Date: Mon, 24 Apr 2000 15:55:04 -0400 Subject: SPOON-ANN: Second CFP: Reassessing the Virtual University [Spoon-Announcements is a moderated list for distributing info of wide enough interest without cross-posting. To unsub, send the message "unsubscribe spoon-announcements" to majordomo-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu] > >Call for Proposals: Papers, Panels, and Roundtables for: > >Learning 2000: Reassessing the Virtual University > >webpage: http://www.cddc.vt.edu/learning >Submission system: http://www2.cddc.vt.edu/lol >September 27-30, 2000 >Hotel Roanoke >Roanoke Virginia > >Drawing upon six years of experience, the College of Arts and Sciences at >Virginia Tech will >continue the serious, sustained, and on-going debate about the merits of >online teaching and >distance education launched at "Learning Online '98" in June 1998 with >"Learning 2000: >Reassessing the Virtual University." > >The purpose of this conference is to gather colleagues from around the >world who are interested >in the shape and substance that the virtual university is acquiring in >practice. In addition we hope >to debate the advantages or disadvantages of digital discourse, learning >online, and virtual >university life. By reviewing the quality of faculty life, the pressures >on support staff, the impact >on student learning, the demands on university administrators, and the >potentials for reaching >new types of learners, a series of paper sessions, round-table >discussions, panels, and keynote >speakers will address the wide range of issues that emerge in this domain. > >Confirmed Keynote Speakers: > > > Carole Barone, Educause > Keith Fulton, Urban League > Katherine Hayles, Professor of English at University of California > Los Angeles > Michael Joyce, Professor of English at Vassar College > Stuart Moulthrop, Associate Professor of Communications at the > University of > Baltimore > Mark Poster, Professor of History at University of California Irvine > >Some Suggested Topics: > > Administering Online Universities > Best Practices in Online Learning > Digital Discourse/Cyberculture > For Profit and Not For Profit Virtual Universities > Hypertext/Hypermedia > Intellectual Property and Online Learning > Legalities and Illegalities Online > Meanings of and Motives for Virtualizing University Education > Online Learning Environments: Creating Communities > Scholarship and the Teaching Profession Online > What Fails Online and Why? > >If you have questions about the conference contact Len Hatfield at >Len.Hatfield-AT-vt.edu or Tim >Luke at twluke-AT-vt.edu Jeremy Hunsinger http://www.cddc.vt.edu Instructor of Political Science Center for Digital Discourse and Culture Webmaster/Manager CDDC 526 Major Williams Hall 0130 http://www.cddc.vt.edu/jeremy --my homepage Virginia Tech Blacksburg, VA 24061 (540)-231-7614
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