Dear MED Colleague,
I hope you all had a wonderful holiday break. And now...a last-minute reminder that the deadline for submitting a PDW proposal to the Academy meeting is January 11th!
It's not too late to submit: Help your division make this the best annual meeting ever!
2011 MED Division Professional Development Workshops: Call for Proposals
The Management Education & Development Division (MED), one of Academy's most vibrant divisions, invites submissions for Professional Development Workshops (PDWs) at the 2011 Annual Meeting in San Antonio, Texas. PDW sessions will be held between 8:00am Friday, August 12th, and 8:00pm, Saturday, August 13th.
The primary goal of MED is to encourage and nurture professional scholarship in management education across all AOM divisions. We are committed to learning and development that is durable and helps organizations serve society and their multiple stakeholders. In the past years, MED emerged as one of the leading AOM divisions in offering top-quality workshops for all Academy members. We want to build on this proud tradition and for our 2011 PDW program, we seek proposals for creative and innovative sessions (and, yes, we mean it!) in which participants can work together to enrich their teaching and research skills and to advance learning in management education. In particular, we encourage proposals that:
- Explicitly include and encourage participants' interaction in the workshop
- Take an interdisciplinary approach
- Include non-US based and cross-national themes and participants
- Include practitioners, as well as academics
Formats for PDWs are wide and flexible and include (but not limited to!) workshops, town hall meetings, debates, tutorials, panels, tours, roundtable discussions, case studies, tutorials and workout sessions. MED is equally committed to providing developmental opportunities for doctoral students, junior faculty as well as for highly experienced scholars and senior faculty. Therefore, we encourage proposals from members of all AOM divisions that relate to the Theme of Advancing Management Teaching & Learning with a special focus on the 2011 Conference Theme.
CONFERENCE THEME: WEST MEETS EAST: Enlightening. Balancing. Transcending.
The conference theme - West meets East - provides a unique opportunity for exploring how different management, work and scholarly traditions play themselves out in Management Education & Learning. Some examples for topics to address in PDW sessions are:
- The impact of globalization and, specifically, migration, on content, form and range of management education programs;
- How do different cultural values and traditions express themselves in the approach to management teaching and learning?
- What are the effects of different educational, economic and societal mechanisms on management education in different countries?
- What challenges and implications are involved in adopting existing prevalent management education curricula and methods (e.g., case studies) to a multicultural audience of learners?
ADVANCING TEACHING & LEARNING THEME
In this theme we are interested in proposals that integrate or cross management disciplines. Examples for topics that may be addressed include:
- Scholarship on Teaching/Learning - encourages an agenda of inquiry related to teaching/learning and asking questions that create knowledge to advance the practice of management education
- Effective Teaching – focuses on the development of the whole teacher including her/his educational philosophy and teaching competency
- Learning Assessments – provides a forum to discuss both the approach and issues/concerns related to the assessment of student learning such as assessment systems, portfolio assessment, and faculty engagement.
- Learning Styles – examines learning styles of individuals and how they affect learners' ability to process and comprehend various presentation modalities of management education
- Teaching Strategies and Techniques – includes efforts especially designed to advancing the conversation on internships, service learning, simulations, project-based learning, online learning, and experiential learning
Submissions: All proposals will be considered for their potential to interest, excite and engage. PDW submissions should be made through the Academy's website: http://submissions.aomonline.org/2011. The deadline for submissions is Tuesday, January 11, 2011, at 5pm EST.
Warm wishes,
Jacob
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Jacob Eisenberg, Ph.D.
2010-11 PDW Chair, MED Division, Academy of Management
UCD Graduate School of Business,
University College Dublin,
Belfield, Dublin 4,
Ireland
Tel: +353-1-716 4774
Fax: +353-1-716 4762
Email: medaom@ucd.ie
http://www.ucd.ie/management/jacob-eisenberg.htm
http://division.aomonline.org/med/