8TH INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM
QUALITY ENHANCEMENT OF UNIVERSITY TEACHING AND LEARNING: theories and cases
NOVEMBER 25-29, 2012
LOCATION: AKUREYRI, ICELAND
ORGANISERS: LIHE – the international academic association for Enhancement of Learning in Higher Education together with UNIVERSITY OF AKUREYRI (link)
INVITATION FOR CHAPTERS
Quality Enhancement of University Teaching and Learning: theories and cases.
ABOUT THE ANTHOLOGY
This anthology will showcase successful experiences with quality enhancement of university teaching and learning. We seek chapters which address the kind of questions sketched below and provide valuable insights into quality practices that have clearly helped improve university students’ learning outcomes.
Three framing concepts
Three concepts set the scene for this anthology
1. The concept of learning
2. The concept of curriculum
3. The concept of teaching and study methods
The first concept addresses learning as both process and outcome. What is learning? How does learning take place? How is learning measured? Dealing with such questions will help produce a clear understanding of the link between quality initiatives at universities and students’ learning outcomes. It is a requirement for all chapters in this anthology that they explicitly deal with the concept of learning as both process and outcome, and they should explicitly argue for the link between quality initiatives and students’ learning outcomes.
The second concept addresses curriculum as both structure and process. What is curriculum? How does the curriculum structure teaching, study methods and learning? Which kinds of processes can be facilitated by the curriculum? Such discussions of the art and role of the curriculum will help produce a clear understanding of the link between curriculum and students’ learning outcomes. It is a requirement for all chapters in this anthology that they explicitly deal with the concept of curriculum. In particular they should address the link between quality initiatives at curriculum level and students’ learning outcomes.
The third concept addresses teaching and study methods applied within the curriculum. What is teaching? What is a study method? What are the relations between teaching and study methods and students’ learning outcomes? What roles do different kinds of teaching and study methods play in the curriculum? Addressing these questions will help produce a clear understanding of the relationship between teaching and study methods and students’ learning outcomes. It is a requirement for all chapters in this anthology that they explicitly deal with the concepts of teaching and study methods. In doing so they ought to define the teaching and study methods applied in their curriculum, and they have to argue for the link between quality initiatives at curriculum level, the teaching and study methods and students’ learning outcomes.
Together these three concepts provide a backdrop for an anthology of articles from educators/researchers who have successfully improved the quality of university teaching and learning. In this way the understandings reached within each concept will expressly inform the overall theme of the anthology: “Quality Enhancement of University Teaching and Learning: theories and cases”.
IT IS A REQUIREMENT that you EXPLICITLY DISCUSS HIGHER EDUCATION and CENTRE YOUR DISCUSSION on the central themes of the book as presented above. EACH CHAPTER proposal must clearly state its position in relation to one or more of the central themes: 1. The concept of learning; 2. The concept of curriculum; 3. The concept of teaching and study methods. EACH CHAPTER proposal must clearly address the issue of students’ learning outcomes in relation to the quality enhancement initiative/discussion. How do you know that the initiative has improved students’ learning outcomes.
NOTE: We do not seek chapters addressing overall political or contextual aspects of quality improvement, such as accreditations, benchmarks, institutional policies, etc. This anthology SPECIFICALLY DEALS WITH MICRO-PEDAGOGICAL ASPECTS OF QUALITY ENHANCEMENT. It is a requirement for acceptance that your contribution clearly addresses QUALITY ENHANCEMENT OF UNIVERSITY TEACHING AND LEARNING.
EDITORS
The anthology is edited by Dr. Professor Claus Nygaard, Copenhagen Business School; Dr. Nigel Courtney, Honorary Senior Visiting Fellow at Cass Business School, City University London and Visiting Fellow at the University of Technology, Sydney; and Professor Lee Harvey, Editor-in-chief, Quality in Higher Education.
PUBLISHER
Libri Publishing Ltd., Brunel House, Volunteer Way, Faringdon, Oxfordshire, SN7 7YR, England. [http://www.libripublishing.co.uk].
Libri is a publishing company committed to providing innovative, high quality, challenging publications for readers and a highly responsive publishing service for authors and client organisations. Libri was established in February 2009 by a team of colleagues who have worked together for a dozen years in professional and academic publishing, knowledge transfer and the management and delivery of blended learning projects. Between them, Libri’s senior management team have over fifty years’ senior management experience in media organisations, higher education and consultancy. Their extensive expertise includes authorship, design, editing, printing and publishing, IT and e-learning pedagogy, and the design and provision of continuing professional development programmes. Libri supports its core expertise with a broadly-based supply chain of long-established and highly skilled sub-contractors.
SUBMISSION PROCEDURE
Submit on or before April 4, 2011 your CHAPTER PROPOSAL for the international anthology. We ask you to explicitly format your chapter proposal in accordance with the LIHE 2012 – STYLESHEET GUIDE. Your chapter proposal will be double blind reviewed and we will notify you by May 2, 2012 about the status of your chapter proposal.
All authors of ACCEPTED chapter proposals are invited to submit a FULL CHAPTER no later than August 8, 2012. All full chapters will be double blind reviewed. You will be notified by September 5, 2012 if your chapter will be included in the anthology.
AUTHORS of ACCEPTED CHAPTERS must register for the Symposium no later than October 1, 2012. This is a VERY important deadline, as we have pre-booked all rooms of the conference venue and have to confirm the bookings.
FULL CHAPTERS will be circulated to all REGISTERED AUTHORS. Reading and review groups are formed based on the themes addressed in the full chapters. When we meet for the symposium all authors get individual feedback from the editors, and from their review group. This feedback helps the authors finalise their chapters for inclusion in the anthology.
IMPORTANT SUBMISSION INFORMATION
Your chapter proposal has to be submitted to our online symposium server. Submissions NOT formatted according to LIHE 2012 – STYLESHEET GUIDE WILL NOT be accepted! You can only be affiliated as author/co-author to one CHAPTER PROPOSAL.
IMPORTANT ABOUT THE SYMPOSIUM
It is NOT possible for an author to submit more than one chapter proposal to this LIHE symposium. Multiple submissions by the same author are NOT accepted.
This will be a residential symposium. Each participating author has to work with the group of colleagues for the duration of the LIHE symposium. The duration of the LIHE symposium is from Sunday 6pm to Thursday 10am.
At least one author of an accepted full chapter has to participate on location. While a full chapter can be written and thus submitted by several co-authors, a maximum of TWO co-authors can represent a full chapter at the LIHE symposium. It is NOT possible to attend the LIHE symposium via internet.
IMPORTANT DEADLINES
April 4, 2012: Deadline for submitting your CHAPTER PROPOSAL for this LIHE anthology (max 2000 words).
May 2, 2012: Notification to authors of accepted chapter proposals.
August 8, 2012: Deadline for submitting your FULL CHAPTER for this LIHE anthology (only authors who had their chapter proposal accepted can submit a full chapter).
September 5, 2012: Notification to authors of accepted full chapters
October 1, 2012: Registration & payment (only authors who had their full chapter accepted can register)
November 25-29, 2012: Symposium, Akureyri, Iceland
March 2013: Publication of international anthology.
SYMPOSIUM FEE
Participating author: 950 EURO covering registration fee + accommodation (double room for single use ) + all inclusive* + social program
Participating co-author: 950 EURO covering registration fee + accommodation (double room for single use ) + all inclusive* + social program
Accompanying spouse: 390 EURO covering accommodation (sharing a double room with author) + all inclusive* + social program
Non participating co-author: 140 EURO covering publishing fee.
* 4x buffet breakfast, 3x full lunch, 3x Icelandic cuisine, 1x welcome dinner, accompanying drinks to all meals, fresh water, coffee, tea, and fruits ad libitum.
SYMPOSIUM ORGANISERS
LIHE, Learning in Higher Education
Ikoniou 4, 17123 Nea Smirni, Athens, Greece
Company Registration Number: HE 216 486
Company Tax Number: 122 164 86 A
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Akureyri University (UNAK)
Sólborg, Nordurslód, 600 Akureyri, Iceland
