We hope that the theme for this symposium -  'for the 21st Century Learner'  - will challenge contributors to consider the rapidly changing landscape of university education - technology, massification, increased diversity of students and globalisation etc. 

Please submit your paper proposal online at http://www.brookes.ac.uk/services/ocsld/isl/isl2009/callforpapers.html. The closing date for submissions is 28 February 2009, and authors will be notified by the end of March whether their paper has been selected for presentation.

BACKGROUND
In 1993, the first Improving Student Learning Symposium was held at
Warwick University in the UK. Since then it has become an established
event on the international calendar, with up to 200 participants from
over 15 countries at each conference. The major aim of the Improving
Student Learning Symposia is to provide a forum which brings together
those who are primarily researchers into learning in higher education
and those who are primarily practitioners concerned more pragmatically
with improving their practice, but from whichever starting point,
papers are only accepted if they take a sufficiently scholarly,
research-based approach.

Improving Student Learning symposium (ISL) is supported by the Higher Education Academy.

Fiona Smith
Oxford Centre for Staff and Learning Development

Tel: 01865 485902
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