Founded in 2009, the e-Learning & Innovative Pedagogies Research Network grew alongside the rise of digital learning itself. What began as a forum for early debates around online education, open learning, and digital literacy has become a global community exploring how technology reshapes teaching, participation, and knowledge creation. The Network brings together educators, technologists, designers, and researchers who experiment with new forms of learning and build more equitable, adaptive, and connected educational environments.
The International Conference on e-Learning & Innovative Pedagogies is hosted annually in partnership with a leading institution. Recent hosts include University of Malta (2023), Polytechnic University of Valencia (2024), National Changhua University of Education (2025), and University of the Aegean (2026). The conference highlights emerging practices in online, hybrid, ubiquitous, and immersive learning—offering a space where educators test ideas, share course and platform designs, and explore the evolving relationships between learner, teacher, and technology.
Ubiquitous Learning: An International Journal is a peer-reviewed, hybrid open access journal that explores the affordances of digital media and communication technologies for learning across school, workplace, and everyday settings. The journal examines themes such as multimodal meaning-making, learning design, digital infrastructures, and equity in distributed learning. All submissions undergo double-anonymous, rubric-guided review with constructive editorial feedback that strengthens methodological rigor and pedagogical insight. The journal maintains clear pathways from conference participation and Knowledge Community contributions to full peer-reviewed publication.
The e-Learning & Innovative Pedagogies Book Imprint publishes monographs and edited volumes focused on technology-enabled learning, curriculum design, and the pedagogies emerging in digitally mediated contexts. The imprint welcomes diverse voices and both broad and highly specialized topics, offering open access pathways to increase the reach and accessibility of educational research. Books connect theory with classroom and community practice—supporting educators, designers, and leaders working to build future-ready learning environments.
The e-Learning & Innovative Pedagogies Research Network’s Member Knowledge Community on CGScholar is an active, year-round environment where members share profiles, papers, course designs, and digital projects. Built for collaboration, it offers a multimodal authoring space and light, community-guided review that helps refine work before wider circulation. Conference programs, recordings, and calls sit alongside works-in-progress and published research, forming a continuous ecosystem for experimentation, reflection, and publication across digital learning and innovative pedagogy
The Network is chaired by Professor Mary Kalantzis, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and Professor Bill Cope, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, whose pioneering work in multiliteracies, learning design, and digital pedagogy has defined the field for over two decades.
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA
Partnerships extend the Network’s scholar-led mission—linking universities and organizations that share a commitment to innovative pedagogy. Past and current partners include:
