Before beginning to describe the content of this issue of EAIT let me introduce an exciting new Springer publication for which we invite your contribution in 2017: Encyclopaedia of Education and Information Systems. The scope of the encyclopaedia will be large, covering all aspects of the interaction between Education and Information Technologies. It will include IT and Education in kindergartens, primary and secondary schools, universities, training colleges, industry training, distance education and further education. It will cover all aspects of IT and education including: • Teaching about computing: hardware, software, systems analysis, systems design, uses of computers, social aspects of ICT use and so on • The use of ICT to aid teaching and understanding in many other subject areas: tools (such as word processing, databases and spreadsheets), simulations, educational games, computer assisted learning etc. • Use of technologies such as iPads, interactive whiteboards and robotics • Use of computers to aid in educational administration • National policies of IT and Education.
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