Welcome to SCANCOR
The Scandinavian Consortium for Organizational Research facilitates inquiry in organizational social science among a transnational network of scholars. Its member institutions in Scandinavia and greater Europe support working visits and residencies at Stanford University. SCANCOR also sponsors conferences, workshops, and mentoring opportunities worldwide.
Online learning: Campus 2.0
Massive open online courses are transforming higher education — and providing fodder for scientific research. ... MOOCs had exploded into the academic consciousness in summer 2011, when a free artificial-intelligence course offered by Stanford University in California attracted 160,000 students from around the world — 23,000 of whom finished it....
...Science, engineering and technology courses have been in the vanguard of the movement, but offerings in management, humanities and the arts are growing in popularity (see 'MOOCs rising'). “In 25 years of observing higher education, I've never seen anything move this fast,” says Mitchell Stevens, a sociologist at Stanford and one of the leaders of an ongoing, campus-wide discussion series known as Education's Digital Future....
11th SCANCOR PhD Workshop on Institutional Theory, Jan 5-9, 2014
Hosted by The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
The Ph.D. workshop brings together scholars who are developing novel solutions to current puzzles in institutional theory, most notably regarding change and variety - as well as measurement of institutional influences and effects.
Application deadline August 1, 2013 by online submission http://www.scancor.org/conferences-and-workshops . For more information click on the link below.
