Theme and Tracks
Conference theme:
Learning by Sharing:
Strengthen the Links between Higher Education, Applied Research,
and Practice
Track 1: Collaborative approaches to knowledge building to encourage practice in education
Educational changes, educational development, accreditation, innovation and entrepreneurship, collaborative knowledge building, knowledge centres, applied and practice-based research: quality criteria, building research capacity.
Track 2: The role of (faculty) staff in promoting practice in education
Best practice in: teacher training, peer learning, action learning, staff internships, collaboration models, mentors.
Track 3: Multilingualism in modern business and education
Integrating practice in language teaching; graduates and the multicultural workplace; languages and competitiveness; languages and employability.
Track 4: Effectiveness of real-life working concepts in HE
Quality of competences, motivation to learn, assumption of new tasks (the teacher as coach), expectations of clients versus educational objectives, facilitation by institutions, added value for companies and society, etc.
GUIDELINES FOR ABSTRACTS
Guidelines for abstracts and the online submission form are available on this website.
Proposals must be submitted for review using the online form by December 1st, 2010. Selections will be made by January 5th, 2011.
The approved papers will be integrated in the Conference proceedings and the best papers (following an editorial selection) will be published in the "Journal Advances in Higher Education: Research, Education and Innovation."