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“This event offers a rare opportunity for academics and other professionals from around the world to share their broad array of perspectives. True to its primary goal, this conference provides those with cross-disciplinary interests related to education to meet and interact with others inside and outside their own discipline.” http://www.hiceducation.org/

The conference theme is “Staying Agile, Maintaining Balance: Solutions from a Sea of Technology.” Professionals involved in “administrative services, information resources, teaching and learning, technology infrastructure, or management within higher education will find opportunities to learn, share, and connect with others in the field. At the center of the conference are practical how-to sessions that offer valuable, region-specific information and ideas to help manage and lead IT. Preconference seminars will be held on the morning of January 10 and the full conference program is January 10-12.” http://www.educause.edu/marc06

http://www.iasted.org/conferences/2006/mexico/wbe.htm

“This year’s theme is "Building the IT Community of the Future.” Professionals involved with “administrative services, information resources, teaching and learning, technology infrastructure, or management within higher education will find opportunities to learn, share, and connect with others in the field. At the center of the conference are practical "how to" sessions that offer valuable, region-specific information and ideas to help you manage and lead IT. Preconference seminars will be held on the morning of February 22nd and the full conference program runs February 22-24. http://www.educause.edu/swrc06/

The theme of the conference is “Lightning in Paradise: WEMA and Brainstorm Conference.” This conference provides opportunities to network with educational media professionals, policy makers, and vendors. Keynote sessions, group discussions and other events are planned.

http://www.wemaonline.org/ev.cf.2006.about.cfm

IEEE PerCom 2006 will be the fourth annual conference on the emerging area of pervasive computing and communications aimed at providing an exciting platform and paradigm for all the time, everywhere services. This emergence is a natural outcome of the tremendous advances in wireless networks, mobile computing, sensor networks, distributed computing, and agent technologies. PerCom 2006 will provide a high profile, leading edge forum for researchers and engineers alike to present their latest research in the field of pervasive computing and communications. PerCom 2006 will feature a work in progress session in order to present and discuss merging results, and novel research questions, approaches, and directions.

http://cnd.iit.cnr.it/percom2006/

“This annual conference offers opportunities to share ideas and expertise on all topics related to the use of information technology in teacher education and instruction about information technology for all disciplines in preservice, inservice, and graduate teacher education as well as faculty and staff development.” http://www.aace.org/conf/site/

“Just as technology changes and improves, so does FETC. To help keep you on top of educational technology advances and professional development requirements, a few tweaks have been made to the schedule and updates to the program of 200+ presentations. New for 2006 are updated session topics. FETC has opted to use focus areas similar to Florida Department of Education’s School Technology and Readiness (STaR) Chart (http://www.doe.firn.edu/edtech/sr/index.html). The sessions for FETC 2006 will address Learners, Learning Environments, Professional Competency, System Capacity, Community Connections, Technology Capacity, and Accountability. And like last year, all presentations will have correlat ing standards listed with the presentation descriptions.

http://www.fetc.org/

“CHI 2006 is the premier international conference for human-computer interaction.” Conference activities have been significantly enhanced this year. Topics include new CHI Courses, design, education, engineering, management, research, and usability.

http://www.chi2006.org/

“This event will address issues important to every teaching professional.. The process of teaching and learning begins with teaching professionals who are committed to teaching that promotes learning. The Teaching Professor Conference 2006 offers teaching professors, faculty development professionals and administrators an excellent opportunity of thought-provoking exploration, discussion and debate.”

http://www.teachingprofessor.com/

“eLearning is high on the agenda in Africa. eLearning Africa, a conference to be held annually, intends to become the eLearning capacity building event and—at the same time—a forum for all stakeholders engaged in the planning and implementation of technology supported learning and training on the African continent.”

http://www.elearning-africa.com

“The Conference Planning Committee cordially invites you to stand Distance Learning 2006, the 22nd Annual Conference on Distance Teaching & Learning. Many new theories and technologies have transformed the practice of distance education since this conference began in 1985. Yet utilizing them to deliver effective teaching and training still challenges us as we face the next 20 years. This year’s conference will reflect on lessons learned and how to apply them to improve the design, delivery, and support of distance teaching and learning.

http://www.uwex.edu/disted/conference/