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Scope
This International Conference on Higher Education Advances (HEAd’16) is an excellent forum for researchers and practitioners to exchange ideas, experiences, opinions and research results relating to the preparation of students, teaching/learning methodologies and the organization of educational systems.

The HEAd’16 conference will be held on June 21-23, 2016 at the Faculty of Business Administration and Management of the Universitat Politecnica de Valencia (UPV), which has been recently ranked as the best technical university in Spain by the Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU) 2015.

Topics of interest
The program committee encourages the submission of articles that communicate applied and empirical findings of interest to higher education professionals.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following topic areas:

  • Evaluation and assessment of student learning.
  • Educational technology (e.g., virtual labs, e-learning).
  • Learning for employment.
  • Experiences outside the classroom (e.g., practicums, mobility).
  • Innovative materials and new tools for teaching.
  • Emerging technologies in learning (e.g., MOOC, OER, gamification).
  • Educational strategies.
  • Competency-based learning and skill assessment.
  • Globalization in education and education reforms.
  • Teaching and learning experiences.
  • Education accreditation, quality and assessment.
  • New teaching/learning theories and models.



Important Dates
Submission deadline: January 29, 2016
Author notification: March 30, 2016
Camera ready due: April 19, 2016
Conference dates: June 21-23, 2016

Publications
All accepted papers will appear in the conference proceedings with a DOI and ISBN number, and indexed in major international bibliographic databases. Full papers will be included in a special issue of "Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences", which is an Elsevier's journal indexed in Scopus. Short papers will be included in a proceedings volume that will be published by UPV Press.

Submission guidelines
Authors from all over the world are invited to submit original and unpublished papers, which are not under review in any other conference or journal. All papers will be peer reviewed by the program committee based on their originality, significance, methodological soundness, and clarity of exposition.

Submitted papers must be written in English and should be in PDF format. They must follow the instructions in the template file, available in Microsoft Word format


Paper length must be between 4 and 8 pages, incorporating all text, references, figures and tables. Submissions imply the willingness of at least one author to register, attend the conference, and present the paper.

HEAd’16 is using the OCS platform of UPV Press to manage the submissions. This platform provides you with a submissions homepage where you can register your paper submission and make appropriate changes. The submission website


About the venue
Valencia is the third largest city in Spain and is located on the shore of the Mediterranean Sea. It embraces culture and tradition from the past combined with singular architecture, exciting gastronomy, nightlife, and beautiful white sand beaches. Valencia is the capital city of the Comunitat Valenciana region, which is major tourist destination in summer. More info

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