Ubiquitous Learning: Fourth International Conference, Nov. 11-12, 2011
Posted: February 28, 2011 Filed under: Conferences Leave a commentClark Kerr Conference Center
University of California in Berkeley
Berkeley, California, USA
11-12 November, 2011
www.ubi-learn.com
The Ubiquitous Learning Conference investigates the uses of technologies in learning, including devices with sophisticated computing and networking capacities which are now pervasively part of our everyday lives, from laptops to mobile phones, ebook readers, game consoles, digital music players, and cameras. The conference explores the possibilities of new forms of learning using these devices not only in the classroom, but in a wider range of places and times than was conventionally the case for education. Ubiquitous Learning is made possible in part by the affordances of the new, digital media. What’s new about it? What’s not-so-new? What are the main challenges of access to these new learning opportunities? These are the key themes and scope and concerns of the conference and its companion Journal.
This conference is has evolved from e-Learning Symposia held in Melbourne, Australia in 2006 and 2007, connected with the International Conference on Learning. It is a project of the Ubiquitous Learning Institute in the College of Education at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. In 2008, the Ubiquitous Learning Conference held at the University of Illinois in Chicago; in 2009 at Northeastern University Boston, Massachusetts; and in 2010, at the University of British Columbia’s in Vancouver.
Plenary speakers will include some of the world’s leading thinkers in the field of technology-in-learning and they will be complemented by numerous parallel paper, workshop and colloquium presentations by researchers and practitioners. Participants are invited to submit a presentation proposal either for a 30-minute paper, 60-minute workshop, or a jointly presented 90-minute colloquium session. Parallel sessions are loosely grouped into streams reflecting different perspectives or disciplines. Each stream also has its own talking circle, a forum for focused discussion of issues. For those unable to attend the Conference in person, virtual participation is also available.
In addition to Plenary Presentations from leading speakers in the field, the Ubiquitous Learning Conference includes parallel presentations by practitioners, teachers and researchers. We invite you to respond to the conference Call-for-Papers. Presenters submit their written papers for publication in the peer refereed ‘Ubiquitous Learning: An International Journal’. If you are unable to attend the conference in person, virtual registrations are also available which allow you to submit a paper for refereeing and possible publication in the journal as well as the option of uploading a video presentation to our YouTube channel.
The deadline for the next round in the call for papers (a title and short abstract) is 15 March 2011. Future deadlines will be announced on the conference website after this date. Proposals are reviewed within two weeks of submission. Full details of the conference, including an online proposal submission form, may be found at the conference website: www.ubi-learn.com/conference .
We look forward to seeing you in Berkeley in 2011!
Yours Sincerely,
Garett Gietzen
College of Education
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Illinois, USA
Schaeffer Seminar Series, “A Primer on the Economics of Prescription Pharmaceutical Pricing in Health Insurance Markets”, March 3
Posted: February 28, 2011 Filed under: Seminars, Symposiums Leave a commentPlease mark your calendar to attend our next session of the Schaeffer Seminar Series. Dr. Joseph Newhouse will be doing a presentation titled “A Primer on the Economics of Prescription Pharmaceutical Pricing in Health Insurance Markets” on Thursday, March 3rd from 2:00 p.m.-3:30 p.m. in the Forum 450 in the Ronald Tutor Center in room #450. I have attached the flyer with a short bio about Dr. Newhouse, as well as location, time, and abstract. We hope that you will be able to attend.
Also, below is a list of the upcoming speakers we’! ll have in the next few weeks:
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Mar 10: (Forum 450 – Tutor Campus Center) 2-3:30pm
Dean Hakanson
VP‐Medical Head of West Operations
Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation
Mar 24: (Forum 450 – Tutor Campus Center) 2-3:30pm
Ted Joyce, PhD
Research Associate in Health Economics, National Bureau of Economic Research
Professor of Economics
Baruch College
Mar 31: (Rosen Family Screening Theatre – Tutor Campus Center) 2-3:30pm
Douglas Staiger, PhD
Research Associate in Cambridge, National Bureau of Economic Research
John French Professor of Economics
Dartmouth
Thank you,
The Schaeffer Center
Devin Stambler
Leonard D. Schaeffer Center for Health Policy and Economics
University of Southern California
(213) 821-7967
http://healthpolicy.usc.edu
SSRN Economics Research Network, Professional Announcements and Job Openings
Posted: February 25, 2011 Filed under: SSRN Economics Research Network, Professional Announcements and Job Openings Leave a commentThe February 24, 2011 issue is linked here, SSRN Econ. Res. Network Professional Announcements and Job Openings, Feb. 24, 2011
Invitation: “In-Class Polling Strategies for Student Engagement” Mar. 4; RSVP by Mar. 2
Posted: February 25, 2011 Filed under: Seminars, Symposiums, Uncategorized Leave a commentFor any who are considering using “clickers” for polling in classes this would be a good event to attend. I have been using clickers in my PPD 240 class as a way of drawing of encouraging participation, taking a quick snapshot of class opinion on particular issues, and comparing a particular class to previous classes on key questions.
Terry L. Cooper, Ph.D.
The Maria B. Crutcher Professor in
Citizenship and Democratic Values
Director, Civic Engagement Initiative
School of Policy, Planning, and Development
RGL 302
University of Southern California
Los Angeles, 90089-0626
Office-213-740-0371
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Dear USC Faculty, Staff, and Administrator:
We invite you to two events:
Please join us on Friday, March 4 for an interactive Faculty Forum on different in-class polling strategies from three seasoned faculty perspectives. This session is a rich discussion on the use of ‘clickers’ and other in-class polling technologies for heightened student engagement, improved and faster feedback loops, and for agile and ‘just-in-time’ teaching strategies.
**This is a highly interactive session and participants will be using the very technologies discussed.**
What: “In-Class Polling Strategies for Student Engagement”
featuring an multi-disciplinary panel of faculty experts:
Tom Lyon, Gould School of Law
Helena Seli, Rossier School of Education
Chris Forest, Keck School of Medicine
When: Friday, March 4 at 12 PM – 1:30 PM – light lunch provided
Who: Faculty, Staff, Administrators
Where: HNB 100
How: Please RSVP by 5:00 PM on Wednesday, March 2.
http://cst.usc.edu/events/rsvp.html
(light lunch provided)
Please contact me/reply here if you wish to participate remotely in this March 4 Faculty Forum via the web and phone.
******IMPORTANT UPCOMING MONDAY FEB 28 9 AM ONLINE CST CO-SPONSORED EVENT!*******
Please consider participating online in this upcoming session on Monday, February 28, 2011 at 9 AM.
Teaching Writing as an Information Art
a webinar roundtable discussion
Feb. 28, 9am PST/12pm EST
(50 minutes)
To join the event: http://usccollege.na4.acrobat.com/r96553205/
Contemporary writing courses have been taking on the computational tools for over two decades now, and for a large portion of that time, the tools have taken center stage. However, contemporary talk of media “literacies” has changed the place of the tools in the classroom — or rather, has reframed the role of language as information. When students begin to study the role of words as tags, metadata, or search optimizing keywords, they are studying not just semantic structures but the logic and rhetoric of the flow of information. This panel discusses the idea of reframing those courses and their lessons under the title of Information Arts.
To join the event: http://usccollege.na4.acrobat.com/r96553205/
USC event announcement : http://web-app.usc.edu/ws/eo2/calendar/32/event/892923
**No RSVP required for this February 28 online event.**
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Otto Khera, Director
Center for Scholarly Technology
Technology Enhanced Learning (TEL)
Information Technology Services
University of Southern California
Los Angeles, CA 90089-2571
tel. 213.821.3049
School of Political Science and Public Administration of University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Hiring Faculty Positions, Deadline open until filled
Posted: February 25, 2011 Filed under: Job Opportunities Leave a commentSchool of Political Science and Public Administration of Univesity of Electronic Science and Technology of China welcome you all to join with us for Public Adminsitration Study and Research either on a full time position or a flexible time position. We offer three full time positions for Chinese Schalors as lecturer, associate professor and professor level and five adjunct professors for scholars outside China in the PA field. (Attached Job announcements) 3 Faculty Positions & 5 Adjunct ProfessorsPositions
Come and meet us at 2011 ASPA Annual Conference at the following schedule:
Career Fair: On March 11 from 9 a.m.–3 p.m. in Baltimore Renaissance Harborplace Hotel.
Exhibitor Hall Booth Five: on March 12 from 12 p.m.4 p.m., on March 13 from 10 a.m.– 4 p.m. and March 14 from 9 a.m.–3 p.m. in Baltimore Renaissance Harborplace Hotel.
The deadline is open till the positions are filled.
More information about UESTC can be found on www.uestc.edu.cn and about job opportunities on www.icpa-uestc.cn.
Looking forward to meeting you all at 2011 ASPA Annual Conference.
Prof. Zhao Shurong PhD
ExecutiveChairofInternational Conference on Public Administration (ICPA)
School of Political Science and Public Administration
University of Electronic Science and Technology of China
Chengdu, P.R. China
Post Code: 611731
Tel: 0086-28-61831756
Fax: 0086-28-61831756
Mob: 0086-13608001266
Email: zhaoshurong@uestc.edu.cn
zhaoshurong2001@163.com
Website: www.uestc.edu.cn
www.icpa-uestc.cn
Final Registration Reminder for Ph.D. Hooding Ceremony 2011
Posted: February 25, 2011 Filed under: Commencement Information Leave a commentDear Students,
Maximum capacity for the 2011 Ph.D. Hooding Ceremony has nearly been reached and will most likely close before the April 1 registration deadline. If you haven’t done so yet, please register in order to qualify to participate.
The Ceremony is open to only Ph.D. students who graduated in fall 2010 and who anticipate graduating in spring or summer 2011. Participation will be subject to confirmation from your dissertation chair.
We are sorry, but EDD, DMA, DPA, and DRSc students are not eligible to participate. Please check with your Schools regarding their doctoral ceremony information.
Eligible students who wish to participate in the Ceremony must register for it before registration closes. Students who request to register late will be placed on a registration wait-list but there are no guarantees that they will be permitted to participate. A wait-list student who is cleared to register may not receive guest tickets in Bovard and/or their names may not be printed in the Program Book. Candidates are not eligible to register on the day of the Ceremony.
Eligible students may register using the following link: http://grad.usc.edu/Hooding
If you have already registered, you should have received an email confirmation. Multiple registrations will be deleted. We apologize if you receive this message multiple times.
Please see the flyer linked here, Ph.D. Hooding Ceremony Registration
Sincerely,
Kruti Shah
Ph.D. Hooding Ceremony Assistant
The Graduate School
http://grad.usc.edu/Hooding
Teaching Assistantships in Gender Studies, Deadline: Mar. 11, 5:00 P.M.
Posted: February 25, 2011 Filed under: Job Opportunities Leave a commentThe Gender Studies Program has openings for three full-year teaching assistants during the 2011-2012 academic year. In Fall 2011, three TAs are needed for SWMS 215g, Gender Conflict in Cultural Contexts, with Prof. S. Velasco. In Spring 2012, three TAs are needed for SWMS 210gm, Social Issues in Gender, with Prof. J. Halberstam.
Interested doctoral students should send the following materials to Jeanne Weiss in the Gender Studies Program (jeannew@usc.edu; THH 422; MC 4352). E-mail submissions are encouraged.
–Cover letter
–CV
–Two letters of recommendation
Deadline for submission: Friday, March 11, 2011, by 5:00 p.m.
Center for Sustainable Cities Seminar – Planning Resilience Through Scenario Planning, Mar. 7
Posted: February 24, 2011 Filed under: Seminars, Symposiums Leave a commentCenter for Sustainable Cities Seminar
Planning Resilience Through Scenario Planning
Monday March 7, Noon to 1:30 p.m.
RGL 308
See attached for flyer Alberti – Flyer 5
Lunch will be served – RSVP at cfsc@usc.edu
The topic: As climate change alters the overall supply and quality of resources, it increases risk to human well-being and challenges the ability of municipalities to provide essential services. Complex interactions among multiple drivers lead to greater uncertainties and limit current approaches for predicting system behaviors and their consequences over the long term. Cities will face of substantial scientific uncertainty regarding the nature of the risks they need to manage while having to make difficult investment and development decisions.
Traditional planning approaches that rely on forecasting and predictions methods are likely to prove inadequate. In this presentation Marina Alberti proposes that by using scenarios, we will be able to develop more robust adaptation strategies for increasing resilience in the face of irreducible uncertainties.
The speaker
Marina Alberti is Professor of Urban and Environmental Planning in the Department of Urban Design and Planning at the University of Washington. She directs the Interdisciplinary Ph.D. Program in Urban Design and Planning and the Urban Ecology Research Laboratory. She teaches courses in Urban Ecology, Environmental Planning, Geographic Information Systems, and Group Dynamic and Conflict resolution.
She also teaches an Advanced Course in Research Design. Her research interests are in the impacts of alternative urban development patterns on ecosystem dynamics.
She is the Principal Investigator on a number of grant-funded research projects including an NSF Biocomplexity Grant project aiming to study the emergent properties of urban landscapes in Seattle, WA and Phoenix, AZ. Her research also focuses on measures of urban environmental performance that can be used to monitor progress and inform policy-making and scenario planning. She is especially interested in advanced interdisciplinary approaches to urban ecological problems. Her most recent book entitled Advances in Urban ecology (Springer 2008) synthesizes the state of knowledge on the complex interactions between of urbanization and ecological function and articulate the challenges for scholars of urban ecosystems
“A Place in the World: Geography, Identity, and Civic Engagement in Modern America” Conference, Mar. 11 & 12
Posted: February 24, 2011 Filed under: Conferences Leave a comment
Price School Ph.D. Announcements 