studies investigating the impact of technologies in
literary research. Its main aim is to understand how computers and
other new technologies may help scholars investigate literary works in
novel ways, thus bringing new perspectives to the area. The second
group will look into the potential of applying distance learning
methods/concepts/environments to the field of literature. In other
words, it will collect contributions on how these resources may be
used by scholars and students either inside or outside regular
classrooms, provided that these classroom applications are not
accounts of experience but based on research. In sum, the volume will
offer a survey of how digital literary education has developed, where
it stands now, how research in this area has progressed, and what the
prospects are for the future.



Target audience

This volume will be of interest to those interested in digital
learning/teaching and/or literature, especially in the university
context. This book will also interest literature professionals who
would like to see how digital learning works in practice. In addition,
the book will be highly valuable to those researchers in the field
interested in keeping abreast with current developments in the
confluence of their fields of expertise and technological settings.



Recommended topics

The topics to be covered in Parts I (Research) and II (Education)
should encompass literature and one of the following aspects (the list
below is not comprehensive, other topics may be welcomed, and
especially those in which authors are considered specialists):

*Applications in Distance Learning

*Authoring Tools

*Collaborative Learning

*Corpus-based Research

*Empirical Research on Digital Learning/Teaching

*Future Challenges

*Learning Technologies

*Methods in Distance Education Teaching

*Online Education Tools and Technologies

*Online Learning

*Shortcomings of Distance Learning Applications and Technologies

*Web-Based Course Authoring Tools



Submission procedure

Researchers and practitioners are invited to submit on or before May
30, 2008, a 2-4 page chapter proposal clearly explaining the mission
and concerns of his or her proposed chapter. Authors of accepted
proposals will be notified by July 31, 2008 about the status of their
proposals and sent chapter guidelines. Full chapters are expected to
be submitted by October 31, 2008. All submitted chapters will be
reviewed on a double-blind review basis. This book is scheduled to be
published by IGI Global (formerly Idea Group Inc.), publisher of the
"Information Science Reference" (formerly Idea Group Reference) and
"Medical Information Science Reference" imprints. For additional
information regarding the publisher, please visit www.igi-global.com.



Inquiries and submissions can be forwarded electronically (Word
document) to:



Vander Viana

vander...@terra.com.br

and

Sonia Zyngier

sonia....@gmail.com







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