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[h2o-discuss] 1st CFP, Learning 2000: Reassessing the Virtual University (@VirginiaTech)
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
Deadline for Submission is June 1, 2000
Many have been exploring ways for building a "virtual university" either
from scratch or by virtualizing the educational experiences at already
existing colleges and universities. Yet, a few institutions of higher
learning, such as Virginia Tech, have been laying the foundations for such
online learning environments since 1993. With its support for the
Blacksburg Electronic Village
(BEV), a state-wide broadband ATM network (NET.WORK.VIRGINIA), the Faculty
Development Initiative (FDI), the Cyberschool project in the College of
Arts and Sciences, and the campus-wide Institute for Distance and
Distributed Learning (IDDL), Virginia Tech has been uniquely positioned as
a site to assess the benefits and costs of virtual university
instruction. Drawing upon this six years' 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.
Included in these discussions will be a meeting for the university
administrators and faculty involved in creating the Electronic Campus of
Virginia (E-CVA). E-CVA is the Commonwealth of Virginia's experimental
effort at creating a statewide virtual university, and this group will have
much to contribute to the discussion with the other conference participants.
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
Call for Proposals: Papers, Panels, and Roundtables.
Submit your individual paper, entire panel, or roundtable proposal
by clicking below and filling in the form:
http://www2.cddc.vt.edu/lol
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