udit 2024 FIRST call for papers

We invite you to a conference in Bergen 25-27 November 2024.

UDIT (The Norwegian Conference on Didactics in IT education) is part of NIKT (Norwegian ICT Conference for Research and Education). This is a national meeting place for the ICT communities in higher education in Norway, and UDIT focuses on the challenging relating to teachin and learning in ICT. We welcome contributions on any topic related to education teaching, learning, didactice, and application of ICT in teaching and learning. If you have had new insight or good ideas through development of teaching or learning materials, then UDIT is a forum for you. The conference is academic, but the perspective is from praxis and not primarily from pedagogical research.

UDIT invites the submission of research papers, which will be peer reviewed, according to academic criteria. Accepted papers will be published as part of the conference proceedings from the NIKT series (e-ISSN 1892-0721), which is accredited at Level 1 i Norway. Last year’s UDIT papers can be found at https://www.ntnu.no/ojs/index.php/nikt/issue/view/500

Research papers

Research papers submitted to UDIT are subject to peer review by at least two independent reviewers. Education and didactics is a broad discipline, and we recognise that papers may be written in any of a range of genres, using methodologies from social, human, or natural sciences. Whatever the genre, we require a solid, scholarly standard, and the peer reviewers will use the following five criteria in the assessment.

• Relevance for the conference

• Potential to stimulate discussion on teaching and learning

• Importance

  • Does the paper bring new knowledge to the community?

  • Does the paper deal with important issues in IT education or society more broadly?

  • Can the results be generalised? How useful are the results for teachers of other courses at other universities?

• Scholarly quality

  • Are the goals and research questions clearly stated?

  • Are the methods clearly stated?

  • Are the results clearly formulated and justified in light of existing literature and/or empirical results?

  • Are the conclusions clear?

  • Are the references adequate and relevant?

• Presentation

  • How readable is the paper? How well structured is it?

  • Does the title and abstract reflect the contents of the paper?

  • Is the paper formatted correctly according to the NIKT template, and does the paper stay within the page limit?

Practical Instructions

• Submission in EasyChair (https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=nikt2024). Note that the conference is NIKT 2024; UDIT is registered as a track.

• Submitted papers must be formatted according to LNCS Springer Computer Science Proceedings style: https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-guidelines

• The principal language of the conference is Norwegian/Scandinavian. However, individual participants may also submit their paper and/or give the presentation in English, as desired.

• All contributions have to be original and not be published or under review elsewhere.

• Papers will be published with Open Access, and authors otherwise retain all rights to their contribution.

• At least one author must register for the conference and present the work at the conference.

• The upper page limit is 14 pages (including references). There is no lower page limit, and short contributions are welcome and will be assessed acording to the same criteria. We allow appendixes beyond 14 pages, but appendices are not peer reviewed.

• Submissions do not have to be anonymous, but you may choose to submit anonymously.

• The deadlines for full papers are common for all NIKT tracks. See NIKT.

  • abstract: 1 September

  • full paper: 8 September

  • notification of acceptance: 11 October

  • camera-ready version: 25 October

It is also possible to submit extended abstracts for poster presentation. These are not peer reviewed. See common call for all tracks. Rejected papers may be reconsidered as posters.

UDIT 2024 organization

Chairs: 

• Chair: Hans Georg Schaathun, Norwegian University of Science and Technology 

• Technical Co-chair: Per Lauvås, Høyskolen Kristiania 

• Local Co-Chair: Torstein Strømme, University of Bergen

Program Committee: 

• Salah Uddin Ahmed, USN 

• Per-Arne Andersen, University of Agder 

• Marcin Fojcik, Western Norway University of Applied Sciences 

• Birgit Krogstie, Norwegian University of Science and Technology 

• Henrik Hillestad Løvold, UiT The Arctic University of Norway 

• Robin Isfold Munkvold, Nord University 

• Erlend Tøssebro, University of Stavanger 

• Yngve Lindsjørn, University of Oslo 

• Eva Hadler Vihovde, OsloMET 

• Seifedine Kadry, Noroff University College