Welcome to LIHE

INTRODUCING LIHE

LIHE – Learning in Higher Education – is an international academic association founded in 2007 for the enhancement of Learning in Higher Education. LIHE brings together researchers within higher education from all over the world who work professionally with the development of learning-centred higher education. At this webpage you can read more about LIHE, and about our activities. We thank you for visiting our site, and we hope that you find our association so interesting that it can also become your association.

LATEST NEWS

November 19, 2009.
Announcing “LIHE ‘10 – Africa”: Symposium Call – Postgraduate Education – Form and Function. Our 4th International Symposium in the ”Improving Learning in Higher Education”-series will take place in the South African wine region of Stellenbosch. Contribute by writing a chapter to our international anthology and join 25 colleagues for 5 inspiring days to finalize the full manuscript. This is a unique symposium format enhancing collaborative writing and knowledge creation. Symposium call is announced HERE.

November 12, 2009.
Symposium Call – Writing for Journal Publication. Join our 2nd International Symposium on scholarly writing. Get personal coaching on your academic writing. Improve your academic writing skills. Finalize your academic journal article. Get published! Sign up to our second international writing symposium! We invite you to participate in the symposium “WRITING FOR JOURNAL PUBLICATION”, where you will work together with a professional writing coach to prepare your academic article for publication in an international scientific journal. Read about it!

October 24, 2009.
Chapter Proposal Submission Server for “LIHE ‘10 - Europe” is now open. Submit your chapter proposal no later than November 1, 2009. Use this LINK to go to our submission server.

September 28, 2009.

Purchase our two latest antologies from this link and get 40% discount!

Our latest anthology, Improving Students’ Learning Outcomes, is now available from a variety of online bookstores. We have made a deal with the publisher, CBS PRESS, that visitors buying through this link from our website can purchase our two latest anthologies with 40% discount (Improving Students’ Learning Outcomes + Understanding Learning-Centred Higher Education).

You can also purchase Improving Students’ Learning Outcomes alone following this link. And Understanding Learning-Centred Higher Education following this link.

About Improving Students’ Learning Outcomes: This is a relevant book for all faculty members, teachers, administrators, and students who have a genuine interest in getting inspiration to ways in which a curriculum can be centred on student learning. In 17 chapters, integrating theoretical perspectives with empirical practice, researchers and practitioners from four continents discuss why and how students’ learning outcomes can be improved. The book thereby offers both new theoretical approaches to the understanding of students’ learning outcomes as well as normative implications and inspiring examples from people professionally engaged in teaching, learning and assessment-practices.

August 10, 2009.
Visitor number 20,000!!! We are rapidly approaching visitor number 20,000 on our weblog (note the blog stats to the right). We have decided to give away a copy of each of our anthologies “Understanding Learning-Centred Higher Education” and “Improving Students’ Learning Outcomes” to the lucky visitor. If you happen to be visitor number 20,000 take a SCREEN DUMP of the webpage where blog stats is visible and e-mail it to: cn.ll(@)cbs.dk [remove the brackets]. We will then forward the two books to you!

July 20, 2009.
Symposium Call – LIHE ‘10: Teaching Creativity – Creativity in Teaching. Join us on Aegina Island, Greece in May 30-June 3, 2010! Deadline for chapter proposals, November 1, 2009.

July 1, 2009.
Our new anthology “Improving Students’ Learning Outcomes” is now finished and sent to print. It is published by CBS Press and will be released in August 2009. Click here to see the book cover.

June 20, 2009.
No more vacancies for the symposium Writing for Journal Publication.

June 15, 2009.
LIHE ‘09 was a very big success. Authors from four Continents of the world met for four days to finalise the international anthology “Improving Students’ Learning Outcomes”. We are already working on the symposium call for 2010. Watch this page for news.

May 14, 2009.
We have only three vacant slots available for our Symposium Writing for Journal Publication, running from Sep.13-18, 2009 on Aegina Island, Greece. Work individually with your writing coach to improve your academic writing skills and get your academic articles published in international journals. Deadline for signing up is July 1, 2009.

March 21, 2009
Announcing our international SYMPOSIUM: Writing for Journal Publication. Deadline for registration is July 1, 2009. Join this symposium to team up with a professional writing coach, who will help you finalize your article for journal publication. Fee 1.750 EURO including symposium participation, accommodation, full board (all meals and drinks inclusive), and course book. See full description here.

January 18, 2009
NEW SYMPOSIUM organised by LIHE: Writing for Journal Publication. (September 13-18, 2009). Work together with a professional writing coach to get your article published. An intensive symposium where we will discuss the ins and outs of international journal publication. You will get 1-1 writing coaching on your own academic writing (you submit a proposed journal article before the symposium), and you will get feedback from peer reviewers (other participants). Writing for Journal Publication is led by 4 professional writing coaches with years of international academic experience. To give you full value and to facilitate an encouraging work environment, we only accept 20 participants. Sign up right away!

December 21, 2008
We received 57 chapter proposals for LIHE ‘09. All were double blind reviewed by a group of international scholars. In case a chapter proposal was rejected by one reviewer and accepted by the other reviewer, it was reviewed by a third international scholar. In rare cases where the third reviewer came to a split decision, the chapter proposal was reviewed by a fourth international scholar.
We accepted 22 chapter proposals (38%). Authors are asked to submit their full chapters no later than February 15th, 2009. All full chapters will be double blind reviewed by a group of international scholars & they will furthermore be reviewed by the editors, Clive Holtham & Claus Nygaard. The anthology will contain 16-19 chapters, so the acceptance rate of full chapters will be 72-86%. The overall acceptance rate for LIHE ‘09 will be 28-33%.

November 28, 2008
Langton Book Services and Barnes & Noble have now added our LIHE ‘08 Anthology Understanding Learning-Centred Higher Education, to their online catalogue. You can also order the book from Amazon, Target, and ISBS (see below).

November 15, 2008
The dealine for our Symposium on Aegina Island in Greece May 31-June 4, 2009 is getting near. Remember to submit your chapter proposal no later than December 1, 2008.

November 5, 2008
We are rapidly approaching visitor number 10.000, and have decided to give away a copy of Understanding Learning-Centred Higher Education to visitor number 10.000.
If you are visitor number 10.000, take a copy of the screen (print screen) where the blog-stats shows 10.000, and send the picture to us together with your name and address. We will then send you the LIHE-anthology from our Symposium in June ‘08.
E-mail: cn.ll[at]cbs.dk

September 19, 2008
The Anthology from LIHE ‘08, Understanding Learning-Centred Higher Education, is now available online from Amazon.com, Target.com, and International Specialized Book Services.

August 25, 2008

The Anthology from the LIHE ‘08 Symposium, June 2008 was published by CBS PRESS on August 25, 2008.

 

August 24, 2008
The call for the LIHE ‘09 Symposium has just been released. Read all about LIHE ‘09 on this webpage and don’t forget the deadline for chapter proposals is December 1st, 2008.

LIHE Symposium Philosophy

OUR SYMPOSIUM PHILOSOPHY

We like conferences on higher education. It’s a window where you get to present your research. It’s an opportunity to meet colleagues from all over the world. It’s your possibility to get new and valuable input from others working within your field of interest. That’s some of the great benefits of attending conferences. However, as we experience it, most higher education conferences have some downsides as well. 

Most conferences allow you 20 minutes for a standard paper presentation and 10 minutes for a rather unfocused Q&A session. While you’re presenting your paper in one room, 7-12 people are presenting their paper in another room. As a consequence of this everybody seem to run out of your presentations half way through, as they want to attend another paper presentation by somebody who’s just a little more important than you. And most conferences are just getting bigger and bigger. For the conference organizations, size seems to equal quality. 

Usually you’ll spend 1-2 months preparing your conference paper. It’s a lot of hard work. And you do that to get your 20 minutes of fame. When you get back from the conference, you have to consider publishing the paper, which may well mean 1-2 years of continuous work with editing, revision, submission, etc. In that process you’re more or less left on your own and have only limited (if any) contact with the people you met at the conference. 

Discussing the pros and cons of conferences, we decided we would try to change that. 

Our philosophy with this symposium about Learning in Higher Education is to bring a small group of 25 people together and have them write an anthology together. The chapters written for the symposium/anthology will be circulated among the participants, and we will form focused discussion/review groups that give constructive feedback to the authors during the symposium. We will address the questions that’s on your mind, and focus our discussions around ways in which such questions can be answered. We will spend the days together at the symposium helping you to write the best possible chapter for our anthology. 

We are currently negotiating with different international publishers, who have shown interest in the anthology. As soon as we have your final chapter, we bring our negotiations a step further and close the publishing deal. If your chapter meets our review criterias and gets a positve review by our reviewers it will be published. 

In order to bring an international group of researchers closer together and work concentrated, we have rented a family run hotel in Greece. Kavos Bay Seafront Hotel is located in the state forest district outside the village of Aghia Marina on Aegina Island. The location is secluded (15 min walk to the village through the forest), and it’s a wonderful spot for academic discussions and concentration. We like it, and we’re certain you’ll like it as well. 

LIHE ‘09 is the second international symposium in a row of annual symposiums. Next year we’ll introduce another sub theme for a new anthology. It is our hope that over the years, we can create a strong and international network of researchers who’ll be able to work together on multiple research projects outside the context of LIHE.