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[Nettime-bold] Final CFP: Learning 2000: Reassessing the Virtual University |
Please distribute this CFP widely, Thank You. Submission Deadline June 1. 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 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@vt.edu or Tim Luke at twluke@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 _______________________________________________ Nettime-bold mailing list Nettime-bold@nettime.org http://www.nettime.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nettime-bold