ICICTE 2021 will seek to address the many challenges and new directions presented by technological innovations in educational settings. With the keynote speaker, plenary sessions, workshops, and forums examining the integration of technology into all facets of education, the conference will provide participants with a forum for intensive interdisciplinary interaction and collegial debate. Those attending ICICTE 2021 will leave with an excellent overview of current thinking and practices in applications of technology to education. Thematic streams will include alternative processes, procedures, techniques and tools for creating learning environments appropriate for the twenty-first century.

 

General conference themes include:

• Pedagogy in the evolving tech environment
• The architecture of learning; accessibility; the evolution of the classroom
• Instructional design and delivery; evaluation and assessment
• Strategies and tools for teaching and learning, simulations and gaming
• Informal, non formal and formal adult education
• Multi-grade education
• Open/Distance learning
• Impacts on educational institutions: effects on faculty, staff, administration, and students; curriculum and program development
• Teacher training
• Building communities of teachers/educators; cooperative learning
• The internationalization of institutions and of education
• Political economy and educational technology: Intersections
• Effects on training institutions and industry
• Ethical considerations in the use of information technology in teaching and learning
• The use of technology in education to promote democratic ideals, freedom, equality
• Arts education
• Technology in creative arts education
• Ethics, human rights and access to open educational resources
• The application of psychology to learning mediated by technology
• Blockchain in education.

 

This year's special theme is 'Augmenting the Teaching and Learning Experience in STEAM at all educational levels"

Life has taught us that traditional instruction, under experiential teaching and learning models, is not a sufficient means of learning anymore. Is there a middle ground where the advantages of online learning can be balanced with advantages of emerging and traditional learning spaces? Augmenting the teaching and learning experience can transform the education at all levels in STEAM subjects. The conference will focus on contributions to learning systems that engage students as contributors to learning, thus offering opportunities for educators to advance their medium from passive to immersive enriched experiences. What does this means for curricula, teachers’ training, educational content, educational developmental processes, assessment strategies?