Off-Campus

Please mark your calendars and plan to join us at Unicoi State Park and Lodge in the north Georgia mountains, March 26-30, 2010 for the 31st anniversary of the Southern Regional Faculty and Instructional Development Consortium.

Every year the SRFIDC sharing conference is hosted by a different member institution. Our next conference will be hosted by North Georgia College and State University in Dahlonega, Georgia, and we will focus on the responses of faculty developers to tighter budgets, with emphases on increasing online teaching, evaluating online instruction, teaching higher enrollments, designing curriculum materials for video and web dissemination, and institutional competition for students.

Please visit our website to register and submit a proposal online: http://srfidc.org/. If you have any questions, please feel free to contact me.

Eric Main

Executive Committee Chair

Faculty Center for Teaching and Learning
University of Central Florida

emain@mail.ucf.edu

Proposal Due Date

December 7, 2009

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/.