Editors
Abraham Flanigan, Georgia Southern University, United States
Jackie Kim, Georgia Southern University, United States
Call for Chapters
Proposals Submission Deadline: June 2, 2021
Full Chapters Due: August 15, 2021
Submission Date: August 15, 2021
Introduction
Student misuse of mobile technology for off-task purposes has become an international phenomenon in college classrooms. When a student’s self-regulation of learning breaks down in the classroom—or when their task motivation begins to wane—turning towards their digital devices for leisure purposes is often the result. This book will explore the challenges that arise from student digital distraction and identify solutions, while also identifying how mobile technology can be leveraged to improve student motivation, self-regulation of learning, and achievement. Although numerous studies have independently examined student digital distraction in the context of the college classroom, there remains a need to organize the field’s collective understanding of the phenomenon. This book will address that need.
Objective
The primary purpose of this book is to act as one-stop shop for the field’s collective understanding of the digital distraction phenomenon in higher education. To this end, this book has four main objectives: (1) to synthesize the existing body of literature related to student digital distraction in college classrooms; (2) to empower college instructors to curb the digital distraction phenomenon; (3) to serve as a launching point for future research; and (4) to provide university administrators with a firsthand glimpse into life in college classrooms during today’s digital age.
Target Audience
There are three target audiences for this book: college instructors, educational researchers, and university administrators. This book will provide college instructors with a well-rounded understanding of the prevalence, causes, and consequences of student digital distraction, and arm them with a menu of strategies that can be used to curb student digital distraction in their classroom. Furthermore, this book will be a valuable resource for educational researchers interested in academic motivation, self-regulated learning, digital distraction, and the interplay among all three. Finally, this text will be useful for university administrators by providing them with an inside look at what is going in on college classrooms across the globe—and helping them understand why the issue should be taken seriously.
Recommended Topics
• Prevalence, causes, and consequences of student digital distraction • Strategies to curb student digital distraction • Student digital distraction across cultures • Student-instructor interpersonal relationships and digital distraction • Embedded self-regulation of learning strategy instruction to curb digital distraction • The relationship between self-regulation of learning and digital distraction tendencies • The relationship between academic motivation and digital distraction tendencies • Instructional design and digital distraction • Emotions, learning, and digital distraction • Communication, instruction, and digital distraction • Instructor professional satisfaction • Flipped classrooms and digital distraction • Academic delay of gratification and digital distraction • Using mobile technology to improve learning in the classroom • Using mobile technology to improve self-regulation of learning • Using mobile technology to improve academic motivation
Submission Procedure
Researchers and practitioners are invited to submit on or before June 2, 2021, a chapter proposal of 1,000 to 2,000 words clearly explaining the mission and concerns of his or her proposed chapter. Authors will be notified by June 16, 2021 about the status of their proposals and sent chapter guidelines.Full chapters are expected to be submitted by August 15, 2021, and all interested authors must consult the guidelines for manuscript submissions at https://www.igi-global.com/publish/contributor-resources/before-you-write/ prior to submission. All submitted chapters will be reviewed on a double-blind review basis. Contributors may also be requested to serve as reviewers for this project.Note: There are no submission or acceptance fees for manuscripts submitted to this book publication, Digital Distractions in the College Classroom. All manuscripts are accepted based on a double-blind peer review editorial process.All proposals should be submitted through the eEditorial Discovery® online submission manager, linked via the full call here: https://www.igi-global.com/publish/call-for-papers/call-details/5264
Publisher
This book is scheduled to be published by IGI Global (formerly Idea Group Inc.), an international academic publisher of the “Information Science Reference” (formerly Idea Group Reference), “Medical Information Science Reference,” “Business Science Reference,” and “Engineering Science Reference” imprints. IGI Global specializes in publishing reference books, scholarly journals, and electronic databases featuring academic research on a variety of innovative topic areas including, but not limited to, education, social science, medicine and healthcare, business and management, information science and technology, engineering, public administration, library and information science, media and communication studies, and environmental science. For additional information regarding the publisher, please visit https://www.igi-global.com. This publication is anticipated to be released in 2022.
Important Dates
June 2, 2021: Proposal Submission Deadline
June 16, 2021: Notification of Acceptance
August 15, 2021: Full Chapter Submission
September 28, 2021: Review Results Returned
November 9, 2021: Final Acceptance Notification
November 23, 2021: Final Chapter Submission
Inquiries
Abraham Flanigan
Georgia Southern University
aflanigan@georgiasouthern.edu
Jackie Kim
Georgia Southern University
jhkim@georgiasouthern.edu