Future Expertise in Higher Education

Competence and expertise capital needed for societies to survive, develop and succeed are created by networks involving higher education institutions. In order to educate the future experts as key ‘building blocks’ of our societies, higher education institutions need to continuously develop their operations to match the requirements of the working life, industries and society. Therefore it is of great importance to foresight the future in order to be able to define the competencies needed in the future working life.

From these perspectives and expectations challenges arise for the curricula, teaching and learning methods, R&D&I activities and developing networked expertise. How should we develop students’ competencies and expertise in higher education, and how to define and measure the learning outcomes?

The Learning by Developing - New Ways to Learn 2010 conference aims to present, discuss, benchmark and develop future expertise in higher education. The conference has four tracks: Competence Development, Assessment of Learning Outcomes, Multicultural Expertise and Student-Centric R&D&I. Submissions of paper and poster presentations, and workshops are invited.

The conference is held on April 22nd - 23rd, 2010 at Laurea's Leppävaara unit in Espoo.

Researchers, developers, leaders, lecturers, students and other representatives of cooperation partners from higher education institutions, private and public sector are warmly welcomed to participate. Registration to the conference is now available online.

Feedback from the 2009 Learning by Developing - New Ways to Learn conference was taken into account in the planning of 2010 conference. For example workshops and paper sessions are held separately and a pre-conference is arranged to accommodate  longer visits, mobility programmes and R&D cooperation meetings. The popular cultural post-conference programme will also be arranged. Please see the preliminary programme.

The pre-conference is held on April 20th - 21st, 2010 at Laurea's Tikkurila unit in Vantaa.

The Pre-conference is organized with the overlaying theme of responsibility; especially related to health issues, e-business and use of ICT in tourism. Programme includes lectures, site visits, meetings and workshops on international R&D cooperation. The pre-conference, together with the main conference, is an excellent opportunity for a week-long Erasmus staff and teacher exchanges.

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