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OBTC 2009 conference call and website

  • 1.  OBTC 2009 conference call and website

    Posted 11-13-2008 17:19
    Dear Colleagues,

    We welcome you to view the 2009 OBTC Teaching Conference for Management
    Educators Call for Proposals below or at our website at www.obtc.org The
    conference is Jun 10-13, 2009 at the College of Charleston (South Carolina)
    with the theme, "From Good Teaching to Good Learning" It is a beautiful
    city to visit and a very friendly and collegial conference that focuses on
    creativity and innovation in management education. Please think about
    submitting a proposal through the website. The early submission deadline is
    December 8, 2008.


    Sincerely,

    Joe Seltzer,
    OBTC 2009 Conference Cooridinator
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    OBTC 2009 CALL FOR PROPOSALS


    Early Submission Deadline: December 8, 2008

    Final Submission Deadline: January 12, 2009

    Proposals will be reviewed and accepted on a rolling basis


    2009 Conference Theme

    From Good Teaching to Good Learning

    OBTC is unlike many other academic conferences, with expectations for high
    degrees of interactive participation in most sessions. There is an informal
    and collegial atmosphere, with longer breaks between sessions and many
    conversations; often into the night. Most attendees stay on campus, which
    this year is in a beautiful location, within the historic district of
    Charleston. The campus blends old and new, with stately live oaks and
    palmettos, some buildings dating from the 18th century and a School of
    Business and Economics in a recently expanded building. All conference
    venues are within a 5 minute walk and feature housing and food services in
    facilities opened in fall 2007. The site coordinator is Gordon Dehler
    (dehlerg@cofc.edu)

    The conference will include several plenary talks by distinguished
    academics, a Thursday evening event at the Charleston Maritime Center (with
    Lowcountry food and entertainment and spectacular views of Charleston Harbor
    and Fort Sumter), and the traditional Friday night Talent Show and Awards
    Program. Preconference activities include the Doctoral Institute. It should
    be a great conference. We hope you can attend and also that you think about
    presenting.

    We encourage you to submit proposals for the program as described on the
    reverse, but don’t feel you have to do so in a vacuum. Please contact the
    Program Coordinator, Joe Seltzer (seltzer@lasalle.edu) to discuss ideas and
    plans, especially well before the December 8 submission date. In many cases
    he can connect you with experienced OBTC presenters to help design and
    develop your proposal.

    We will again use rolling reviews and plan to put most of the program
    together with papers submitted by the December 8, 2008 early submission
    deadline. Papers received up until the final deadline of January 12, 2009
    will be considered on a space-available basis. We hope to give notification
    of acceptances by the end of January 2009. We will run an OBTC 09 blog to
    help people interact prior to the conference and publish a proceedings CD.

    We invite you to submit proposals to one of several subthemes:

    * Sessions that encourage participants to become more reflective of
    their own learning experiences, teaching philosophy and/or teaching style
    and effectiveness.

    * Presentations that connect educational scholarship to practice

    * Opportunities to establish dialogs on student learning needs and other
    topics of likely interest to participants

    * Sessions that address the question, “how can we make learning ‘sticky’”?



    Additionally, we welcome submissions that fit a secondary theme and answer,
    “what experienced teachers can teach new faculty” and “what new faculty can
    teach experienced teachers” This leads to two more subthemes:

    * Classic and other experiential activities presented with an emphasis
    on how to use the exercise to enhance learning and how to debrief it

    * Resource presentations that provide summaries of the most significant
    things to teach about [fill in a topic of your choice]. These are designed
    to help “seasoned” teachers update course content beyond their own special
    areas of interest.

    And of course, we welcome:

    * Other sessions that vary from the above themes.


    It is the custom of OBTC for presenters to attend the whole conference, to
    allow for informal discussions of the learning sparked in the session.

    for more information and to submit your proposals, please visit www.obtc.org

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