Conference Calendar

“The Teaching Professor Conference is a powerful learning experience with large implications for how you teach. This event focuses on key teaching-learning issues—like maintaining vitality across the years, getting focused on what learning really means, the sensible use of technology and teaching as scholarly work.”

http://www.teachingprofessor.com/?s=magweb

The Center for Intellectual Property convenes this conference as an opportunity for conversation with noted scholars and practitioners to discuss the current state of copyright nationally and internationally. Spanning 3 days, two keynote speakers and six panels will facilitate discussion on the technological, legal and licensing alternatives to the current state of copyright.

http://www.umuc.edu/distance/odell/cip/symposium/index.shtml

The program’s theme is “Building Infrastructures and Capacities to Reach out to the Whole of Africa. The conference will feature a roundtable and retreat, the first African technical and vocational education and training summit, two break-out workshops and large scale lectures at universities in Nairobi and up-country.

http://www.elearning-africa.com/

http://astd2007.astd.org/index.html

The theme for this conference is “Navigating the rapids of campus technology.” The program follows four key tracks: leadership (guiding and building the team), teaching and learning in dynamic currents, technology infrastructure and application, and corporate and campus solutions.

http://www.educause.edu/serc07

The theme for this annual conference titled “New Learning 2.0?” is “Emerging digital territories, developing continuities, and new divides.”

http://www.eden-online.org/eden.php?menuId=333

“With net generation students’ high expectations for the integration of technology in their education, faculty are increasingly challenged to learn new skills in an evolving technology environment. To provide effective support for faculty working in this technologyrich environment, innovative faculty development has become imperative, such as faculty learning communities, learner-centered environments, and effective teaching techniques to support faculty. Join us for the Aligning Faculty Development with the Needs of Today’s Students: A Case Study web conference for recommendations on effective faculty development in a technology-rich environment. This case study from the University of Minnesota's successful Digital Media Center focuses on three key elements for effective faculty development: Guiding principles, Evaluation techniques, and Human resource considerations for educational technology support units.”

https://www.academicimpressions.com/web_conferences/0607-faculty-development.php

The 28th world’s premier educational technology conference, this year will be especially focused on technology’s role in developing twenty-first century learners. More than 18,000 teachers, technology coordinators, library media specialists, teacher educators, administrators, policymakers, industry representatives and students from all over the world are expected to attend.

http://center.uoregon.edu/ISTE/NECC2007/

This conference is specifically designed for those involved or interested in the administration, management, planning, and evaluation of distance learning programs. It is sponsored by the Journal of Distance Learning Administration and the University of Georgia.

http://www.westga.edu/~distance/dla/

The Ed-Media World Conference on Educational Multimedia, Hypermedia and Telecommunications is an international conference organized by the Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE). This 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.

http://www.aace.org/conf/edmedia/default.htm