The 7th International Conference on Higher Education Learning Methodologies and Technologies (HELMeTO 2025) will be held in Naples (Italy) on September 23-25, 2025. The conference is focused on all the relevant topics for online higher education: learning methodologies, learning technologies, software, learning outcomes evaluation, educational data analysis, learning analytics and educational big data mining. The main aim is to bring together practitioners and researchers studying these topics and, in general, to personals involved at management and/or teaching level in institutions interested in distance learning.

Participants will have the opportunity to exchange good practices and points of view about the future of methodologies and technologies regarding the online teaching-learning process. Moreover, a special focus will be done to the importance of mining useful knowledge from of the data generated on virtual learning environments and to the methods for improving the performances of the universities themselves.

The conference will include parallel sessions organized in two main tracks:

• Online pedagogy and learning methodologies;
• Learning technologies, data analytics and educational big data mining as well as their applications.

Moreover, Special Tracks will be organized by valuable researchers under the umbrella of HELMeTO 2023. All abstracts submitted for a special track will undergo a review process as described in the Author Guidelines Section and must meet the same deadlines as described

Submission Guidelines

Special track proposal

Proposals for Special Tracks are welcome. Proposals must be emailed to conference@helmeto.it, specifying as email subject “Special Session Proposal”. Call is now open, see instructions on the Web site: https://www.helmeto.it/2025-edition/special-tracks/  

Each proposal must specify the following fields, the proposal should not exceed the 3 pages:

• Title
• Aim and Scopes
• Potential Scopes of Interest
• Special Track Leader Organizer, with his/her affiliation, contacts and a very short bio
• The list of other co-organizers, with their contacts and affiliations
• A list of potential contributors.

Abstract contribution 

Abstract contributions MUST be in English and should be submitted in the form of an abstract with references (max two pages + one page of references).

All submissions must be made electronically through the online submission system EasyChair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=helmeto2025. During the submission process, the preferred track (general or special) must be selected. 

The authors of accepted abstracts will be asked to present their work at the Conference. The accepted abstracts will be available in a digital book of abstracts of the Conference. Each accepted abstract must have at least one registered author by September 01, 2025 (early registration deadline August 10, 2025). 

For more details on how to prepare the abstract, check: https://www.helmeto.it/ 

SUBMISSIONS: Full Papers

The authors of the accepted contributions will be invited to submit an extended version of their work in the form of a final full paper (12 pages + references). Full papers will undergo a second round of reviews. Accepted full papers, whose authors will have attended the conference (at least one author), will be included, free of charge, in the conference post-proceedings. We are submitting a request to Springer Communications in Computer and Information Science (CCIS) series, indexed in Scopus and other important indexing databases. Last editions of HELMeTO conference proceedings are published at: https://link.springer.com/conference/helmeto 

Important Dates

Special tracks submission deadline: April 24, 2025

Special tracks notification of acceptance: May 2, 2025

Submission opening: May 10, 2025

Abstract submission deadline: June 20, 2025

Abstract notification of acceptance: July 20, 2025

Abstract camera-ready submission: August 10, 2025

Conference: 23-25 September 2025

Full paper submission: October 6, 2025

Full paper notification of acceptance: November 6, 2025

Full paper camera-ready submission: November 24, 2025

Committees

General Chair

• Flavia Santoianni (Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II)
• Alessandro Ciasullo (Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II)
• Davide Taibi (Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche - Istituto per le Tecnologie Didattiche)

Programme Chair

• Gianluca Giannini (Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II)
• Giovanni Fulantelli (Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche - Istituto per le Tecnologie Didattiche)
• Marco Rondonotti (Università degli Studi eCampus)

Publication Chair

• Matteo Adamoli (Università degli Studi eCampus)
• Domenico Amato (Università degli Studi di Palermo)

Publicity Chair

• Anna Vacca (UnitelmaSapienza)
• Salvatore Calderaro (Università degli Studi di Palermo)

Permanent Steering Committee

• Daniel Burgos, Universidad Internacional de La Rioja, Spain
• Christian Stracke, European Institute for Learning, Innovation and Cooperation, Germany
• Pier Cesare Rivoltella, "Sacro Cuore" Catholic University, Italy
• Paolo Raviolo, eCampus University, Italy
• Marco Rondonotti, eCampus University, Italy
• Pietro Picerno, Sassari University Italy
• Riccardo Pecori, eCampus University, Italy
• Marta Cimitile, UniTelma Sapienza University, Italy
• Gabriella Casalino, University of Bari, Italy
• Davide Taibi, CNR - Institute for Education Technology, Italy
• Giosue' Lo Bosco, University of Palermo, Italy

Venue

The conference will be held in Naples hosted by the Univeristy Federico II

Contact

All questions about submissions should be emailed to conference@helmeto.it