CFP: Educational Intergrity (Sept 09, Wollongong)
Written by Agnes Bosanquet on July 22nd, 2009
Educational Integrity: Creating an Inclusive Approach
4th Asia Pacific Conference on Educational Integrity (4APCEI)
28 – 30 September 2009
University of Wollongong, NSW, Australia
Educational integrity includes topics such as plagiarism, ethics in research and writing, as well the broader cultural context of values in teaching and learning
This conference will be held at the University of Wollongong, Australia on [...]
The Post-Corporate University
Written by Agnes Bosanquet on July 2nd, 2009
Check out this interesting “online experiment”: The Post-Corporate University
The Post-Corporate University starts from an assumption that the University is in crisis and that this crisis has been caused by the social and economic characteristics of neoliberalism. Asking the question, Is Another University Possible?, it provides space for multiple answers and interventions.
If this sounds [...]
CFP: ATN Assessment Conference (Nov 09, Melbourne)
Written by Agnes Bosanquet on June 3rd, 2009
The 2009 ATN Assessment Conference, to be held at RMIT from 19-20 November, will provide an opportunity to explore different dimensions of assessment – different needs and objectives, contexts and approaches, practices and tools of assessment.
The theme of this conference is Assessment in Different Dimensions. Topics include:
Assessing with technologies
Assessing authentically
Feedback, moderation and quality
Assessing in the [...]
CFP: Enabling Education (Nov 09, Queensland)
Written by Agnes Bosanquet on June 2nd, 2009
The 3rd National Conference for Enabling Education (Enabling Pathways) will be held at the University of Southern Queensland (USQ) Toowoomba, 25 – 27 November 2009.
The conference provides a wonderful opportunity for teachers, equity practitioners, administrators and researchers to share knowledge and raise awareness of the importance of pursuing social inclusion in these areas. Simply themed [...]
CFP AARE 2009 Education Research conference (Canberra, Nov/Dec 09)
Written by Agnes Bosanquet on May 27th, 2009
The deadline for submissions for AARE 2009 International Education Research Conference has been extended to May 29. That’s this Friday!
AARE 2009 will be held at the National Convention Centre, Canberra from 29 November – 3 December 2009.
Presenters are invited to be involved with the theme Inspiring Innovative Research in Education - Creating Global Networks - [...]
Call for Manuscripts: work-based mobile learning
Written by Agnes Bosanquet on April 22nd, 2009
Call for Manuscripts: work-based mobile learning: concepts and cases
Mobile phones were identified in the Horizon Report (2009) as the technologies with the highest likelihood of entry into the mainstream learning … Issues surrounding mobile learning in work-based contexts have only been marginally covered to date despite the potentially huge impact of mobile technologies on supporting [...]
CFP: Education and Information Applications (Beijing, Aug 09)
Written by Agnes Bosanquet on March 31st, 2009
Papers are invited for the 2009 International Conference on Education and Information Applications (EITA 2009), to be held in Beijing, China from August 8-11, 2009.
Topics of interest cover Education and Information Technology. Suggestions include, but [...]
CFP: Learning Infrastructures in the Social Sciences and Humanities (May 09)
Written by Agnes Bosanquet on March 24th, 2009
Papers are invited for a special issue of the journal Learning Inquiry: Learning Infrastructures in the Social Sciences and Humanities.
Possible topics include:
Transformation of institutions in relation to learning infrastructures
New methods, new understandings in the social sciences and humanities related to learning infrastructures
New disciplines, interdisciplines and transdisciplines and learning infrastructures
Political economics of learning infrastructures
Ethics, norms, and [...]
Monsters and higher education
Written by Agnes Bosanquet on February 26th, 2009
A recent call for papers for Monsters and the Monstrous - from Inter-disciplinary.net, a network for the exploration, development and publication of work that transcends traditional disciplinary boundaries - got me thinking about connections, convergences and lines of flight in the scholarship of learning and teaching. By that I mean the way that learning and [...]
CFP: Learning in Virtual Worlds (March 09)
Written by Agnes Bosanquet on February 19th, 2009
Papers are invited for a special issue of Learning, Media and Technology with the theme Learning in Virtual Worlds.
There is substantial evidence that people learn in virtual worlds. While most learning in these spaces is informal, existing outside the school curriculum, formalised learning environments have also been developed in textual worlds, MOOs, MUSHes, MUDs [...]