Call for Presentation Proposals and Panel Participants: Association of Professors of Mission
The Association of Professors of Mission extends an open call for presentation proposals, panel participants, and discussion respondents for its annual meeting at Techny Towers, IL, June 14-15, 2012.
The theme of the 2012 APM Annual meeting is Missiology and the On-line Education Revolution: Best Practices and Pedagogical Possibilities.
The deadline for proposals is March 12, 2012. If you are interested in, please contact Bill Daniel, President APM at wdaniel@emory.edu. For annual meeting details, see http://www.asmweb.org/content/apm-calendar.
The following is a description of the APM Annual Meeting Theme:
Missiology and the On-line Education Revolution: Best Practices and Pedagogical Possibilities
Many APM members are facing new opportunities and pressures to teach courses through ever proliferating on-line education delivery systems. Given the economic climate and heightened institutional interests, what are the pedagogical opportunities of on-line education for our discipline? What tools does missiology as a discipline bring to the on-line education movement?
We envision presentations that ask hard questions about how our pedagogy aligns with the technological possibilities for global missiological education. What historic values and hard-won experience in our discipline will be challenged by the hidden assumptions that come with this technological shift? How might we leverage missiological knowledge gained through earlier models of distance learning, such as Theological Education by Extension, or other models presently being taught?
Questions surrounding the new media “Web 2.0”–where the consumer of education becomes the producer of knowledge—should be raised. How do these technologies empower or disadvantage our students and their communities? What might true partnership look like through this educational mode? How might we conceive on-line missiological education less as a market driven solution, and more towards creating new global sharing networks to nourish our diverse religious communities? To this end, we invite reflections upon the professional development challenges that come with on-line education: new patterns of institutional support, accreditation, faculty partnerships, and student demographics. This year’s APM meeting will examine missiological education on-line, and seek to enhance its effectiveness.