Topics for the ICEduTech Conference:

1.

Education in Context

• a.

  Education in the Network Society

• b.

  Educational Games

• c.

  Social Media in Education

• d.

  Home Schooling

• e.

  Students’ Rights

• f.

   Parents’ Rights

• g.

  Teachers’ Rights

• h.

  Student-Safe Searching

• i.

  School Violence

• j.

  Education and Tolerance for Peace

• k.

  Education in Developing Countries

2.

Education as Professional Field

• a.

  Teacher Education

• b.

  Teachers’ Professional Development

• c.

  Teachers’ Workload

• d.

  Teacher Support for Grading, Time Tabling, Grading, Learning Tools, and Online Learning Software

• e.

  Teachers’ learning in Communities of Practice

• f.

  Web-based Communities for Teacher Support

• g.

  Teachers’ Career Planning

• h.

  Legal and Financial Issues

• i.

  Conflict Resolution and Mediation

• j.

  Governance and Servant Leadership

• k.

  Educational Policies

3.

Curricular Evolution

• a.

  Problem-based Learning

• b.

  Critical Thinking Skills

• c.

  Creativity Skills

• d.

  Learning Citizenship

• e.

  Global Education

• f.

  Media Literacy / -Pedagogy

• g.

  Multicultural Education

• h.

  Alternative Assessment Methods

4.

Learner Orientation

• a.

  Student-Oriented Learning

• b.

  Peer- and Collaborative Learning

• c.

  Learning Strategies: Learn how to Learn

• d.

  Motivating Students

• e.

  Recognizing Students’ Learning Styles

• f.

  Special Education

5.

Integrating Educational Technologies

• a.

  Social Media and Social Networking

• b.

  The Semantic Web

• c.

  Podcasting for Broadcasting Video Lectures

• d.

  Podcasting feedback to students

• e.

  Wiki and blogs in Higher Education

• f.

  Mobile, Virtual and Vicarious Learning

• g.

  Simulations and Modeling

6.

International Higher Education

• a.

  Marketing Higher Education as a Business Case

• b.

  Pitfalls and Solutions in Joint and Double Degree Programs

• c.

  Enculturation and International Teacher Accreditation

• d.

  Web-based, Mobile, Virtual Presence and Social Media to Overcome Student Mobility

• e.

  Blended Learning and Student Assessment at a Distance

• f.

  Student Mobility and Distance Education

• g.

  New-Emerging Standards and Benchmarks for Higher Education

• h.

  Education, Research, Exchange an Capacity Building

• i.

  21st Century Academic and Industrial Brain Exchange

• j.

  Academic Salaries, Faculty Contracts, Residence Permits and Legal Issues

• k.

  International Student Exchange Funding Programs: Erasmus Mundus, the Council on International Educational Student Exchange, and the Euro-American “Atlantis” program

• l.

  Networks for International Higher Education in the Pacific, Australia, Europe, Asian and European countries

• m.

  Higher Education, Cultural Diversity, Tolerance and Political Conflict