The Management and Organizational Behavior Teaching Society encourages authors to foster a collaborative environment where management educators can engage in dialogue about their ideas, challenges, and best practices to facilitate effective teaching and learning experiences. As in any discipline, a reflection on past successes and failures can help us better understand what could be on the horizon for future innovations in the field. Great ideas and innovation can come from educators across disciplines and experiences collaborating together. For these reasons, our vision for this conference is that participants will embrace our theme of 'Innovate & Collaborate.'
With this in mind, MOBTS invites participants to submit a proposal to the 2020 MOBTS annual conference at Purdue University Fort Wayne. We will continue our tradition of interactive and experiential sessions and encourage you to submit your proposals that share best practices in management education, encourage discussion and dialogue of relevant issues in management education, and/or facilitate effective teaching and learning. These can be in the form of interactive exercises or cases on a specific topic, round table discussion sessions that encourage dialogue about an issue in management education, or presentations of best practices in management education.
We are not asking that all proposals explicitly articulate a connection to the conference theme of Innovate & Collaborate; we simply want participants to focus on engaging in interactive dialogue that promotes effective practices in management education. However, we do encourage participants to consider submitting proposals that do purposefully address the theme of Innovate & Collaborate, which we hope will result in a track of themed sessions at the conference. For example, Innovate & Collaborate focused submissions that may include the sessions that do the following:
- Discuss multi-disciplinary projects that help student learning
- Share how learning in management education can be helped by engagement with concepts and collaborators in fields like engineering, technology, and the humanities.
- Create a forum for discussion of the impact of innovative technology in classroom and/or research collaboration
- Share how collaborations with the community and industry partners can innovate classroom approaches
- Discuss the progress made in management education over time
- Present classroom exercises that have succeeded (or failed!) due to collaborative efforts
- Generate dialogue around what classroom and pedagogical innovation is and how it has changed over time, as well as where it may be headed
- Demonstrate tools that help educators navigate predicted future classroom challenges
Again, we hope that if your submission targets the Innovate & Collaborate theme that you will let us know that you would like to be a part of the themed track. But in the end, we want you to submit the ideas, exercises, cases, activities, discussions, and forums that you are passionate about and that you think will energize others as well. Sessions should be interactive and experiential and may be 30, 60, or 90 minutes long. All submissions are blind reviewed.