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Subject: Virtual Learning Conference - staff-development
Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2003 10:38:22 -0800
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Dear staff-development Moderator

We would appreciate it if you could post the conference
announcement below on your discussion list if you consider
it appropriate.

Kind regards

Helen Terre Blanche (Conference Alerts)
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2nd Global Conference Virtual Learning and Higher Education
12 to 13 September 2003, Mansfield College, Oxford, United
Kingdom

Call for Papers
(please cross post where appropriate)

Higher Education institutions have been criticized for
living in the past; some have even proclaimed that the
University has lost its relevance. In the midst of these
analyses and criticisms, the advent of Information and
Communication Technologies in today's
universities/colleges is seen as a promising
development. What future has Higher Education when the
virtual world of on-line education has so much more to
offer? The aim of this conference will be to examine
Virtuality within Higher Education in an attempt to
critique both its essential characteristics and its future
possibilities to influence the education of adult learners.

Being such a broad topic, Virtuality defies a definitive
list of sub-topics but the following list is indicative
of the envisaged topics covered within this Call for
Papers:

* Emerging technologies within Higher Education
* International technology challenges
* Organizational issues/strategies in Virtual education
* Financial issues (faculty pay/timetabling/benefits)
* Part-time staff/ adjuncts' role between traditional and
virtual universities
* Contemporary best teaching practices
* International educational experiences/lessons
* Case studies of experimental projects
* Blended Learning approaches
* Professional development/support structures

All papers presented at the inaugural conference are in
the process of being published in a themed volume. All
papers accepted for and presented at this conference will
be published in an ISBN eBook. Selected papers will be
developed and published in a themed hard copy book.

The organisers intend the conference to have the
atmosphere of a working group who engage in a focused
and rigorous manner with the issues raised in the papers
selected for presentation. Consequently it is envisaged
that numbers attending the conference will be capped.
In particular, we warmly invite projects-in-process who
would like the benefit of presenting and receiving
feedback from the inter-disciplinary perspectives of those
present.

Important Dates:
300 word abstract - Friday 6th June 2003
Full Draft Papers - Friday 15th August 2003
Conference - 12th - 13th September 2003
eBook (ISBN) published - 1st November 2003
Themed hard copy published - 1st June 2004

300 word abstracts should be submitted to both the
Organising Joint Chairs:

Dr David Seth Preston
BRG
92 Colney Hatch Lane
London N10 1EA
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Dr Rob Fisher
c/o Learning Solutions
Priory House
149B Wroslyn Road
Freeland, Oxfordshire OX29 8HR
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The conference is sponsored by BRG and Learning
Solutions. For further details and information please visit
the conference web site:
http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/vlhe03cfp.htm
or contact the Organising Joint Chairs.

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