The Deadline for EAM on May 1-4, 2002 has been extended to December 10,
2001!
Drive to New Haven and present your experiential exercise at Easterns if you
live in the Northeast. If you live elsewhere, flying has probably never been
safer. Here is the call for the ELA Track (Experiential Learning
Association) of EAM with the link for the conference Paper Call embedded in
the text:
ELA welcomes the submission of new (not previously published) exercises or
substantial modifications of existing exercises.
The 2002 Eastern Academy of Management will be in New Haven, Connecticut,
May 1-4.
The submission deadline is November 30, 2001. The Call for Papers can be
found at
http://mars.acnet.wnec.edu/eam/AnnualMeetings/NewHaven2002/.
Exercises will be eligible for the Best Experiential Exercise award. The
criteria for this award can be found at
http://mars.acnet.wnec.edu/eam.
If you have questions or want to explore your ideas, contact Cheryl Tromley,
chair of the Experiential Learning Association, at
cltromley@mail.fairfield.edu.
Guidelines for Submitting an Exercise to ELA:
1. New (not previously published) or substantial modifications of existing
exercises are welcome. Exercises include games,
simulations, role plays, and other forms of interactive experiences which
center on the teaching of management. If you are
revising, enhancing or describing a new use for an exercise, be sure to
reference the original and/or include a copy of the
original as an appendix.
2. Write a short rationale for why the exercise is needed or helps present
the material. You need not review why experiential
learning is needed
3. Indicate briefly: a) learning goals for the exercise, b) approximate
timing, c) number of participants or group size, d) materials
needed, e) preparation needed before class by students, f) preparation
needed by instructor.
4. Describe in detail the steps and timing involved in doing the exercise.
Try to write instructions for the instructor that assume
the instructor has never seen the exercise before and wants to use it the
following day in class.
5. Discuss in detail how you debrief the exercise. How are the learning
goals addressed? What additional learning can you
bring forth? What has been the student experience? What unexpected outcomes
have occurred?
6. Provide a complete copy of the exercise (this can be an appendix if you
are beyond the 25 page limit, but don�t feel
obligated to �stretch� your paper to 25 pages). If accepted you paper is
accepted, you will likely have to shorten it to fit in the
Proceedings.
7. Indicate time frames for presenting the exercise or portion of the
exercise at the Eastern Academy of Management meeting.
Discuss the extent to which session attendees will be able to participate in
the typical time frames of the meeting (2 to 4
exercises in a 1 to 2 hour session). If there are ways to creatively do a
portion of the exercise at the conference, please
describe (this increases the likelihood of acceptance).
--
Bill Ferris
Professor of Management
Western New England College
1215 Wilbraham Rd.
Springfield, MA 01119
Phone: 413-782-1629
Fax: 413-796-2068
E-mail:
bferris@wnec.edu