- CALL FOR PAPERS - Deadline for submissions (last call): 28 September 2012 --

IADIS International Conference on International Higher Education 2012
28-30 November 2012 – Perth, Australia
(http://www.ihe-conf.org/)


* Keynote Speaker (confirmed):
Professor Carmel McNAUGHT, Professor of Learning Enhancement, CLEAR - Centre for Learning Enhancement and Research, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, China

* Conference Background and Goals
Technology like transport, communication and media-based learning have increased our ambitions to make education more global and international. Higher education has gradually felt more affinity towards the exchange of students; Diversity and learning in concentration with different cultures that has settled as road map for the coming decades. Firstly, motivation for international higher education to promote students’ mindset towards different cultures, languages and traditions. Secondly, allowing students to learn multi-cultural contexts to anticipate to the later career that involve cooperation in international teams. As inevitable side effect, universities welcome international students as source of income and exchange knowledge and skills. To be more precisely, students will take part of their courses abroad, and at least they should match a similar amount of incoming students in order to play par.
This conference aims at the scientific, pragmatic and policy awareness among scholars who face the direct need to make their curricula more culturally fair. European exchange programs like the Erasmus Mundus, the U.S. Council on International Educational Student Exchange, and the Euro-American “Atlantis” program, they all envisage an urgent agenda on how to balance local with the more global criteria in higher education. This conference helps you to build your networks and international consortia on how to be a key player in this emergent trend.

* Format of the Conference
The conference will comprise of invited talks and oral presentations. The proceedings of the conference will be published in the form of a book and CD-ROM with ISBN, and will be available also in the IADIS Digital Library (online accessible).
Some of the best papers will be eligible to be extended and enhanced as book chapters for inclusion in a book to be published by IGI Global.

* Types of submissions
Full and Short Papers, Reflection Papers, Posters/Demonstrations, Tutorials, Panels and Doctoral Consortium. All submissions are subject to a blind refereeing process.

* Topics
These include, but are not limited to the following topics:

1. Technologies for spreading learning around the world
2. Higher Education and International student exchange
3. Learning far away from home and close to your future colleagues
4. Learning in multicultural contexts
5. Virtual presence as option for extending the students’ learning space
6. Formal and pragmatic obstacles and opportunities in student exchange programs
7. Double- versus joint degrees
8. Funding resources for staff and student exchange
9. How to establish campuses as multicultural communities
10. Coping with incompatibility in semester-, trimester and quarter year course periods
11. Trade-offs between student exchange in the bachelor- versus the master stage?
12. Will English be the default language for master courses around the globe?
13. Does studying abroad imply “living together with local students”, or prefer “international student houses”?
14. How to recruit highly talented students abroad?
15. How to defend the yielded higher criterion to the access of regional- and local students?
16. How to evaluate students’ readiness for studying abroad?
17. Acculturation: what preliminary intercultural need to be trained before been sent to a study abroad?
etc

This conference will focus both on the acute main streams of student exchange:
- Eastern Asia to Europe, the U.S., Australia and New Zealand
- Among Western and Eastern European countries
- Among Spain, Portugal and Southern American countries
- Among Europe and the U.S.


* Important Dates:
- Submission deadline (last call): 28 September 2012
- Notification to Authors (last call): 24 October 2012
- Final Camera-Ready Submission and Early Registration (last call): Until 5 November 2012
- Late Registration (last call): After 5 November 2012
- Conference: Perth, Australia, 28-30 November 2012

* Conference Location
The conference will be held in Perth, Australia.

* Secretariat
IADIS Secretariat - IADIS INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON INTERNATIONAL HIGHER EDUCATION 2012
Rua Sao Sebastiao da Pedreira, 100, 3
1050-209 Lisbon, Portugal
E-mail: secretariat@ihe-conf.org
Web site: http://www.ihe-conf.org/

* Program Committee

Program and Conference Co-Chairs
Piet Kommers, University of Twente, The Netherlands
Tomayess Issa, Curtin University, Perth, Australia
Pedro Isaías, Universidade Aberta (Portuguese Open University), Portugal

* Co-located events
Please also check the co-located events:
- Internet Technologies & Society 2012 (http://www.its-conf.org/) – 28-30 November 2012
- Sustainability, Technology and Education 2012 (http://www.sustainability-conf.org/) – 28-30 November 2012


* Registered participants in the International Higher Education conference may attend Internet Technologies & Society and Sustainability, Technology and Education conferences’ sessions free of charge.