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If you're serious about teaching and want to learn how to stay sharp, effective, and confident, you'll be joining the ranks at The Teaching Professor Conference. This three-day conference, June 3-5, 2016, offers hands-on workshops, plenary sessions with captivating keynote presenters, dozens of concurrent sessions, and emerging research poster presentations. More than that, this conference gives you the opportunity to interact with your peers from around the country (and world) who are facing the same challenges and wrestling with the same issues that you know well. It brings like-minded, teaching-focused instructors and academic staff members together in a positive, supportive environment that generates optimism and enthusiasm. It doesn't matter what you teach. It doesn't matter if your classroom is on campus or online. It doesn't matter if you just wrapped up your first year on the faculty or if you've been a fixture for decades. The Teaching Professor Conference generates insights and spurs inspiration that can invigorate your teaching and generate greater learning for your students.

"This year's theme is "Making IT Mainstream: Everybody's doing IT." With ubiquitous use of smart-phones, tablets and laptops by students and faculty, the days of speaking of educational technology in future or fringe terms are long past. It is now mainstream so conversations at this year's TLt will focus on the mainstream integration of learning technologies at both the level of the institution and individual instructor; what is working and what is not, and how all of this is will continue to effect higher education."

"Emergent Dialogues in Assessment"   In the last decade, the higher education sector has been confronted with increasing skepticism about its effectiveness and quality from government agencies and employers, as well as from prospective students and their families. In the face of such criticism, higher education's response has been very weak, as illustrated by the inclusion of assertions that these skeptics should trust us; the production of weak and misleading reports on institutional quality; and accreditation-based assertions of quality based on criteria that miss the point of the skeptics' criticism. While we assert quality in many ways, we rarely do it in a way that answers the central, critical question these skeptics want answered: will graduates be able to function and succeed in the world after graduation?  Colleges and universities can no longer avoid answering that question, nor can they try to answer it with surrogate measures.   The demand answers that are both rigorous and practical is being exacerbated by fundamental changes in student demographics and the way higher education institutions "do business."  Growing adult/returning student populations, more diverse student bodies with more diverse needs, and an increasingly challenging economic environment  will force higher education to be more flexible and accountable, but with fewer resources. In this environment assessment practitioners can play a major role in evaluating and developing response strategies like translating learning into credit (e.g. prior learning assessment), "direct assessment programs" ( e.g. competency-based education), and emergent learning environments (e.g. adaptive learning).  

The Virginia Tidewater Consortium's Summer Institute on College Teaching is in its 36th year of helping faculty at every level and discipline to become more effective teachers. Over the years hundreds of faculty have participated in the Institute and have found it very worthwhile and rewarding. The Institute is unique in that it allows faculty members the opportunity to discuss college teaching and learning in-depth with their colleagues in an open, pleasant environment. Since enrollment in the Institute is limited to a certain number, there is ample time for one-on-one discussion with the other faculty members.

"Collaborating for Learning will focus on the many ways faculty, students and disciplines collaborate to produce the meaningful learning we strive to foster in our students. The conference will live up to its name, and provide opportunity for learning together in ways that allow us to enhance our practice, grow our research on how students learn, and build our community. It is a collaborative event where faculty, graduate students, post doctoral students, librarians, student services professionals and students are invited to discuss their insights, experiences and related research. Some of the themes for consideration include collaboration inside the classroom, outside the classroom, collaboration among the disciplines and collaboration in inquiry. "

This International Summer Institute is one of the first to be held on the topic of 'students as partners in learning and teaching in higher education'. It has several key features which make it distinctive: Key features The overall aim of the International Summer Institute is to build the capacity and understanding of faculty, staff and students to develop, design and implement initiatives to promote the practice of students as partners in learning and teaching in higher education. Faculty, staff and students in higher education are invited to come to McMaster University, about 45 minutes south of Toronto International Airport, for two, three or four days from 2-5 May 2016. Faculty and staff are encouraged where possible to bring a student with them, or students should bring a member of faculty/staff with them, to participate in either one or two consecutive two day highly interactive workshops. Alternatively teams of 4-6 faculty/staff and students (at least two of each) from an institution may apply to join a three day 'Change Institute' where they will be supported to plan the implementation of a Students as Partners initiative. Inter-institutional teams are also welcome. The Summer Institute will be facilitated by highly experienced faculty, staff and students including Peter Felten (Elon, US), Mick Healey (Healey HE Consultants, UK), Beth Marquis (McMaster, Canada) and Kelly Matthews (Queensland, Australia) The McMaster International Summer Institute has students threaded throughout every aspect of the work - from the planning to the facilitating to the participating teams.

The EDUCAUSE Annual Conference is the premier gathering for higher education IT professionals. It provides content and exploration of today's toughest technology issues facing campuses around the world, and convenes some of the brightest minds in the community. When colleagues from around the world converge with some of the most innovative corporate solution providers, you have an event that creates invaluable networking opportunities and professional development.

We cordially invite you to participate in the 37th Annual POD Conference to be held in Seattle, Washington on October 24-28, 2012. With this year's theme, Pencils & Pixels: 21st Century Practices in Higher Education, we invite an informed exploration of the unprecedented array of technologies, both high-tech and low-tech, in use at institutions of higher learning. New technologies continue to arise, faster than most of us can assimilate. Some are seductive. Others seem to be more trouble to learn than they are worth. Some may seem frivolous, but upon closer examination have exciting applications for teaching, learning, and professional and organizational development. At the same time, many of the very best pedagogical technologies are neither new nor digital. It is probably no coincidence that the growing interest in contemplative practices and "slow teaching" is occurring simultaneously with the current smart phone and social media explosion. How are digital technologies affecting the way students learn? How can we support faculty and students-many of whom wear their smart phones like appendages-in selecting appropriate technologies for the work at hand? When, if ever, is it appropriate to insist that students, faculty, and even organizations disconnect entirely from digital tools and social media? How do high-tech and low-tech pedagogies inform each other? We invite you to share the tools, approaches, and practices that foster excellent teaching, learning, and professional development; strategies and rationale for supporting the technology-resistant to choose and use excellent digital tools; technology-related research findings; and examples of productive disengagement from technology addictions. 

For those who are passionate about the art and science of teaching, The Teaching Professor Conference, now in its eleventh year, is a three-day conference dedicated to excellence in pedagogy. It brings together hundreds of faculty members from campuses nationally and internationally to: Explore the newest ideas in teaching and learning Hear the latest research Discuss the state of today's changing classroom Network with likeminded individuals who care about teaching and learning

EDUCAUSE Connect is a highly interactive, action-driven professional development experience. Here you'll choose a learning track and join a cohort of peers to find workable solutions, build your professional network, and examine the tactical and strategic perspectives of key higher education IT issues. For two and a half days, you'll take part in career development activities with peers to intentionally solve, network, and grow together.

The NISOD Conference, now in its 35th year, has been the largest conference focusing on community colleges for the past six years. More than 1,800 professionals, typically representing more than 400 community colleges and other institutions of higher learning worldwide, gather to learn about new strategies and tools currently available to support teaching and leadership excellence.

This is the 7th annual conference on blended learning sponsored by COHERE (Collaboration for Online Higher Education & Research) and CSSHE (Canadian Society for the Study of Higher Education). It will feature an opening keynote address by Dr. Cable Green, Director of Global Learning @Creative Commons, and on the second day of the conference, David Porter, Executive Director, BCcampus, will bring his perspectives of the conference, followed by a panel discussion.  The conference will close with plenary comments from Dr. Tony Bates.

"This is the 6th annual conference on blended learning sponsored by COHERE (Collaboration for Online Higher Education & Research) and CSSHE (Canadian Society for the Study of Higher Education). It will feature Dr. Tony Bates, the well known scholar and commentator on the use of technology in higher education. His latest book is Managing Technology in Higher Education: Strategies for Transforming Teaching and Learning (Jossey-Bass, 2011). In addition to taking an active part in the entire conference and doing the conference wrap-up, Tony will deliver the following keynotes: Meeting the challenge of technology: are we failing as managers? Designing university teaching to meet the needs of 21st century students The conference will also feature a number of concurrent sessions, for which we invite proposals related to one of the following streams: 1. Taking stock of blended learning in higher education: Management, policy, and research issues 2. Case studies of teaching and learning issues related to blended learning"

Participants will discover new ideas that will assist their students in learning more effectively, and make teaching even more of a joy than it is already. In the finest tradition of active learning, we give all participants a voice in the classroom. And like all effective teachers, we will continue to operate from an agenda that is adaptable to the learning needs of our participants.

ICERI2014, the 7th International Conference of Education, Research and Innovation, will be held in Seville (Spain), on the 17th, 18th and 19th of November, 2014. ICERI2014 provides the ideal opportunity to present your projects and experiences. It is the perfect platform to discuss the latest developments in the field of Teaching and learning methodologies, educational projects and innovations and new technologies applied to Education and Research.

he conference theme "Educational Development in a Changing World" is created to engage with the constant flow of change in which higher education is situated. It demands innovation and creativity as well as plurality and discipline specific strategies for implementations that keeps higher education at the frontline. Scholars and higher-education professionals, interested in educational development and related fields, are highly encouraged to submit papers for oral presentation, or to participate in other parts of the conference program including keynote address, plenary lecture, panel discussions/symposium, seminars, or pre-conference workshops.

"We cordially invite you to participate in the 36th Annual POD Conference to be held in Atlanta, Georgia on October 26-30, 2011. This year's conference is a collaborative endeavor between POD and the Historically Black Colleges & Universities Faculty Development Network (HBCUFDN). This partnership-enriched by each organization's long-standing traditions and thoughtful, dedicated members-signifies our commitment to diversity and recognizes its central role in faculty, professional, and organizational development. With this year's conference theme-Create * Collaborate * Engage-we both invite and challenge our POD and HBCUFDN colleagues to work side-by-side to create new ideas and ways of thinking, to collaborate innovatively across traditional boundaries, and to engage each other and the broader higher education community in meaningful and sustainable dialogues and activities. The questions we explore may not be new, but they are questions worth reconsidering through a new, composite lens: How can we rethink our organizational structures so we work smarter in tough economic times, meet the needs of a rapidly changing student body, and keep our faculty colleagues up to speed-all without sacrificing those aspects of the academy we hold most dear? How do we create, assess, and disseminate world-class faculty and organizational development programs? How can we foster collaboration at a nationwide level, as well as in our own departments and across professional organizations? How do we best teach, develop, and support the next generation of faculty and faculty developers? How can we help faculty members engage their students and institutions, and, maybe more importantly, how do we engage with the myriad stakeholders who influence and affect the work we do, including students, faculty, administr"

"Psychology, Emotion, and the Human Sciences Psychology, Emotion, and the Human Sciences A Symposium at the University of Windsor, Windsor, Ontario Canada 20th to 21st of April, 2012. Call for Papers Deadline 1 November 2011 In Alchemies of the Mind: Rationality and the Emotions [Cambridge, 1999], Jon Elster argues that "with an important subset of the emotions [for example, regret, relief, envy, malice, pity, indignation, ...] we can learn more from moralists, novelists, and playwrights than from the cumulative findings of scientific psychology." Elster then explores the work of both ancient and early modern moral philosophers in order to substantiate his argument. This symposium will explore Elster's assertions: what can contemporary 'scientific psychology,' barely 150 years old, teach us about the emotions that early modern literary and philosophical inquiry cannot? Does psychology [of various sorts] deserve its status as the discipline of feeling? What can contemporary philosophical work teach us about feeling and emotion? Are there viable ways of bringing historical and contemporary emotional inquiry into contact? What insight can various forms of inquiry bring to the increasingly prominent issue of affective education [the education of emotions, dispositions, and values]? What is the status of emotional inquiry across disciplines? Abstracts for twenty-minute papers are invited by scholars engaged in the history of psychology, contemporary psychology and sociology, philosophy, literary studies, the history of emotion, the scholarship of teaching and learning, and informal logic and argumentation. Maximum 500 word abstracts should be sent by 1 November 2011 to spender@uwindsor.ca. Possible topics might include, but are not limited to, the following: - rhetoric and the emotions - emotion and informal logic - argument and emotion - affective education - emotion in the classroom - the history of psychology - neuroscience and emotion - the passio

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"The International Lilly Conference on College Teaching is one of the nation's most renowned conferences presenting the scholarship of teaching and learning. For over thirty years, teacher-scholars from across the U.S. and internationally have gathered annually the weekend before Thanksgiving to share innovative pedagogies and discuss questions, challenges, and insights about teaching and learning. The Conference has become a teaching retreat as well as a conference. Deans and chief academic officers often support the attendance of faculty teams at Lilly as recognition for outstanding faculty and for faculty development, and institutions planning Teaching and Learning Centers have found the Conference an effective way to meet and "scout" exceptional teacher-scholars. Miami University, with its timeless Georgian architecture and beautiful wooded areas, makes an attractive location for learning."