IHE 2010 - IADIS International Conference on International Higher Education 2010

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Category Higher Education;e-learning

Deadline: September 06, 2010 | Date: November 29, 2010-December 01, 2010

Venue/Country: Perth, Australia

Updated: 2010-08-05 01:44:57 (GMT+9)

Call For Papers - CFP

29, 30 November and 1 December 2010 ? Perth, Australia

(http://www.ihe-conf.org/)

* Conference Background and Goals

Technology like transport, communication and media-based learning have

increased our ambitions to make education more global and

international. Higher education has gradually felt more affinity

towards the exchange of students; Diversity and learning in

concentration with different cultures that has settled as road map for

the coming decades. Firstly, motivation for international higher

education to promote students’ mindset towards different cultures,

languages and traditions. Secondly, allowing students to learn multi-

cultural contexts to anticipate to the later career that involve

cooperation in international teams. As inevitable side effect,

universities welcome international students as source of income and

exchange knowledge and skills. To be more precisely, students will

take part of their courses abroad, and at least they should match a

similar amount of incoming students in order to play par.

This conference aims at the scientific, pragmatic and policy awareness

among scholars who face the direct need to make their curricula more

culturally fair. European exchange programs like the Erasmus Mundus,

the U.S. Council on International Educational Student Exchange, and

the Euro-American “Atlantis” program, they all envisage an urgent

agenda on how to balance local with the more global criteria in higher

education. This conference helps you to build your networks and

international consortia on how to be a key player in this emergent

trend.

* Format of the Conference

The conference will comprise of invited talks and oral presentations.

The proceedings of the conference will be published in the form of a

book and CD-ROM with ISBN, and will be available also in the IADIS

Digital Library (online accessible).

* Types of submissions

Full and Short Papers, Reflection Papers, Posters/Demonstrations,

Tutorials, Panels and Doctoral Consortium. All submissions are subject

to a blind refereeing process.

* Topics

These include, but are not limited to the following topics:

1. Technologies for spreading learning around the world

2. Higher Education and International student exchange

3. Learning far away from home and close to your future colleagues

4. Learning in multicultural contexts

5. Virtual presence as option for extending the students’ learning

space

6. Formal and pragmatic obstacles and opportunities in student

exchange programs

7. Double- versus joint degrees

8. Funding resources for staff and student exchange

9. How to establish campuses as multicultural communities

10. Coping with incompatibility in semester-, trimester and quarter

year course periods

11. Trade-offs between student exchange in the bachelor- versus the

master stage?

12. Will English be the default language for master courses around the

globe?

13. Does studying abroad imply “living together with local students”,

or prefer “international student houses”?

14. How to recruit highly talented students abroad?

15. How to defend the yielded higher criterion to the access of

regional- and local students?

16. How to evaluate students’ readiness for studying abroad?

17. Acculturation: what preliminary intercultural need to be trained

before been sent to a study abroad?

etc

This conference will focus both on the acute main streams of student

exchange:

- Eastern Asia to Europe, the U.S., Australia and New Zealand

- Among Western and Eastern European countries

- Among Spain, Portugal and Southern American countries

- Among Europe and the U.S.

* Important Dates:

- Submission deadline: 7 June 2010

- Notification to Authors: 5 July 2010

- Final Camera-Ready Submission and Early Registration: Until 28 july

2010

- Late Registration: After 28 july 2010

- Conference: Perth, Australia, 29, 30 November and 1 December 2010

* Conference Location

The conference will be held in Perth, Australia.

* Secretariat

IADIS Secretariat - IADIS INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON INTERNATIONAL

HIGHER EDUCATION 2010

Rua Sao Sebastiao da Pedreira, 100, 3

1050-209 Lisbon, Portugal

E-mail: secretariatihe-conf.org/

Web site: http://www.ihe-conf.org/

* Program Committee

Program Chair

Heling Huai, Foundation of New Silk Route and Dragon Travel Service,

The Netherlands

Conference Co-Chairs

Piet Kommers, University of Twente, The Netherlands

Pedro Isaías, Universidade Aberta (Portuguese Open University),

Portugal

* Co-located events

Please also check the co-located event:

Internet Technologies & Society 2010 (http://www.its-conf.org/) - 29,

30 November and 1 December 2010

* Registered participants in the International Higher Education

conference may attend Internet Technologies & Society conference

sessions free of charge.