Conference Call for Proposals

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Submission Deadline June 1.

Call for Proposals: Papers, Panels, and Roundtables for: Learning 2000:
Reassessing the Virtual University

webpage:                  http://www.cddc.vt.edu/learning
Submission system:  http://www2.cddc.vt.edu/lol
September 27-30, 2000
Hotel Roanoke, Roanoke Virginia

Drawing upon six years' of experience, the College of Arts and Sciences at
Virginia Tech will continue the serious, sustained, and on-going debate
about the merits of online teaching and distance education launched at
"Learning Online '98" in June 1998 with
"Learning 2000: Reassessing the Virtual University."

The purpose of this conference is to gather colleagues from around the
world who are interested in the shape and substance that the virtual
university is acquiring in practice. In addition we hope to debate the
advantages or disadvantages of digital discourse, learning
online, and virtual university life. By reviewing the quality of faculty
life, the pressures on support staff, the impact on student learning, the
demands on university administrators, and the potentials for reaching new
types of learners, a series of paper sessions, round-table discussions,
panels, and keynote speakers will address the wide range of issues that
emerge in this domain.

Confirmed Keynote Speakers:
      Carole Barone, Educause
      Keith Fulton, Urban League
      Katherine Hayles, Professor of English at University of California
Los Angeles
      Michael Joyce, Professor of English at Vassar College
      Stuart Moulthrop, Associate Professor of Communications at the
University of  Baltimore
      Mark Poster, Professor of History at University of California Irvine

Some Suggested Topics:

      Administering Online Universities
      Best Practices in Online Learning
      Digital Discourse
      For Profit and Not For Profit Virtual Universities
      Hypertext/Hypermedia
      Intellectual Property and Online Learning
      Legalities and Illegalities Online
      Meanings of and Motives for Virtualizing University Education
      Online Learning Environments: Creating Communities
      Scholarship and the Teaching Profession Online
      What Fails Online and Why?

If you have questions about the conference contact Len Hatfield at
Len.Hatfield@vt.edu or Tim Luke at twluke@vt.edu
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Project Director
UCLA Service-Learning Clearinghouse Project
esaito@ucla.edu
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310-794-5004 fax
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