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This event is on 13 February 2014

Theme: Innovative Learning-Scapes: e-Scapes, play-Scapes & more
Aim: to examine the impacts that social and mobile media and networks are having on learning environments in higher education
Conference Dates: May 31 to June 02, 2014 (Saturday, Sunday, and Monday)
Venue: The Hilton Anchorage. All conference activities (sessions, luncheons, etc) will be held at the Hilton – 500 West Third Avenue, Anchorage, Alaska, USA 99501 (+1-907-272-7411).
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Overview
Following its successful 2013 International HETL Conference at the University of Central Florida in Orlando, the International Higher Education Teaching and Learning Association (HETL) invites you to attend the 2014 International HETL Conference, to be held in Anchorage, Alaska, USA.
About the Theme
In Being a University (2011, p143), Ronald Barnett talks about the emerging university of the future as an ecological university, where the ecological university is not only concerned with the natural environment but is concerned about “…a much wider ambit, embracing the personal, social, cultural, institutional and technological environments and knowledge of those environments; in short, the world in its fullest senses.” The ecological university thus endeavors to cultivate those interconnections through meaningful and diverse ways of learning and inquiry. A learning-scape, therefore, may be defined as a conceptual construct that shapes our perceptions of our learning environments. A learning-scape may be viewed as a mosaic of learning environments (i.e., a holistic learning ecosystem) interconnected and interacting at all levels. Personal, cultural, institutional and technological environments can have an enormous impact on learning-scapes because all these environments are intertwined and symbiotic to various degrees. Thus, we need to remind ourselves that curiosity, creativity, and meaningful dialogue and interactions are vitally important because they form the basis for and the context of our humanity and human learning. We need to remind ourselves that appropriate design of learning-scapes matters. More...

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...

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
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9th International EUREDOCS Conference - Missions of higher education and research in the 21st century 
Centre de Sociologie des organisations Sciences Po Paris 23 - 24 May 2014 
The 9 th EUREDOCS Conference will focus on the theme: “Missions of higher education and research in the 21st century”
To submit a proposal, please fill in the form p. 5, and send it to: pauline.ravinet-2@univ-lille2.fr
The 9th EUREDOCS conference will explore the broad question of the evolving purposes and missions of higher education and research in the 21st century. Both globalization and the cur rent economic crisis are reputed to have caused an important redefinition of European higher education and research missions. Yet the exact mechanisms and implications of this assumption have not been sufficiently questioned. Is there such a redefinition of higher education and research purposes and missions? If so, what are the drivers for this redefinition? What are its implications in terms of policy reforms, institutional governance, and academic culture?
The 2014 EUREDOCS conference will deal with th is set of questions, assuming that the mission of higher education and research is in no way univocal, but on the contrary results from the confrontation of multiple and competing definitions of higher education and research missions, values, role in society, and expected contributions for economy, social progress, or democracy.
Three sub-themes corresponding to three conference sections have been identified (but they are non exhaustive and other communications related to the notion of evolving purposes and missions of higher education and research are also welcome).
(a) The influence of European union and international institutions in the redefinition of higher education and research missions
This first section engages with the influence of the EU and diver se international institutions. Contributions to this section should go beyond the statement that more and more norms governing the sector are formulated at the European and international levels, in order to analyse more in depth the production of these nor ms, the vectors of their circulations, their reception and re-appropriation by institutions and actors etc.
(b) The transformations of higher education and research purposes and the changing university boundaries
This second section questions the evolving ro le and relation of higher education and research with society. With the current economic crisis, higher education and research have often been presented as problem solvers, because of their role in the production and transmission of knowledge. How did it m ove university boundaries with the economy and the rest of society, in terms of discourse but also in terms of organisational forms? Contributions on topics such as academic expertise, innovation, technological transfer will be of great interest. Contribut ions addressing the questions of the reformulation of the political and civic missions of universities are equally welcome.
(c) Evolving higher education and research missions, the academic profession and the students
How is this broad process of redefinitio n of higher education and research missions associated to a transformation of what it means to be an academic and what it means to be a student? Contributions to this third section are expected to analyse academics and students’ practices, strategies and r epresentations in their individual or collective experience of higher education and research purposes redefinition.
Calendar:
The deadline for the submission of a proposal is 30 January 2014 .
All papers selected for presentation should be available by 30 April 2014.
The Conference will be held at the Centre de Sociologie des organisations, Sciences Po Paris, from Friday 23 May (noon) to 24 May (night) 2014, with the support of the RESUP .
What is Euredocs?
Euredocs is a new doctoral network on europeanisation of higher education and research, animated by Sciences Po. This network concerns doctoral students and young doctorates (thesis defence within the three last years) addressing europeanisation on issues such as: the structure of study programmes, evaluation/accreditation procedures, change in national public policies, transformation in university government, academic career patterns, production of knowledge, the impact of internationalisation/globalisation, etc. 
It aims at facilitating and enabling more communication among those doctoral students and young researchers. This network also aims at promoting publication and diffusion of research results, as well as facilitating exchange and mobility among young scholars in this field. 
Who is concerned? 
The network concerns doctoral students and young doctorates (having promoted within the three last years) working on these issues in different disciplines such as sociology, political science, economics, history, educational studies…

Developing human potential has been a persistent EU policy aim even in the recent years of economic crisis. Among the goals of the European Strategy for smart, sustainable and inclusive growth, Europe 2020, we find employment and innovation, featuring education as a major lever. More...
Website: EDEN conference website.

European higher education has been in flux for well over a decade. Technological innovation, changing labour market demands, and global competition are all contributing factors to the ongoing changes. Is higher education merely adapting to new circumstances, or is a more revolutionary transformation taking place? MOOCs have been heralded as a potentially disruptive innovation in the world of higher education that could lead to a reformation of the current model of higher education. More...
Website: EUA.

In September 2014, higher education professionals from across the EU will head to the centre of Europe for the 26th Annual European Association for International Education (EAIE) Conference. Prague will serve as the breathtaking background for the conference, which will operate under the banner of “Stepping into a new era.” The call for proposals for the conference is now open. Play a direct role in the conference programme by becoming a conference speaker.
‘Stepping into a new era’ is the theme for the 26th Annual EAIE Conference. Internationalisation of higher education has gone from strength to strength over the last 25 years, and higher education professionals are now looking to the next steps in internationalisation. This comes at a time when the dynamic field of international education is undergoing some of the greatest transformations ever, in all aspects of teaching, learning and administration. Will these transformations change the mould of the traditional higher education institution? What do the next 25 years have in store for us? The 2014 EAIE Conference will discuss these very questions as we take the next steps into a new era of international higher education.
The EAIE is accepting conference proposals for sessions and workshops until 5 November, 2013. The deadline to submit a poster or a presentation for the Ignite session is 22 January, 2013. Conference registration will open in May 2014.
Address 5. května 65, 140 21 Prague 4 Czech Republic.
Website: EIAE.