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2010 Conference on Higher Education Pedagogy proposal submission site, registration now open

From: Cortney Martin, Center for Instructional Development and Educational Research

2010 Conference on Higher Education Pedagogy

Proposal Submission Site and Conference Registration now open

Virginia Tech’s Center for Instructional Development and Educational Research (CIDER) is hosting the Conference on Higher Education Pedagogy February 18-19, 2010 at the Inn at Virginia Tech and Skelton Conference Center. The annual conference is focused on higher education teaching excellence and the scholarship of teaching and learning. It showcases the best pedagogical practice and research in higher education today.

We invite proposals based on three types of sessions. Research sessions are designed to inform participants of the design, implementation and results of empirical research focused on teaching and learning in higher education. Practice sessions are focused on sharing, modeling and discussing higher education teaching and learning, while allowing for interaction among session participants. Finally, poster sessions provide the contributor with the opportunity to present and discuss scholarly research and/or practice addressing higher education pedagogy with conference participants in an informal scholarly environment.

The due date for proposals is December 7, 2009.

Join us to foster educational excellence in higher education across the state of Virginia. There is no registration fee for this conference, and we will be producing a conference Proceedings that will be sent to all participants and presenters following the conference.

A highlight of the conference will be Thursday’s opening keynote speaker Lisa Lattuca, Senior Research Associate for the Center for the Study of Higher Education at Penn State. Her address will focus on disciplinary and interdisciplinary perspectives affecting faculty work, student learning and outcomes-based assessment. In addition, the conference will conclude Friday with a closing address by Mary Taylor Huber, Senior Scholar at the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching and Director of the Integrative Learning Project. Her address will focus on the teaching commons, a conceptual space in which communities of educators committed to inquiry and innovation come together to exchange ideas about teaching and learning, and to use them to meet the challenges of educating students for personal, professional, and civic life.

For more information, to submit a proposal, or to register for the conference, visit the conference website.

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