Welcome to the official website of the 2014 2nd International Conference on Information and Education Technology (ICIET 2014). The conference will be held in Melbourne, Australia during January 2-3, 2014.
The aim objective of ICIET is to present the latest research and results of scientists related to Information and Education Technology  topics. This conference provides opportunities for the different areas delegates to exchange new ideas and application experiences face to face, to establish business or research relations and to find global partners for future collaboration. We hope that the conference results constituted significant contribution to the knowledge in these up to date scientific field.
ICIET 2014 is supposed to be the largest technical event on Information and Education Technology in Melbourne, Australia in 2014. The focus of the conference is to establish an effective platform for institutions and industries to share ideas and to present the works of scientists, engineers, educators and students from all over the world. The organizing committee of conference is pleased to invite prospective authors to submit their original manuscripts to ICIET 2014.
All papers, both invited and contributed, will be reviewed by two or three experts from the TC. After a careful reviewing process, all accepted paper will be published in international journal “International Journal of Information and Education Technology” [ISSN:2010-3689, IACSIT Press] “International Journal of Information and Education Technology” is indexed by Engineering & Technology Digital Library, Google Scholar, Crossref and ProQuest.
The full text is online available via platform http://www.etlibrary.org/ . IACSIT Press will provide online camera-ready paper submission system.

5th International Conference on E-Education, E-Business, E-Management and E-Learning- IC4E 2014, January 13-14, 2014, Strathcona Hotel, Toronto, Canada (Venue).
2014 5th International Conference on E-Education, E-Business, E-Management and E-Learning - IC4E 2014 is the premier forum for the presentation of new advances and research results in the fields of theoretical, experimental, and applied E-Education, E-Business, E-Management and E-Learning. The conference will bring together leading researchers, engineers and scientists in the domain of interest from around the world. Topics of interest for submission include, but are not limited to:

About the Conference  
Open education has become more than a global trend. Open education approaches and practices are adopted in virtually all areas of education. Besides open universities that have been offering open education courses, a fast growing number of conventional institutions have become involved in open education in an increasing number of aspects. Modes of learning and teaching are becoming more flexible in terms of time, space, curriculum contents and organisation, pedagogical methods, infrastructure, and requirements. This conference aims to:
1.     provide a platform for sharing research, practices and views relevant to open and flexible education using the latest technologies and innovations;
2.     facilitate networking and cross-institutional collaboration among researchers and educators in the field; and
3.     promote open and flexible education to enhance educational access and quality.
Conference theme
The theme for the Inaugural International Conference on Open and Flexible Education is ‘Making Learning Open and Flexible: Emerging Modes and Approaches’. It will focus primarily on exploring which of the latest technologies and innovations can facilitate the further development of open learning towards a more flexible and personalized mode of education catering for the diverse needs of different learning communities and how these technologies can do so. More...

How Educational Innovations Will Make—or Break— America’s Global Future, AAC&U Annual Meeting, January 22-25, 2014, Grand Hyatt Hotel / Washington, DC. Register Online.

A great democracy cannot be content to provide a horizon-expanding education for some and work skills, taught in isolation from the larger societal context, for everyone else. Yet this is what the postsecondary system, viewed as a whole, provides now. And this is what we must work together to change. . . . It should not be liberal education for some and narrow or illiberal education for others.

AAC&U Board of Directors 2010

Wednesday, January 22: Pre-Meeting Symposium
NEW DESIGNS FOR INTEGRATIVE LEARNING:
Curricular Pathways, Departments, and the Future of Arts and Sciences

Saturday, January 25: Fifth Annual E-Portfolio Forum
DEFINING PRACTICE AND A RESEARCH AGENDA

ABOUT THE ANNUAL MEETING

Quality and the Big Questions
In an era marked by interdependence, economic uncertainty, and disruptive innovation, the future is global and the challenges urgent. To flourish in such a future, students must acquire both broad knowledge and high level skills—essential capacities—to deal successfully with complex opportunities and unscripted problems.

These goals determine quality standards for higher education. How can we be sure that what we expect students to learn in college matches the essential capacities graduates will need to tackle the “big questions” of this generation and of a turbulent world? Are college degrees designed to provide students with many opportunities to practice and build these essential capacities? Students, parents, employers, faculty members and other stakeholders should reject as insufficient any claims of quality education that do not centrally include students’ active and deep effort on research, projects, creative work, collaborative assignments, and other practices that foster deep learning and high level skills. How do we ensure that, whatever their pathways through college, all students have continuous opportunities to apply their learning—with guidance from mentors—to significant problems and real-world challenges?

E-Quality and Innovation
Technology continues to transform all aspects of higher education. But in our fascination with the promise of technology, are we paying sufficient attention to the connection between innovation and educational quality? Are we prepared to ensure that technological innovations should expand rather than further limit student engagement in practices—such as research, field-based learning and creative projects--that build high level 21st century capacities? New evidence is published daily on “high impact practices” that help students both persist in college and achieve at higher levels. As a community how are we using this evidence to draw educationally productive innovations from the digital revolution?

Inequality and the Opportunity Gap
As employers are the first to attest, the outcomes basic to an excellent liberal education are urgently needed in the economy and the workplace. And liberal education is—literally—foundational to democratic vitality. Policy calls to move away from liberal education therefore represent a disinvestment in expanded opportunity, and a locking in of what is already a two-tiered higher education system. In the current climate, how do we resist overemphasis on educational initiatives that are designed primarily to prepare students for their first-job? Can we instead judge the value of innovations by how well they create long-term opportunity, strengthen students’ capacities, and reverse the most inequitable features of U.S. higher education? Can we work with employers, rather than around them, to strengthen the rigor, relevance and inclusiveness of a 21st century liberal education?

For More Information about the Annual Meeting

Please contact meetings@aacu.org or call AAC&U at (202) 387-3760.

CHEA International Quality Group Annual Meeting. January 29 (evening) - January 30. Capital Hilton Hotel - Washington, DC. Click Here for a Registration Form and Hotel Reservation Information
CIQG Annual Meeting - Imperatives For Quality Assurance, International Standards and Innovation
OPENING DIALOGUE - DO WE WANT OR NEED A SINGLE SET OF INTERNATIONAL QUALITY STANDARDS?
As quality assurance becomes increasingly international, is a single set of international standards becoming an imperative? Alternatively, should quality assurance remain country- based or regional as well, continuing to respect cultural diversity and national sovereignty?
1. What are the arguments in favor of a single set of international quality standards?
2. What are the arguments against?
3. If we have international standards, what would they look like? Aspirational standards such as those in regional frameworks (e.g., ESG)? Outcomes-based or competency- based standards? Expectations of quality framed in quantitative terms, e.g., numbers of graduates, retention, employment? A mixture?
4. Right now, quality assurance processes vary. We have countries that have their own standards, and countries that have their own standards and also use regional standards. We have countries with and without qualifications frameworks. We have countries that do and do not rely on rankings (either formally or informally). Is current international quality assurance “working”? If so, what is the added value of a single set of international standards?
5. What makes quality assurance “international” – as compared to regional or country- based?
ARE RANKINGS BECOMING A FORM OF INTERNATIONAL QUALITY STANDARDS?
Global, regional and country-based rankings continue to grow in influence and numbers. Will rankings ultimately become de facto international standards to judge quality?
REGIONAL AND COUNTRY-BASED QUALITY STANDARDS: RECENT DEVELOPMENTS
Regional and country-based quality standards have each played a significant role in the organization of the work of assuring and improving quality. What are recent developments? What do we learn when examining various approaches?
POST-TRADITIONAL PROVIDERS OF HIGHER EDUCATION: WHAT ARE THE IMPLICATIONS FOR QUALITY ASSURANCE?
Higher education may be entering a “post-traditional” era in which the work of institutions (credentialing, teaching and learning, curriculum development, evaluation) is no longer confined to colleges and universities. Alternative providers are emerging, including MOOCs, low-cost providers of course offerings as well as competency-based offerings and assessment of prior learning. This “unbundling” or “disaggregation” of the key elements of higher education raises questions and challenges for quality assurance: How will traditional quality assurance address the emergence of post-traditional providers of educational offerings?
HOW MIGHT QUALITY ASSURANCE RESPOND?
Does the unbundling of higher education call for the unbundling of quality assurance? What might this mean? A Quality Platform: an international standard for post-traditional education?
CLOSING DISCUSSION HIGHER EDUCATION OUT OF THE BOX RESPONDING TO INNOVATIONS
What are key issues and insights that have emerged from today’s discussion? What type of quality assurance do we want to create going forward?
Council for Higher Education Accreditation
One Dupont Circle NW, Suite 510 • Washington, DC 20036
(TEL) 202-955-6126 • (FAX) 202-955-6129 • chea@chea.org.

El Comité Organizador del 9no. Congreso Internacional de Educación Superior “Universidad 2014”, bajo el lema “Por una universidad socialmente responsable”, le convocan a participar en la EXPOSICION ASOCIADA Universidad 2014. Dicho evento tendrá lugar del 10 al 14 de febrero de 2014 en el Palacio de Convenciones de La Habana, Cuba. 
La EXPOSICION ASOCIADA Universidad 2014, será un espacio propicio para el intercambio y la exposición de los principales logros resultantes de la investigación y la innovación científica. Los expositores dispondrán de una ocasión excepcional para mostrar sus productos, equipos y servicios, así como de facilidades para sostener encuentros de negocios con los interesados. La convocatoria está abierta a representantes de universidades, centros académicos, de investigación y empresas nacionales y extranjeras, relacionados con la Educación Superior.

CHEA 2014 Annual Conference, January 27 (evening) - January 29.
Capital Hilton Hotel - Washington, DC. Click Here for a Registration Form and Hotel Reservation Information
Innovation, Disruption and the Status Quo: What Do We Want for Accreditation?.
PLENARY SESSION I: Opening Session Issues and Challenges for International Quality Assurance
CONCURRENT SESSIONS
1. The Role of the Liberal Arts in Quality Assurance of Undergraduate Education
At a time when broad-based general education is being questioned by employers, parents and public officials, how do we make a new case for the central role of the liberal arts in assuring high quality in undergraduate education? The Council of Independent Colleges, the national organization for approximately 700 nonprofit, private colleges and universities, has recently launched a public information campaign taking on this important challenge.
2. Can Accreditation Keep Pace with Change?
Accreditation has evolved effectively to address many of the emerging challenges in higher education. However, as the rate and range of change continue to accelerate, can accreditation as currently structured continue to respond to—or even anticipate—the transformation that may be taking place? What are some things that might be done to ensure the continued currency of accreditation—regional, programmatic, national?
3. The Delphi Project on Faculty and Student Success and the Role of Accreditation
As the numbers of contingent faculty, whether full-time or part-time, continue to grow, what is the impact on student success? What role does accreditation play to assure quality in this changing environment?
4. The Challenges of Quality Assurance in Taiwan What are the key features of quality assurance in Taiwan?
What challenges have been addressed and what are future challenges?
5. Accreditation Issues for Competency-Based Education Programs
Competency-Based Education (CBE) is growing in popularity nationally. Western Governors University, a fully CBE institution, is currently partnering with 11 community colleges as they develop their own CBE programs. This session will review WGU’s journey and accommodations to fit into accrediting frameworks designed for a different paradigm, plus the issues arising for the community college partners.
6. Where Do Information Technology and Quality Assurance Meet?
What changes in accreditation practice have resulted from major changes in technology during the past decade? How are accrediting organizations managing these changes?
7. Faculty and Accreditation
What are faculty perceptions of accreditation? How might faculty gain from working with accrediting organizations to address the growing federal oversight?
8. International Accreditation and Student Learning Results in Mongolia
How are higher education and quality assurance in Mongolia working to improve student learning outcomes? What role has Peregrine Academic Services played?

6th Annual Conference on Higher Education Pedagogy. Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday, February 5-7, 2014. The Inn at Virginia Tech and the Skelton Conference Center, 901 Prices Fork Road, Blacksburg, VA 24061, USA.
The 6th Annual Conference on Higher Education Pedagogy is focused on higher education teaching excellence and the scholarship of teaching and learning. The conference showcases the best pedagogical practice and research in higher education today. Sessions address disciplinary and interdisciplinary instructional strategies, outcomes, and research. Ultimately, the conference is an opportunity to demonstrate effective instructional practice and disseminate the latest research aimed at improving the quality of higher education.

Faculty are, on a daily basis and in very unassuming ways, demonstrating a renewed energy and focus toward the scholarship of teaching and learning. This is further evidenced by our attention to academic assessment, the integration of technology and learning, and even in the change in our teaching lexicon as we incorporate active engagement and reflective practices into instruction to encourage authentic learning. Join us as we showcase and share our collective growth, innovation, and achievement in teaching and learning.

The Conference on Higher Education Pedagogy is focused on showcasing the best pedagogical research and practice in higher education today. Sessions will address disciplinary, and inter-disciplinary challenges facing teachers and students in higher education and will disseminate the latest research aimed at improving the quality of undergraduate and graduate education.

CHEA 2014 Annual Conference, January 27 (evening) - January 29.
Capital Hilton Hotel - Washington, DC. Click Here for a Registration Form and Hotel Reservation Information
Innovation, Disruption and the Status Quo: What Do We Want for Accreditation?.
PLENARY SESSION I: Opening Session Issues and Challenges for International Quality Assurance
What are the most significant issues for international quality review and countries working together to enhance higher education, quality and service to students?
PLENARY SESSION II The Changing Federal Government Role in Accreditation
The federal government’s focus on accreditation and academic quality has expanded considerably during the past several years. What will be its future role and how will this affect accreditation?
PLENARY III: LUNCHEON SESSION Higher Education Reauthorization, Accreditation and Congress
What are congressional leaders expecting to achieve through the upcoming reauthorization of the Higher Education Act? What are the implications for accreditation?
PLENARY SESSION IV Education Without College: What Is It? Is It Desirable? Can It Last?
What does it mean for students to undertake higher education, but outside a college or university? What are the implications for higher education, students and society?
PLENARY SESSION V Accreditation and Its Critics: What Do They Say and What Do We Do?
What are the major criticisms of accreditation? What is the evidence to support such concerns? How does accreditation respond?
PLENARY SESSION VI: CLOSING SESSION Do We Need a New Approach to Quality and Does This Include Accreditation?
What if, instead of seeking to modify existing federal law and regulation regarding accreditation, there were efforts to begin afresh, rethinking the accreditation-federal government relationship and the role of federal recognition? What would be most important?
Council for Higher Education Accreditation
One Dupont Circle NW, Suite 510 • Washington, DC 20036
(TEL) 202-955-6126 • (FAX) 202-955-6129 • chea@chea.org.

Preliminary Programs Now Available! 
CHEA 2014 Annual Conference
January 27 (evening) - January 29
Innovation, Disruption and the Status Quo:
What Do We Want for Accreditation?
&
CHEA International Quality Group
Annual Meeting
January 29 (evening) - January 30
Capital Hilton Hotel - Washington, DC
Click Here for a Registration Form and
Hotel Reservation Information
Council for Higher Education Accreditation
One Dupont Circle NW, Suite 510 • Washington, DC 20036
(TEL) 202-955-6126 • (FAX) 202-955-6129 • chea@chea.org.