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<P style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify; LINE-HEIGHT: 150%; TEXT-INDENT: -18pt; MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 6pt 36pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1" class=MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle><SPAN style="LINE-HEIGHT: 150%; FONT-FAMILY: Symbol; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol"><SPAN style="mso-list: Ignore">·<SPAN style="FONT: 7pt 'Times New Roman'"> </SPAN></SPAN></SPAN><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN style="LINE-HEIGHT: 150%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 12pt">Workshop organizers</SPAN></B><SPAN style="LINE-HEIGHT: 150%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 12pt"> (incl. contact details):<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify; LINE-HEIGHT: 150%; MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 6pt 36pt; mso-add-space: auto" class=MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle><SPAN style="LINE-HEIGHT: 150%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 12pt">Prof Rembrandt Klopper (+27218514496; </SPAN><A href="mailto:rklopper@gmail.com"><SPAN style="LINE-HEIGHT: 150%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; COLOR: windowtext; FONT-SIZE: 12pt">rklopper@gmail.com</SPAN></A><SPAN style="LINE-HEIGHT: 150%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 12pt">); Prof Sam Lubbe (+27183892441; </SPAN><A href="mailto:sam.lubbe@nwu.ac.za"><SPAN style="LINE-HEIGHT: 150%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; COLOR: windowtext; FONT-SIZE: 12pt">sam.lubbe@nwu.ac.za</SPAN></A><SPAN style="LINE-HEIGHT: 150%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 12pt">); Prof Jan Meyer (+27183892095; </SPAN><A href="mailto:jan.meyer@nwu.ac.za"><SPAN style="LINE-HEIGHT: 150%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; COLOR: windowtext; FONT-SIZE: 12pt">jan.meyer@nwu.ac.za</SPAN></A><SPAN style="LINE-HEIGHT: 150%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 12pt">); Prof Nehemiah Mavetera (+27183892143; </SPAN><A href="mailto:Nehemiah.mavetera@nwu.ac.za"><SPAN style="LINE-HEIGHT: 150%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; COLOR: windowtext; FONT-SIZE: 12pt">Nehemiah.mavetera@nwu.ac.za</SPAN></A><SPAN style="LINE-HEIGHT: 150%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 12pt">) <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify; LINE-HEIGHT: 150%; TEXT-INDENT: -18pt; MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 6pt 36pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1" class=MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle><SPAN style="LINE-HEIGHT: 150%; FONT-FAMILY: Symbol; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol"><SPAN style="mso-list: Ignore">·<SPAN style="FONT: 7pt 'Times New Roman'"> </SPAN></SPAN></SPAN><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN style="LINE-HEIGHT: 150%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 12pt">Theme of the workshop:</SPAN></B><SPAN style="LINE-HEIGHT: 150%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 12pt"> The workshop will outline the current input of IT/IS to the reconfiguration of tertiary education worldwide.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify; LINE-HEIGHT: 150%; TEXT-INDENT: -18pt; MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 6pt 36pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1" class=MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle><SPAN style="LINE-HEIGHT: 150%; FONT-FAMILY: Symbol; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol"><SPAN style="mso-list: Ignore">·<SPAN style="FONT: 7pt 'Times New Roman'"> </SPAN></SPAN></SPAN><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN style="LINE-HEIGHT: 150%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 12pt">Format of the workshop (incl. duration):</SPAN></B><SPAN style="LINE-HEIGHT: 150%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 12pt"> One day, presenting papers by contributors that fit within the theme of the workshop. A panel discussion to be held at the end.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify; LINE-HEIGHT: 150%; TEXT-INDENT: -18pt; MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 6pt 36pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1" class=MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle><SPAN style="LINE-HEIGHT: 150%; FONT-FAMILY: Symbol; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol"><SPAN style="mso-list: Ignore">·<SPAN style="FONT: 7pt 'Times New Roman'"> </SPAN></SPAN></SPAN><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN style="LINE-HEIGHT: 150%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 12pt">Justification for being ECIS pre-conference workshop (suitability to ECIS audience):</SPAN></B><SPAN style="LINE-HEIGHT: 150%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify; LINE-HEIGHT: 150%; MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 6pt 36pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-layout-grid-align: none" class=MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle><SPAN style="LINE-HEIGHT: 150%; FONT-FAMILY: 'AdvPS8E16','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: AdvPS8E16">Current bricks-and-mortar universities are increasingly affected by emerging and converging forms of disruptive innovative technology like:<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify; LINE-HEIGHT: 150%; TEXT-INDENT: -18pt; MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 6pt 72pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo2; mso-layout-grid-align: none" class=MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle><SPAN style="LINE-HEIGHT: 150%; FONT-FAMILY: Wingdings; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Wingdings; mso-bidi-font-family: Wingdings"><SPAN style="mso-list: Ignore">Ø<SPAN style="FONT: 7pt 'Times New Roman'"> </SPAN></SPAN></SPAN><SPAN style="LINE-HEIGHT: 150%; FONT-FAMILY: 'AdvPS8E16','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: AdvPS8E16">simulation;<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify; LINE-HEIGHT: 150%; TEXT-INDENT: -18pt; MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 6pt 72pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo2; mso-layout-grid-align: none" class=MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle><SPAN style="LINE-HEIGHT: 150%; FONT-FAMILY: Wingdings; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Wingdings; mso-bidi-font-family: Wingdings"><SPAN style="mso-list: Ignore">Ø<SPAN style="FONT: 7pt 'Times New Roman'"> </SPAN></SPAN></SPAN><SPAN style="LINE-HEIGHT: 150%; FONT-FAMILY: 'AdvPS8E16','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: AdvPS8E16">nanotechnology;<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify; LINE-HEIGHT: 150%; TEXT-INDENT: -18pt; MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 6pt 72pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo2; mso-layout-grid-align: none" class=MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle><SPAN style="LINE-HEIGHT: 150%; FONT-FAMILY: Wingdings; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Wingdings; mso-bidi-font-family: Wingdings"><SPAN style="mso-list: Ignore">Ø<SPAN style="FONT: 7pt 'Times New Roman'"> </SPAN></SPAN></SPAN><SPAN style="LINE-HEIGHT: 150%; FONT-FAMILY: 'AdvPS8E16','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: AdvPS8E16">games technology;<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify; LINE-HEIGHT: 150%; TEXT-INDENT: -18pt; MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 6pt 72pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo2; mso-layout-grid-align: none" class=MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle><SPAN style="LINE-HEIGHT: 150%; FONT-FAMILY: Wingdings; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Wingdings; mso-bidi-font-family: Wingdings"><SPAN style="mso-list: Ignore">Ø<SPAN style="FONT: 7pt 'Times New Roman'"> </SPAN></SPAN></SPAN><SPAN style="LINE-HEIGHT: 150%; FONT-FAMILY: 'AdvPS8E16','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: AdvPS8E16">tele-presence;<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify; LINE-HEIGHT: 150%; TEXT-INDENT: -18pt; MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 6pt 72pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo2; mso-layout-grid-align: none" class=MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle><SPAN style="LINE-HEIGHT: 150%; FONT-FAMILY: Wingdings; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Wingdings; mso-bidi-font-family: Wingdings"><SPAN style="mso-list: Ignore">Ø<SPAN style="FONT: 7pt 'Times New Roman'"> </SPAN></SPAN></SPAN><SPAN style="LINE-HEIGHT: 150%; FONT-FAMILY: 'AdvPS8E16','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: AdvPS8E16">tele-immersion (geographically separated sites collaborating in real time);<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify; LINE-HEIGHT: 150%; TEXT-INDENT: -18pt; MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 6pt 72pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo2; mso-layout-grid-align: none" class=MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle><SPAN style="LINE-HEIGHT: 150%; FONT-FAMILY: Wingdings; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Wingdings; mso-bidi-font-family: Wingdings"><SPAN style="mso-list: Ignore">Ø<SPAN style="FONT: 7pt 'Times New Roman'"> </SPAN></SPAN></SPAN><SPAN style="LINE-HEIGHT: 150%; FONT-FAMILY: 'AdvPS8E16','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: AdvPS8E16">e-mail – this has already altered faculty/student interactions; and<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify; LINE-HEIGHT: 150%; TEXT-INDENT: -18pt; MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 6pt 72pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo2; mso-layout-grid-align: none" class=MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle><SPAN style="LINE-HEIGHT: 150%; FONT-FAMILY: Wingdings; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Wingdings; mso-bidi-font-family: Wingdings"><SPAN style="mso-list: Ignore">Ø<SPAN style="FONT: 7pt 'Times New Roman'"> </SPAN></SPAN></SPAN><SPAN style="LINE-HEIGHT: 150%; FONT-FAMILY: 'AdvPS8E16','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: AdvPS8E16">on-line teaching and learning systems.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify; LINE-HEIGHT: 150%; MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 6pt 36pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-layout-grid-align: none" class=MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle><SPAN style="LINE-HEIGHT: 150%; FONT-FAMILY: 'AdvPS8E16','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: AdvPS8E16">Lafferty and Edwards (2004) argue that digital technology will transform the intellectual activities of research universities, and how they are organised, financed and governed. The technology could drive a convergence of higher education with IT-intensive sectors such as publishing, telecommunications and entertainment, creating a global “knowledge and learning” industry. <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify; LINE-HEIGHT: 150%; MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 6pt 36pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-layout-grid-align: none" class=MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle><SPAN style="LINE-HEIGHT: 150%; FONT-FAMILY: 'AdvPS8E16','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: AdvPS8E16">Christensen’s Theory of Disruptive Technologies predicts that mainstream organisations and industries can be made obsolete by new technologies that change the whole paradigm of the educational industries in which they operate. Mainstream organisations such as universities respond to the demands of current customers, especially their top end students by upgrading their technology. While this may be required or desired by top end students, it is often to a level considerably above that required by the average student. Often the newcomers end up with even bigger markets than the original companies. At this stage, the newcomers become mainstream and the cycle starts again (Lafferty and Edwards 2004).<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify; LINE-HEIGHT: 150%; MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 6pt 36pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-layout-grid-align: none" class=MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle><SPAN style="LINE-HEIGHT: 150%; FONT-FAMILY: 'AdvPS8E16','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: AdvPS8E16">Several alternate models are appearing, although which disruptive approaches will become the successful ones is not yet clear and we need to address this. Some models for the virtual university include the following:<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify; LINE-HEIGHT: 150%; MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 6pt 36pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-layout-grid-align: none" class=MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle><SPAN style="LINE-HEIGHT: 150%; FONT-FAMILY: 'AdvPS8E16','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: AdvPS8E16">- Michigan Virtual University – a broker of educational products from a variety of institutions;<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify; LINE-HEIGHT: 150%; MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 6pt 36pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-layout-grid-align: none" class=MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle><SPAN style="LINE-HEIGHT: 150%; FONT-FAMILY: 'AdvPS8E16','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: AdvPS8E16">- University of Phoenix – offering a complete array of university offerings, without the physical overheads; and companies creating online universities and selectively outsourcing the various components.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify; LINE-HEIGHT: 150%; MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 6pt 36pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-layout-grid-align: none" class=MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle><SPAN style="LINE-HEIGHT: 150%; FONT-FAMILY: 'AdvPS8E16','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: AdvPS8E16">Moore (2002, p. 44) puts forward some current models of collegiality, the cornerstone of universities, based on open-source models and a sharing of knowledge and information:<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify; LINE-HEIGHT: 150%; MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 6pt 36pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-layout-grid-align: none" class=MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle><SPAN style="LINE-HEIGHT: 150%; FONT-FAMILY: 'AdvPS8E16','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: AdvPS8E16">- Knowledgeware. MIT/Stanford collaboration on Open Knowledge initiative (http://web.mit.edu/oki/) aimed at developing a learning management system and providing “Web-based tools for storing, retrieving and disseminating educational resources and activities”. <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify; LINE-HEIGHT: 150%; MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 6pt 36pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-layout-grid-align: none" class=MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle><SPAN style="LINE-HEIGHT: 150%; FONT-FAMILY: 'AdvPS8E16','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: AdvPS8E16">- Courseware. MIT’s OpenCourseWare – instructional materials available free on the Web (http://web.mit.edu/ocw/) and<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify; LINE-HEIGHT: 150%; MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 6pt 36pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-layout-grid-align: none" class=MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle><SPAN style="LINE-HEIGHT: 150%; FONT-FAMILY: 'AdvPS8E16','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: AdvPS8E16">- MERLOT (www.merlot.org/home.po) Web available “knowledge objects” that have been evaluated for quality.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify; LINE-HEIGHT: 150%; MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 6pt 36pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-layout-grid-align: none" class=MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle><SPAN style="LINE-HEIGHT: 150%; FONT-FAMILY: 'AdvPS8E16','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: AdvPS8E16">What this workshop intends to do so to discuss how technology can create a modality of research. In addition to observation, theory and experimentation, we can now add simulation, nano-technology, game theory, etc.. Researchers can use virtual reality simulation of remote archaeological sites and materials, scientists analyse massive distributed datasets. New organisations, “collaboratories” (dispersed networks of researchers and laboratories) may have already been created – supporting the claim that new organisational structures will develop. Scholarship in general is moving from the individual, specialist scholar to multidisciplinary teams of scholars.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify; LINE-HEIGHT: 150%; MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 6pt 36pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-layout-grid-align: none" class=MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle><SPAN style="LINE-HEIGHT: 150%; FONT-FAMILY: 'AdvPS8E16','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: AdvPS8E16">Sources:<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="LINE-HEIGHT: 150%; MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 6pt 36pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-layout-grid-align: none" class=MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle><SPAN style="LINE-HEIGHT: 150%; FONT-FAMILY: 'AdvPS8E16','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: AdvPS8E16">Lafferty S and Edwards J: Disruptive technologies: what future universities and their libraries? Library Management, Volume 25 · Number 6-7 · 2004 · pp. 252-258<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="LINE-HEIGHT: 150%; MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 6pt 36pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-layout-grid-align: none" class=MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle><SPAN style="LINE-HEIGHT: 150%; FONT-FAMILY: 'AdvPS8E16','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-family: AdvPS8E16">Moore, A.H. (2002), “Lens on the future: open-source learning”, Educause Review, Vol. 37 No. 5, pp. 42-51.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify; LINE-HEIGHT: 150%; MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 6pt 36pt; mso-add-space: auto" class=MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle><SPAN style="LINE-HEIGHT: 150%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify; LINE-HEIGHT: 150%; TEXT-INDENT: -18pt; MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 6pt 36pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1" class=MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle><SPAN style="LINE-HEIGHT: 150%; FONT-FAMILY: Symbol; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol"><SPAN style="mso-list: Ignore">·<SPAN style="FONT: 7pt 'Times New Roman'"> </SPAN></SPAN></SPAN><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN style="LINE-HEIGHT: 150%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 12pt">Names of the program committee (initial list):<o:p></o:p></SPAN></B></P>
<P style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify; LINE-HEIGHT: 150%; MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 6pt 36pt; mso-add-space: auto" class=MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle><SPAN style="LINE-HEIGHT: 150%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 12pt">Rembrandt Klopper (Chair); other members: Sam Lubbe, Jan Meyer, Nehemiah Mavetera, Jan Kroeze, Frans Mosetja.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify; LINE-HEIGHT: 150%; MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 6pt 36pt; mso-add-space: auto" class=MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle><SPAN style="LINE-HEIGHT: 150%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><BR>• <B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">Plan for proceedings and publications/journal special issue</B>: A special edition of Alternation (an inter-disciplinary scholarly journal on the Department of Education’s list in SA) may be published on the theme of disruptive innovation in global higher education after the papers had been reviewed and formatted in the correct format and pages fees had been paid.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify; LINE-HEIGHT: 150%; MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 6pt 36pt; mso-add-space: auto" class=MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle><SPAN style="LINE-HEIGHT: 150%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 12pt">• <B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">Target audience and Expected attendance</B> (historical data may help here): All academics that plan to stay in academia for a while<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify; LINE-HEIGHT: 150%; MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 6pt 36pt; mso-add-space: auto" class=MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle><SPAN style="LINE-HEIGHT: 150%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 12pt">• Planned acceptance rate: All papers that meet the ECIS and Alternation requirements (for Alternation see alternation.ukzn.ac.za) subject to special workshop limitations.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify; LINE-HEIGHT: 150%; MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 6pt 36pt; mso-add-space: auto" class=MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle><SPAN style="LINE-HEIGHT: 150%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 12pt">• <B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">Schedule for the workshop (deadlines etc.)</B>: <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify; LINE-HEIGHT: 150%; MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 6pt 36pt; mso-add-space: auto" class=MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle><SPAN style="LINE-HEIGHT: 150%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 12pt">Call for proposals for papers: 1 December 2014<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify; LINE-HEIGHT: 150%; MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 6pt 36pt; mso-add-space: auto" class=MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle><SPAN style="LINE-HEIGHT: 150%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 12pt">Notification of acceptance: 15 January 2014<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify; LINE-HEIGHT: 150%; MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 6pt 36pt; mso-add-space: auto" class=MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle><SPAN style="LINE-HEIGHT: 150%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 12pt">Final papers due: 30 April 2014<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify; LINE-HEIGHT: 150%; MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 6pt 36pt; mso-add-space: auto" class=MsoListParagraphCxSpLast><SPAN style="LINE-HEIGHT: 150%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 12pt">• <B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">Special equipment needed (assume projector and screen + flipcharts will be available)</B>: Nothing special</SPAN></P><SPAN style="LINE-HEIGHT: 150%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><o:p>
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