4. Higher Education

COORDINATORS

Velda McCune University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom Velda.McCune@ed.ac.uk	Keith Trigwell University of Sydney, Australia k.trigwell@usyd.edu.au

Mission Statement

SIG 4 Higher Education aims to offer the opportunity to those whose educational research interests are in learning and instruction in higher education, to hear about and exchange ideas with colleagues with similar interests. While there is considerable overlap with the many other areas of education research that are a part of the EARLI network, some aspects of the higher education context are quite different and necessitate a special interest group. These include the areas of student learning where the student is given or expected to achieve high levels of autonomy, teaching in which the curriculum and teaching approaches are determined largely by the individual teacher, and academic or educational development, which is addressed at the level of individual tertiary institutions.

Activities

We are organising a meeting for the discussion of SIG members' work in progress in association with the 7th International Scholarship of Teaching and Learning conference. The conference will take place in London on the 15th and 16th of May 2008. The SIG sessions within the conference will have a similar format to the previous SIG meeting, where several papers were discussed together in round table sessions. Details of the conference are available at: http://www.city.ac.uk/ceap/sotlconference/index.html

If you wish to participate in the SIG meeting, please register for the main conference but APPEND ‘EARLI' TO YOUR SURNAME so that the conference organisers know that you are coming to the SIG event.
Please submit abstracts for papers to be considered for the SIG round table discussion to Keith Trigwell by the 6th of March (k.trigwell@usyd.edu.au). During the conference SIG presenters will have 15 minutes to outline their work in progress to provide a basis for round table discussion.

If you also want to submit a paper to the main conference, abstracts should be submitted through the conference website and the deadline for submissions is the 13th of March