CFP: The Future of iSchool Doctoral Education
Organizers: Allison Druin, Paul T. Jaeger, Jennifer Golbeck, and Kenneth R.
Fleischmann
Workshop Contact: please contact Ken Fleischmann (kfleisch@umd.edu) for
more information
Information schools, or iSchools, include faculty and students who conduct
research, teach, and learn within the interdisciplinary information field. Because
iSchools and their doctoral programs are emerging and rapidly evolving
boundary objects, there is a need for discussion of current and future curricular
innovations, best practices, and research directions for doctoral education in
iSchools. This workshop seeks to bring together experts from a wide range of
iSchools to discuss the future of doctoral education and how iSchools can
collaborate to create a common vision for doctoral education. This workshop
will include dinner and opening keynote talks on the evening of May 28, 2009
following the HCIL Symposium, as well as an all-day session on May 29, 2009.
This workshop will consist of invited keynotes, presentations, posters,
brainstorming activities, and discussion of how to shape the future of iSchool
doctoral education. The range of topics we hope to cover will include, but are
not limited to, the following topics:
1. Designing pedagogy, methodologies, and approaches to doctoral education
2. Facilitating the sharing of ideas among iSchool doctoral programs
3. Ensuring interdisciplinarity while simultaneously creating convergence in
the field
4. Increasing diversity among students enrolled in iSchool doctoral programs
5. Creating more outlets for scholarly discourse about iSchool doctoral
education
6. Fostering new research and collaborations about iSchool doctoral education
7. Creative funding solutions for programs
Abstracts for presentations (no more than 500 words) or posters (no more than
250 words) are invited. Abstracts should describe an innovative approach to
iSchool doctoral education that is either currently in place or which could
realistically be implemented in the future. Due to time constraints, some
presentation abstracts may be accepted as posters. Presentation and poster
abstracts will be evaluated based on the following criteria: quality, novelty, and
broad applicability.
Please submit your abstract by April 25, 2009 to Ken Fleischmann at
kfleisch@umd.edu. Please include author name, affiliation, contact information,
title, abstract, and format of presentation (presentation or poster). Authors will
be notified of acceptance by May 9, 2009.