Chief Guest Editor

Prof. Dr. Johannes Huwer
University of Education Weingarten, Germany
Email: huwer@ph-weingarten.de

Within the past years, the use of ICT is playing an important role in daily life and of course in education. The advancing development of hardware and software technology opens new ways to explore our world and science. In Science Education, ICT is used more and more to promote scientific learning processes in formal, non-formal and informal learning environments. Thus, a series of transformation processes can be observed in science education, focusing on improving the learning experience, increasing motivation and increasing cognitive learning outcomes or linking formal, non-formal and informal learning environments. Therefore, this special issue outlines best practice examples on transformation of science education with ICT.

About the issue

The topics to be covered by this special issue include, but are not limited to:

• • Transformation of science education with ICT

• • Applied media-literacy in chemistry and science classes

• • Digital media in Science as learning tools, as learning companions and as experimental tools

• • Using digital Media to link formal, non-formal and informal education

• • Special topics:
  o Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality

• o Explanation videos

• o E-Books

• o Multitouch Learning Books (and its subcategories e.g. Multitouch Experiment Instructions)

• o Gamification

• o Visualization

• o Apps

• o Mobile Data logging systems to improve the research experience

• o Classroom management in chemistry classes