Openness and innovation are major trends in contemporary education, influencing the whole spectrum of education institutions across the globe. Technological advancement and breakthroughs are bringing about a paradigm shift in contemporary education. Modes of learning and teaching are becoming more open and innovative in terms of time, space, curriculum contents, organization, pedagogical methods, infrastructure and requirements. These changes take place virtually in all institutions (offering conventional, online and/or open courses). With this background, Hong Kong Metropolitan University (HKMU) organizes the annual conferences on open and innovative education with the following aims to:

• provide a platform for sharing quality research, effective practices and well-formulated views relevant to open and innovative education;
• facilitate networking and cross-institutional collaboration among researchers and educators in fields of educational innovation and/or openness; and
• promote studies and advancements in open and innovative education.

Building on the successes of the conference series in ten previous years, the 2024 International Conference on Open and Innovative Education (ICOIE 2024) will be held at Hong Kong Metropolitan University on 3–5 July 2024.

Submission Guidelines

Papers submitted for presentation should normally be in correct English. Oral presentation must be done in easily comprehensible and fluent English. Papers must be presented by authors themselves. No one will be allowed to present any paper on behalf of its author.

Papers may also be written in Chinese and presented in Putonghua. In such a case, an English version of the abstract should be submitted together with the Chinese version.

Quality is the most important requirement. All papers to be presented should have concrete contribution to fields relevant to open and/or innovative education. All submissions will be reviewed for relevance, originality, clarity, soundness, and significance by at least two reviewers.

Each abstract accepted for oral presentation will be allocated a timeslot for paper presentation if at least one of the authors completes the registration. (Each paper presentation requires at least one registration at the early-bird or regular rate.)

For abstract submission, please follow the abstract guidelines.

For full paper submission*, please follow the guidelines for full papers.

List of Topics

1. Academic/learning analytics

2. Agile/blended/agile-blended learning

3. AI/VR/AR/MR in education

4. Educational technology

5. Engaging students and learning design

6. Gamification for learning

7. Impacts of pandemic on online learning

8. Innovations in curriculum and pedagogy

9. Open education/OERs/MOOCs

10. Pedagogical innovations

11. Social media and technology-mediated learning communities

12. Technology-enabled student advising

13. Other topics relevant to the conference

Venue

Hong Kong Metropolitan University, Hong Kong SAR, China

Contact

Email: icoie2024@hkmu.edu.hk