Conference Calendar

The following conferences may be of interest to the readers of the Quarterly Review of Distance Education. Recommendations for conferences to be listed in future issues may be sent to: burmeist@nova.edu“SITE is unique as the only organization which has as its sole focus the integration of instructional technologies into teacher education programs. SITE promotes the development and dissemination of theoretical knowledge, conceptual research, and professional practice knowledge through conferences, books, projects, and the Journal of Technology and Teacher Education (JTATE). You are invited to attend and participate in this annual international forum which offer numerous opportunities to share your ideas, explore the research, development, and applications, and to network with the leaders in this important field of teacher education and technology.”http://site.aace.org/conf/“The 2009 Kentucky Teaching and Learning Conference will begin with an opening keynote address, reception, and drawing for a cruise on Wednesday evening, March 4. Workshops and concurrent sessions will be conducted Thursday, March 5, and Friday, March 6. This year’s venue will be the Kentucky International Convention Center and the Hyatt Regency Hotel in Louisville, Kentucky. The Kentucky Teaching and Learning Conference provides a unique opportunity for administrators and educators to share current, relevant, research-based ideas and strategies around targeted topic areas that can be immediately implemented in schools and districts. These ideas and strategies positively impact or support student learning using technology as a tool.”http://www.kentuckytlc.org/KTLC/“WEMTA is an independent professional association serving school library media and instructional technology professionals. WEMTA is committed to providing leadership and professional growth opportunities to promote quality learning and information access to meet the needs of our educational community.” The theme for this year’s conference is “Networking for Accountability: Weaving a Web of Best Practice.”http://www.wemtaonline.org/“This year’s conference, “New Directions in Higher Ed IT: Navigating the Course While Still Drawing the Map,” will provide a rich agenda defining the rapidly evolving challenges facing information technology in higher education, including teaching and learning, infrastructure, security and compliance, and personnel management. The program will include keynote presentations from acknowledged experts who will provide the ‘big picture’ on current issues, presentations highlighting practical solutions, and interactive discussion sessions to facilitate networking and sharing.”http://net.educause.edu/content.asp?section_id=102“The CAL biennial conference, in association with Computers & Education, and Elsevier, is one of the premier international conferences addressing computers and learning. It has a proud tradition of engendering critical debate on the key issues being tackled by researchers and practitioners in all areas and levels of, among other things, educational research, evaluation, learning technologies, teaching, technology enhanced learning, social networking, education policy, and subject specific applications of technology in education and learning. There will be three international keynote speakers, paper presentations, symposia and poster presentations.http://www.cal-conference.elsevier.com/“This year’s conference, ‘One Size Doesn’t Fit All: Finding Practical and Innovative Solutions for Your Campus,’ will explore the balance between institutional and individual user needs in an environment of rapid change. We’ll consider the impact of users and departments increasingly demanding flexible and individualized services, while at the same time accountability pressures require attention to legal and compliance issues. The full conference program will be held March 31–April 2, 2008, with preconference seminars March 31 and postconference seminars April 2.”http://net.educause.edu/content.asp?section_id=106“The World Wide Web Conference is the global event that brings together key researchers, innovators, decision-makers, technologists, businesses, and standards bodies working to shape the Web. Organized by IW3C2 since 1994, the WWW conference is the annual opportunity for the International community to discuss and debate the evolution of the Web. The conference will feature a range of presentations on world-class research, as well as stimulating talks, workshops, tutorials, panels, and late-breaking posters. Topics of discussion will include browsers and user interfaces, data mining, industrial practice and experience, Internet monetization, mobility, performance and scalability, rich media, search, security and privacy, semantic/data web, social networks and Web 2.0, Web engineering, XML and Web data. The conference will also feature plenary speeches by renowned speakers, and tracks devoted to developers and to recent W3C activities that are of interest to the community.”http://www2009.org/“eLearning Africa is the most comprehensive conference on ICT for development, education and training on the Continent. Its mission is to bring people together who are actively engaged in education and in the implementation of learning technologies in schools, universities, corporate training as well as in education in the public sector. Participants are high-level decision-makers such as ministers of education, representatives from government agencies, nongovernmental organizations, development agencies and international organizations, senior executives from businesses, as well as practitioners from all fields of education. Participant figures for the annual event have grown significantly—from 832 at the debut event in 2006 in Addis Ababa to 1,502 delegates at the third conference in Accra, Ghana in May 2008. Attendees come from more than 80 countries in Africa and the wider globe—a geographic and cultural richness that is unrivalled. The strong African involvement —80% of the delegates come from the continent—makes it a truly pan-African event.”http://www.elearning-africa.com/“Learn from world-renowned leaders. Explore the latest training theories and models. Share insights and experience with colleagues. ASTD conferences ensure that you’re up-todate with the trends affecting workplace learning and performance.” Please see the Web site for details about this event.http://www.astd2008.org/2009.html“The Teaching Professor Conference joins the best minds from the best schools. This is your opportunity to shine and interact with teaching and learning experts with national reputations. Visit www.teachingprofessor.com for a full list of presenters and topics. And be assured that once you attend The Teaching Professor Conference: You can and will share what you’ve learned with others.”http://www.teachingprofessor.com/conference/index.html“ED-MEDIA—World Conference on Educational Multimedia, Hypermedia & Telecommunications is an international conference, organized by the Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education. This annual conference serves as a multidisciplinary forum for the discussion and exchange of information on the research, development, and applications on all topics related to multimedia, hypermedia and telecommunications/distance education. ED-MEDIA, the premiere international conference in the field, spans all disciplines and levels of education and annually attracts more than 1,500 leaders in the field from over 70 countries.”http://www.aace.org/conf/cities/Honolulu/“Join us as ISTE looks back on 30 amazing years of change and innovation in Ed Tech—and more importantly, as we look forward to the years ahead. It is with excitement each year that we plan the next conference and then watch as the seeds planted at NECC begin to grow and take root throughout the year. ISTE members, friends and colleagues in education, are the catalysts who take the knowledge and creativity from all who converge at NECC back to your classrooms, libraries, offices or labs, and continue to build on the energy that is the NECC conference. Come to the United States capitol, June 28–July 1, 2009, to soak up the city and meet colleagues from around the world as we share our continued vision for the future of Ed Tech.http://center.uoregon.edu/ISTE/NECC2009/“The 9th IFIP World Conference on Computers in Education (WCCE 2009) is an IFIP event hosted by the Brazilian Computer Society-SBC (Sociedade Brasileira de Computação), and organized by UFRGS (Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul), UFSC (Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina), IDESTI (Instituto de Capacitação, Pesquisa e Desenvolvimento Institucional em Gestão Social de Tecnologia de Informação). This is the first WCCE to be held in South America ever. Education and technology for a better world is the main theme for WCCE 2009. The conference will enlighten and explore different perspectives of this theme, covering all levels of formal education as well as informal learning arenas, societal aspects and challenges that are faced by developing countries. The first World Conference on Computers in Education organized under the auspices of the International Federation for Information Processing-IFIP, was held in Amsterdam, in 1970. Since then, it was organized each 4 to 6 years in a different country. This is a conference with strong international participation and brings together professionals from all continents working in the field of education and information and communication technologies.”http://www.wcce2009.org/“The Annual Conference on Distance Teaching & Learning is recognized internationally for the quality and integrity of its program. Each year the conference provides an exchange of current resources, research, and best practices from around the world that are relevant to the design and delivery of distance education/training.http://www.uwex.edu/disted/conferenceThe theme for this conference is “Supporting learning in the digital age: Rethinking inclusion, pedagogy, and quality.” The conference is presented by the Centre for Educational Research and Development, St. Edmund’s College, Cambridge in association with the Open University and the Commonwealth of Learning.http://www2.open.ac.uk/r06/conference/The Web site provides a sign-up to the ICL mailing list for updates about this conference as information becomes available.http://www.icl-conference.org/“E-Learn—World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, & Higher Education is an international conference organized by the Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education and cosponsored by the International Journal on E-Learning. E-Learn provides a unique forum for Government, Healthcare, Education, and Business professionals to discuss the latest research, development, applications, issues, and strategies, to explore new technologies, and to identify solutions for today’s challenges related to online learning. A variety of opportunities and venues are designed to enable participants to actively learn from and collaborate with a multinational, cross-industry expert faculty and peers on the research, development, diverse learning experiences, implementation and technology needed to improve e-learning. With 1,000+ participants from 60+ different countries at this conference, E-Learn has become one of the leading and largest international e-learning conferences and gathering of e-learning and distance education professionals.”http://www.aace.org/conf/cities/Vancouver/The University of Atlanta’s First International Symposium, currently featured on ConferenceAlerts.com and AllConferences.com, is scheduled for October 2010. (Kindly note the change of date.) The inaugural conference has been rescheduled for October 2010 in order to accommodate a plethora of requests and to provide adequate lead time to international participants who wish to contribute to the event. Forward all inquiries, communications and expressions of interest to Symposium@UofA.edu

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