[Herdsa]: News on Wed 4th Oct 2006

Wed Oct 4 10:18:02 EST 2006

Dear List Member

First another reminder that the closing dates for expressions of interest in
becoming Editor of HERD, the international journal of HERDSA is 15th
October. Please contact Shelda Debowski <sdebowski at admin.uwa.edu.au>

Then we have:
* Invitation for contributions to an International Conference on
Postgraduate Supervision in South Africa, April 2007
* Invitation to participate in survey on the use of academic portfolios for
personnel decisions.
* Details of new book on E-learning `Globalized E-Learning Cultural
Challenges' 

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Dear Colleague 

International Conference
Postgraduate Supervison: The State of the Art and the Artists
23 – 26 April 2007
University of Stellenbosch
South Africa

Conference aims 
The Centre for Higher and Adult Education (CHAE) (for more information on
the Centre, visit our website: http://academic.sun.ac.za/chae) invites
contributions to an international conference on the theme of “Postgraduate
Supervision and Training: the state of the art and the artists”. This
international conference has developed out of the Centre’s involvement with
large numbers of postgraduate students (± 150 Masters and PhD candidates in
the past ten years) and the large number of workshops on Postgraduate
Supervision, Assessment and Evaluation of theses and dissertations and
Writing for Publication facilitated by the staff of the Centre. In the past
ten years (1997 – 2006) more than 100 workshops on these three topics,
involving some 2000+ participants, have been facilitated. The Centre is
celebrating its 10th birthday in April. The aim of the conference is to
review the state of the art and the artists involved in postgraduate
supervision and training and to develop baseline data on the topic. It is
hoped that the conference will become a bi-annual event.
The conference will include a variety of formats: 
•       invited keynote speakers who will present papers on selected themes;

•       papers in parallel sessions by participants on aspects related to
the conference themes; 
•       pre-conference workshops (one day) on key themes by invited
facilitators; 
•       short workshops (two hours) as part of the conference programme; 
•       symposia/panel discussion by participants who wish to arrange a
symposium/panel discussion; 
•       poster presentations; 
•       give/get sessions which will be using an “open space technology”
(participlanning) approach and which will create opportunities for
participants to “give” (present) what they wish to share and to match this
with participants who wish to “get” (receive) information; and 
•       book displays and/or exhibitions by publishing houses and related
organizations. 

Conference themes 
The centre is interested in all forms of contribution to the conference
themes. We invite contributions to the following conference themes:
•       Successful policies and procedures 
•       Statistics on trends, admissions, success rates 
•       Effective proposal writing 
•       Successful project management 
•       Case studies of successful supervision practices 
•       The effective supervisor 
•       The student perspective 
•       The role of support services 
•       Effective practices to “move” from a thesis to a publication 
•       Assessing and evaluating postgraduate research 
•       Quality assurance and quality development 

Key conference dates 
The conference will commence at 09:00 on 24 April 2007 and will finish on 26
April at 15:00.

Pre-conference workshops will be presented on Monday, 23 April 2007. 
Deadline for submission of abstracts:
Monday, 30 October 2006.

Notification of accepted papers:
Thursday 30 November 2006.

Early bird registration cut-off date:
30 January 2007.

Deadline for full paper submissions:
28 February 2007.

Conference commences:
23 – 26 April 2007. 

Invited keynote speakers 
1.      Opening address: Prof. Hugh Africa, Higher Education Quality
Committee of S.A. 
2.      Keynote: Day One: Prof. Johann Mouton, CREST (Centre for Research on
Science and Technology, University of Stellenbosch. 
3.      Keynote: Day Two: Allyson Holbrook and Sid Bourke, SORTI (Centre for
the Study of Research Training and Impact), University of Newcastle,
Australia. 
4.      Second keynote: Day Two: Prof Heinke Roebken, University of
Oldenburg, Germany. 
5.      Keynote: Day Three: Prof. Rowena Murray, University of Strathclyde.

Please log into our website for further information at
http://academic.sun.ac.za/chae 

Regards 
Prof Chris Kapp 
Director: Centre for Higher and Adult Education / Direkteur: Sentrum vir
Hoër en Volwassene Onderwys 
Faculty of Education / Fakulteit Opvoedkunde 
University of Stellenbosch / Universiteit van Stellenbosch 
Tel: 021 808 2294 / 2277 
Fax: 021 808 2270 
www.sun.ac.za/chae 
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I have been looking at the use of academic staff portfolios for personnel
decisions and wish to take a 'straw poll' to inform this work. Please take
time to respond to the questions below, even if the response to qq 3 and 5
is NO.

Please help this survey by returning an email with the following simple
information:
1. Name of University
2. Country
3. Does your university require a portfolio of work for decisions on tenure?
YES/NO 4. Is this just a teaching portfolio, an overarching academic
portfolio, or separate portfolios for teaching, research and service to the
community?
5. Does your university require a portfolio of work for decisions on
promotion? YES/NO 6. Is this just a teaching portfolio, an overarching
academic portfolio, or more than one portfolio?
7. Does your university website contain any information about these
requirements?

Many thanks
Please respond to bland.tomkinson at manchester.ac.uk
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Globalized E-Learning Cultural Challenges explores the issues educators,
administrators, and instructional designers face when transferring knowledge
and skills to other cultures through e-learning.  Most e-learning courses
have been designed in Western cultures, but the largest and fastest-growing
consumer groups live in Eastern cultures.

Globalized E-Learning Cultural Challenges presents a broad perspective of
culture and e-learning issues, relevant research, implications of cultural
differences in online education, and the anticipated challenges to
implementing e-learning in other countries.  It also explores theoretical
philosophies of education, and examines issues related to language.
Globalized E-Learning Cultural Challenges gives researchers, educators, and
administrators several practical approaches to analyzing and adapting
e-learning for other cultures.

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Roger Landbeck
HERDSA List Moderator
Email: landbeck at ozemail.com.au
www.herdsa.org.au