The e-Learning & Innovative Pedagogies Research Network invites proposals for the Twentieth International Conference on e-Learning & Innovative Pedagogies, held in conjunction with the Twenty-Third International Conference on Technology, Knowledge & Society, to be hosted 8–9 April 2027 by the University of St Andrews in St Andrews, Scotland, with integrated online participation via CGScholar Event (KX). This combined conference brings together two closely connected scholarly communities in a shared in-person space, creating opportunities for dialogue across learning, pedagogy, technology, and knowledge while preserving the distinct intellectual traditions and conversations of each Research Network. Delegates participate together in plenary sessions and shared events, while contributing to focused discussions within their respective conference programs.

Twentieth International Conference on e-Learning & Innovative Pedagogies, University of St. Andrews, St. Andrews, Scotland, 8-9 April 2027

Shared Special Focus and Distinct Conversations

Founded in 2006, the e-Learning & Innovative Pedagogies Research Network is brought together around a common concern for new technologies in learning, and an interest to explore possibilities for innovative pedagogies offered by new information and communications technologies.

The combined conference is organized around a shared 2027 special focus, “The Cyber-Social Condition: Knowledge, Learning, and Human Futures.” Across educational institutions, workplaces, civic spaces, and everyday life, digital and computational technologies are reshaping how learning occurs and how knowledge is produced, circulated, and valued. Artificial intelligence, data infrastructures, platforms, and networked media increasingly mediate pedagogical relationships, institutional practices, and learner participation, opening new possibilities while also intensifying questions of equity, ethics, agency, and power.

This shared focus invites critical and generative engagement with the cyber-social condition by examining how learning systems and pedagogical practices intersect with technological design, cultural values, and social structures. Contributions are encouraged that explore how digital tools can support inclusive, meaningful, and human-centered learning, while also addressing the risks of automation, surveillance, bias, and exclusion.

While united by this shared focus, each conference maintains its own intellectual orientation. e-Learning & Innovative Pedagogies centers on learning and teaching across formal, informal, and professional contexts, exploring digital pedagogies, emerging educational institutions and spaces, technologies of mediation, and the design of social transformations in learning. Technology, Knowledge & Society foregrounds the historical, cultural, epistemic, and social dimensions of technological change, examining how knowledge societies are formed, governed, and contested. Proposals may engage either perspective or explicitly bridge the two.

Conference Themes

Alongside the shared special focus, proposals are welcomed across the ongoing thematic concerns of both Research Networks. For e-Learning & Innovative Pedagogies, these include digital pedagogies, new institutional forms and learning spaces, technologies of mediation, and the intentional design of social transformations in education. For Technology, Knowledge & Society, thematic concerns encompass historical trajectories of technology, the social production of knowledge, and the lived realities shaped by technological systems. Contributions may be theoretical, empirical, methodological, practice-based, creative, or community-engaged.

Knowledge Experience and Format

The conference is organised as a hybrid knowledge experience, integrating in-person and online participation within a single scholarly environment. All delegates gather together on site in St Andrews, sharing plenary sessions, parallel panels, and informal scholarly exchange as part of one conference experience.

Digitally, the conference operates through two parallel microsites within the CGScholar Event (KX) environment, one for e-Learning & Innovative Pedagogies and one for Technology, Knowledge & Society. Each microsite has its own program structure, presentation pages, schedules, media, and discussion spaces. Delegates may browse and engage across both microsites while navigating content clearly by conference and theme.

All accepted proposals become Presentation Pages, enabling conversation and reflection before, during, and after the conference. Across all formats, the emphasis is on human-scale exchange—dialogue, reflection, and collaborative inquiry rather than one-directional presentation.

Publication Pathways

Presenters are invited to further develop their conference work for possible publication through the journals and book imprints associated with the two Research Networks, including peer-reviewed journal articles as well as longer-form book projects such as edited collections and monographs. Both traditional and Open Access pathways are available, and all submissions follow peer-review and editorial processes aligned with the scholarly standards and ethical commitments of the Networks.

Membership and Community

Conference participation connects contributors to scholar-led, member-based research communities. Membership is included with Presenter Pass registrations and supports ongoing engagement across conferences, journals, books, and shared digital spaces. Members gain access to the Online Knowledge Community Member Space in CGScholar, where research, discussion, and collaboration continue beyond the scheduled sessions, linking preparation, presentation, reflection, peer review, and publication into a continuous scholarly cycle.

Join Us

We warmly invite educators, researchers, instructional designers, technologists, policymakers, and practitioners to submit proposals and to join us—either in St Andrews or online—for this combined conference experience. Together, we will explore how learning and pedagogy are being reshaped within contemporary cyber-social conditions and how human-centered approaches can guide educational futures.

Submit Proposal

You’ll be asked to select a presentation format—either in-person at the conference venue or online via our integrated CGScholar (KX) platform—but our hybrid model is designed to support both. You may change your choice at any time if your plans or preferences shift.

Proposals are accepted from launch until one month prior to the conference start date. The dates below indicate the opening of both the proposal submission and registration periods.

Proposals will be reviewed within two to four weeks of submission.

• Early Launch to 7 September (26)
• Regular 8 September to 7 January (27)
• Late 8 January (27) to 8 March (27)

Submit English Language Proposal

Learn more: https://ubi-learn.com/2027-conference

Scientific Committee

• Dr. Bill Cope, Research Network Chair, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, United States of America
• Dr. Mary Kalantzis, Research Network Chair, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, United States of America

Advisory Board

• Sandra Schamroth Abrams, St. John's University, United States of America
• Fran Blumberg, Fordham University, United States of America
• Nick Burbules, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, United States of America
• William Cope, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, United States of America
• Leonardo Caporarello, Bocconi University, Italy
• Ricki Goldman, New York University, United States of America
• Matt Glowatz, University College Dublin, Ireland
• Mary Kalantzis, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, United States of America
• Matthew Montebello, University of Malta, Malta
• Mauricio Novoa, Western Sydney University, Australia
• Michael Peters, Beijing Normal University, China
• Eduardo Santos Junqueira Rodrigues, Universidade Federal do Ceará, Brazil
• Reed Stevens, Northwestern University, United States of America
• Micheal Van Wyk, University of South Africa, South Africa
• Alfred Weiss, Pacific University, Portland, United States of America
• Ebony Utley, California State University, Long Beach, United States of America

Registration Period Start Date

The digital media deadline is one week before the conference.

• Early Launch to 7 October (26)
• Regular 8 October (26) to 7 March (27)
• Late 8 March (27) to 8 April (27)