We invite you to inform the IT community about the current conditions of our research, practice and educational efforts by contributing abstracts and papers to SIGITE 2009, hosted by George Mason University in Fairfax, VA. The conference will be held October 22-24, 2009.
We encourage you to propose abstracts with the following kinds of focus:
Practical Focus: A paper that describes innovative or exemplary IT practices in the community, workplace, or educational setting. This may take the form of case studies, narratives, demonstrations or technical reports. The outcomes of practice may be improved frameworks, concepts, understandings or structures, such as enhanced capacity through the development of skills, knowledge and operational effectiveness. This kind of work may involve putting theory and research into practice.
Research Focus: A paper reporting upon original research, based on the systematic collection and analysis of data or facts. This kind of work may involve the application or testing of theory.
Theory Focus: A paper that is broad and generalizing in its emphasis, reflecting upon and systematically referenced against one or more bodies of literature or systems of thought.
Specifically, we are seeking abstracts that address one of the following areas:
· Pedagogy for the IT Pillars:
o Networking (e.g., wired, wireless, security, laboratory)
o Programming
o HCI
o Web Systems
o Information Management
o Systems Integration
· The Capstone Experience
· Online IT Education
· IT Graduate Education
· IT Program Development and Management
· Novel Research and Scholarship in IT
· Community Outreach through Service Learning, Educational Program
· Collaboration, and Academic/Industry Collaboration
· Global IT
· Assessment and Evaluation
· IT Accreditation
Abstracts will be peer-reviewed with the intention of encouraging or discouraging full paper submissions. If encouraged, you will received instructions for uploading your full paper, which will undergo peer-review, resulting in acceptance, request for revision, suggestion for poster presentation or rejection. The comprehensive timeframe for the conference’s technical paper program is as follows:
Deadline for Abstract submission: March 15, 2009
Notification of Abstract review results: May 13, 2009
Deadline for full paper submission: July 5, 2009
Notification of Full Paper review results: July 25, 2009
Deadline for camera ready copy: August 15, 2009
Abstract review is now complete. You should have received an email if your abstract was accepted and you can move forward with writing a paper.
If no notification has been received please check with Ken at
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. Only a few of the abstracts were not accepted and we encourage those folks to create a poster for this years conference. The poster notifications have not been sent out yet due to a problem with the system.
The link for paper submission is:
We look forward to seeing some excellent papers to review come July and meeting you at the conference!
Please don’t hesitate to contact us by email if you have any questions. We look forward to hearing from you.
Technical Paper Co-Chairs, SIGITE 2009
Ken Baker and Daniel Garrison
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