Important Deadlines
28 February 2013: Submission of Abstracts
15 March 2013: Submission of Full Papers
30 March 2013: Notification of Accepted Papers
30 April 2013: Deadline for Submission of Final Manuscripts
6 & 7 June: Conference
Contact: rem@f-ar.at
Joint Conference ERSCP-EMSU: ‘Bridges for a more sustainable future: uniting continents and societies’
Tuesday, June 4th, 2013
November 30, 2012, deadline for abstracts
March 15, 2013, deadline for full papers (based on accepted abstracts)
June 4-7, 2013, ERSCP-EMSU 2013 in Istanbul
5th University – Business Forum
Tuesday, June 4th, 2013
The previous forums were highly successful and all stakeholders welcomed this initiative from the Commission. All participants were convinced that better dialogue and closer cooperation between universities and business can make a substantial and positive contribution to Europe’s efforts to make our education and training systems more effective and efficient, thereby supporting our economic and social development.
This year’s Forum will address topics related to entrepreneurship and the entrepreneurial university; change and impact; people and innovation as well as taking a closer look at some of the main current trends in University-Business Cooperation.
For more information go to www.ecceengineers.eu.
The 45th EUCEN Conference will be held in the University of Geneva, Charmey, Switzerland on May 29‐31, 2013 and is organised by the European Universities Continuing Education Network.
EUCEN’s 45th Conference organised by the University of Geneva (CH) will examine the responsibility of ULLL in the knowledge society. What are the models of the future for ULLL in a globalised World? Two main aspects will be explored:
1. Internationalising universities: Between competition, collaboration and cooperation – the policy of internationalisation for universities
2. The transfer of knowledge by ICT
The 45th Conference team is gathering case studies of good practices, successful or not, on the Conference theme.
We want to know what your university does to share its knowledge. Why? For whom? With whom? For what purpose? By what means? How? With what risks and difficulties? For what benefits?
The keywords of the Call are:
Governance / Policy and Strategies / International ULLL / Partnerships / Social responsibility, Development and Ethics / Business / Technologies, Pedagogy and tutoring in distance and blended learning / Mobility and learning outcomes
You can already register on-line. Prices:
Early bird registration until 15 March – EUCEN 400EUR / Non-EUCEN 440EUR
Registration from 16 March – EUCEN members 440EUR / Non-EUCEN 480EUR
The day will include sessions on: Assessment and Feedback, OER (Open Educational Resources), Teaching for Diversity, Facilitating Small Group Teaching, & Professional Development and the HEA.
Successful engineering graduates require confidence in order to solve new problems, work with colleagues and excel in their careers. It has also been identified that confident engineering graduates are more likely to pursue careers in engineering. This workshop has been developed to consider how academics can enable engineering students to develop confidence through teaching, learning and assessment. In addition, the sessions have been designed to align with the appropriate NSS questions.
It is the first time that an NTT workshop has been sponsored by a professional engineering institution, the IET. Invited guest speakers (to be confirmed) will provide valuable context concerning employer expectations regarding desirable graduate abilities.
During this event delegates will develop Top 10 Tips for building confident engineers. It is envisaged that delegates will be able to create case studies of their new practices which can be disseminated amongst the community.
The Engineering Professors’ Council Annual Congress 2013 took place at the University of Portsmouth on 16/17 April 2013 with the theme: Engineering in Higher Education: Investing for Impact.
Academic staff who teach or directly manage degree programmes in the Engineering & Mathematics disciplines are invited to book onto the Changing the Learning Landscape (CLL) workshop ‘Social Media in Engineering & Mathematics’.
This free one-day workshop will provide a practical introduction to the use of social media to enhance learning and teaching practice in the STEM disciplines. Through a series of presentations, activities and discussions, led by academics from the Engineering & Mathematics discipline areas, participants will be introduced to social media approaches and see discipline-focused examples of social media applied in teaching practice.
Topics covered include:
• Assisting Engineering & Maths staff use social media in their teaching
• Using Facebook for Peer Assisted Learning in Mathematics and Computing Science
• Team based learning within Engineering Education: Bringing the social into the classroom
• The benefits of using Augmented Reality to enhance the student experience in Engineering & Maths.
Up to £5,000 of funding will be available to event attendees in total, ranging from £500 to £2,500 for small-scale projects to embed learning technologies into practice.
Please share widely with colleagues who may be interested.
Changing the Learning Landscape (CLL) is a HEFCE-funded programme supporting and encouraging higher and further education institutions to make a step change in how they adopt effective and strategic uses of online technology in teaching and learning.
The programme is a unique partnership between the Leadership Foundation for Higher Education, JISC, the National Union of Students, the Association for Learning Technology and the Higher Education Academy (HEA).
For general enquiries about this workshop please email Alex Fenlon alex.fenlon@heacademy.ac.uk.