Submit a Manuscript to the Journal
Cogent Education
For an Article Collection on
Innovative Teaching, Learning Mechanisms, and the Sustainable Landscape of Education
Manuscript deadline
Article Collection Guest Advisor(s)
Dr. Yan (Diane) Dai,
University at Albany, State University of New York (SUNY), USA
dydai@albany.edu
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Innovative Teaching, Learning Mechanisms, and the Sustainable Landscape of Education
Cogent Education is pleased to welcome you to submit your research to the Article Collection "Innovative Teaching, Learning Mechanisms, and the Sustainable Landscape of Education".
Contemporary educational ecosystems are undergoing a profound paradigm shift, marked by rapid digital transformation and evolving demographic demands. This Collection provides a multidimensional forum to examine the shifting foundations of learning. It seeks to bridge the gap between educational theory and real-world practice, capturing research across primary, secondary, higher, and professional education settings.
The modern educational landscape is characterized by a high-frequency digital environment that places new demands on learner agency and cognitive resources. The primary strengths of this current ecosystem lie in the proliferation of adaptive pedagogies, personalized mentoring, and data-driven insights that empower diverse learners. However, these advancements face significant threats, including widening digital divides, cognitive overload in complex information environments, and the challenge of sustaining student engagement amidst institutional instability. This Collection investigates how learners navigate these tensions, focusing on how developmental stages, motivational trajectories, and cognitive/meta-cognitive/self-regulated learning strategies serve as the determinants of academic success and lifelong well-being in different social and environmental contexts. By fostering a discourse that bridges internal mechanisms with the social-environmental realities of modern education, we aim to cultivate resilient instructional strategies that ensure accessibility, equity, and long-term competence development.
This Collection welcomes interdisciplinary empirical research and theoretical developments organized into two thematic pillars:
- Psychological Mechanisms of Resilience & Engagement (Focusing on developmental stages, motivational dynamics, metacognition, emotional well-being, self-efficacy, and self-regulated learning, etc.)
- Instructional Redesign for Inclusion (Leveraging evidence-based practices for Culturally Responsive Teaching, personalized mentoring, and socially-responsive pedagogical innovation).
We invite diverse manuscript types, including empirical intervention studies, case studies, field evaluations, and systematic literature reviews that demonstrate evidence-based practice.
Meet the Guest Advisor
Dr. Yan (Diane) Dai is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Educational and Counseling Psychology at the University at Albany, State University of New York (SUNY). She earned her Ph.D. from Auburn University, specializing in educational psychology and research methods. Her primary research agenda investigates self-regulated learning and Learning motivation in technology-rich learning environments.
The Guest Advisors declare no conflict of interest regarding this work.
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All manuscripts submitted to this Article Collection will undergo desk assessment and peer-review as part of our standard editorial process. Guest Advisors for this Collection will not be involved in peer-reviewing manuscripts unless they are an existing member of the Editorial Board. Please review the journal Aims and Scope and author submission instructions prior to submitting a manuscript.
Submission Instructions
The deadline for submitting manuscripts is 02 April 2027.
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