Call for Papers
5th Annual EDINEB International Conference
EDucational INnovation in Economics and Business:
Business Education for the Changing Workplace
September 2 - 5, 1998
MARRIOTT DOWNTOWN AT KEY CENTER
CLEVELAND OHIO
USA
Under the Auspices of the EDINEB Network
Today's companies are faced with globalization of business, rapid
technological developments and a new intensity of competition. The
availability of technology is no longer the sole key factor to success.
Strategic resources have shifted from capital to knowledge. Changing
images of work and the workplace require colleges and universities to
develop new capabilities and take a proactive orientation. Desired
educational outcomes move from development of knowledge toward the use of
knowledge and from teaching isolated skills to using skills in business
contexts. The changing workplace necessitates increased reliance on
teamwork, creativity and flexibility, decision making at the work level,
continuous learning, and the extensive use of communication and
information technology. Student preparation to function effectively in
the global business community requires change in organization structure,
curricula and instruction. Changes like those occurring in the workplace,
coupled with new revelations about how adults learn, challenge educators
to consider similar shifts in the way learning processes are structured.
Suggested themes for paper presentations, as well as interactive
workshops, demonstrations, poster sessions, and round-table discussions,
are:
* Partnerships between business and education
* Continuous learning, corporate education and business education
* Management development in schools of management and business
* Design and implementation of innovative business school programs:
action learning, experiential learning, problem-based learning
* Development of new learning theories and constructs
* Training students for skills development in areas of
communication, decision making, teamwork, flexibility, creativity
* Learning outside the classroom:
development of powerful learning environments
* Research on instruction and cognitive development
* Platforms for delivery of distance education
* Staff development
* Administrative procedures to promote innovative business
education
* Innovative assessment techniques and assessment center technology
in curriculum design
* Demonstration of value-added components via innovative learning
platforms versus traditional approaches
Papers
Full papers should be available at the conference. Selected papers will
be accepted for publication in the EDINEB series: Educational Innovation
in Economics and Business, Volume 5, published by Kluwer Academic
Publishers. Subsequent information regarding conference guidelines and
publications will be forthcoming.
Abstracts
Abstracts (500 word maximum) should contain author(s) name(s),
title/position, institution, address, telephone, fax number, and email
address. Abstracts will be published in the official program. No
author(s) name may appear in more than two abstract submissions. Abstract
submissions should be received on or before Monday February 2, 1998.
Authors will be notified of status regarding abstracts on or before March
2, 1998. Send abstracts (preferably by email) to:
Email: EDINEB@facburfdew.unimaas.nl
Fax: ++31 43 3213137
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