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Announcement

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Conference Update

Submission of final version of paper:In view of the ongoing ASUU strike, this conference has been postponed. New conference dates will be announced as soon as the strike is suspended. Meanwhile, intending participants should continue to send their Abstracts electronically to: icmcsmail@icmcs.org.

The quality of student learning and research experience in Nigerian universities should be continually improved by all stakeholders. University teachers, as frontline academic workers, are challenged to be continuously creative, innovative and dedicated, and to ensure that they produce graduates who are equipped with 21st century skills. The conference will enable researchers and other higher education stakeholders to showcase their completed or ongoing investigations, share lessons and participate in the discussion of new and emerging innovations concerning teaching, learning, research and mentoring in Nigerian universities.

WHO SHOULD PARTICIPATE

Serving/former Vice-Chancellors, Deputy Vice-Chancellors; University Librarian; Deans of Faculties, Postgraduate Schools and Student Affairs; Direcotrs of Research Management, Information Technology, and Quality Assurance; Student leaders; Researchers in all branches of higher education; and other stakeholders. Serving Vice-Chancellors are particularly invited to make presentations on their ongoing efforts teaching and research innovation, as well as student mentoring, in their institutions.

CALL FOR PAPERS
Papers are invited on the following conference themes and streams

TEACHING	RESEARCH
*The innovative classroom* class management; retooling the classroom with modern lesson delivery technologies; feedback mechanisms; unleashing student potentials; organized learning, transforming the academic workplace teaching an increasingly diverse student population, *Curriculum design* reforming undergraduate education, Embedding new technologies into the curriculum, developing 21st century undergraduate skills, use of open educational resources. *Attending to learning* determining and improving how students learn, Integrating social networking and communication methods into teaching and learning, improving student success, enhancing undergraduate first year student experience, student-retention-focused strategies, assessment and accountability. *Quality of teaching* improving pedagogical skills of teachers enhancing the quality of teaching teaching innovation awards evaluating what works	*Curriculum design* reforming postgraduate education, embedding of new technologies into the curriculum, training a new generation of researchers, *New technologies and methodologies in research* research capacity building of undergraduate and postgraduate students Sustainability of research innovations Sustaining research synergy through collaboration among industry, academia and policy makers *Quality of research* developing 21st century research skills, enhancing the quality of research, research innovation awards *Institutional research management issues*
	CROSS-CUTTING ISSUES
	Funding challenges Necessary attributes of graduates for the 21st century workforce preparation and development, 21st century graduate skills enhancing graduate employability in Nigeria *Gender dimensions in teaching and research* *The changing role of academic and teaching and research libraries* *Internationalization* enhancing student international experience *Mentoring undergraduate and postgraduate students* strategies and actions Staff development and retention *Emerging issues*

REGISTRATION AND SUBMISSION OF PAPERS
Click Here for registration or submission of papers. There is no registration fee.

ACCOMMODATION

The Redeemer's University (RUN) campus boasts of a variety of accommodation types which can meet the tastes of diverse participants. Details are available at:
http://www.icmcs.org/TR-innovation-conference.

Participants are responsible for defraying their accommodation expenses. For assistance with reserving your accommodation, please send an e-mail to: icmcsmail@icmcs.org

CONFERENCE HOSPITALITY

The conference will provide participants with free tea/coffee, snacks and lunches throughout the two days of the conference.

CORRESPONDENCE

All enquiries about the conference should be sent electronically to the undersigned.

PROFESSOR G.O.S. EKHAGUERE, Conference Director, INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR MATHEMATICAL AND COMPUTER SCIENCES, LAGOS Tel: 08051949226/08088162650, E-mail: icmcsmail@icmcs.org

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Submission of final version of paper:In view of the ongoing ASUU strike, this conference has been postponed. New conference dates will be announced as soon as the strike is suspended. Meanwhile, intending participants should continue to send their Abstracts electronically to: icmcsmail@icmcs.org.