In September 2016, the EAIE is bound for Liverpool, UK for the 28th Annual EAIE Conference and Exhibition. Over and above a stimulating conference programme, EAIE Liverpool 2016 will offer you an unforgettable city, famed for its cultural heritage, humour and hospitality. Mark your calendars!

Conference theme: Imagine...
John Lennon had a dream of a world at peace. As international educators, we have a dream of higher education that transcends national borders, nurtures global citizens and moves us closer to freedom, equality and peace around the world. We are bringing this dream to Liverpool for the 28th Annual EAIE Conference in 2016. International education has the power to break barriers and bolster bridges. It is our duty to seek ways of harnessing this power and driving the internationalisation agenda. The EAIE Conference provides a time and space for those who share this altruistic vision of international higher education to innovate, discover, and to dream.

What to expect
The EAIE conference is packed full with sessions, networking events and knowledge-sharing opportunities. Conference participants are encouraged to take full advantage of each day's offerings. More...

The Conference location will be at ISEG School of Economics and Management, Universidade de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal, on 7-9 September 2015. The venue is close to the national parliament.
Higher education has faced significant change over recent decades. One of the major features of this change has been the persistent expansion of higher education, which has been increasingly linked to economic motivations and purposes. This shifting view about institutions and their primary purposes has led to a need to rethink and adapt the contextual framework in which these units operate. Hence, we have seen a reconfiguration of the sector along market rules, often through policy initiatives and government interventions that have affected funding mechanisms with a goal of promoting closer interaction between universities and industry. More...

Our current age has been framed by the concept of the ‘information age’. Sometimes also known as the ‘computer age’. In a networked society as ours, digital technology has touched and changed many aspects of day-to-day life.  For example, many long-standing societal, business and institutional systems have either lost their relevance or have transformed beyond recognition, the music, banking and travel industries being excellent examples. Education does not stand untouched and we observe emerging and declining paradigms, changing expectations from society, our students now framed as consumers, with new and emerging types of informal learning experiences (take MOOCs for example) and all too frequently operating in unstable economic and policy environments.
The powerful combination of the ’information age’ and the consequent disruption caused by these unstable environments provides the impetus to look afresh and identify new models and approaches for education (e.g. OERs, MOOCs, PLEs, Learning Analytics etc.). For learners this has taken a fantastical leap into aggregating, curating and co-curating and co-producing outside the boundaries of formal learning environments – the networked learner is sharing voluntarily and for free, spontaneously with billions of people. More...