Themes for paper submission

• Theme 1 » Curricula: Undergraduate, (Post)Graduate, Doctoral
  The description of specific geotechnical engineering modules, courses, programs at any level is in essence a case study in education.
• Theme 2 » Coursework: Laboratory, Field, Project-based, Numerical Methods
  The description of how we organize any type of coursework is also a case study in education.
• Theme 3 » Open Resource Educational Material
  This theme deals with Transferable Educational Material or Reusable Objects (these two terms are used as synonyms) that are developed to be sharable.
• Theme 4 » Applications of ICT Tools
  Applications of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) to geotechnical engineering instruction: for papers with significant emphasis on the technology that do not qualify for Theme 3.
• Theme 5 » Links to Research on Learning and on Engineering Education
  Evidence-based instructional interventions, Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (action-based research, where professors investigate the learning in their own classrooms in a scholarly fashion), applications of learning theories to the teaching of geotechnical engineering concepts.
  

Priority themes for paper submission and panel discussion

• Priority Theme 1 » Training for Geotechnical Engineering Instructors
  • Sub-Theme A: Professional development support
    Question for panel discussion: Training only for young instructors?
  • Sub-Theme B: The role of the Engineering Education community
    Questions for panel discussion: How to attract engineering instructors? How to promote discipline-based education research (research on teaching a specific discipline)? How to augment the pedagogical content knowledge of a discipline (increase the “teachability” of a discipline)?
  • Sub-Theme C: The role of University Teaching and Learning Centers
    Question for panel discussion: How to guide and motivate young instructors to locate and augment the pedagogical knowledge of their own discipline?
    
    
  ● Priority Theme 2 » Incentives and Opportunities for Industry-Academia Collaboration
  • Sub-Theme A: Involvement of industry in curriculum development
    Question for panel discussion: How can academia better tailor the teaching of geotechnical engineering basics to the needs of the industry?
  • Sub-Theme B: Involvement of industry in the development of educational material
    Question for panel discussion: How can the industry collaborate with academia to co-produce (a) case study material suitable for undergraduate instruction and (b) geotechnical characterization data suitable for the development of course assignments and projects?
  • Sub-Theme C: Other joint educational ventures
    Question for panel discussion: Where do the learning needs in university instruction and in industry training overlap?