Note: poster presentations and registration

Please note:

Registration fee for non-presenting participants is AED 100, to be paid online by 4 March.  To register, please use the link below.


In order to make this symposium as focused and interactive as possible, we are taking submissions for poster presentations only.  Poster presentations should present your findings from research or exploratory practice in learning/ teaching/ assessment/ learning support in a Gulf context; in writing your abstract you could consider the list of criteria here.  For links on preparing an effective poster presentation, please click here.  The registration fee will be waived for presenters of poster presentations selected for inclusion in the symposium.

To submit an abstract for a poster presentation, first register here (selecting the "Pay later" option), then use the link in your registration confirmation email to access your personal web page, where you can submit an abstract.  The deadline for submissions is 31 January.

Looking forward to your contributions, 
Symposium Committee

Call for registration and poster presentations

Every day those teaching in Higher Education make decisions about how best to help students learn; but on what data are these decisions based?  The goal of the symposium Higher Education in the Gulf: Research insights in learning and teaching is to provide a forum for research on learning and teaching in Gulf universities and colleges, and to stimulate research in this area.

The symposium on Thursday 18 March at Zayed University, Dubai will include plenary talks and workshops by leading local and international researchers; and we also welcome submissions for poster presentations from faculty and staff in the Gulf region.

To register for the symposium, please click here. 

Plenary talks:

Threshold Concepts, Troublesome Knowledge and Disciplinary Expertise  – Prof. Patrick Carmichael, Professor of Educational Research, Liverpool John Moores University, UK.

Learning Styles of students - Dr. Tofi Rahal, Zayed University.
 
Transferable Skills for university students – Dr. Michelle McLean, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, UAE University.

Poster presentations: 

If you would like to present your research on learning/teaching in a Gulf university/college, please first register for the symposium, then log in to your personal web page on the symposium site, and click Proposal on the left-hand side.  The deadline for poster presentation proposals is 31 January, and selected presenters will be informed by 12 February.  Selected poster presentations will be eligible to be written up for a special issue of the refereed online journal Learning and Teaching in Higher Education: Gulf perspectives

  
Workshops: 

In the afternoon session, participants will opt for a workshop with one of the plenary speakers, in which they will be able to discuss how to apply insights from the morning session to their own work in a Gulf context, and how to gather their own data for possible future publication.

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Questions and comments: David "dot" Palfreyman "at" zu.ac.ae