Hopefully this CfP might be of interest to you all.  Apologies for cross-posting and please disseminate widely if you think it is relevant.

Cheers

Peter


Peter Bryant
Senior Lecturer - Learning and Teaching
Educational Development Unit | University of Greenwich
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Employer Engagement in a Digital Age
Academic Practice and Technology Conference
University of Greenwich                 4th July 2012

The interaction between employers and higher education is a complex and contested space.  The discourses that have emerged from the experiences of academics and the academy itself talk about the emancipatory and empowering benefits of employer engagement on the student experience and the recognition of knowledge constructed outside of the university. The continued impact of technology both in terms of supporting and enhancing learning and its role in changing the nature and practice of work poses major challenges for the design and delivery of higher education. In Europe, the policy agenda argues for greater collaboration between universities and employers.

The Academic Practice and Technology (APT) conference is the tenth annual e-learning conference at the University of Greenwich. It brings together practitioners, researchers, students and managers who have engaged employers and industry through the design, development or delivery of technology based or led higher education, work based learning, leaner employability or e-work programmes

The Academic Practice and Technology (APT) conference aims to:

·         Share practices, tools and approaches that have enhanced the use of technology to support employer engagement

·         Explore the changing roles of employers and higher education within a international digital workplace

·         Present research into the impact of technology-led learning on employer engagement, curriculum design, and work based learning

·         Create a platform for students' perspectives on the benefits of graduate skills and attributes for enhancing international and local employability

·         Set an agenda for the on-going debate about the relationship between universities, colleges, new e-learners and globalised e-employers


Contributions to the conference programme are sought from students, practitioners and researchers in all education and training sectors that contribute to the discourses, provide case study examples of, or present project/research reports aligned with at least one of the conference aims.

The conference will address a number of key themes with both its keynote presentations and the parallel sessions including;


Employer engagement in a digital age

Employer partnered curriculum development
Employability in a globalised mobile workforce
Engaging the virtual employer




Enabling student learning and employability in a digital age

Graduate attributes for enhancing international and local employability
Technology supported experiential learning
Supporting and assessing portfolio careers
e-Work based learning or Work based e-learning
Digital literacy and transition into and out of Higher Education




Curriculum design in a digital age

Adapting to changing patterns of e-working within programme design
Building employer engagement into on-line and blended learning programmes


PRESENTATION PROPOSAL TYPES
The types of contribution for which we invite proposals are:
·         Case study
·         Practitioner-led inquiry
·         Research paper/work in progress
·         Developmental/research project report
·         Posters
·         Highly encouraged are innovative session formats, round table discussions and workshops.

All proposals will need to be submitted through our conference website. https://showtime.gre.ac.uk/index.php/ecentre/apt2012/schedConf/cfp

Successful proposers will be allocated one free place at the conference. The conference organisers must receive confirmation of acceptance, indicating an intention to present by the ‘presenters and early bird’ registration deadline’. Additional colleagues wishing to co-present will be offered the ‘early bird’ discounted rate but must register by the same deadline as the main proposer. After this date all co-presenters will be charged the full rate.

A maximum of one free place will also be given to a student presenter or student co-presenter for each presentation. Additional student co-presenters will be charged at the ‘early bird’ discounted rate.

Proposals close April 2nd 2012.  Successful proposals will be notified by early May 2012.





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