[h2o-discuss] 1st CFP, Learning 2000: Reassessing the Virtual University (@VirginiaTech)

[jeremy hunsinger <jhuns@vt.edu>]

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

Deadline for Submission is June 1, 2000

Many have been exploring ways for building a "virtual university" either 
from scratch or by virtualizing the educational experiences at already 
existing colleges and universities. Yet, a few institutions of higher 
learning, such as Virginia Tech, have been laying the foundations for such 
online learning environments since 1993. With its support for the 
Blacksburg Electronic Village
(BEV), a state-wide broadband ATM network (NET.WORK.VIRGINIA), the Faculty 
Development Initiative (FDI), the Cyberschool project in the College of 
Arts and Sciences, and the campus-wide Institute for Distance and 
Distributed Learning (IDDL), Virginia Tech has been uniquely positioned as 
a site to assess the benefits and costs of virtual university 
instruction.  Drawing upon this six years' 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.

Included in these discussions will be a meeting for the university 
administrators and faculty involved in creating the Electronic Campus of 
Virginia (E-CVA). E-CVA is the Commonwealth of Virginia's experimental 
effort at creating a statewide virtual university, and this group will have 
much to contribute to the discussion with the other conference participants.



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


        Call for Proposals: Papers, Panels, and Roundtables.


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