VT 2010 - The annual Conference on Higher Education Pedagogy

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Category VT 2010

Deadline: December 07, 2009 | Date: February 18, 2010

Venue/Country: Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State Universit, U.K.

Updated: 2010-06-04 19:32:22 (GMT+9)

Call For Papers - CFP

higher education teaching excellence and the scholarship of teaching

and learning. The conference showcases the best pedagogical practice

and research in higher education today. Sessions address disciplinary

and interdisciplinary instructional strategies, outcomes, and

research. Ultimately, the conference is an opportunity to demonstrate

effective instructional practice and disseminate the latest research

aimed at improving the quality of higher education. The program

committee invites proposals for Research, Practice or Poster sessions.

Important Dates:

Proposals Due: December 7, 2009

Notification of Acceptance: December 15, 2009

Registration Due: February 1, 2010

Conference Date: February 18-19, 2010

Registration Information

There is no registration fee; however, both presenters and

participants must register.

Registration is available online at: http://www.cider.vt.edu/conference/

Session Types

Research sessions are designed to inform participants of the design,

implementation and results of empirical research focused on teaching

and learning in higher education.

Practice sessions are focused on sharing, modeling and discussing

higher education teaching and learning, while allowing for

interaction among session participants.

Poster sessions provide the contributor with the opportunity to

present and discuss scholarly research and/or practice addressing

higher education pedagogy with conference participants in an informal

scholarly environment.

The full Call for Proposals is available on the organization web

site: http://www.cider.vt.edu/conference/. To submit a proposal for

review, the proposal must be submitted electronically on or before

December 7, 2009.

Keynote Speakers

Lisa R. Lattuca, Senior Research Associate for the Center for the

Study of Higher Education will be the opening keynote speaker. Based

on interviews with faculty, she will provide a grounded

representation of interdisciplinarity, including the processes

faculty employ in pursuing interdisciplinarity and the

interdisciplinary contexts in which faculty work.

Mary Taylor Huber, Senior Scholar at the Carnegie Foundation for the

Advancement of Teaching will be the closing keynote speaker and will

focus on the teaching commons, a conceptual space in which

communities of educators committed to inquiry and innovation come

together to exchange ideas about teaching and learning, and use them

to meet the challenges of educating students for personal,

professional, and civic life.

Hotel & Transportation

The conference hotel is

The Inn at Virginia Tech and Skelton Conference Center

901 Prices Fork Road, Blacksburg, VA 24061

540-231-8000 or 877-200-3360

http://www.theinnatvirginiatech.com/

The special conference room rates are $80.00 (plus taxes) for a

single and $100.00 (plus taxes) for a double occupancy. Please

reference the Conference on Higher Education Pedagogy to receive

these special rates.

Further information regarding transportation and accommodations (e.g.

directions, maps, room descriptions, ground transportation) is

available on the conference web site:

http://www.cider.vt.edu/conference/.