The meeting began with a
special dinner of the WACRA® Executive and Advisory Boards in Vienna,
Austria.
For more details on conference activities refer to dedicated contributions in this NEWSletter. We also invite you to visit the extensive photo gallery of the Budapest (and Lucern ACT3) conferences. The photo galleries can be accessed through the WACRA® web site www.wacra.org Photographs submitted by delegates capture the academic seriousness of the conference, the warm welcome and superb support Central University Conference Center staff and students provided, the cultural richness and beauty of Hungary, the hospitality of its people and the ‘joie de vivre’ of WACRA® delegates.
Pre-conference activities
began in Munich, Germany with a guided city tour and visit to a beergarden
among other activities.
From Munich the
group traveled by train on the
tracks of the famous 'Orient Express' through beautiful countryside via
Salzburg to Vienna, Austria. Activities in Vienna, the city of the Strauss
family , the Capital of Music, included an evening in a 'Heurigen' restaurant
in Grinzing, Vienna Café houses, concerts, opera, guided shopping
and more. The journey continued from Vienna to Budapest on board of
the 'Majestic Imperator', (the rebuilt luxury rail carriages of the Austrian
Emperor). Vienna's and Budapest's 'Golden Years' came to life. For
further details, please visit our web site.
We are delighted to announce that Lunds Universitet in Lund, Sweden has agreed to host WACRA’2001.
Plans for WACRA 2001 include activities in Lund, Sweden, Copenhagen, Denmark and Oslo, Norway. Refer
to additional information in this NEWSletter and on the WACRA web page www.wacra.org.
"Complex Demands on Teaching Require Innovation" volume XIII of the Selected Papers on Case Method Research & Application (papers presented in Budapest and selected for publication through a double blind peer review), the "Selected Papers" from the Third "Creative Teaching" conference in Lucern, Switzerland and a volume of "International Collection of Cases" are now available through WACRA.
If you attended ACT3 in Lucern, your copy of the book has been mailed, if you attended WACRA 2000
in Budapest, you will receive your copy shortly. If you could not attend these conferences, mail us your membership renewal check before December 31, 2000 and we send you one complimentary copy of either volume or any of the back issues from previous conferences (as long as supplies last).
You can help publicize your contributions to the interactive creative teaching literature by bringing WACRA® and ACT publications (WACRA® volumes V-XIII are available) to the attention of your co-authors, colleagues and library acquisition departments. The annual WACRA® publications have become widely recognized for the timely and comprehensive contribution they make to the case method and interactive teaching literature (ordering details on page 16).
The year 2001 conference will present itself as an international, intercultural, interdisciplinary, interactive and... interesting ‘life case’ of building networks and exchanging ideas and experiences. The WACRA staff is preparing an exciting academic program and a cultural experience and immersion for all participants. WACRA® 2001 will advance the use of the case method and other interactive learning and teaching methods, create ‘user friendly’ forums for the exchange of ideas, research and experiences, encourage research using the case method, coordinate case writing and case application activities, encourage cooperation between the public sector, the business community, and other case-oriented professions, will add new initiatives to complement the highly successful pre-conference WACRA® Interactive Case
Sessions (WICS).
The conference language for WACRA® 2001 is English. WACRA® will continue the tradition begun several years ago and include tracks in in French, Spanish and the language of the host country, Swedish. We invite you to submit papers, proposals, workshops, simulations, panels etc. (in English, French, Spanish or Swedish) to address the conference theme: “Interactive Teaching across Disciplines & Cultures.” Manuscript preparation guidelines can be found at the end of each volume of the 'Selected Papers,' or alternatively, write us or visit our web site: www.wacra.org Submission deadline for WACRA 2001 is Jan. 15, 2001. Join colleagues from around the world in Lund, Sweden for a stimulating, exciting and enriching experience.
From January 3-6, 2001, WACRA® is again cooperating with A C T - The Academy for Creative Teaching
- in the Fourth Creative Teaching Conference where the emphases are on “Teaching and Learning” through interactive workshops and by sharing of research and teaching/training applications. Host for ACT4 is the Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien. For the Call for Papers, the Preliminary Program and the Registration form refer to pages 13-15 of this NEWSletter and visit our web site for further details and up-dates. Submit papers, proposals, workshops before Nov. 8, 2000 and register before Nov. 14, 2000. Join us and for ACT4 and begin the 'New Year' in Vienna, Austria.
