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iPED International Conference 2008

Key Themes

Bringing together a globally diverse community comprising academic developers and innovators, academic leaders and managers, as well as practice-based scholars and education researchers, the 2008 conference provides a forum for collaborative exploration and discourse on increasingly pressing academic realities.

Presenters' evaluations of the realities of academic life, the design of appropriate and potentially pioneering responses will address three key themes:

  • Conceptions of Leadership: Academic and professional leadership in a global higher education market, peer-led teams and virtual networks, changing conceptions of research leadership and supervision.
  • Emergent Pedagogies: Immersive technologies, sustaining innovation, sharing across borders, assessment, individualisation and localisation.
  • Academic Writing: The transformative role of Writing Programmes and the Writing Centre, reflective writing in the university, assessing via portfolios, publishing in English.

Contributors are asked to ground their work in the relevant research and to consider both the envisioned and the actual practice in higher education institutions.

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