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Jul 30, 2010Call for Participation
The Museum Computer Network is providing NINE scholarships to attend this year's MCN Conference:
I/O: The Museum Inside-Out/Outside-In: 38th Annual MCN Conference; October 27th - 30th, 2010; Austin, Texas.
The competitive scholarship provides free conference registration, free hotel stay, and a $50 stipend to cover additional expenses. To apply, please submit the application form found at http://www.mcn.edu/mcn-2010-scholarships by August 13.
Applicants must meet ONE of the following criteria for eligibility:
1. Employed at an institution with no more than 20 permanent staff
2. First-time MCN conference attendee
3. New to the profession with less than 2 years experience in the field
See the application website for more information about the scholarship program.
Questions? Please contact Scholarship Committee chair Jana Hill at jana.hill@cartermuseum.org.
Founded in 1967, the Museum Computer Network has been serving the cultural heritage community for over 40 years. The Museum Computer Network (MCN) supports the greater museum community by providing continuing opportunities to explore, implement, and disseminate new technologies and best practices in the field.
Please pass this on to your colleagues. You can also contact Christina DePaolo, Conference Chair, with questions about the conference, at 206 654-3165 or christinad@seattleartmuseum.org.
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Jul 15, 2010Call for Participation
The National Research Council (NRC) has released a draft of the framework for the new science education standards. All educators can provide input on the framework via an online questionnaire:
Review and comment on the Draft Framework:
http://www7.nationalacademies.org/bose/Standards_Framework_Homepage.html
Background info and FAQ from NRC:
http://www7.nationalacademies.org/bose/Standards_Framework_FAQs.html
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Jul 15, 2010Call for Participation
With the Association of American Colleges and Universities (AAC&U), Project Kaleidoscope (PKAL) is sponsoring the 2011 Network for Academic Renewal Conference: Engaged STEM Learning: From Promising to Pervasive Practices, to be held in Miami, Florida, March 24-26, 2011.
The Call for Proposals deadline in August 31, 2010
The conference "will focus on faculty and institutional leadership to adapt, scale up, and sustain effective practices in STEM teaching and learning. The conference is designed for participants who wish to develop institutional capacity for systematic STEM educational reform, broaden student participation and success in STEM fields, and better assess STEM learning in both general education and STEM majors."
Proposals are invited in these five key areas:
- Expanding the STEM Pipeline through Student Success
- Creating Integrative and Interdisciplinary STEM Environments
- Assessing STEM Learning
- Enhancing STEM Learning through Technology
- Scaling Up and Sustaining Pedagogies of Engagement
See full information at the AACU call-for-proposals site.
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Jun 10, 2010Call for Participation
The National Science Foundation has released a new STEP Centers program solicitation - NSF 10-569 - the Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics Talent Expansion Program Centers. This is a new collaboration between the Directorates for Education and Human Resources (EHR) and Geociences (GEO) building on, yet independent from the existing STEP program and its solicitation (NSF-08-569).
The new solicitation enables "a group of faculty representing a cross section of institutions of higher education to identify a national challenge or opportunity in undergraduate education in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) and to propose a comprehensive and coordinated set of activities that will be carried out to address that challenge or opportunity within a national context. In the current competition, efforts must be related to the biological sciences, engineering, or the geological sciences."
Deadlines:
* Required letters of intent are due August 4, 2010
* Preliminary Proposals are due September 7, 2010
* Full Proposals (by invitation only) are due January 20, 2011
Three different STEP Centers will be funded, through collaborations between EHR and the Biological Sciences Directorate, Engineering Directorate, and GEO Directorate. Each of the STEP Centers will support activities "designed to have a national impact on increasing the number of students, including STEM majors or non-STEM majors or both, enrolling in undergraduate courses in STEM, and to improve student learning and retention in those courses, by developing, evaluating, and disseminating one or more of the following:
* Educational materials for undergraduate courses, laboratories, curricula, or other aspects of the undergraduate experience;
* Teaching methods for undergraduate courses; and/or
* Professional development to improve the capacity of faculty and teaching assistants to provide effective instruction in undergraduate courses."
See the solicitation for more information and details.
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Jun 10, 2010Call for Participation
CFP: Open Educational Resources - Special Issue of JALN
The Journal of Asynchronous Learning Networks invites submission of papers for a special issue focusing on Open Educational Resources (OERs). OERs are learning materials that are made publically available for free to be used, modified, and redistributed in original or modified form.
This special issue will explore the phenomenon of Open Educational Resources. Papers should present a research study, an analysis, or detailed case study of OERs, including data where possible. Papers might focus on the evolution, present situation, or expected future of OERs. Examples of possible topics are:
- Inhibitors and incentives to creating and using OERs
- Methods and issues in finding and using OERs successfully
- Quality control and collection management for OERs
- Implications of OERs for online education
- Intellectual property issues
- Social media and OERs
- Collaborative construction of educational materials
Submission Deadline: June 15, 2010.
To submit a paper, please review JALN guidelines and submit papers to http://jaln.sloanconsortium.org/. Greg Hislop of Drexel University and Heidi Ellis of Western New England College will serve as guest co-editors for this special issue.
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May 18, 2010Call for Participation
By popular demand, we are extending the Museum Computer Network 2010 paper proposal deadline to Wednesday, May 19. Lots of great ideas have come in already, but also several that need a bit more time to submit - so we are extending the deadline because we want them all! Visit MCN's website at http://www.mcn.edu/conferences/index.asp?subkey=2778 to contribute your papers, workshops, demos, and other proposals to MCN 2010. More details and a space for developing un-conference session ideas with museum colleagues from around the world are on the Conference Planning Wiki at http://mcn2010.pbworks.com/ Contact for additional questions: Nancy Proctor nancy@pinkink.net
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Apr 28, 2010Call for Participation
Friday, May 14, 2010.
Webinar event: Using the Conceptual Inventory in Natural Selection.
Presented by Dianne Anderson (Point Loma Nazarene University) at 2:00 pm Eastern time. Learn how to use this research-based diagnostic test and biology concept cartoons to assess your students' understanding of natural selection, inform instructional decisions, and discuss ways to use the CINS and other diagnostic instruments as in-class activities. To learn more and register, go to http://www.aibs.org/events/webinar/using-the-conceptual-inventory-in-natural-selection.html
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Apr 22, 2010Call for Participation
The 2nd ERCIM-DIS Workshop on Large Scale & Federated Information Spaces will take place on Thursday 20 May 2010 at CWI in the Netherlands. ERCIM is the European Research Consortium for Informatics and Mathematics, composed of leading research institutes from twenty European countries. CWI is Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica. Details on workshop registration, lodging, and program information can be found at http://www.cwi.nl/ercim2010
The deadline for submission of proposals for this meeting has been extended to 27 April 2010. The workshop seeks to engage participants in discussion and consensus building on future directions, and the creation of a white paper presenting current and future research trends across the ERCIM community.
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Mar 10, 2010Call for Participation
The Museum Computer Network 2010 Conference Program Committee is delighted to announce the call for proposals for MCN's upcoming conference in Austin, Texas, Oct 27-30, 2010. We'll be accepting proposals from April 5 - May 3, so start sharpening up your ideas!
This year's innovative program will include not just a great line-up of papers and panels on the theme of I/O: The Museum Inside-Out/Outside-In, but also a
"slow un-conference": Seizing the Tiger by the Longtail. If the topic or problem you most urgently need to discuss with your
peers and experts in the field is not covered by the scheduled papers
and sessions, then propose an un-conference session through this wiki
and MCN will help bring together the conference's brightest and most
experienced minds for your un-conference session.If you have any questions, please record them on the MCN conference wiki so we can answer them for all.
We look forward to hearing from you!
On behalf of the MCN 2010 Program Committee,
Nancy Proctor, Program Chair
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Mar 02, 2010Call for Participation
The Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) announces competition for the Science Prize for Online Resources in Education (SPORE). Established to encourage innovation, excellence, and use of high-quality online resources in science education. Details about the prize, Rules for Eligibility, and nominating process can be found on the AAAS web site at http://aaas.org/go/spore. Nominations must be received by 31 March 2010.