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Call for contributions to the 2012 Conference of the International Consortium
for Educational Development

"Across the Globe Higher Education Learning and Teaching" - Bangkok, 23rd -
25th July 

The general aim of the ICED2012 Conference is to become an international
meeting point for participants to reflect and exchange ideas and experiences
in researching and supporting educational development at different levels
from classroom to national scales. The experiences of scholars in many
countries, especially those in Asia and ASEAN, will be shared with scholars
from other parts of the world. The sharing of best practice in the
development of higher education will be most valuable for rethinking of
quality learning and teaching paradigms for all parts of the world.


Conference Themes:

Strategies for enhancing learning for the next generation of students

Scholarship and research into the practice of educational and academic
development

Policies and practice in institutional and organisational development

The development of higher education across the globe


Conference Topics

We welcome proposals on these topics below, or any others which are
interesting and important to the world-wide community of educational and
academic developers

-    Transformative learning
-    Education for sustainability
-    A futuristic view of education
-    Learning for social change 
-    Postmodern teaching pedagogy and instructional technology 
-    Changes to the learning environment 
-    Learning engagement and course design / development / management 
-    Paradigm shifts in teaching and learning 
-    Assessment in higher education
-    Cross-cultural education 
-    Global quality and standards of higher education
-    Student and lecturer mobility


Submissions and Abstracts

We invite the submission of abstracts for consideration by the peer review
panel for one or more of the following types of sessions in the conference:
paper, workshop or poster. 

Papers should report research findings, or discuss evidence-based practice,
or critically assess policy or practice. Papers may be clustered and
presented in shared sessions (20, 30 or 60 minutes, including discussion
time). 

Workshops should be action-oriented (60 minutes).  They should include a
short input (up to 15 minutes) and activities for delegates to participate
in. They should be of interest and relevance to a wide audience Please
include a timetable showing the design of the event.

Posters should be A0 in size (portrait layout) and present summary
information about your work in a visual or text format in a way that is of
interest to the conference participants. You will be asked to talk about your
poster during networking sessions. 
  
Abstracts should include title and speaker names, and the name of a key
contact. They should be no more than 200 words. They will be published in the
Conference programme.

The deadline for submissions is January 15th 2012


Peer review process

All abstracts will be reviewed anonymously by two peer reviewers and the
final selection of the successful contributions will be made by the
conference organising committee. You will be informed of the outcome by
February 29th 2012


Pre-conference workshops 22nd July

There will be a separate call for proposals for Pre-Conference Workshops
which will be held on 22nd July 2012.


Further details

Due to the present emergency in Bangkok, the Conference Web Site is not
available, and therefore it is not possible to use the electronic submission
process straight away.

A second Call for Papers will be circulated when the web site is up and
running.

Further information about ICED can be found on the ICED web site:
icedonline.net

Please circulate this Call to your colleagues.

 
Professor Mick Healey BA PhD FRGS NTF SFHEA
HE Consultant and Researcher 

Emeritus Professor University of Gloucestershire
Director NTFS Project: Creative Honours Project (Creative-Hops)
Co-Editor, International Journal for Academic Development
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