Theoretical advances or empirical evidence about effective and innovative instructional methods or technology.
Applications of learning theories.
Evaluation studies of the effectiveness of management education and development techniques.
Improving the quality of management education scholarship, including such issues as methodological challenges in our field or emergent areas ripe for research.
- 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
MED also welcomes PDWs targeted to provide developmental opportunities for doctoral students, junior faculty, experienced scholars and senior faculty. Such sessions may, in addition to the above, include a focus on the following areas:
Executive education – managing the process of identification and development of faculty into executive education; practical approaches to developing individual's executive education capabilities; and practice based approaches to executive education beyond traditional MBA settings.
Internationalization of education – provide a forum to discuss the process of teaching outside your home country; and the development and management of programs by business schools in third countries.
Managing faculty careers to be impactful educators, researchers and in our education service roles.
Effective Doctoral education – focusing on methods of doctoral supervision (including team and individual supervisory models), extracting value from inter-school, university and regional PhD cooperation agreements.
Accreditation processes – provide a forum to discuss the process of engaging with international education accreditation bodies such as AACSB, Equis, AMBA and others, embedding accreditation quality controls into faculty education behaviors, and exploring challenges for educators in engaging with the accreditation process.
Conference Theme: Capitalism in Questions
MED encourages submissions that explore the 2013 conference theme. The conference call highlights three aspects of capitalism: market competition, wage employment and limited government. How appropriate are these as assumptions upon which to design and deliver management education and how do they shape the practices of business educators? Are there educational models in practice at present that are effective in meeting the needs of business and students, but that to succeed have adapted these assumptions of capitalism. If so when and how can these help us to become better educators and what tools and techniques do we need to teach in such environments? Do current curriculum models allow for the exploration of challenges to the classical assumptions of capitalism and what does this mean for skill and career development of students, practice, educators and the business community?
Format
We encourage a variety of formats including: workshops (which are not lectures), town hall meetings, debates, tutorials, panels (not = lectures), tours, roundtable discussions, case studies, tutorials and workout sessions. We expect PDWs to be interactive and encourage participants' interaction. We particularity encourage proposals that:
Include cross-national themes and/or management of cross-cultural issues in education practice
Take an interdisciplinary approach
Include practitioners, as well as academics
Submissions
All PDW organizers are required to submit a proposal using the PDW Proposal Submission Form by Tuesday January 15, 2013 at 5:00 p.m. Eastern Standard Time. The PDW Proposal Submission Form is available at: http://submissions.aomonline.org/2013
If you have any questions, please contact Peter Mc Namara at petermed@ucd.ie