2015 MED Division Professional Development Workshops (PDW): Call for
Proposals
Please DO NOT wait for the deadline (Jan. 13, 2015 at 5pm ET or NY time) to
contact me with questions about PDWs for Vancouver in August. The
Submission System is opening in early November!!
We, the Management Education & Development division (MED), invite you to
submit Professional Development Workshops (PDWs) that are interactive,
inclusive, innovative, energizing, and will help participants become more
proficient educators, developers, and scholars of management.
We welcome your proposals with provocative ideas, interaction with
participants (who will appreciate the opportunity to be more than mere
attendants), tools, techniques, concepts and new perspectives that will help
members become more effective facilitators and evidence-based researchers of
our discipline. We are interested as well in linking research, learning and
teaching processes in ways that make assessment of our work easier, its
improvements more apparent, and overall, our membership better able to cope
with an ever challenging environment. We are not looking for sessions that
mostly show slide presentations.
Content
The MED division is the place for development and research in management
education (academic) and leadership/management development (non-credit
instruction). We also support the practice of management education and
development by fostering the skills in our membership through workshops that
improve learning and teaching through participation and engagement
strategies in all areas of business, including, but not limited to the
following:
· Novel applications of learning or teaching theories.
· Theoretical advances or empirical evidence on innovative
instructional methods.
· Ways to assess the effectiveness of management education and
development techniques.
· Advancing management education scholarship, including issues such
as methodological challenges in our field or areas ripening for research.
Scholarship of Learning or Teaching - promotes an agenda of inquiry related
to learning or teaching and asking questions that create knowledge to
advance the practice of management education.
Effective Teaching focuses on the development of the whole instructor,
including her or his educational philosophy, teaching and other relevant
competencies.
Learning Assessments provides a forum to discuss both the approaches and
issues/concerns related to the assessment of student learning such as
assessment systems, portfolio evaluation, and faculty engagement.
Learning Styles examines how individual preferences affect learners¹
ability to process and comprehend various presentation modalities of
management education and to transform their learning experience into
effective practices and behaviors.
Teaching Strategies and Techniques includes efforts especially designed to
advance the conversation on internships, service learning, simulations,
project-based learning, online learning, and experiential learning, with
particular interest on learning across cultures and environments.
MED also welcomes PDWs targeted to provide developmental opportunities for
doctoral students, junior faculty, management practitioners, experienced
scholars and senior faculty. Such sessions, in addition to the above
mentioned, may emphasize the following areas:
Executive education manages the process of identification and development
of faculty into executive education; practical approaches to developing
individuals¹ executive education capabilities; practice-based approaches to
executive education within and beyond MBA settings.
Internationalization of education provides a forum to discuss the
challenge of designing and offering international learning experience to
students and executives, the development and management of programs jointly
with schools of management in various countries.
Responsible management education- provides a forum to discuss and benchmark
various strategies and tools to support and leverage principles and
practices for enhancement of ethics, responsibility and sustainability in
management education, managing faculty careers to be impactful educators,
researchers and in our education service roles.
Effective Doctoral education focuses on methods of doctoral supervision
(including team and individual supervisory models), extracting value from
inter-school, university and regional cooperation agreements.
Accreditation processes provides a forum to discuss the process of
engaging with international education accreditation bodies such as AACSB,
EFMD, AMBA and others, embedding accreditation quality criteria into faculty
education behaviors, and exploring challenges for educators in engaging with
the accreditation process.
Conference Theme: Opening Governance <http://aom.org/annualmeeting/theme/>
MED encourages submissions that explore the 2015 conference theme. The
conference call focuses on the ways in which organizing at the highest
managerial levels creates structures and incentives that have certain
consequences. Advances in ³Big Data,² crowdsourcing, and many other emerging
technologies create emerging opportunities for transparency and stakeholder
engagement that was impossible in previous decades. These new possibilities
have management implications in urgent need of scholarly attention. Further
detail can be found in the theme description at
http://aom.org/annualmeeting/theme/; PDWs submitted to MED should more
specifically target our domain than an ³all academy² submission.
Format
We encourage a variety of formats (not lecture-intensive) that include:
workshops, town hall meetings, debates, tutorials, panels, tours, roundtable
discussions, case studies, tutorials and workout sessions. We expect PDWs to
be interactive and enable (but not necessarily demand) participants¹
interaction. We particularly encourage proposals that include cross-national
themes and/or management of trans-cultural issues in education practice;
take an interdisciplinary approach; include practitioners and their
concerns, as well as researchers and educators.
Submissions
All PDW organizers are required to submit a proposal using the PDW Proposal
Submission Website, which will be available in early November at:
http://aom.org/annualmeeting/submission/. The ³Best AOM MED Division PDW
Award² will be given to the workshop that best meets the guidelines offered
here.
Please make sure that your PDW proposal can acknowledge the requirements in
this webpage before submitting it to the AOM program system:
http://aom.org/Meetings/annualmeeting/program/Submission-Information/Submiss
ion-Process/Professional-Development-Workshop-Submission-Finalization-Checkl
ist.aspx
If you have any questions, please reply to this email or contact me at:
MED_AOM_chair_2014-19@drolivas.org.
~ Miguel
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