After the great success of the first HEAd conference, which received submissions from 41 countries, we are pleased to announce the Second International Conference on Higher Education Advances (HEAd’16). This conference is an excellent forum for researchers and practitioners to exchange ideas, experiences, opinions and research results relating to the preparation of students, teaching/learning methodologies and the organization of educational systems.
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following topic areas:

• Innovative materials and new tools for teaching.
• Teaching and learning experiences.
• Educational technology (e.g., virtual labs, e-learning).
• Evaluation and assessment of student learning.
• Emerging technologies in learning (e.g., MOOC, OER, gamification).
• Educational strategies.
• Experiences outside the classroom (e.g., practicums, mobility).
• New teaching/learning theories and models.
• Globalization in education and education reforms.
• Learning for employment.
• Education accreditation, quality and assessment.
• Competency-based learning and skill assessment.

Participants from all over the world are expected to present their latest and unpublished research findings. The program committee encourages the submission of articles that communicate applied and empirical findings of interest to higher education professionals. Selected papers will be awarded and invited to submit an extended version to be published at an international journal special issue.
The HEAd’16 conference will be held on June 21-23, 2016 at the Faculty of Business Administration and Management of the Universitat Politècnica de València (UPV), which has been recently ranked as the best technical university in Spain by the Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU) 2015. More...

ICED 2016 is hosted by the Cape Peninsula University of Technology, Stellenbosch University, the University of Cape Town and the University of the Western Cape.
The pre-conference workshops will be held at the University of Cape Town’s Graduate School of Business, the Waterfront, 22 November 2016.
ICED 2016 will be held at the University of Cape Town, South Africa, 23 – 25 November 2016.
Registration at the Baxter Theatre from 08h00.
REGISTRATION WILL OPEN ON 01 MARCH 2016

About the Conference
Educational development has particular responsibilities with regard to ethics, care and quality enhancement in higher education because of the nature of its practice and the benefits it seeks to take to faculty and students. Educational developers, in faculties and in teaching and learning centres, have encountered many challenges around ethics, care and quality in the daily practice of their profession. Institutions have commonly understood ethics, care and quality as separate functions, rather than as integrated practice, and have tended to delegate these responsibilities to research ethics committees, Human Resource departments (custodians of institutional codes of conduct), or to Quality Managers.  Are ethics, care and quality mutually compatible for educational development practitioners? Might professional ethics in one discipline conflict with ethical conduct in our own fields of teaching, learning and educational research?  Should care in educational development work be sacrificed to the needs of quality audits? Ethics, care and quality have global and local dimensions. Could ethical educational development practice in one university be unacceptable in another? What is the difference between care and codes of conduct? Are there particular principles of ethics, care and quality that could be considered valid for all educational development practitioners, independent of our contexts?
With these questions (and many others) in mind, we are delighted to announce the theme of ICED 2016: ‘Ethics, Care and Quality in Educational Development’. The conference theme lends itself to a variety of sub-themes, such as the ethics of educational research and evaluation, ethics, care and quality in the funding of university teacher development and excellence awards,  ethics, care and quality in formal staff development programmes, etc. The conference theme is intended to re-focus the practice of educational development, to encourage critical thinking on the roles and responsibilities of educational developers, and to offer opportunities for researchers and theorists to explore the complex relationships between ethics, care and quality enhancement that have always been at the centre of our work. More...

The theme of this year’s Colloquium, “Building International Strategic Partnerships” allowed participants to focus several important topics including: the role of industry, specifically exploring how industry interests align with academic and research interests; the role of language when thinking about international opportunities for engineering students; ways to measure the success of international engineering programs and what is required to scale a program; and the definition of a “globally competent” engineer. We heard from experts in the field on how to develop new partnerships, build on existing ones, and how to leverage these partnerships to expand opportunities for engineering students. More...

A Workshop and Conference linking proven and successful approaches to language learning/teaching with innovative technology and the social media.
Keynote speakers/panel of experts: Sarah Breslin, Executive Director, ECML, Council of Europe; Josef Huber, Head of the Pestalozzi Programme, Council of Europe; Ian McMaster, Editor-in-Chief, Business SPOTLIGHT, SPOTLIGHT Verlag; Professor Bernd Rüschoff, Chair of Applied Linguistics, University of Duisburg Essen, President of AILA; Frank Heyworth, EAQUALS Association; Michael Carrier, Cambridge English. More...

Technology-based teaching and learning is transforming higher education. Through new modes of teaching and learning, three complementary educational areas are emerging in European higher education – blended and online degree education; flexible continuous education and continuous professional development online, including new types of short programmes; and online open education through OERs and MOOCs. Institutional development in higher education should embrace a holistic perspective, developing these areas separately, and also integrating them in practice. More...