OBTC 2014 Call for Submissions
Engaging Voices in Teaching Innovation
Conference dates: June 11-14, 2014
Please note the submission deadline is TODAY, DECEMBER 18, 2013.
We invite your submissions for OBTC 2014 at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee, where we will share our voices and create new knowledge about teaching and learning.
As educators, our work is strongly related to voice – literally and metaphorically. At the most literal level we use our voices to convey knowledge in the classroom and through our writing. For students, course exercises, discussions, presentations, and assignments give opportunities to develop and refine their professional voices.
Voice is a metaphorically rich concept. We give voice to opportunities and problems in the workplace to promote dialogue about challenging issues and to encourage our students to take reflective and meaningful action. We coach our students to find and use their authentic voices as business professionals and active citizens. Across our careers we work to develop our own voices as participants in the field of management education.
Voice can be the medium for personal, professional, and social transformation: we interpret the notion of “giving voice” as a declarative creative act. What are you willing to give voice to in management education, and why? We anticipate and welcome a wide range of submissions including, but not limited to, the following areas:
· Using our voices to communicate ideas in an effective way
· Developing and empowering students’ voices
· Listening to our inner voices through silence and personal reflection
· Finding and claiming our professional voices for our own career development
· Developing shared and inclusive voices of leadership
· Giving voice to ethics, values, and social issues that management educators can influence
· Disseminating our scholarly voice through management education research
· Using technology and emerging platforms for innovative voices in educational delivery
Sessions may be 30, 60, or 90 minutes long. The OBTC is traditionally a highly interactive and experiential conference, so we encourage sessions that incorporate the audience. All submissions are blind reviewed, and the deadline for submission is December 18, 2013. To download the submission template and view submission details, click here.
In addition, we are pleased to announce that we will have international best-selling author Ken Bain as our keynote speaker at OBTC 2014. Dr. Bain is the author of "What the Best College Teachers Do" (Harvard University Press, 2004) and "What the Best College Students Do" (Harvard University Press, 2012). Based on empirical study of highly effective teachers, Dr. Bain's work offers that good teaching is a mindset. Dr. Bain has founded four major teaching and learning centers, including the Center for Teaching at Vanderbilt.
For program questions, please contact the OBTC 2014 Program Chair Joy Beatty at jebeatty@umich.edu.