Introduction to Advances in Teaching and Learning Technologies Minitrack

The Advances in Teaching and Learning Technologies Mini-track has a history at HICSS that spans more than seventeen years. Various incarnations of this mini-track have served as an outlet for researchers who investigate the collaborative aspects of teaching, learning, and technologies that help to facilitate the teaching or learning process. The mini-track originally focused on collaborative software and technologies that operated in LAN-based environments. In more recent years, there has been a shift toward exploring social computing applications as well as various mobile computing devices across a variety of contexts. Consistent with past years, we received a large number of submissions to the Advances in Teaching and Learning Technologies Mini-track. Researchers from around the globe submitted 28 papers exploring a wide variety of themes and applications of collaborative learning-based technologies. It is encouraging to see the sustained efforts of so many scholars actively exploring this topic. This year, we are pleased to feature 14 papers that are organized into three major themes and distributed across four discussion sessions.