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We are currently accepting submissions for OBTC 2014 to be held at Vanderbilt University, June 11-14, 2014. Highlights of the coming conference include keynote speaker Ken Bain, author of "What the best teachers do", as well as the engaging and interactive sessions our attendees look forward to every year. This conference focuses on teaching, and we welcome topics relevant to management educators. I've included the call for papers below. We have a submission template (available here: http://obts.org/template), and we seek short submissions (not full papers) about your teaching innovations, challenges, and questions. If you have topics, issues, insights, or thorny problems related to teaching that you'd like to discuss with a group of passionate and expert teachers, please submit.

The submission deadline is December 18, 2013.

I am the program chair, and I'd be happy to answer any questions about the conference. Just send me a note.

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Engaging Voices in Teaching Innovation
Conference dates: June 11-14, 2014

We invite your submissions for OBTC 2014 at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee, where we will share our voices and create new knowledge about teaching and learning.

As educators, our work is strongly related to voice – literally and metaphorically. At the most literal level we use our voices to convey knowledge in the classroom and through our writing. For students, course exercises, discussions, presentations, and assignments give opportunities to develop and refine their professional voices.

Voice is a metaphorically rich concept. We give voice to opportunities and problems in the workplace to promote dialogue about challenging issues and to encourage our students to take reflective and meaningful action. We coach our students to find and use their authentic voices as business professionals and active citizens. Across our careers we work to develop our own voices as participants in the field of management education.

Voice can be the medium for personal, professional, and social transformation: we interpret the notion of "giving voice" as a declarative creative act. What are you willing to give voice to in management education, and why? We anticipate and welcome a wide range of submissions including, but not limited to, the following areas:.

·      Using our voices to communicate ideas in an effective way

·      Developing and empowering students' voices

·      Listening to our inner voices through silence and personal reflection

·      Finding and claiming our professional voices for our own career development

·      Developing shared and inclusive voices of leadership

·      Giving voice to ethics, values, and social issues that management educators can influence

·      Disseminating our scholarly voice through management education research

·      Using technology and emerging platforms for innovative voices in educational delivery


Sessions may be 30, 60, or 90 minutes long. The OBTC is traditionally a highly interactive and experiential conference, so we encourage sessions that incorporate the audience.