[Air-L] HIGHER EDUCATION, EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES, AND COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIPS
Carpenter, Russell
Russell.Carpenter at EKU.EDU
Tue Dec 1 18:18:47 PST 2009
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CALL FOR CHAPTER PROPOSALS
HIGHER EDUCATION, EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES, AND COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIPS:
CONCEPTS, MODELS, AND APPLICATIONS
A book edited by Melody Bowdon, PhD (Associate Professor, Department
of English, University of Central Florida) and Russell Carpenter, PhD
(Director, Noel Studio for Academic Creativity, Eastern Kentucky
University)
To be published by IGI Global
For more on the publisher and to review the full call online, go to:
[1]http://www.igi-global.com/requests/details.asp?ID=714
Proposal Submission Deadline: December 30, 2009
Full Chapter Submission Deadline: February 28, 2010
THE CALL
We seek manuscripts that document and assess partnerships between
institutions of higher education and K$B!>(B12 schools,
nonprofit organizations, government agencies, and corporations that
have been made successful (or even unsuccessful in
interesting ways) in part through the use of emerging and evolving
digital technologies. Topics or sites might include
service$B!>(Blearning; internships; volunteer programs; cooperative
education; distance$B!>(Blearning; continuing education;
professional schools such as law, medicine, education, and nursing;
community development programs including alumni
relations and fundraising; and/or sponsored research. Technologies
might include social networking, webconferencing,
mobile devices, virtual environments such as SecondLife, course
management systems, and/or Web 2.0 applications.
THE CONTEXT
The early boom of web$B!>(Bbased education in the 1990s, both in the
United
States and abroad (e.g., in Australia and the UK),
saw a flurry of publications on the subject of university and industry
partnerships, with a focus on ways in which online
learning might lead to new models of collaboration and engagement
across previously clearly delineated borders. We will
posit in this volume that this late 1990$B!G(Bs opportunity to make
connections between industry and academia through emerging
educational technologies was, on a broad scale, missed by all sides.
Ten years later, as we approach the end of the first
decade of the 21st century, we see a similar moment of opportunity for
collaboration. As organizations of all types struggle to
survive in increasingly difficult economic times, stakeholders have a
chance to use emerging technologies to support
innovative and mutually intellectually, economically, and socially
beneficial collaborations among academic institutions of all
levels and non$B!>(Bprofit and profit$B!>(Bdriven organizations of all
sizes.
THE SPECIFICS
Because innovative models for collaboration, new visions of
relationships between and among organizations, and redrawing
or even erasing established boundaries are crucial moves for our
project, we invite writers from all disciplines and fields who
incorporate community partnerships in their research, teaching,
service, and other missions to consider submitting proposals
for case studies (3000$B!>(B5000 words) or traditional academic
articles
(7000$B!>(B10,000 words).
We are interested in:
$B!|(B Case studies of effective partnerships between/among higher
education institutions, K$B!>(B12 schools, nonprofit
organizations, and corporations. This could include narratives,
assessment summaries, best practices, and so on.
$B!|(B Articles that offer engaging definitions of key terms of
relevance
to this project and that thereby provide insights
about how we might form better collective questions for the future
$B!|(B Skeptical perspectives on these ideas$B!>!>(Barticles from
colleagues who
believe that technology does not hold the
answers or that technology might be creating new problems or
complexities in community partnerships
$B!|(B Practical descriptions of potentially replicable models that
will
help readers understand in detail how the author/s
made a program or approach work
$B!|(B Collaborative essays representing multiple stakeholder
perspectives
that include the voices of community partners
(cor
porate, government, or nonprofit) and the people they serve, as
well as students, staff members, researchers,
faculty, administrators, and other entities involved in these
collaborations
$B!|(B Technical, pedagogical, ethical, political, bureaucratic,
commercial, and other perspectives
We are not looking for:
$B!|(B Articles that focus on specific how to's for using a particular
tool that might quickly be obsolete or might not have
broad application
$B!|(B Articles that focus only on a partnership or only on a
technology
and that do not address their interrelationship
$B!|(B Models that are entirely speculative$B!>!>(Bwe'd like to see
demonstration of the value of each approach through
assessment
$B!|(B Narratives about projects that include no assessment or
evaluation;
assessment can be qualitative and/or
quantitative but should focus on practices that colleagues could
consider implementing in some form
EDITORIAL ADVISORY BOARD
To support our efforts to include contributors from wide range of
fields and industries, we have recruited the following
outstanding researchers to participate in the review of manuscripts
and
offer general advice on the volume. The team
includes:
$B!|(B Dianna Baldwin, Ph.D., Associate Writing Center Director,
Michigan
State University, USA
$B!|(B Shelley Billig, Ph.D., Vice President, RMC Research Corporation,
USA
$B!|(B Mark David Milliron, Ph.D., President and CEO, Catalyze Learning
International, USA
$B!|(B Sarena Seifer, M.D., Executive Director, Community$B!>(BCampus
Partnerships for Health, USA
$B!|(B Trae Stewart, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, College of Education,
University of Central Florida, USA
SUBMISSION PROCEDURE
Researchers and practitioners are invited to submit 2$B!>(B3 page
proposals
describing the objectives and approach of each
proposed chapter. The final deadline for proposals is December 30,
2009, but the editors will begin reviewing proposals and
providing feedback immediately. Authors of accepted proposals will be
notified by January 15, 2010, and sent chapter
guidelines. Full chapters will be due on February 28, 2010. All
submitted chapters will undergo a double$B!>(Bmasked review
process. Contributors may also be invited to serve as reviewers for
the
project.
IMPORTANT DATES
December 30, 2009: Final Proposal Submission Deadline
January 15, 2010: Notification of Acceptance
February 28, 2010: Full Chapter Submission Deadline
May 15, 2010: Review Results Returned
June 15, 2010: Revised Chapters Due
July 15, 2010: Final Chapter Submission
PUBLISHER
This book is scheduled to be published by IGI Global (formerly Idea
Group Inc.), publisher of the $B!H(BInformation Science
Reference$B!I(B (formerly Idea Group Reference), $B!H(BMedical
Information
Science Reference,$B!I(B $B!H(BBusiness Science Reference,$B!I(B and
$B!H(BEngineering Science Reference$B!I(B imprints. For additional
information regarding the publisher, please visit [2]www.igiglobal.
com. This publication is anticipated to be released in early 2011.
INQUIRIES, PROPOSALS AND SUBMISSIONS CAN BE SENT ELECTRONICALLY IN MS
WORD TO:
Melody Bowdon, PhD and/or
Department of English
University of Central Florida
E$B!>(Bmail: mbowdon at mail.ucf.edu
407$B!>(B823$B!>(B6234
or
Russell Carpenter, PhD
Noel Studio for Academic Creativity
Eastern Kentucky University
E$B!>(Bmail: russell.carpenter at eku.edu
859$B!>(B622$B!>(B6229
Russell G. Carpenter, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of English
Director, Noel Studio for Academic Creativity
Eastern Kentucky University
859-622-6229
[3]http://www.studio.eku.edu/
References
1. http://www.igi-global.com/requests/details.asp?ID=714
2. http://www.igiglobal/
3. http://www.studio.eku.edu/
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