Abstracts and Papers Submissions

International Conference on Open and Innovative Education Abstracts and Papers Submissions

Abstracts and Papers Submissions

Open and innovative education has been rapidly developing and increasingly practised, in all higher education institutions (both conventional and online universities/colleges). Education is becoming, and should keep being innovative in various aspects, such as delivery modes, curricula, and learner engagement. The International Conference on Open and Innovative Education (ICOIE) serves as an international platform for academic exchanges and the sharing of quality research in relevant areas.
Papers on the following topic areas are welcome:

1. Agile/blended/agile-blended learning

2. Artificial intelligence in education

3. Big data/academic analytics

4. Use of technology in education

5. Engaging students and learning design

6. Gamification for learning

7. Innovations in curriculum and pedagogy

8. Knowledge and competence assessment

9. Microcredentials

10. Multimode operations

11. Open education/OERs/MOOCs

12. Pedagogical innovations

13. Social media and technology-mediated learning communities

14. Technology-enabled student advising

15. VR/AR/MR in education

Submission Deadline

  • Abstract/full paper submission deadline : 12 January 2025
  • Notification of abstract/paper acceptance :​ 3 February 2025
NB: Submission of full papers is optional. Those who have their abstracts accepted may give oral presentations of their papers at the Conference. If you submit a full paper, it will be included in the proceedings (with an ISBN), if it is accepted. It will be considered for the Best Paper Award and Excellent Paper Award; or Best Student Paper Award and Excellent Student Paper Award. From the Conference, selected full papers will also be recommended to international journals or an edited book for publication

Submission Guidelines

Papers submitted for presentation should normally be in correct English. The oral presentation must be done in easily comprehensible and fluent English. Papers must be presented by the 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 contributions 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.
*For inclusion in the electronic proceedings.

Submission to Student Presentation Session

Student authors are welcome to submit abstracts/papers to the Conference and present their work in the student presentation session(s) during the Conference. The author of the abstracts/papers must meet the following eligibility criteria.

  • The author must be a student pursuing a full-time graduate programme at a recognized academic institution.
  • The author must present the paper at the assigned paper session of ICOIE 2025.

The above submission deadline and submission guidelines mentioned in this page are also applied to the submissions to student presentation session.

Online Submission

Abstracts/papers must be submitted through the online system (i.e. Easychair system) below, by following the instructions on the page “New Submission”.

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