Editors: Yishay Mor (London Knowledge Lab), Steven Warburton (King’s College London) and Niall Winters (London Knowledge Lab)

Deadline:- Submissions should be sent to: submissions@practicalpatternsbook.org by July 31, 2009

Practical design patterns for teaching and learning with technology will produce a collection of patterns across six themes:

1. Learner centred design
   • Supporting learners to become active, self-directed and self-responsible participants in the learning process
   • Section Editor: Michael Derntl (University of Vienna)
2. Learning as collaboration
   • Supporting content creation, communication and collaboration between learners and tutors
   • Section Editors: Christian Kohls and Till Schummer
3. Learning as conversation
   • Supporting learners to effectively communicate their learning process
   • Section Editor: Diana Laurillard (London Knowledge Lab)
4. Games
   • Supporting game-based learning practices
   • Section Editor: Staffan Björk (Chalmers University of Technology,  Göteborg University)
5. Social media
   • Supporting learning using social media
   • Section Editor: Steven Warburton (King’s College London, UK)
6. Assessment
   • Supporting effective assessment of student learning
   • Section Editor: Harvey Mellar and Norbert Pachler (Institute of Education, UK)

These patterns will be supported by case stories that illustrate a critical problem and elaborate its appearance and successful resolution within a concrete context. For an overview of the book and further background information, please see the book’s supporting website at http://www.practicalpatternsbook.org/

Submission procedure
Authors are requested to submit co-ordinated contributions of patterns and their supporting cases. These can be individual submissions, or a joint/group submission, where person A produces the case-story, and person B provides the associated pattern. Each submission is expected to be 3,000-4,000 words in length: 1,500-2,000 for the pattern and 1,500-2,000 for the supporting case-story. We encourage the use of images (with appropriate copyright clearance) to illustrate submitted case-stories and patterns. For more details, please see the author guidelines at: http://www.practicalpatternsbook.org/guidelines.

The book will be developed in an open-content process, using a collaborative web-site. Submitted cases and pattens will be reviewed by the section and book editors, and those selected will be included in a shepherding process. During shepherding, all contributions will be openly available for comment. The section editors will iteratively work with authors to ensure quality, coherence and cohesion of the book as a whole. Authors will also be asked to comment on their peers’ contributions and identify links with their own contribution. The web-site will continue to evolve, as a companion to the book after its publication, while the book will remain an authoritative, quality controlled and professionally edited off-the shelf resource.

• July 31 2009: Proposal Submission Deadline – submissions should be sent to submissions@practicalpatternsbook.org
• October 15 2009: Notification of Acceptance
• October 17 2009 – February 15 2009: Shepherding process under the guidance of section editors
• December 2010: Publication