Stay tuned for important updates regarding ICL2025! Key dates, including submission deadlines, registration periods, and program announcements, are shown in the table. Nevertheless, it’s essential to keep an eye on our communications to ensure you don’t miss any critical information about the conference.
Remote (online) presentations for full, short, special session, and work-in-progress papers are supported.
Date | Activity | |
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03 May 2025 | – Submission of structured abstracts (for full and short papers) for the main conference – Submission of Special Session proposals | |
14 May 2025 | Notification of acceptance and announcement οf Special Sessions | |
16 May 2025 | Notification of acceptance for abstracts for the main conference | |
20 Jun 2025 | Submission of: (i) complete papers for all submission types (ii) proposals for round tables, workshops, tutorials | |
28 Jul 2025 | Notification of acceptance | |
29 Sep 2025 | Camera-ready due & Author registration | |
19 Nov 2025 | IMCL2025 Conference Opening |
Full papers are for mature work, requiring lengthy explanations of the conceptual background, methodology and data and analysis. Full paper submissions should state: (a) the major issue(s) addressed, (b) potential significance of the work, (c) the theoretical and methodological approach(es) pursued, (d) major findings, conclusions, implications, and (e) relevant scholarly references. Moreover, the relevance to the theme of the conference should be made clear. We also encourage papers that address conceptual issues in Mobile Technology and Mobile Learning research, and papers that help to set the programmatic agenda for the future of Mobile Technology and Mobile Learning research.
Short papers are for work that makes significant contributions, but of smaller scale, or that can be reported briefly. Otherwise, the same criteria apply as listed for full papers.
Special sessions, held in parallel with the general conference, are an integral part of the conference. They provide researchers in focused areas the opportunity to meet and present their work and offer a forum for interaction among the broader community of technology-enhanced learning, and online engineering world-wide. Special sessions papers are required to meet the same standards as papers in the general conference and are published in the same conference proceedings.
WiP submissions are for reporting on work that is still in the process of study and/or implementation for which results will not be available by the time of draft paper submission; papers submitted in this category must have titles beginning with the phrase, “Work-in-Progress: Title”.
Posters are for work that is in early stages and for novel and promising ideas. The poster should identify the aspect of the work that will likely lead to productive discussions with conference participants in a poster session, including figures exemplifying the visual support to be provided for these discussions in the poster.
IMCL DC will be organized as a special session, dedicated to DC Students as part of the program of the main IMCL conference. During the Doctoral Consortium Special Session, each participant (i.e., PhD student) will have the opportunity to present ongoing research to the audience of the main conference by means of an oral presentation. IMCL DC papers are required to meet the same standards as papers in the general conference and are published in the same conference proceedings.
It is a session organized as a ‘discussion panel’. The round table organizer first submits a proposal using the provided form . If the proposal is accepted, the coordinator invites at least 5 speakers. During the session the speakers first make short introductions on the discussion topic (for example, 5 or 7 minutes each) and then the discussion goes on with the audience also participating.
The objective of a Workshop session is to bring together various research and development groups, to serve as a forum for establishing new collaborations, to attract both research results and work in progress, and to define main enablers and future challenges within a specific research domain. The workshop organizer submits a workshop proposal using the provided form.
A session of ‘tutorial’ format, with specific learning objectives for the participants (for example, to learn how a software/hardware tool operates). The tutorial organizer submits a proposal using the provided form .
The work should be original, unpublished and not simultaneously submitted to other workshops, conferences, or journals.
Furthermore, make surePapers not meeting these criteria risk rejection without consideration!
Similarity and AI checks are done after the conference by Springer. This means that your work might be accepted at the conference, but excluded later from the Springer publication.
You must upload the following files:
Springer, in accordance with the EU Accesibility Act, requires that you provide alt texts for all non-text content in your paper.
Alternative texts (aka alt text) are descriptions that make non-text content, such as figures and illustrations, accessible for visually impaired people who use screen readers or searchable for search engines.
If your manuscript contains text only (no photos, no graphics, no graphs...), you do not need to upload this file.
Please note: Figure captions are not alt text. Read this very good Springer guide how to write alt texts. Then create an Excel sheet with 2 columns: column 1 with the figure numbers exactly as in your paper, and column 2 with the respective alt texts.
The Springer LtP is a very important legal document. Springer will NOT publish your paper if the LtP is not correctly filled in. Take this very serious and follow the instructions in the email that will be sent after he conference.
All paper and short paper submissions are subject to a double blind reviewing process. Only accepted AND presented papers will appear in the proceedings if they have been uploaded before the deadlines. The conference proceedings will be published with Springer in the series Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems.
The books of this series are indexed by SCOPUS, INSPEC, WTI Frankfurt eG, zbMATH, and SCImago. All books published in the series are submitted for consideration in Web of Science. However, the conference organizers don't have any influence on that – in case of questions about indexing please address directly to Springer.
This proceedings volume is published, in parallel to the printed books, in full-text electronic version in Springer's digital library SpringerLink.
Authors are expected to attend the conference in person or online via Zoom to present their papers and share their ideas. If a paper is scheduled in the conference program, but not presented at the conference, it will not be submitted to and published by Springer – paying the conference fee is not sufficient. However, in this case, you are free to submit it to another conference or journal.
The copyrights of the papers are transferred to Springer.
Selected award papers will be recommended for publication of extended versions in the following collaborative Journals:
Springer strongly recommends that all paper authors include their affiliation and e-mail address in their manuscript. Their e-mail addresses (also published in the chapters) will be used by SpringerNature to provide authors with a personal MySpringer account where they can download a free copy of the eBook. In addition, all authors will be offered a 40% discount on any eBook or print book order from Springer's web shop. Both the free eBook and the author discount will be activated on MySpringer.
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