Call for Chapter Proposals: Higher Education, Emerging Technologies, and Community Partnerships

Proposal Submission Deadline: December 30, 2009
Full Chapter Submission Deadline: February 28, 2010

A book edited by Melody Bowdon, PhD (Associate Professor, Department of English, University of Central Florida) and Russell Carpenter, PhD (Director, Noel Studio for Academic Creativity, Eastern Kentucky University)
To be published by IGI Global
For more on the publisher and to review the full call online, go to:
www.igi-global.com/requests/details.asp?ID=714

Seeking manuscripts that document and assess partnerships between institutions of higher education and K‐12 schools, nonprofit organizations, government agencies, and corporations that have been made successful (or even unsuccessful in interesting ways) in part through the use of emerging and evolving digital technologies. Topics or sites might include service-learning; internships; volunteer programs; cooperative education; distance‐learning; continuing education; professional schools such as law, medicine, education, and nursing; community development programs including alumni relations and fundraising; and/or sponsored research. Technologies might include social networking, webconferencing, mobile devices, virtual environments such as SecondLife, course management systems, and/or Web 2.0 applications.