Online Learning to Multimodal Era: Interfaces, Analytics and User Experiences
A special issue of Multimodal Technologies and Interaction (ISSN 2414-4088).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 May 2026 | Viewed by 51
Special Issue Editors
Interests: educational technology; emergent technologies in education; online and blended learning environments; teacher education and professional development training; digitally enhanced learning environments
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
As digital learning environments are rapidly evolving, there is an increasing need to examine how multimodal interfaces are reshaping and transforming educational practices and learner engagement and interaction. The present Special Issue examines the next frontier in online and blended teaching and learning by focusing on multimodal interfaces, data-driven learning analytics, and user-centred design. It explores the transformative shift in online learning as it intersects with the rise in multimodal technologies and new opportunities for personalized, inclusive, and immersive experiences.
We invite interdisciplinary contributions that investigate how diverse interaction modes can enhance online and blended learning platforms and address how these interfaces support inclusive, personalized, and interactive learning experiences. By bringing together empirical studies, design innovation, theoretical insights, and technical advancements, this Special Issue aims to reveal and highlight how multimodal technologies can reshape the future of online education by making it more inclusive, personalised, engaging, interactive, and responsive to learners’ needs, as well as how to to improve pedagogical design, inform decision-making, and enhance user experience. The aim is to foster dialogue across fields such as educational technology, human–computer interaction, cognitive science, and data analytics, ultimately contributing to more immersive and effective digital learning environments.
Finally, contributions should offer insights into both the challenges and opportunities of designing and deploying multimodal systems in diverse online and blended learning contexts.
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Design and evaluation of multimodal learning environments;
- Multimodal interaction and engagement in virtual and hybrid learning environments;
- Adaptive learning systems informed by multimodal analytics;
- Accessibility in online and blended learning environments;
- Emotional and cognitive engagement through multimodal interaction;
- AI-enhanced multimodal digital learning environments;
- Tangible and embodied interfaces for remote learning;
- Use of immersive environments for multimodal learning;
- Learning analytics that leverage multimodal data streams;
- Pedagogical models supporting multimodal learning;
- Interdisciplinary, cross-cultural, and inclusive approaches to multimodal learning;
- Ethics and privacy in multimodal learning data collection.
Dr. Nikleia Eteokleous
Prof. Dr. Rita Panaoura
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- multimodal learning environments
- online and blended education
- learning analytics
- user experience design in education
- human–computer interaction in learning
- adaptive and personalized learning
- inclusive digital learning
- immersive technologies in education (VR/AR/XR)
- AI-enhanced educational interfaces
- emotional and cognitive engagement
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