Call for Papers

Higher Education institutions have been criticized for living in the past; some have even proclaimed that the University has lost it’s relevance. In the midst of these analyses and criticisms, the advent of Information and Communication Technologies in today’s universities/colleges is seen as a promising development. What future has Higher Education when the virtual world of on-line education has so much more to offer? The aim of this conference will be to examine Virtuality within Higher Education in an attempt to critique both its essential characteristics and its future possibilities to influence the education of adult learners.

Being such a broad topic, Virtuality defies a definitive list of sub-topics but the following list is indicative of the envisaged topics covered within this Call for Papers;

• Emerging technologies within Higher Education
• International technology challenges
• Organizational issues/strategies in Virtual education
• Financial issues (faculty pay/timetabling/benefits)
• Part-time staff/ adjuncts’ role between traditional and virtual universities
• Contemporary best teaching practices
• International educational experiences/lessons
• Case studies of experimental projects
• Blended Learning approaches
• Professional development/support structures

All papers presented at the previous conference are in the process of being published in a themed volume. All papers accepted for and presented at this conference will be published in an ISBN eBook. Selected papers will be developed and published in a themed hard copy book.

The organisers intend the conference to be a working party who engage in a focused and rigorous manner with the issues raised in the papers selected for presentation. Consequently it is envisaged that numbers attending the conference will be capped. In particular, we warmly invite projects-in-process who would like the benefit of presenting and receiving feedback from the inter-disciplinary perspectives of those present.

300 word abstracts should be submitted to both the Organising Joint Chairs;