"Envisioning the Future:
Creating the History "Classroom" of the 21st Century."

Call for Papers

H-Net: Humanities and Social Sciences On-Line, with the financial support of the National Endowment for the Humanities and Michigan State University, will host a conference on the use of new educational technologies in the teaching of history September 26-28, 1997, in East Lansing Michigan.

The conference will focus on the ways that new communication and computer technologies and software can be used to enhance student learning, build student skills, and increase student- faculty interaction. The conference will also explore the potential costs of using technology as a cost-cutting substitute for high quality teaching.

We are particularly interested in proposals that:

1. Envision the Future of History Education in the Information Age

2. Explore Ways to Teach a Wide Range of Historical Skills (including research methods, quantitative analysis, mapping and geographical skills, writing, and critical thinking skills) with New Tools

3. Critically Evaluate New Teaching Tools, such as WWW pages, email, distance learning, and CD-ROMs, and assess the impact of current experiments on student learning in a variety of educational settings ranging from community colleges and small liberal arts colleges to large private and public universities.

4. Predict the New Roles of the Teacher in the 21st Century Classroom and suggest ways to improve teacher training.

5. Report on innovative new software and on-line teaching resources, including interactive instructional resources and collections of primary sources, as well as multimedia authoring tools.

6. Examine how humanities faculty can cooperate with museums, historical societies and libraries.

Proposals for individual papers, demonstrations or workshops, or for complete panels, are invited.

H-Net will offer a one day workshop on using the WWW to teach History on Thursday September 25 in conjunction with this conference.

Please send proposals and inquiries to conference@h-net.msu.edu
or fax to: 517-355-8363
phone inquiries to: 517-355-9300