VT 2010 - The annual Conference on Higher Education Pedagogy

The 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. The program
committee invites proposals for Research, Practice or Poster sessions.

Important Dates:
Proposals Due: December 7, 2009
Notification of Acceptance: December 15, 2009
Registration Due: February 1, 2010
Conference Date: February 18-19, 2010

Registration Information
There is no registration fee; however, both presenters and
participants must register.
Registration is available online at: http://www.cider.vt.edu/conference/

Session Types
Research sessions are designed to inform participants of the design,
implementation and results of empirical research focused on teaching
and learning in higher education.

Practice sessions are focused on sharing, modeling and discussing
higher education teaching and learning, while allowing for
interaction among session participants.

Poster sessions provide the contributor with the opportunity to
present and discuss scholarly research and/or practice addressing
higher education pedagogy with conference participants in an informal
scholarly environment.

The full Call for Proposals is available on the organization web
site: http://www.cider.vt.edu/conference/. To submit a proposal for
review, the proposal must be submitted electronically on or before
December 7, 2009.

Keynote Speakers
Lisa R. Lattuca, Senior Research Associate for the Center for the
Study of Higher Education will be the opening keynote speaker. Based
on interviews with faculty, she will provide a grounded
representation of interdisciplinarity, including the processes
faculty employ in pursuing interdisciplinarity and the
interdisciplinary contexts in which faculty work.

Mary Taylor Huber, Senior Scholar at the Carnegie Foundation for the
Advancement of Teaching will be the closing keynote speaker and will
focus on the teaching commons, a conceptual space in which
communities of educators committed to inquiry and innovation come
together to exchange ideas about teaching and learning, and use them
to meet the challenges of educating students for personal,
professional, and civic life.

Hotel & Transportation
The conference hotel is
The Inn at Virginia Tech and Skelton Conference Center
901 Prices Fork Road, Blacksburg, VA 24061
540-231-8000 or 877-200-3360
http://www.theinnatvirginiatech.com/

The special conference room rates are $80.00 (plus taxes) for a
single and $100.00 (plus taxes) for a double occupancy. Please
reference the Conference on Higher Education Pedagogy to receive
these special rates.

Further information regarding transportation and accommodations (e.g.
directions, maps, room descriptions, ground transportation) is
available on the conference web site:
http://www.cider.vt.edu/conference/.