[Asis-l] CFP: The Future of iSchool Doctoral Education

[Ken Fleischmann]

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 at 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 at 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.

http://www.cs.umd.edu/hcil/soh/ischooldoc.pdf

http://www.cs.umd.edu/hcil/soh/

Kenneth R. Fleischmann, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
College of Information Studies
University of Maryland
College Park, MD 20742-4345