eLearning Technology

eLearning Conferences 2010

2009-11-19T06:33:00.000-08:00

Clayton R Wright just sent me his incredible annual list of eLearning Conferences. Clayton publishes this as a Word document but does not publish it as a web page and so we’ve somewhat established a pattern of published in here. You can contact him at: crwr77@gmail.com.

December 2009

December 1-4, 2009 New Zealand Association for Research in Education, Distinction Hotel, Rotorua, New Zealand. http://www.nzare.org.nz/
December 2, 2009 Security and Defence Learning: International Forum on Technology Assisted Learning and Training for Defence, Security and Emergency Services, 5^th, Hotel InterContinental Berlin, Berlin, Germany. http://www.security-defence-learning.com/
December 2-4, 2009 Online Educa Berlin International Conference on Technology Supported Learning and Training, 15^th, Hotel InterContinental, Berlin, Germany. www.online-educa.com
December 2-4, 2009 eAsia, Colombo, Sri Lanka. http://www.e-asia.org/2009/index.asp
December 3-4, 2009 International LAMS and Learning Design Conference, 4^th, MacQuarie University, Sydney, Australia. http://lams2009sydney.lamsfoundation.org/
December 3-4, 2009 Worldwide Forum on Education and Culture, Rome, Italy. http://www.theworldwideforum.org/1.html
December 4-6, 2009, Social, Global and Green: The California League of Middle Schools/California League of High Schools Technology Conference, Town & Country Resort, San Diego, California, USA. http://clms.net/conferences/tech.htm
December 5-9, 2009 National Staff Development Council, St. Louis, Missouri, USA. http://www.nsdc.org
December 6-9, 2009 Australasian Society for Computers in Learning in Tertiary Education Conference (ASCILITE): Same Places, Different Spaces, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand. http://www.ascilite.org.au/conferences/auckland09/
December 6-9, 2009 Big Ideas Fest, 1^st inaugural conference focused on innovation in education, Ritz-Carlton Hotel, Half Moon Bay, California, USA. http://www.bigideasfest.org/
December 7-9, 2009 International Association for the Scientific Knowledge (IASK) Teaching and Learning: Excellence and Quality – Timeless Challenges in Education, Proto, Portugal. http://www.iask-web.org/tl09/tl2009.html
December 7-11, 2009 Computer Security Applications Conference, 25^th, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA. http://www.acsac.org
December 8-10, 2009 Society for Research into Higher Education (SRHE) Annual Conference, Newport, South Wales, United Kingdom. http://www.srhe.ac.uk/conference2009/index.asp
December 8-11, 2009 International Symposium Open, Distance and e-Learning (ISODEL): Education in Digital Era – Continuous Professional Development for ICT-Based Learning, hosted by the Indonesian Ministry of National Education, Yogyakarta, Indonesia. http://isodel.depdiknas.go.id/index.php?option=com_frontpage&Itemid=1
December 9-11, 2009 International Conference on Hybrid Learning, 2^nd, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China. http://www.cs.cityu.edu.hk/~ichl2009/
December 9-11, 2009 21^st Century Schools, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA. http://www.21stcenturyschools.com/New_Orleans.htm
December 9-12, 2009 Blueprint for Excellence National Conference, Orlando, Florida, USA. http://www.blueribbonschools.com
December 10-11, 2009 Tips, Tricks, and Techniques for Streamlining Your e-Learning Development, eLearning Guild Online Forum. http://www.elearningguild.com/content.cfm?selection=doc.1140
December 12-15, 2009 Technology Information Education Services (TIES) Educational Technology Conference, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA. http://tchlrn.ties.k12.mn.us/ties2009/main/details.asp
December 13-16, 2009 Global Higher Education Forum (GHEF 2009): Current Trends, Future Perspectives, sponsored by the Consortium for North American Higher Education Collaboration and organized by the Ministry of Higher Education, Malaysia and the Universiti Sains Malaysia , Penang, Malaysia. http://conahec.org or www.gheforum.usm.my
December 14-16, 2009 International Conference on Information and Communications Technologies (ICICT): Human Capital Development for Progress, 7^th, in cooperation with IEEE, Smart Village, Cairo, Egypt. http://www.icict.gov.eg/ICICT2009/index.html
December 14-16, 2009 International Conference on Advances in Mobile Computing and Multimedia (MoMM2009), 7^th, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. http://www.iiwas.org/conferences/momm2009/
December 15-18, 2009 International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS): Doing It, Research that Matters, 30^th, Arizona, Phoenix, USA. http://www.icis09.org/
December 16-18, 2009 International Conference on Open Learning and Distance Education, Bangkok, Thailand. http://www.waset.org
December 16-19, 2009 Special Interest Group on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques, SIGGRAPH Asia, 2^nd, Yokohama, Japan. http://www.siggraph.org/asia2008/
December 17-18, 2009 International Conference on eLearning for Knowledge-Based Society, 6^th, Bangkok, Thailand. http://www.elearning09.com/
December 17-21, 2009 Asian Technology Conference in Mathematics, 14^th, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China. http://atcm.mathandtech.org/
December 18, 2009 A Word in Your Ear 2009: A conference about the use of audio feedback in higher education. Sheffield Hallam University, Sheffield, United Kingdom. http://research.shu.ac.uk/lti/awordinyourear2009/
December 18-20, 2009 One Voice International Conference and Forum, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA. http://www.elementalethics.com/SANTEFE.html
December 21-23, 2009 International Conference on Innovation in Teaching and Management of Higher Education (ICITM 09), Shah Alam, Selangor, Malaysia. http://www2.tganu.uitm.edu.my/icitm2009/
December 21-23 2009 International Conference on Computer and Information Technology, 12^th, Independent University, Dhaka, Bangladesh. http://www.kuet.ac.bd/iccit2008/
December 23-25, 2009 International Conference on Technology and Education (ICTE 2009), 6^th, Bangkok, Thailand. http://www.waset.org/icte09/
December 29-31, 2009 e-Activities (e-Learning, e-Communities, e-Commerce, e-Management, e-Marketing, e-Governance, Tele-Working), 8th, World Scientific and Engineering Academy and Society (WSEAS) International Conference, Johannesburg, South Africa. http://www.wseas.org/index.html#upcoming
International Conference on Teaching and Learning in Higher Education (TLHE) was held December 3-5, 2008 in Singapore, Singapore. A conference will not be held in 2009, but it is expected that there will be a conference in 2011. http://www.cdtl.nus.edu.sg/tlhe

January 2010

January 3-4, 2010 New Presidents Program, sponsored by the Council of Independent Colleges, Marco Island, Florida, USA. http://www.cic.edu/conferences_events/
January 3-6, 2010 International Conference on Distributed Computing and Networking (ICDC), Kolkata, India. http://www.icdcn.org/
January 3-6, 2010 One Voice Australia, Sydney, Australia, sponsored by the One Voice Institute of Elemental Ethics and Education. http://www.elementalethics.com/onevoiceaustralia.html
January 3-19, 2010 Islam and Middle Eastern Culture Seminar, sponsored by the Council of Independent Colleges, Amman, Jordan. http://www.cic.edu/projects_services/coops/islam_seminar.asp
January 4-6, 2010 International College Teaching and Learning Conference and Applied Business Research Conference sponsored by the Clute Institute for Academic Research, Orlando, Florida, USA. http://cluteinstitute.com/Conference_January.htm
January 4-7, 2010 Presidents’ Institute sponsored by the Council of Independent Colleges, Marco Island, Florida, USA. http://www.cic.edu/conferences_events/
January 5-8, 2010 International Congress for School Effectiveness and Improvement Conference (ICSEI 2010), 23^rd, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. http://www.icseimalaysia2010.org/
January 6-8, 2010 International Multimedia Modeling Conference (MMM2010), 16^th, Chongqing, China. http://mmm2010.swu.edu.cn/MMM2010/index.php
January 7-10, 2010 Hawaii International Conference on Education, 8^th annual, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA. http://www.hiceducation.org/cfp_edu.htm
January 7-10, 2010 International Consumer Electronics Show (CES), Las Vegas, Nevada, USA. http://www.cesweb.org/
January 7-14, 2010 Learning Futures Festival Online: Positively Disruptive, hosted by the University of Leicester, United Kingdom, presented online. http://www2.le.ac.uk/departments/beyond-distance-research-alliance/festival
January 8, 2010 Higher Ed Tech Summit, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA. http://ces2010.higheredtechsummit.com/
January 9-11, 2010 World Universities Forum, 3^rd, Davos, Switzerland. http://www.universitiesforum.com
January 12-13, 2010 Project Management Office Summit, sponsored by the American Strategic Management Institute, Arlington, Virginia, USA. http://www.asmiweb.com/
January 12-14, 2010 Learning and Technology World Forum 2010, London, United Kingdom. http://www.virtualcampuses.eu/index.php/Learning_and_Technology_World_Forum
January 12-15, 2010 Florida Educational Technology Conference, Orlando, Florida, USA. http://www.fetc.org/
January 13-15, 2010 EDUCAUSE Mid-Atlantic Regional Conference, Baltimore, Maryland, USA. http://net.educause.edu/content.asp?SECTION_ID=101&bhcp=1
January 13-16, 2010 National Educational Telecommunications Association (NETA), Henderson, Nevada, USA. http://www.netaonline.org/2010-STD.htm
January 13-16, 2010 British Educational Technology Show, London, United Kingdom. http://www.bettshow.com/
January 13-16, 2010 Hawaii International Conference on Arts and Humanities, 8^th annual, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA. http://www.hichumanities.org/
January 14-17, 2010 International Alliance for Learning (IAL2010) Conference: New Frontiers in Learning and Innovation, 35^th, Houston, Texas, USA. http://www.ialearn.org/conference.php
January 15-17, 2010 Technology, Knowledge and Society, 6^th international conference, Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany. http://technology-conference.com/
January 15-20, 2010 American Library Association Midwinter Meeting, Boston, Massachusetts, USA. http://www.ala.org/ala/confservices/upcoming/upcomingconferences.cfm
January 17-20, 2010 Pacific Telecommunications Council: Embracing the Cloud – Enabling Connectivity and Innovation, Honolulu, Hawaii. http://www.ptc.org/ptc/index.php?q=news-article/ptc10-theme
January 17-21, 2010 Lotusphere, sponsored by IBM, Walt Disney World, Orlando, Florida, USA. http://www-01.ibm.com/software/lotus/events/smarter-collaboration/conference/
January 18-19, 2010 iLearning Paris Forum 2010, 5^th, Palais de Congrès, Paris, France. http://www.ilearningforum.org/
January 18-22, 2010 Learning and Intelligent OptimizatioN (LION 4), Trento, Italy. http://www.intelligent-optimization.org/LION4/
January 18-22, 2010 Australasian Computing Education (ACE) Conference, 12^th, Brisbane, Australia. http://elena.aut.ac.nz/homepages/ace2010/
January 19-21, 2010 EDCAUSE Learning Initiative (ELI) 2010: Learning Environments for a Web 2.0 World, Austin, Texas, USA. http://www.educause.edu/ELIEventsCalendar
January 19-22, 2010 International Conference on Science, Mathematics and Technology Education, 6^th, Hualien, Taiwan. http://block.sec.ntnu.edu.tw/3C/smte/index.asp
January 20, 2010 edSocialMedia Bootcamp, Windward School. Los Angeles, California, USA. http://www.edsocialmedia.com/
January 20-22, 2010 Mobility, Individualisation, Socialisation, Connectivity (MISC), London, United Kingdom. http://www.miscforum.eu/
January 20-22, 2010 Wisconsin State Education and Convention and Exhibit Show, 89^th, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA. http://www.wasb.org/convention/conv2009/index.php
January 20-22, 2010 Performance Management Training Forum, sponsored by the American Strategic Management Institute, Arlington, Virginia, USA. www.asmiweb.com/
January 20-23, 2010 Association of American Colleges and Universities Annual Meeting: The Wit, the Will…and the Wallet, 66^th annual, Washington, D.C., USA. http://www.aacu.org/meetings/annualmeeting/index.cfm
January 21, 2010 Prior Learning Assessment: Balancing Academic Quality and Enrollment Goals, online webcast. http://www.academicimpressions.com/web_conferences/0110-prior-learning.php
January 21-22, 2010 Designing the 21^st Century Classroom, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA. http://www.21stcenturyschools.com/Workshop_Schedule_Date.htm
January 21-23, 2010 Technology for Innovation and Education in Developing Countries (TEDC 2010) Workshop, 6th, Maputo, Mozambique. http://cs.joensuu.fi/tedc2010/index.html
January 22-24, 2010 Good Teaching Conference North, sponsored by the California Teachers’ Association, Burlingame, California, USA. http://www.regonline.com/builder/site/Default.aspx?eventid=766394
January 22-24, 2010 International Conference on e-Education, e-Business, e-Management and e-Learning (IC4E 2010), Sanya, China. http://www.iacsit.org/ic4e/
January 22-24, 2010 International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence (ICAART), 2^nd, Valencia, Spain. http://www.icaart.org
January 22-24, 2010 International Conference on Computer Modeling and Simulation (ICCMS 2010), 2^nd, Sanya, China. http://iccms.org/
January 23-29, 2010 International Conference on Current Trends in Theory and Practice of Computer Science, 36^th, Hotel Bedřichov, Špindlerův Mlýn, Czech Republic. http://www.sofsem.cz/sofsem10/
January 24-26, 2010 Case-Nais Independent Schools Conference, 40^th annual, sponsored by the Council for Advancement and Support of Education (CASE), New York, New York, USA. http://www.case.org/conferences/splash09-10/casenais.cfm
January 24-27, 2010 Association for Communications Technology Professionals in Higher Education (ACUTA) Winter Seminar, Sheraton New Orleans, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA. http://www.acuta.org/relation/downloadfile.cfm?docnum=446
January 25-27, 2010 e-CASE: International Conference on e-Commerce, e-Administration, e-Society, and e-Education, The Grand Lisboa, Macau, China. http://www.e-case.org/
January 27-28, 2010 Learning Technologies 2009, Olympia 2, London, United Kingdom. http://www.learningtechnologies.co.uk/
January 27-28, 2010 Management World 2010, Raffles City Convention Centre, Singapore. http://www.tmforum.org/browse.aspx or http://www.tmforum.org/Conferences/ManagementWorldAsia/7110/Home.html
January 27-29, 2010 International Lifelong Learning in Europe Conference: Digital Technologies Supporting Lifelong Learning, 12^th, Tuusula, Finland. http://www.lline.fi/
January 27-29, 2010 American Society for Training and Development (ASTD) TechKnowledge, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA. http://tk09.astd.org/2010.html or http://www.astd.org/content/conferences/
January 28-29, 2010 Assistive Technology Industry Association (ATIA) Leadership Forum on Accessibility, 4^th, Orlando, Florida, USA. http://www.atia.org/
January 28-29, 2010 Building Effective Interactivity into Your e-Learning, eLearning Guild Online Seminar. http://www.elearningguild.com
January 28-30, 2010 Educators’ Symposium on Accelerating Learning in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA. http://www.renlearn.com/Symposiums/2010/NewOrleans/default.aspx
January 29-30, 2010 Educa: Inspiration and Ideas from the Education Sector’s Professional Event, Helsinki Fair Centre, Helsinki, Finland. http://www.finnexpo.fi/educa/default.asp?code_language=en
January 29-31, 2010 International Conference on Computer and Information Technology (ICCIT 2010), Cape Town, South Africa. http://www.waset.org/conferences/2010/capetown/iccit/
January 31-February 3, 2010 National Association of Independent Colleges and Universities (NAICU) Annual Conference, Washington, D.C., USA. http://www.naicu.edu/events/
January ?, 2010 Conference on e-Learning Applications: Explore, Share and Stimulate Research in e-Learning Applications, 6^th, was held January 10-12, 2009 Cairo, Egypt. http://www.aucegypt.edu/ResearchatAUC/conferences/elearning/Pages/default.aspx
Technology, Reading and Learning Difficulties Conference, 26^th, was held January 22-24, 2009 at the Hyatt Regency, San Francisco, California, USA. Due to the current economic uncertainty, the conference for 2010 has been postponed. http://www.trld.com/

February 2010

February 1, 2010 DIDACTA Trade Fair for Education and Training, Stuttgart, Germany. http://www.eventseye.com/fairs/f-didacta-6093-1.html
February 1, 2010 Thailand International Education Exhibition, Bangkok, Thailand. http://www.eventseye.com/fairs/f-tiee-thailand-international-education-exhibition-6411-1.html
February 1-3, 2010 Training 2010 Conference and Expo, sponsored by Training Magazine, San Diego, California, USA. http://www.trainingconference.com or www.trainingmagevents.com
February 1-3, 2010 Annual Forum on e-Learning Excellence in the Middle East: Bringing Global Quality to a Local Context, 3^rd, Jumeirah Beach Hotel, Dubai, United Arab Emirates. http://elexforum.etqm.ae/
February 1-3, 2010 Electronic Resources and Libraries Conference, Austin, Texas, USA. http://electroniclibrarian.com/erlwiki/ER%26L
February 1-4, 2010 International Conference on Computer Graphics, Visualization and Computer Vision, 18^th, in cooperation with Eurographics, University of West Bohemia, Campus-Bory, Pilzen (near Prague), Czech Republic. http://wscg.zcu.cz/wscg2010/wscg2010.htm
February 2-4, 2010 LearnTec 2010 International Convention and Trade Fair for Educational and Information Technology, 18^th, Karlsruhe, Germany. http://www.learntec.de/
February 3-5, 2010 Conference for Industry and Education Collaboration, sponsored by the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE), Palm Springs, California, USA. http://www.asee.org/conferences/ciec/2010/index.cfm
February 3-5, 2010 International Conference on Work Integrated Learning, Hong Kong, China. http://www.waceinc.org/
February 4-6, 2010 Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) International Conference on Web Search and Web Data Mining, 3^rd, New York, New York, USA. http://wsdm2010.org/
February 4-7, 2010 Lilly Conference on College and University Teaching, hosted by University of North Carolina at Greensboro, North Carolina, USA. http://www.lillyconferences.com/
February 4-8, 2010 World Conference on Educational Sciences, Bahcesehir University, Istanbul, Turkey. http://www.wces2010.org/
February 6-10, 2010 Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW), Savannah, Georgia, USA. http://www.cscw2010.org/
February 7-10, 2010 International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI), Hong Kong, China. http://www.iuiconf.org/
February 8-11, 2010 Asia-Pacific Advanced Network Meeting, Sydney, Australia. http://www.apan.net/
February 8-12, 2010 Problem-Based Learning and Active Learning Methodologies (PBL 2010): Connecting People, Ideas and Communities, University of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil. http://each.uspnet.usp.br/pbl2010/
February 8-12, 2010 Texas Computer Education Association (TCEA) Convention and Exposition: Charting New Waters, 30^th annual, Austin, Texas, USA. http://www.tcea.org
February 9-13, 2010 Macworld Conference and Expo, Moscone Center, San Francisco, California, USA. http://www.macworldexpo.com/
February 10-15, 2010 DigitalWorld, sponsored by the International Academy Research, and Industry Association (IARIA) and Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Computer Society, St. Maarten, Netherlands Antilles. http://www.iaria.org/
February 10-15, 2010 International Conference on Advances in Computer-Human Interactions, 3^rd, sponsored by the International Academy Research, and Industry Association (IARIA), St. Maarten, Netherlands Antilles. http://www.iaria.org/
February 10-15, 2010 International Conference on eHealth, Telemedicine, and Social Medicine, 2^nd, sponsored by the International Academy Research, and Industry Association (IARIA), St. Maarten, Netherlands Antilles. http://www.iaria.org/
February 10-15, 2010 International Conference on Technical and Legal Aspects of the e-Society, 1^st, sponsored by the International Academy Research, and Industry Association (IARIA), Maarten, Netherlands Antilles. http://www.iaria.org/
February 10-15, 2010 Mobile, Hybrid and On-line Learning (eL&mL 2010), 2^nd international conference, sponsored by the International Academy, Research and Industry Association (IARIA), St. Maarten, Netherlands Antilles. http://www.iaria.org/conferences2010/eLmL10.html
February 11, 2010 Higher Education Leadership Summit: Leading the Agile University – Innovation, Creativity and Technology, London, United Kingdom. http://www.lfhe.ac.uk/news/summit2010trailer.html
February 11-12, 2010 Converting and Repurposing Content for e-Learning, eLearning Guild Online Seminar, http://www.elearningguild.com
February 11-13, 2010 American Association of School Administrators (AASA) National Conference on Education, 142^nd, Phoenix, Arizona, USA. http://www.aasa.org/conferences/index.cfm
February 12-13, 2010 World Federation of Associations for Teacher Education, First bi-annual conference, Chicago, Illinois, USA. http://www.ate1.org/pubs/WFATE_2010_Confere.cfm
February 12-13, 2010 Georgia Conference on College and University Teaching, Kennesaw, Georgia, USA. http://www.kennesaw.edu/cetl/conferences/gaconf/2010.html
February 12-16, 2010 Conference on the First-Year Experience, 29^th annual, Denver, Colorado, USA. http://www.sc.edu/fye/events/annual/index.html
February 13-14, Japan MoodeMoot, Future University, Hakodate, Hokkaido, Japan. http://vle.c.fun.ac.jp/moot2010/
February 13-15, 2010 Design Principles and Practices, 4^thinternational conference, University of Illinois, Chicago, USA. http://designprinciplesandpractices.com/conference/
February 13-17, 2010 Association of Teacher Educators Annual Conference, ACTION: An Inclusive Vision for Teacher Education, Chicago, Illinois, USA. http://www.ate1.org/pubs/2010_Annual_Meetin_1.cfm
February 14-16, 2010 Instructional Technologies Strategies Conference (ITSC), Portland, Oregon, USA. http://itsc.oetc.org/index.php
February 14-16, 2010 American Association of Collegiate Registrars and Admissions Officers, (AACRAO) Transfer Conference, Palmer House Hilton, Chicago, Illinois, USA. http://www.aacrao.org/meetings/
February 15-17, 2010 Artificial Intelligence and Applications International Conference, sponsored by the International Association of Science and Technology for Development (IASTED), 10^th, Innsbruck, Austria. http://www.iasted.org/conferences/home-674.html
February 15-18, 2010 Mediterranean Conference for Academic Disciplines, sponsored by the International Journal of Arts and Sciences, University of Malta, Gozo, Malta. http://www.internationaljournal.org/malta.html
February 15-18, 2010 International Workshop on Intelligent, Mobile and Internet Services in Ubiquitous Computing (IMIS2010), Andrzej Frycz Modrzewski Cracow College, Krakow, Poland. http://isyou.hosting.paran.com/imis10/
February 15-19, 2010 EDUCAUSE Management Program, Tempe, Arizona, USA. http://net.educause.edu/TheEDUCAUSEInstituteManagementProgram/1734
February 16-18, 2010 Technology Information Center for Administrative Leadership, Little Rock, Arkansas, USA. http://www.portical.org/ar_conference/index.html
February 16-18, 2010 Parallel and Distributed Computing and Networks, sponsored by the International Association of Science and Technology for Development (IASTED), Innsbruck, Austria. http://www.iasted.org/
February 17-19, 2010 Computer Graphics and Imaging, 11^th international conference of the International Association of Science and Technology for Development (IASTED), Innsbruck, Austria. http://www.iasted.org/conferences/home-679.html
February 17-20, 2010 Learning Disabilities Association of America International Conference, 47^th annual, Baltimore, Maryland, USA. http://www.ldanatl.org/conference/index.asp
February 18-20, 2010 General Education and Assessment: Maintaining Momentum, Achieving New Priorities, sponsored by the Association of American Colleges and Universities (AACU), Seattle, Washington, USA. http://www.aacu.org/meetings/NetworkforAcademicRenewal.cfm
February 18-22, 2010 American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Annual Meeting, 176^th, San Diego, California, USA. http://www.aaas.org/meetings/2010/
February 19-20, 2010 Digital Asia: Language, Technology and Community, 3^rd, Nagoya University of Commerce and Business, Japan. http://wirelessready.nucba.ac.jp/
February 19-20, 2010 Assessment for the Changing Learning Environment sponsored by the Collaboration for the Advancement of College Teaching and Learning, Sheraton Bloomington Hotel, Bloomington, Minnesota, USA. http://www.collab.org/programsservices/conferences/conferences.html#upcoming
February 19-20, 2010 International Conference on E-resources in Higher Education: Issues, Challenges, Opportunities and Developments, Bharathidasan University, Tiruchirappalli, India. http://eresourcesbdu.webs.com/
February 19-21, 2010 ACM SIGGRAPH Interactive 3D Graphics and Games, Washington, D.C., USA. http://www.siggraph.org/ or http://graphics.cs.williams.edu/i3d10/
February 19-21, 2010 Reaching At-Promise Students National Conference, 5^th annual, (focuses on reaching at-risk youth), San Diego, California, USA. http://www.atpromiseconference.org/
February 20-23, 2010 eLearning 2009, sponsored by the Instructional Technology Council (ITC), Portland, Oregon, USA. http://www.itcnetwork.org/
February 21-24, 2010 Pennsylvania Educational Technology Expo and Conference (PETE & C), Hershey, Pennsylvania, USA. http://www.peteandc.org/
February 22-23, 2010 FITC Design and Technology Conference (focuses on Flash, graphic and digital design), Amsterdam, the Netherlands. http://www.fitc.ca/events/about/?event=101
February 22-23, 2010. Multimedia Systems 2010 (replaces the Multimedia Computing and Networking Conference that was held for 16 years), Scottsdale, Arizona, USA. http://www.mmsys.org/
February 22-24, 2010 Tools of Change for Publishing Conference, sponsored by O’Reilly, New York, New York, USA. http://conferences.oreillynet.com/
February 23-26, 2010 Illinois Computing Educators' (ICE) Technology Conference: A Learning Odyssey, St. Charles, Illinois, USA. http://www.iceberg.org/
February 23-26, 2010 International Conference on Digital Libraries (ICDL): Shaping the Information Paradigm, New Delhi, India. http://www.teriin.org/events/icdl/
February 24-25, 2010 Management World Africa 2010, Johannesburg, South Africa. http://www.tmforum.org/browse.aspx or http://www.tmforum.org/Conferences/ManagementWorldAfrica/6161/Home.html
February 24-26, 2010 National Association of Independent Schools (NAIS) Annual Conference, Moscone Convention Centre, San Francisco, California, USA. http://www.nais.org/
February 24-27, 2010 American Council on Education, Chairing the Academic Department, San Diego, California, USA. http://www.acenet.edu//AM/Template.cfm?Section=Events2
February 24-27, 2010 Ontario Library Association Super Conference, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. http://www.accessola.com/
February 25, 2010 The International Society for the Social Studies Annual Conference, Orlando, Florida, USA. http://www.theisss.org/
February 26-27, 2010 High Performance Schools Symposium, sponsored by the Council of Educational Facility Planners (CEFPI), Austin, Texas, USA. http://www.cefpi.org/
February 26-28, 2010 International Conference on Digital Image Processing (ICDIP), Singapore. http://icdip.org/
February 27-28, 2010 Future of Education and Technology Conference, hosted by Edu Research Group (EduRG), Phoenix Convention Center, Phoenix, Arizona, USA. http://www.edurg.com/events/
February 28-March 2, 2010 Brainstorm 10.0 Information Technology Conference, 11^th, sponsored by the Midwest Educational Technology Association, Wisconsin Dells, Wisconsin, USA. http://www.onalaska.k12.wi.us/brainstorm/
Educational Technology Research Symposium will not be held in 2010. The, 3^rd annual symposium was held February 2009 in Austin, Texas. http://www.tcea.org/convention/Symposium/Pages/default.aspx
Educational Computing Organization of Ontario (ECOO): Expanding Our Boundaries was held February 27-28, 2009 at the Courtyard by Mariott Downtown, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The event may not be held in 2010. http://www.ecoo.org/

March 2010

March 1-3, 2010 International Conference on Educational Technology, biennial conference, Muscat, Oman. Sponsored by the Sultan Qaboos University, http://www.squ.edu.om/ or contact: Dr Ali Sharaf Al Musawi, asmusawi@squ.edu.om
March 1-4, 2010 International Conference for Academic Disciplines, sponsored by the International Journal of Arts and Sciences, annual, Rosen College of the University of Central Florida, Orlando, Florida, USA. http://www.internationaljournal.org/orlando.html
March 1-4, 2010 International Telecommunication Union (ITU) Telecom Americas, Buenos Aires, Argentina. http://www.itu.int/ITUTELECOM/events.html
March 1-5, 2010 Comparative and International Education Society Conference: Reimaging Education, 54^th annual, Chicago, Illinois, USA. http://cies2010.msu.edu/
March 2-6, 2010 International Conference on Teaching and Learning with Technology (ICTLT), Singapore. http://ictlt.com/
March 2-3, 2010 Management World Middle East 2010, Dubai, United Arab Emirates, http://www.tmforum.org/Conferences/ManagementWorldMiddle/7111/Home.html
March 3-5, 2010 Global Learning Summit: Harnessing the Power of Learning, 3^rd annual, Singapore. http://www.globallearningsummit.com
March 3-5, 2010 Universities and Colleges Information Systems Association (UCISA 2010), Liverpool, United Kingdom. http://www.ucisa.ac.uk/events/
March 3-5, 2010 New Learning Technologies Conference, sponsored by the Society for Applied Learning Technology (SALT), Gaylord Palms Resort, Orlando, Florida, USA. http://salt.org/fl/orlandoP.asp?pn=orlando
March 3-5, 2010 Arctic Institute on Innovations and Excellence in Teaching, hosted by the University of Alaska, Valdez, Alaska, USA. http://lillyconferences.com/
March 3-5, 2010 Team-Based Learning Collaborative (TBLC), 9^th annual, Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA. http://www.tblcmeeting.org/
March 4-6, 2010 Computer Using Educators (CUE) Inc., annual conference, Palm Springs, California, USA. http://www.cue.org
March 4-6, 2010 The Education Show, Birmingham, United Kingdom. http://www.education-show.com/
March 4-6, 2010 Information Fluency Workshop, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA. http://www.cic.edu/conferences_events/workshop/information_fluency.asp
March 5-6, 2010 Celebration of Teaching and Learning, New York, New York, USA. http://thirteencelebration.org/
March 5-7, 2010 Education and Development Conference, 5^th annual, Bangkok, Thailand. http://www.tomorrowpeople.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=42&Itemid=93
March 5-7, 2010 T3 – Teachers Teaching with Technology International Conference, Atlanta, Georgia, USA. http://education.ti.com/educationportal/sites/US/nonProductMulti/pd_conferences_atlanta.html
March 6-8, 2010 Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development (ASCD) Annual Conference and Exhibit Show: Critical Transformations, 65^th, San Antonio, Texas, USA. http://www.ascd.org/conferences.aspx
March 6-9, 2010 American Council on Education Annual Meeting, 92^nd, Sheraton Phoenix Downtown, Phoenix, Arizona, USA. http://www.acenet.edu//AM/Template.cfm?Section=Events2
March 6-10, 2010 Student Affairs Administrators in Higher Education (NASPA) Annual Conference, Chicago, Illinois, USA. http://www.naspa.org/conf/default.cfm
March 7-13, 2010 BioSciencesWorld 2010, sponsored by the International Academy Research, and Industry Association (IARIA), Cancun, Mexico. http://www.iaria.org/
March 7-13, 2010 International Conference on Advances in Biotechnologies (BIOTECHNO 2010), 2^nd, sponsored by the International Academy Research, and Industry Association (IARIA), Cancun, Mexico. http://www.iaria.org/
March 7-13, 2010 International Conference on Advances in Bioinformatics and Applications (BIOINFO 2010), 2^nd, sponsored by the International Academy Research, and Industry Association (IARIA), Cancun, Mexico. http://www.iaria.org/
March 7-13, 2010 International Conference on Computational and Systems Biology and Microbiology (BIOSYSCOM 2010),1^st, sponsored by the International Academy Research, and Industry Association (IARIA), Cancun, Mexico. http://www.iaria.org/
March 7-13, 2010 International Conference on Renewable and Sustainable Energies (BIOGREEN 2010), 1^st, sponsored by the International Academy Research, and Industry Association (IARIA), Cancun, Mexico. http://www.iaria.org/
March 7-13, 2010 International Conference on Environmental Change Awareness (BIOENVIRONMENT 2010), 1^st, sponsored by the International Academy Research, and Industry Association (IARIA), Cancun, Mexico. http://www.iaria.org/
March 8-9, 2010 International Wireless Communications Expo (ICWE 2010) Las Vegas, Nevada, USA. http://www.iwceexpo.com/iwce2010/public/enter.aspx
March 8-10, 2010 BbWorld Transact 2010, Red Rock Resort, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA. http://www.blackboard.com/
March 8-10, 2010 International Technology, Education and Development (INTED) Conference, Valencia, Spain. http://www.inted2010.org
March 8-11, 2010 International Conference on Management of Technology (IAMOT): Technology as the Foundation for Economic Growth, 19^th, Cairo, Egypt. http://www.iamot.org/
March 10-12, 2010 The Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) Commons, 3^rd, Georgia Southern University, Statesboro, Georgia, USA. http://www.georgiasouthern.edu/ijsotl/conference/
March 10-12, 2010 Michigan Association for Computer Users in Learning (MACUL) Conference: Collaborate, Communicate, Create, Grand Rapids, Michigan, USA. http://www.macul.org/
March 10-12, 2010 IDEA10: Learning Futures – Technology Challenges, a series of events focusing on technology and education, sponsored by the Council of Australian University Directors of Information Technology (CAUDIT), Melbourne, Australia. http://www.caudit.edu.au/index.php/events/?dayID=11&monthID=03&yearID=2010
March 10-13, 2010 Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education (SIGCSE), 41^st, Milwaukee, Wisconsin. USA. http://www.cs.arizona.edu/groups/sigcse09/
March 11-12, 2010 ICTs and Development: An International Workshop for Theory, Practice, & Policy, hosted by Indian Institute of Technology Delhi and sponsored by the International Development Research Centre of Canada, New Delhi, India. http://www.iitd.ac.in/events/ICTD2010/
March 11-14, 2010 International Conference on Technology in Collegiate Mathematics, 22^nd, Sheraton Chicago Hotel and Towers, Chicago Illinois, USA. http://www.ictcm.org/
March 12-13, 2010, Lilly Conference on College and University Teaching, Pomona, California, USA. http://www.lillyconferences.com/
March 12-14, 2010 National Association of Secondary Principals (NASSP) Annual Convention and Exposition, 94^th, Phoenix, Arizona, USA. http://www.nasspconvention.org/
March 12-21, 2010 South by Southwest (SXSW ’10), 23^rd, Austin, Texas, USA. http://sxsw.com/
March 15-17, 2010 EDUCAUSE Midwest Regional Conference, Chicago, Illinois, USA. http://www.educause.edu/conference/mwrc/
March 15-17, 2010 Web-based Education (WBE), 9^th, sponsored by the International Association of Science and Technology for Development (IASTED), Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt. http://www.iasted.org/conferences/home-688.html
March 15-17, 2010 Internet and Multimedia Systems and Applications (AfricaIMSA 2010) Africa Conference, sponsored by the International Association of Science and Technology for Development (IASTED), Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt. http://www.iasted.org/conferences/home-690.html
March 15-18, 2010 The Chair Academy’s International Conference for Post-Secondary Leaders: Leading in the Time of Change, 19^th, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA. http://portal.acm.org/ or http://www.mc.maricopa.edu/community/chair/conference/2010/10index.html
March 15-19, 2010 Association of Research Libraries Service Quality Evaluation Academy, Hotel Monteleone, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA. http://www.arl.org/stats/statsevents/sqacademy/index.shtml
March 16-17, 2010 Assessment and Learning in Practice Settings (ALPS) Conference: Work-based Learning and Assessment for the Next Decade, Weetwood Hall, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom. http://www.alps-cetl.ac.uk/ALPSConference2010.html
March 16-18, 2010 National Facilities Management and Technology (NFMT), Baltimore, Maryland, USA. http://www.nfmt.com/
March 17-20, 2010 Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC): The Remix – Revisit, Rethink, Revise, Renew, 10^th, Louisville, Kentucky, USA. http://www.ncte.org/cccc/conv
March 17-18, 2010 The e-Assessment Question 2010, 8^th annual, America Square Conference Centre, London, United Kingdom. http://www.e-assessment-question.co.uk/
March 18-19, 2010 GUIDE Workshop 2010: New Challenges for E-learning in Cultural, Scientific and Socio-economic Development, Università degli Studi “Guglielmo Marconi”, Rome, Italy. http://www.guideassociation.org/guide_2010
March 18-20, 2010 International Technology Education Association (ITEA) Annual Conference: Green Technology – Solutions for 21^st Century Citizens, 72^nd, Charlotte, North Carolina, USA. http://www.iteaconnect.org/index.html
March 18-20, 2010 Association of University Technology Managers (AUTM) Annual Meeting and Conference: Building a Stronger Community, Hilton New Orleans Riverside, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA. http://www.autm.net/events/dsp.events.cfm
March 18-20, 2010 International Conference on Information Systems, sponsored by the International Association for Development of the Information Society (IADIS) Porto, Portugal. http://www.is-conf.org/
March 18-21, 2010 National Science Teachers’ Association (NSTA) Conference Connecting Science Past to Science Future, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. http://www.nsta.org/conferences/2010phi/?lid=con
March 18-21, 2010 International Conference on e-Society, sponsored by the International Association for Development of the Information Society (IADIS), Porto, Portugal. http://www.esociety-conf.org/
March 18-21, 2010 National Science Teachers’ Association: Connecting Science Past with Science Future, 58^th, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. http://www.nsta.org/exhibitsadv/2010philadelphia.aspx
March 19-21, 2010 Mobile Learning 2010, sponsored by International Association for Development of the Information Society (IADIS), Porto, Portugal. http://www.mlearning-conf.org/
March 20-21, 2010 Spring Workshops on Critical Thinking, Berkeley, California, USA. http://www.criticalthinking.org/
March 20-24, 2010 Virtual Reality (VR 2010), Waltham, Massachusetts, USA. http://conferences.computer.org/vr/2010/
March 20-24, 2010 Wimba Connect 2010, Disney Yacht and Beach Club Resort, Orlando, Florida, USA. http://www.wimba.com/
March 20-24, 2010 National Association for Research in Science Teaching (NARST) International Annual Conference: Research into Practice – Practice Informing Research, Marriott Downtown, Philadelphia, Pennsylvannia, USA. http://www.narst.org/
March 21-24, 2010 Texas Distance Learning Association Conference: Distance Learning…Any Time, Any Space, 13^th, Houston, Texas, USA. http://www.txdla.org/conference/2010/
March 22-25, 2010 International Conference on Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare, 4^th, München, Germany. http://www.pervasivehealth.org/
March 22-25, 2010 Middle East Education, Training, Equipment and Solutions (MEETES ’10) Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. http://www.acexpos.com/exhibitions/exhibition_index.php?exhibition_id=1
March 22-25, 2010 Applied Computing, 25^th annual, sponsored by Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), Lausanne, Switzerland. http://www.acm.org/conferences/sac/sac2010/
March 22-25, 2010 VoiceCon: Use Communications to Transform Your Enterprise, Orlando, Florida, USA. http://www.voicecon.com/orlando/
March 22-26, 2010 eLearning Guild Annual Gathering, Orlando, Florida, USA. http://www.elearningguild.com
March 22-26, 2010 Applied Computing, 25^th annual, sponsored by Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), Lausanne, Switzerland. http://www.acm.org/conferences/sac/sac2010/
March 22-27, 2010 International Technology and Persons with Disabilities Conference, 25^th annual, San Diego, California, USA. http://www.csunconference.org/index.cfm?EID=80000218
March 24-26, 2010 Forum on Education Abroad (FORUMEA) Conference: Vision and Value in Education Abroad, 6^th annual, Charlotte, North Carolina, USA. http://www.forumea.org/
March 24-26, 2010 Going Global 4 – The United Kingdom’s International Education Conference: World Potential – Making Education Meet the Challenge, sponsored by the British Council, Queen Elizabeth II Conference Centre, London, United Kingdom. http://www.britishcouncil.org/goingglobal-gg4-themes
March 24-27, 2010 Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL) Convention, Boston, Massachusetts, USA. http://www.tesol.org/s_tesol/convention2010/
March 25-26, 2010 International Conference on Information Management (ICIME), Cape Town, South Africa. http://academic-conferences.org/icime/icime2010/icime10-home.htm
March 25-27, 2010 Faculty Roles in High-Impact Practices sponsored by the Association of American Colleges and Universities, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. http://www.aacu.org/meetings/NetworkforAcademicRenewal.cfm
March 26-28, 2010 National Association of Community College Teacher Education Programs (NACCTEP): Connecting Communities, Baltimore, Maryland, USA. http://www.nacctep.com/_Conferences/2010_Baltimore/Index.html
March 28-31, 2010 Innovations Conference, sponsored by the League for Innovation in the Community Colleges, 13^th, Hilton Baltimore, Baltimore, Maryland, USA. http://www.league.org/i2010/
March 29-30, 2010 European Conference on Intellectual Capital, 2^nd, Lisbon, Portugal, http://academic-conferences.org/ecic/ecic2010/ecic10-home.htm
March 29-31, 2010 World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology (WASET) Spring Congress, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. http://www.waset.org/
March 29-31, 2010 International Conference on Mobile, Ubiquitous and Pervasive Computing (ICMUPC 2010), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. http://www.waset.org/conferences/2010/riodejaneiro/icmupc/
March 29-April 2, 2010 Society for Information Technology and Teacher Education (SITE) International Conference, 21^st, organized by SITE and the Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE), co-sponsored by the Education and Information Technology Digital Library (EdiTLib), Sheraton San Diego and Marina, San Diego, California, USA. http://site.aace.org/conf/
March 29-April 2, 2010 Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications, Mannheim, Germany. http://www.percom.org/
March 30-31, 2010 International Arab Conference on e-Technology (IACe-T), Kuwait, Kuwait. http://www.iace-t.org/
March ?, 2010 Computer Assisted Learning (CAL’10), Manchester, United Kingdom. http://www.cal-conference.elsevier.com/
March ?, 2010 International Conference in Games and Virtual Worlds for Serious Applications: Universidade do Minho, Braga, Portugal. http://www.vsgames2010.org/index.php/2nd-International-Conf.-on-Games-and-Virtual-Worlds-for-Serious-Applications

Information for the 2010 versions of the two conferences listed below was not available.

March 12-14, 2009 Canadian Undergraduate Technology Conference (CUTC), 10^th annual, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. http://www.cutc.ca/2009/conference.php or http://www.cutc.ca/2010/node/5
March 30-31, 2009 International Online Conference for Teaching and Learning, 7^th annual, sponsored by the State of Illinois and Learning Times, online. http://www.internationalonlineconference.org/

April 2010

April 4-7, 2010 International Conference on Telecommunications (ICT2010), 17^th sponsored by IEEE, Doha, Qatar. http://www.ict2010.org/
April 5-7, 2010 Society for College and University Planning (SCUP): Smart Planning in an Era of Uncertainty – New Tools and Strategies, Hyatt Regency La Jolla, San Diego, California, USA. http://www.scup.org/page/regions/pa/2010
April 6-7, 2010 International Conference on Higher Education and Quality Assurance, 2^nd, hosted by Mazoon College, Muscat, Oman. http://www.mazooncollege.edu.om/conference.html
April 6-9, 2010 Australian Council for Computers in Education Conference, biennial, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. http://www.acce.edu.au/
April 6-9, 2010 International Conference on Society and Information Technologies (UCSIT), Orlando, Florida, USA. http://www.iiis2010.org/icsit/website/default.asp?vc=29
April 6-9, 2010 International Conference on Education, Training and Informatics (ICETI), Orlando, Florida, USA. http://www.iiis2010.org/icsit/website/default.asp?vc=31
April 7-8, 2010 Teaching and Learning with Technology Conference, Purdue University, Lafayette, Indiana, USA. http://www.itap.purdue.edu/tlt/conference/
April 7-9, 2010 International Nursing Conference on School Nursing: Diversity and Dynamic of Nursing Science and Art, hosted by Faculty of Nursing, Prince of Songkla University, Graceland Resort and Spa Patong Beach, Phuket, Thailand. http://www.nur.psu.ac.th/FonConf2010/ or http://www.paaet.edu.kw/nursingen.htm
April 7-10, 2010 University Continuing Education Association (UCEA) Conference: Leading Innovation in Higher Education, 95^thannual, San Francisco, California, USA. http://www.ucea.edu/
April 7-10, 2010 International Conference on Computer Supported Education (CSEDU), 2^nd, Hotel Sidi Saler, Valencia, Spain. http://www.csedu.org
April 7-10, 2010, International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies, 6^th, (WEBIST2010), Valencia, Spain. http://www.webist.org/
April 7-11, 2010 Information Architecture Summit, 11^thannual, sponsored by the Information Society for the Information Age, Hyatt Regency, Phoenix Arizonal, USA. http://www.asis.org/conferences.html
April 8-9, 2010 Best Practices for Incorporating Web 2.0 and Web 3.0 into Your e-Learning Mix, eLearning Guild Online Seminar. http://www.elearningguild.com
April 8-9, 2010 Business and Education Conference, hosted by the Academy for Educational Development (AED), Washington, D.C., USA. http://www.conference-board.org/Conferences/conference.cfm?id=2079
April 9-13, 2010 Higher Learning Commission, 115^th annual, Chicago, Illinois, USA. http://www.ncahigherlearningcommission.org/
April 10-13, 2010 National School Boards Association, Chicago, Illinois, USA. http://www.nsba.org/conference/
April 10-15, 2010 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI), Atlanta, Georgia, USA. http://chi2010.org/
April 11-13, 2010 Distance Education and Training Council’s Conference, 84^th annual, L’Auberge Del Mar, Del Mar, California, USA. http://www.detc.org/meetingsReports.html
April 11-13, 2010 TechEd 2010: Technology in Education for the Real World, 15^th annual, sponsored by the Community College Foundation, Pasadena Convention Center, California, USA. http://www.techedevents.org/
April 11-16, 2010 International Conference on Networking (ICN 2010), 9^th annual, sponsored by International Academy, Research, and Industry Association (IARIA), Menuires, The Three Valleys, French Alps, France. http://www.iaria.org/conferences2010/ICN10.html
April 12-13, 2010 Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC), Edinburgh, United Kingdom. http://www.jisc.ac.uk/events.aspx
April 12-14, 2010 International Conference on Information Technology: New Generations (ITNG), 7^th, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA. http://www.itng.info/
April 12-14, 2010 Computers in Libraries 2010, 25^th annual, Hyatt Regency Crystal City, Arlington, Virginia, USA. http://www.infotoday.com/cil2010/
April 12-14, 2010 International Conference on Communications and Mobile Computing (CMC 2010), 2^nd, Shenzhen, China. http://world-research-institutes.org/conferences/CMC/2010/index.html
April 12-15, 2010 EDUCAUSE Security Professionals Conference, Atlanta, Georgia, USA. http://www.educause.edu/SecurityConference
April 12-15, 2010 MySQL Conference and Expo, Santa Clara, California, USA. http://conferences.oreillynet.com/
April 12-16, 2010 IEEE International Conference on Digital Game and Intelligent Toy Enhanced Learning (DIGITEL 2010), 3^rd, hosted by National Central University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan. http://digitel2010.cl.ncu.edu.tw/
April 12-16, 2010 International Conference on Wireless, Mobile and Ubiquitous Technologies in Education (WMUTE2008), 6^th, Taiwan. http://celstec.org/content/ieee-wmute-international-conference-wireless-mobile-and-ubiquitous-technologies-education or http://celstec.org/content/cfp-wmute2010
April 12-16, 2010 EDU-INFOTECH 2010 (exhibition of software and information technologies in education), 9^th, Moscow, Russia. http://www.mvk.ru/eng/
April 13, 2010 Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC), London, United Kingdom. http://www.jisc.ac.uk/events.aspx
April 14-16, 2010 European Next Web Conference. Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
http://2009.thenextweb.org/ or try http://2010.thenextweb.com/
April 14-18, 2010 National Art Education Association (NAEA) Annual Convention: Art, Education, and Social Justice, Baltimore, Maryland, USA. http://www.arteducators.org/olc/pub/NAEA/news/news_page_7.html
April 15-18, 2010 European Teacher Education Network (ETEN) Annual Conference, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland. http://www.eten-online.org/
April 17-20, 2010 American Association of Community Colleges Convention (AACC) Annual Convention, 90^th annual, Seattle, Washington, USA. http://www.aacc.nche.edu/
April 17-22, 2010 International Performance Improvement Conference, San Francisco, California, USA. http://www.ispi.org/
April 18-20, 2010 Sloan-C Workshop on Blended Learning and Higher Education: The Promise and Practice of Blended Learning, hosted by the University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA. http://www.uic.edu/depts/oee/blended/workshop/
April 18-20, 2010 Technology and Innovation in Education (TIE) 2009, 24^th annual, Sioux Falls, South Dakota, USA. http://conference.tie.net/
April 18-21, 2010 ACM Special Interest Group on University and College Computing Services (SIGUCCS) Management Symposium, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. http://www.siguccs.org/index.htm
April 18-21, 2010 Association for Communications Technology Professionals in Higher Education (ACUTA), 39^th, JW Marriott San Antonio Hill Country Resort and Spa, San Antonio, Texas, USA. http://www.acuta.org/relation/downloadfile.cfm?docnum=446
April 18-21, 2010 National Association of Campus Card Users (NACCU), 17^th annual, Phoenix, Arizona, USA. http://www.naccu.org/
April 18-21, 2010, ACM Special Interest Group on University and College Computing Services (SIGICCS 2009) Management Symposium, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. http://www.siguccs.org/index.htm
April 19-23, 2010 International Conference on College Teaching and Learning, 21^st, Sawgrass Golf Resort & Spa, Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida, USA. http://www.teachlearn.org/final.html
April 20-22, 2010 Technology, Colleges, and Community Worldwide Online Conference, 15^thannual, to be held online. http://tcc.kcc.hawaii.edu/
April 20-22, 2010 Edutech 2010: Education Technology and Services Show, Muscat, Oman. http://www.oite.com/edutech
April 20-22, 2010 European Computing Conference, Bucharest (ECCC’10), Romania. http://www.wseas.us/conferences/2010/bucharest/ecc/
April 20-23, 2010 Russian Education Forum 2010. Moscow, Russia. http://www.mvk.ru/eng/exhibitions/branches/
April 20-25, 2010 International Association of Facilitators (IAF) North American Conference: Collaboration in Action, Chicago, Illinois, USA. http://www.iafna.org/
April 21-22, 2010 Virtual School Society’s (VSS) Annual Spring Conference, Coast Plaza Hotel and Suites, Vancouver, BC, Canada. http://www.learnnowbc.ca/educators/Conference/conference2010.aspx
April 21-23, 2010 European Next Web Conference. 5^th, Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
http://2009.thenextweb.org/
April 21-23, 2010 Consortium for North American Higher Education Collaboration (CONAHEC), Houston, Texas, USA. http://www.conahec.org/conahec/Conferences/index.jsp
April 21-24, 2010 American Association of Collegiate Registrars and Admissions Officers (AACRAO) Conference, 96^thannual, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA. http://www.aacrao.org/
April 23-24, 2010 Consortium for Computing Sciences in Colleges South Central Regional Conference, 21^st, St. Edward’s University, Austin Texas. USA. http://www.sci.tamucc.edu/ccsc/
April 23-24, 2010 StudyWorld 2010: International Fair for Higher and Continuing Education, Berlin, Germany, http://www.studyworld2010.com/
April 23-24, 2010 Open Source Singapore Pacific-Asia (OSSPAC) Conference and Expo, Singapore. http://www.osspac.com/
April 25-28, 2010 New Zealand Association of Distance Education (DEANZ): Quality Connections – Boundless Possibilities Through Open, Flexible and Distance Learning Conference which is held every two years, Te Papa Tongarewa, National Museum of New Zealand, Wellington, New Zealand, http://www.deanz.org.nz/
April 26-28, 2010 Emerging Technologies in Academic Libraries (EMTACL 10), Trondheim, Norway. http://www.ntnu.no/ub/emtacl/
April 26-28, 2010 Canada International Conference on Education (CICE-2010), Toronto, Ontario, Canada. http://www.ciceducation.org/
April 26-29, 2010 Scientific and Technical Information and Rural Development: Highlights of Innovative Practices, Montpellier, France. http://www.e-agriculture.org/19.html?&no_cache=1&tx_ttnews[tt_news]=1673&tx_ttnews[backPid]=100&cHash=bd398c538f
April 26-30, 2010 International World Wide Web Conference (WWW2010), 19^th annual, Raleigh, North Carolina, USA. http://www2010.org/www/
April 28-29, 2010 Dalhousie Conference on University Teaching and Learning, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. http://learningandteaching.dal.ca/dcutl/index.html
April 28-30, 2010 Off-Campus Library Services Conference, 14^th annual, Cleveland, Ohio, USA. http://ocls.cmich.edu/conference/
April 28-30, 2010 European Conference on Digital Archiving (ECA 2010), 8^th, Geneva, Switzerland. http://www.bar.admin.ch/eca2010/index.html?lang=en
April 28-30, 2010 Annual Higher Education Summit, 8^th, Hilton Adelaide, Adelaide, Australia. http://ehlt.flinders.edu.au/news/?q=node/82 or http://www.highereducationconferences.ocm.au/
April 29-30, 2010 Practical and Effective Assessments in e-Learning, eLearning Guild Online Seminar, http://www.elearningguild.com
April 30-May 4, 2010 American Educational Research Association (AERA) Annual Meeting: Understanding Complex Ecologies in a Changing World, Denver, Colorado, USA. http://aera.net/
Fast Forward Educational Media Showcase, sponsored by Langara College, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada will no longer be held following 15 successful years.

Information for the 2010 versions of the two conferences listed below was not available.

April 15-17, 2009 CiTE, The Pearson eCollege Users Conference, Denver, Colorado, USA. http://cite.ecollege.com/
April 22-24, 2009 International Conference on Multimedia and ICT in Education, Lisbon, Portugal. http://www.formatex.org/micte2009/

May 2010

May 2-5, 2010 United States Distance Learning Association (USDLA) Conference, 4^th annual, St. Louis, Missouri, USA. http://usdla.org/
May 3-4, 2010 International Conference on Networked Learning, 7^th, Aalborg, Denmark. http://www.networkedlearningconference.org.uk/
May 3-6, 2010 Web 2.0 Expo, co-produced by O’Reilly Media and TechWeb, San Francisco, California, USA. http://conferences.oreillynet.com/
May 3-6, 2010 Educational Technologies (EDUTE’10), 6^th, sponsored by WSEAS/IASME Kantaoui, Sousse, Tunisia. http://www.wseas.us/conferences/2010/tunisia/edute/
May 4-7, 2010 Eurographics 2010, 31^st annual, sponsored by the European Association for Computer Graphics, Norrköing, Sweden. http://www.eurographics2010.se/
May 4-7, 2010 FMX 2010 Conference on Animation, Effects, Games and Interactive Media, 15^th, Haus der Wirtschaft, Stuttgart, Germany. http://fmx.de/start.php?lang=E&navi=1&page=pages
May 5-6, 2010 University of British Columbia Okanagan Learning Conference, 6^th annual, University of British Columbia Okanagan, Kelowna, British Columbia, Canada. http://www.ubc.ca/okanagan/ctl/conference
May 6-7, 2010 Manitoba Association for Distributed Learning and Training (MADLaT) Conference, Red River College, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. www.madlat.ca
May 7-8, 2010 Designing the 21^st Century Classroom, New York, New York, USA. http://www.21stcenturyschools.com/
May 9-15, 2010 WebTel, sponsored by the International Academy, Research, and Industry Association (IARIA), Barcelona, Spain. http://www.iaria.org/conferences2010/WebTel10.html
May 9-15, 2010 International Conference on Internet and Web Applications and Services (ICIW 2010), 5^th, sponsored by the International Academy, Research, and Industry Association (IARIA), Barcelona, Spain. http://www.iaria.org/conferences2010/ICIW10.html
May 9-15, 2010 International Conference on Internet Monitoring and Protection (ICIMP 2010), 5^th, sponsored by the International Academy, Research, and Industry Association (IARIA), Barcelona, Spain. http://www.iaria.org/conferences2010/ICIMP10.html
May 9-15, 2010 Advanced International Conference on Telecommunications, 6^thannual, sponsored by the International Academy, Research, and Industry Association (IARIA), Barcelona, Spain. http://www.iaria.org/conferences2010/AICT10.html
May 10-14, 2010 Future e-Learning Conference on Innovations in Learning for the Future, 3^rd, Istanbul, Turkey. http://www.futurelearning.org.tr/index_eng.php
May 11-12, 2010 Streaming Media East, Hilton New York, NY, USA. http://www.streamingmedia.com/east/
May 11-13, 2010 Future-Net, Boston, Massachusetts, USA. http://www.futurenetexpo.com/
May 12-14, 2010 European Association for Distance Learning (EADL), 25^th, Cambridge, United Kingdom. http://www.eadl.org/
May 13-14, 2010 The London Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL), 8^th International Conference: Disciplines, Pedagogies and Cultures for SoTL, London, United Kingdom. http://www.tvu.ac.uk/instil/London_SoTL_Conference_2010.jsp
May 13-14, 2010 Incorporating Social Media and Collaboration into Your e-Learning, eLearning Guild Online Seminar. http://www.elearningguild.com
May 13-14, 2010 Riding the Wave of Change: National Education and Technology Conference, sponsored by the Evergreen School Division, Gimli, Manitoba, Canada. http://www.esd.mb.ca/wave/
May 16-18, 2010 American Telemedicine Association (ATA) International Meeting and Trade Show, 15^th, San Antonio, Texas, USA. www.americantelemed.org
May 16-19, 2010 Canadian Network for Innovation in Education (CNIE) Conference: Heritage Matters – Inspiring Tomorrow, 3^rd, annual. Note that CNIE was formed by the joining of the Canadian Association for Distance Education (CADE) and the Association for Media and Technology in Education in Canada (AMTEC). The conference will take place at the Delta Saint John Hotel in Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada. http://www.cade-aced.ca/.
May 16-19, 2010 American Society for Training and Development (ASTD) International Conference and Exposition, Chicago, Illinois, USA. http://www.astd.org/content/conferences/ or http://www.astd2009.org/2010.html
May 17-18, 2010 Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SOTL) Academy, Eastern Michigan University, Ypsilanti, Michigan, USA. http://www.emich.edu/sotlacademy/
May 17-20, 2010 Canadian Association of Research Libraries Annual General Meeting, Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada. http://www.carl-abrc.ca/horaire/calendar-e.html
May 17-20, 2010 Learning Impact 2010 and The Summit on Global Learning: Industry Challenges, sponsored by IMS Global Learning Consortium, Long Beach, California, USA. http://www.imsglobal.org/learningimpact2010/
May 17-20, 2010 Global Learn Asia Pacific 2010: Global Conference on Learning and Technology, Shangri-La’s Rasa Sayang Resort, Penang, Malaysia. http://aace.org/conf/GLearn/call.htm
May 17-21, 2010 International Conference on Computer Graphics Theory and Applications, 5^th, Angers, France. grapp@visigrapp.org
May 18-20, 2010 Management World 2010, Nice, France. http://www.tmforum.org/browse.aspx or http://www.tmforum.org/Conferences/ManagementWorld2010/7867/Home.html
May 18-20, 2010 Information Technology in Education Conference (ITEC2010): Defence, Training, Simulation, Education, London, United Kingdom. http://www.itec.co.uk
May 19-21, 2010 International Conference on Research Challenges in Information Science (RCIS), 4^th, Nice, France. http://www.farcampus.com/rcis/index.php
May 19-21, 2010 European Association for Distance Learning (EADL) Conference: Making Quality Work! New Developments in Distance Education, Cambridge, United Kingdom. www.eadl.org
May 21-23, 2010 The Teaching Professor Conference, 7^th, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. http://www.teachingprofessor.com/
May 23-26, 2010 International Conference of MIT Learning International Networks Consortium, 5^th, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. http://linc.mit.edu/linc2010/
May 23-26, 2010 International Conference on Weblogs and Social Media (ICWSM 2010), 4^th, George Washington University, Washington, D.C., USA. http://www.icwsm.org/2010/
May 25-27, 2010 World Congress on Information Technology (WCIT 2010): Challenges of Change. Amsterdam, The Netherlands. http://www.wcit2010.com/
May 25-28, 2010 Inclusive Learning Technologies Conference, Surfers Paradise, Queensland, Australia. http://www.spectronicsinoz.com/conference/
May 25-28, 2010 International Conference on Qualitative and Quantitative Methods in Libraries (QQML) International Conference, Chania, Crete, Greece. http://www.isast.org/home.html
May 26-28, 2010 e-Learning Africa: International Conference on ICT for Development, Education and Training, 5^th, Mulungushi International Conference Centre, Lusaka, Zambia. http://www.elearning-africa.com/
May 26-28, 2010 World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology (WASET) Spring Congress, Tokyo, Japan. http://www.waset.org/
May 27-29, 2010 European Universities Continuing Education Network (EUCEN) Conference, 39^th, Rovaniemi, Finland. http://www.eucen.org/
May 28-30, 2010 Editors’ Association of Canada (EAC) Conference, Montreal, Quebec, Canada. http://www.editors.ca/conference/index.html
May 28-31, 2010 Association of Canadian College and University Teachers of English (ACCUTE), Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada. http://www.accute.ca/conference.html
May 30-June 2, 2010 e-Health 2010: From Investment to Impact, Vancouver Convention Centre, Vancouver, Canada. http://www.e-healthconference.com/
May 30-June 4, 2010 NAFSA 2010: Association of International Educators’ Annual Conference and Expo: The Changing Landscape of Global Higher Education, USA. http://www.nafsa.org/annual_conference
May 31 to June 2, 2010 Graphics Interface 2010, 36^th, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. http://www.graphicsinterface.org/ or http://people.scs.carleton.ca/~mould/gi2010//
May 31-June 2, 2010 Computer Animation and Social Agents (CASA 2010), 23^rd annual, Saint-Malo, France. http://casa2010.inria.fr/
May ?, 2010. Conference on Teaching and Learning: Diversity and Student Success, 3^rd annual, was held May 12-13, 2009 at the University of Windsor, Windsor, Ontario, Canada. The fourth should be held at Oakland University, Oakland, Michigan, USA. 2010 date has not been established. http://www2.oakland.edu/itlconference/index.cfm
May ?, 2010 Opportunities and New Directions: A Research Conference on Teaching and Learning University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. Contact nsimmons@admmail.uwaterloo.ca or view http://cte.uwaterloo.ca/research_on_teaching_and_learning/index.html
May ? 2010 EdTech 2009 sponsored by the Irish Learning Technology Association, 11^th annual, will be held at Athlone Institute of Technology, Athlone, Westmeath, Ireland, 2010 date has not been established. http://ilta.net/
May ? 2010 Leading Learning Conference, 5^thannual, was held May 3-4, 2009 and hosted by the Toronto Catholic District School Board, the Trillium-Lakelands District School Board, the Peel District School Board, the York Regional School Board, and York University, Hockley Valley Resort, Orangeville near Toronto, Ontario, Canada. This conference may not be held in 2010. www.leadinglearning.org

Information for the 2010 versions of the seven conferences listed below was not available.

May 1-2, 2009 Western Canadian Conference on Computing Education, 14^thannual, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada. http://www.cs.sfu.ca/wccce2009/
May 2, 2009 Investigating Our Practice, 12^th annual, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. http://www.eplt.educ.ubc.ca/workshops/iop/iop2009.htm
May 4-5, 2009 EduMedia (Education and Media) Educational Innovation and Web Technologies Conference: eCreativity and eInnovation, 5^th, Salzburg, Austria. http://edumedia.salzburgresearch.at/
May 7-9, 2009 International Conference on Information and Communication Technology and Accessibility, Hammamet, Tunisia. http://www.icta.rnu.tn
May 13-15, 2009 ANGEL User Conference, Chicago, Illinois, USA. http://www.angellearning.com/auc/
May 21-22, 2009 Canadian Society for Training and Development (CSTD), Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. http://www.cstd.ca/
May 27-28, 2009 International Conference on Languages, Penang, Malaysia. http://www.bvents.com/event/277441-upals-icl-international-conference-on-languages

June 2010

June 1-4, 2010 Canadian Association for University Continuing Education (CAUCE) Conference: Creative Continuing Education – Imaginative and Diverse Worlds, 57^th annual, hosted by the University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada. http://cauce-aepuc.ca/news-events/conference.aspx
June 1-4, 2010 International Conference on Supercomputing, 24^th, Tsukuba, Japan. http://www.ics-conference.org/
June 2, 2010 Centre for Learning and Teaching Research (CLTR) Learning and Teaching Research Conference: Systematic Enhancement of Learning and Teaching – Innovation, Research and Development, 9^th, Ormskirk Campus of Edge Hill University, Lancashire, United Kingdom. http://www.edgehill.ac.uk/cltr/
June 2-4, 2010 EDUCAUSE Southeast Regional Conference, Atlanta, Georgia, USA. http://www.educause.edu/serc
June 2-5, 2010 Canadian Library Association Conference, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. http://www.cla.ca/
June 2-5, 2010 National Center for Advanced Study of Teaching and Learning (CASTL) Institute: Creativity, sponsored by the Carnegie Foundation, Creighton University, Omaha, Nebraska, USA. http://www.creighton.edu/castl/
June 3, 2010 SOLSTICE 2010: Innovation, Research and Development – Technology Enhanced Learning and the Student Experience, Edge Hill University, Ormskirk, United Kingdom. http://www.edgehill.ac.uk/solstice/Conference2010/index.htm
June 3-4, 2010 Security in Futures – Security in Change, 12^th International Conference of Finland Futures Research Centre and Finland Futures Academy, Turku, Finland. http://conference2010.wordpress.com/ or http://www.futuresconference.fi/
June 3-5, 2010, Lilly Conference on College and University Teaching, hosted by International Teaching Learning Cooperative, Washington, D.C., USA. http://www.lillyconferences.com/
June 6-8, 2010 Association of Canadian Community Colleges (ACCC) Conference: Power the Future, hosted by Niagara College, Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada. http://accc.ca/
June 6-9, 2010 Distance Learning Administration, Jekyll Island Club Hotel, Jekyll Island, Georgia, USA. http://www.westga.edu/~distance/dla/
June 6-9, 2010 International Society for Professional Innovation Management: The Dynamics of Innovation, Bilbao, Spain. http://conference.ispim.org/
June 6-9, 2010 Learning College Summit, sponsored by the League for Innovation in the Community College, Phoenix, Arizona, USA. http://www.league.org/
June 7-9, 2010 EduComm 2010, The Mirage, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA. http://educommconference.com/
June 7-9, 2010 European Conference on Information Systems (ECIS): IT to Empower, 18^th, Pretoria, South Africa. http://web.up.ac.za/default.asp?ipkCategoryID=8136&subid=8136&ipklookid=7&parentid= or http://www.ecis2010.it/
June 7-10, 2010 European College Teaching and Learning Conference, sponsored by the Clute Institute for Academic Research, Dublin, Ireland, USA. http://www.cluteinstitute.com/
June 7-10, 2010 International Conference on the First-Year Experience, 23^rd, Maui, Hawaii, USA. http://www.sc.edu/fye/events/international/index.html
June 7-11, 2010 Joint Conference on Digital Libraries, Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia. http://www.jcdl2010.org/
June 8-11, 2010 Computer Graphics International (CGI 2010), Singapore. http://cgi2010.miralab.unige.ch/
June 8-12, 2010 Computer Assisted Language Instruction Consortium (CALICO) Conference, Amherst College, Amherst, Massachusetts, USA. https://www.calico.org/conference/
June 8-12, 2010 International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems (ICEIS 2010), 12th annual, Funchal, Madeira, Portugal. http://www.iceis.org/
June 9-10, 2010 LearnX Asia Pacific 2010: eLearning and Training Solutions International Conference and Expo, Sydney, Australia. http://www.learnx.net/learnx/
June 9-11, 2010 International Conference on Learning and Teaching, Temasek Polytechnic, Singapore. http://www.tp.edu.sg/events/intlconference/
June 9-11, 2010 International Conference on e-Learning in the Workplace (ICELW 2010), Teachers College, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA. http://www.icelw.org/
June 9-11, 2010 Games and Learning and Society Conference, 6^th, Madison, Wisconsin, USA http://www.glsconference.org/2009/index.html
June 9-11, 2010 Teaching with Technology Idea Exchange 2010, 6^th annual, location to be determined, USA. http://www.ttix.org/
June 9-12, 2010 New Media Consortium (NMC) Summer Conference, Anaheim, California, USA. http://www.nmc.org/2010-summer-conference
June 9-12, 2010 European Distance and e-Learning Network (EDEN) Annual Conference: Media Inspirations for Learning – Where Is the Impact Coming From?. Valencia, Spain. http://www.eden-online.org/
June 9-12, 2010 International Conference on Comparative Education and Teacher Training, 8^th, Plovdiv, Bulgaria. http://bces.conference.tripod.com/
June 10-11, 2010 The Rapid Development Tools Intensive, eLearning Guild Online Seminar. http://www.elearningguild.com
June 13-16, 2010 Special Libraries Association (SLA), New Orleans, Louisiana, USA. http://www.sla.org/content/Events/
June 13-16, 2010 Canadian Higher Education and Information Technology (CANHEIT 2010), 8^th annual, Memorial University, St. John’s, Newfoundland, Canada. http://www.cuccio-cdpiuc.ca/en/canheit/index.php
June 13-16, 2010 Hypertext 2010: ACM Conference on Hypertext and Hypermedia, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. http://www.ht2010.org/
June 13-19, 2010 NexComm 2010, Athens, Greece. http://www.iaria.org/conferences2010/NexComm10.html
June 13-19, 2010 International Conference on Digital Telecommunications (ICDT 2010), 5^th, Athens, Greece. http://www.iaria.org/conferences2010/ICDT10.html
June 14-17, 2010 IEEE International Symposium on World of Wireless, Mobile and Multimedia Networks (WoWMoM), 11^th, Montreal, Quebec, Canada. http://www.ieee-wowmom.org
June 14-18, 2010 International Conference on Intelligent Tutoring Systems (ITS): Bridges to Learning, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA. http://www.cmu.edu/its2010/
June 15-17, 2010 Sakai Conference, 11^th annual, Hyatt Regency Tech Center, Denver, Colorado, USA. http://sakaiproject.org/portal
June 15-18, 2010 International Conference on Cultural Attitudes Towards Technology and Communication, biennial conference, Vancouver, British Columbia, USA. http://www.catacconference.org/
June 16-17, 2010 Blended Learning Conference 2010, University of Hertfordshire, Hatfield, United Kingdom. http://www.herts.ac.uk/about-us/learning-and-teaching/learning-teaching-institute/blu-cetl/home.cfm
June 16-18, 2010 eLearning DevCon 2010, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA. http://www.elearndevcon.com/
June 16-18, 2010 ELPUB, Electronic Publishing – Publishing in the Networked World – Transforming the Nature of Communications, Helsinki, Finland. http://conferences.aepic.it/elpub2010/
June 16-19, 2010 International Symposium on Electronic Theses and Dissertations (ETD), 13^th, organized by the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations (NDTD), Austin, Texas. USA. http://www.ndltd.org/
June 17-18, 2010 American Council on Education, Chairing the Academic Department, Washington, D.C., USA. http://www.acenet.edu//AM/Template.cfm?Section=Events2
June 17-18, 2010 European Conference on e-Government, 10^th, Limerick, Ireland. http://academic-conferences.org/eceg/eceg2010/eceg10-home.htm
June 17-24, 2010 InSITE 2010, the Informing Science + Information Technology Education Joint Conference, hosted by the University of Bari and the University of Cassino, Italy. http://2010.informingscience.org/
June 20-22, 2010 Global Information Technology Management Association 2010, 11^th annual, Washington, D.C.. http://www.gitma-la.org/
June 20-24, 2010 The Evolving World of e-Science: Impact and Implications for Science and Technology Libraries, 31^st annual, Purdue University, sponsored by the International Association of Scientific and Technological University Libraries (IATUL), Chicago, Illinois, USA. http://blogs.lib.purdue.edu/iatul2010/
June 20-24, 2010 User Modeling, Adaptation, and Personalization (UMAP), Hawaii, USA. http://www.hawaii.edu/UMAP2010/
June 21-23, 2010 Afrigraph: International Conference on Virtual Reality, Computer Graphics, Visualization and Interaction in Africa, 7^th, Franschoek, South Africa. http://www.afrigraph.org/
June 21-23, 2010 Instructional Technology and Education of the Deaf, sponsored by the National Technical Institute for the Deaf at Rochester Institute of Technology, The Nippon Foundation of Japan and PEN-International, Rochester, New York, USA. http://www.rit.edu/ntid/vp/techsym/
June 21-24, 2010 International Association of Technological University Libraries (IATUL) Conference: Evolving World of e-Science, 31^st annual, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, USA. http://www.iatul.org/conferences/
June 21-24, 2010 International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML 2010), 27^th, Haifa, Israel. http://www.icml2010.org/
June 21-25, 2010 Digital Libraries 2010: 10 Years Past, 10 Years Forward, A 2020 Vision, hosted by the University of Queensland, Holiday Inn, Surfers Paradise, Gold Coast, Australia. http://www.jcdl2010.org/
June 21-25, 2010 International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems, 30^th, Genova, Italy. http://icdcs2010.cnit.it/
June 22-24, 2010 Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development (ASCD) Summer Conference: Differentiated Instruction, Understanding by Design, What Works in Schools, and Curriculum Mapping, Orlando, Florida, USA. http://www.ascd.org/conferences.aspx
June 22-24, 2010 International Conference on Education Technology and Computer, 2^nd, Shanghai, China. http://www.icetc.org/
June 23-25, 2010 International Workshop on Content-Based Multimedia Indexing, 8^th, Grenoble, France, http://mrim.imag.fr/cbmi2010/
June 23-25, 2010 Canadian E-Learning Conference, hosted by the University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. cel2010@ualberta.ca
June 23-26, 2010 International Conference of the Society for Teaching and Learning in Higher Education (STLHE): Creative Teaching and Learning – Exploring, Shaping, Knowing, sponsored by Ryerson University and the Ontario College of Art and Design (OCAD), Toronto, Ontario, Canada. http://www.ryerson.ca/lt/programs/conference/
June 23-26, 2010 Faculty Learning Community Developers’ and Facilitators’ Summer Institute, 11^thannual, sponsored by the International Alliance of Teacher Scholars, Kellog West Ranch at California Polytechnic State University, Pomona, California, USA. http://www.iats.com/conferences/flc/index.shtml
June 24-25, 2010 The Asynchronous Learning Tools Intensive, eLearning Guild Online Seminar: http://www.elearningguild.com
June 24-25, 2010 European Conference on Research Methods (ECRM), 9^th, Madrid, Spain. http://academic-conferences.org/ecrm/ecrm2010/ecrm10-home.htm
June 24-26, 2010 World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology (WASET) Summer Congress, Paris, France. http://www.waset.org/
June 24-29, 2010 American Library Association Annual Conference, Washington Convention Center, Washington, D.C., USA. http://www.ala.org/
July 26-28, 2010 eduWeb Conference, 5^th annual, Doubletree Hotel, Chicago, Illinois, USA. http://www.eduwebconference.com/
June 26-30, 2010 Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education (ITICSE 2010), 15^th annual, Bilkent, Ankara, Turkey. http://iticse2010.bilkent.edu.tr/
June 27-29, 2010 Conference on Learning Theory (COLT), 23^rd annual, Haifa, Israel. http://www.colt2010.org/
June 27-30, 2010 International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE 2010), 31^st annual, Denver, Colorado, USA. http://www.iste.org/
June 27-30, 2010 International Telecommunications Society Asian Symposium, 18^th biennial conference, Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan. http://www.itsworld.org/
June 28-30, 2010 International Conference on Information Society (i-Society), London, United Kingdom. http://www.i-society.eu/
June 28-30, 2010 International Conference on Educational Technology (ICET 2009), 7^th, Paris, France. http://www.waset.org/conferences/2010/paris/icet/
June 28-30, 2010 International Conference on e-Education and e-Learning, 8^th, Paris, France. http://www.waset.org/conferences/2010/paris/iceeel/
June 28-30, 2010 International Conference on e-Commerce, e-Business and e-Service (ICCBS 2010), Paris, France. http://www.waset.org/conferences/2010/paris/iceeel/
June 28-30, 2010 International Conference on Education and Information Technologies (ICEIT 2010), Paris, France. http://www.waset.org/conferences/2010/paris/iceit/
June 28-30, 2010 International Conference on Innovation, Technology and Knowledge Economy, (ICITKE), Paris, France. http://www.waset.org/conferences/2010/paris/icitke/
June 28-30, 2010 International Conference on Technology and Education (ICTE 2010), Paris, France. http://www.waset.org/conferences/2010/paris/icte/
June 28-30, 2010 International Consortium for Educational Development, Barcelona, Spain. http://www.osds.uwa.edu.au/iced
June 28-30, 2010 Annual Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education, Ankara, Turkey. http://www.iticse2010.bilkent.edu.tr/
June 28-July 2, 2010, EDUCAUSE Learning Technology Leadership Program, Portland, Oregon, USA. http://net.educause.edu/TheEDUCAUSEInstituteLearningTechnologyLeadershipProgram/6273
June 28-July 2, 2010 ED-MEDIA 2010: World Conference on Educational Multimedia, Hypermedia and Telecommunications, sponsored by the Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE), Westin Harbour Castle Hotel, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. http://aace.org/conf/cities/toronto/
June 28-July 2, 2010 Wireless Communications Mobile Computing Symposium, 6^th, Caen, France. http://iwcmc.com/
June 29-July 2, 2010 International Conference on Education and Information Systems, Technologies and Applications (EISTA 2010), 8^th, Orlando, Florida, USA. http://www.iiis2010.org/imsci/website/default.asp?vc=5
June 29-July 2, 2010 International Conference on New Directions in the Humanities, 8^th, University of California, Los Angeles, USA. http://thehumanities.com/conference-2010/
June 29-July 2, 2010 International Conference of the Learning Sciences (ICLS): Learning in the Disciplines, 9^th, University of Illinois, Chicago, Illinois, USA. http://www.isls.org/icls2010/
June 30-July 2, 2010 Mobilware2010: International Conference on MOBILe Wireless MiddleWARE, Operating Systems and Applications, 3^rd, Chicago, USA. http://www.mobilware.org/
June 30-July 2, 2010 International Conference on Teaching and Learning: Inspired Solutions, Empowering Learning – Using Technology to Collaborate, Adapt and Improve Adult Learning. Singapore. http://www.unisim.edu.sg/uni/pub/ICT2010/index.html
June ? 2010 International Lifelong Learning Conference was held June 16-19, 2008 at Rydges Capricorn Resort, Yeppoon, Queensland, Australia. As the conference is held every second year, the 2010 date has not been established as yet. http://lifelonglearning.cqu.edu.au/2008/index.htm
Distance Education Technology Symposium sponsored by the Centre for Distance Education, Athabasca University was not held in 2009 and may not be held in 2010. Contact patf@athabascau.ca

Information for the 2010 versions of the ten conferences listed below was not available.

June 1-3 2009 Redesigning Pedagogy International Conference: Designing New Learning Contexts for a Globalising World, 3^rd, National Institute of Education, Singapore http://conference.nie.edu.sg/2009/index.php
June 3-5, 2009 International Conference on Interactive Design and Children, 8^th, Milano, Como, Italy. http://www.idc09.polimi.it/
June 5-7, 2009 Japan Association for Language Teaching Computer Assisted Language Learning (JALTCALL 2009): Expanding Learner Potential – It’s Your Call!, Hongo Campus, Toyo Gakuen University, Japan. http://jaltcall.org/news/
June 8-10, 2009 Communicating Change: Weaving the Web into the Future, 7^thannual, Arts and Humanities Graduate School, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, the United Kingdom. http://www.gla.ac.uk/faculties/arts/graduateschool/graduateschoolconference2009
June 10-12, 2009 International Problem-based Learning Symposium: What Are We Learning about Learning?, 2^nd, Republic Polytechnic, Singapore http://www.rp.sg/symposium/2009/
June 13-19, 2009 InfoComm09: Information Communications Marketplace, Orlando, Florida, USA. www.infocomm.org
June 16-17, 2009 Innovations in e-Information: the UKeIG 2009 State of the Art Conference, Manchester Conference Centre, Manchester, United Kingdom. http://www.ukeig.org.uk/conf2009/index.html
June 17-19, 2009 Sloan-C International Symposium on Emerging Technology Applications for Online Learning and Moodle Moot 2009, Hyatt Regency San Francisco, San Francisco, California, USA. http://www.emergingonlinelearningtechnology.org/
June 23-25, 2009 m-Libraries Conference, 2^nd, hosted by the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. May be held again in 2010 or 2011. www.library.open.ac.uk/mLibraries/
June 28-July 3, 2009 IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo, Cancun Mexico. http://www.icme09.org/

July 2010

July 1-2, 2010 E-Learning Baltics (eLBa), Rostock, Germany. http://www.e-learning-baltics.de/
July 1-2, 2010 International Computer Science and Technology Conference, San Diego, California, USA. http://www.icstc.org/
July 1-3, 2010 International Conference on Improving University Teaching, 35^th, Washington, D.C., USA. http://www.iutconference.org/
July 5-7, 2010 ePortfolio 2010, London, United Kingdom. http://www.epforum.eu/
July 5-8, 2010 International Conference on Technology in Mathematics Teaching, 10^th, University of Portsmouth, Portsmouth, United Kingdom. http://ictmt10.org/
July 5-9, 2010 Global Business and Technology Association (GBATA) Conference, Generating Innovative Solutions to Recurring Problems in the Global Business Environment, 12^th, Mpumalanga, South Africa. http://www.gbata.com
July 5-10, 2010 IEEE International Conference on Web Services (ICWS), Miami, Florida, USA. http://conferences.computer.org/icws/2010/
July 6-9, 2010 International Conference on Learning, 17^th, Hong Institute of Education, Hong Kong, China. http://thelearner.com/conference-2010/
July 6-9, 2010 International Conference on Open Repositories, 5^th, Madrid, Spain. http://www.openrepositories.org/
July 6-9, 2010 Higher Education Research and Development Society of Australasia (HERDSA) Conference, Melbourne, Australia. http://www.herdsa.org.au or http://conference.herdsa.org.au/2010/
July 7-9, 2010 International Professional Communication Conference, sponsored by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Professional Communication Society, University of Twente, the Netherlands. http://ewh.ieee.org/soc/pcs/index.php?q=node/843
July 7-10, 2010 Digital Humanities 2010, King’s College, London, United Kingdom. http://www.cch.kcl.ac.uk/dh2010/
July 8-10, 2010 International Conference on ICTs in Education, Corfu, Greece. http://www.icicte.org/index.htm
July 8-10, 2010 International Conference on Information Communication Technologies in Education (ICICTE), Corfu, Greece. http://www.icicte.org/
July 8-11, 2010 International Conference on Psychology Education (ICOPE), Sydney, Australia. http://icope2010.psy.unsw.edu.au/
July 9-11, 2010 International Conference on Computers Helping People with Special Needs: Assistive Technologies and Information and Communication Technologies, University of Linz, Vienna, Austria. http://www.icchp.org/
July 9-11, 2010 International Conference on Computer Science and Information Technology (ICCSIT), 3^rd IEEE conference, Chengdu, China. http://www.iccsit.org/
July 9-11, 2010 International Conference on the Application of Digital Information and Web Technologies (ICADIWT 2009), 3^rd, Fatih University, Istanbul, Turkey. http://www.dirf.org/diwt2010/
July 9-11, 2010 Wikimania 2010, 6^thannual, Gdansk, Poland. http://wikimania2010.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
July 10-13, 2010 American Association of Law Libraries (AALL): Mapping Our Future, 103^rd annual, Denver, Colorado, USA. http://www.aallnet.org/events/
July 10-14, 2010 Society for College and University Planning (SCUP): Integrated Leadership for a New Reality, 45^th, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA. http://www.scup.org/
July 11-15, 2010 American Association for Artificial Intelligence Conference, Atlanta, Georgia, USA. http://www.aaai.org/Conferences/AAAI/aaai10.php
July 12-13, 2010 International Conference on e-Learning (ICEL), 5^th, Universiti Sains Malaysia, Penang, Malaysia. http://academic-conferences.org/icel/icel2010/icel10-home.htm
July 12-14, 2010 National Diversity in Libraries Conference: From Groundwork to Action, Princeton, New Jersey, USA. http://www.arl.org/
July 12-15, 2010 WORLDCOMP’10: International Conference on e-Learning, e-Business, Enterprise Information Systems, and e-Government (The 2010 World Congress in Computer Science, Computer Engineering and Applied Computing), Las Vegas, Nevada, USA. http://www.world-academy-of-science.org/worldcomp10/ws
July 12-16, 2010 EDUCAUSE Institute Leadership Program, Boulder, Colorado, USA. http://net.educause.edu/node/1733?time=1229911317
July 12-16, 2010 Building Learning Communities, Boston, Massachusetts, USA. http://www.novemberlearning.com/blc
July 12-17, 2010 Association on Higher Education and Disability (AHEAD) Conference: Person, Disability, Diversity, Humanity, Denver, Colorado, USA. http://www.ahead.org/
July 12-17, 2010 International Education and Resource Network (iEARN), 17^th annual conference and Youth Summit, 14^th, Barrie, Ontario, Canada. http://iearn.org/index.html
July 14-16, 2010 World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology (WASET) Summer Congress, London, United Kingdom. http://www.waset.org/
July 14-16, 2010 International Conference on Open Learning and Distance Education, London, United Kingdom. http://www.waset.org/conferences/2010/london/icolde/
July 14-16, 2010 International Conference on e-Democracy, e-Government and e-Society (ICDGS), London, United Kingdom. http://www.waset.org/conferences/2010/london/icdgs/
July 14-16, 2010 International Conference on Knowledge Management and Knowledge Economy (ICKMKE 2010), London, United Kingdom. http://www.waset.org/conferences/2010/london/ickmke/
July 14-16, 2010 Association of Physical Plant Administrators (APPA) 2010, Boston, Massachusetts, USA. http://www.appa.org/
July 14-22, 2010 Creativity Workshop, Florence, Italy. http://www.creativityworkshop.com/
July 15-16, 2010 Getting Started with e-Learning, eLearning Guild Online Seminar. http://www.elearningguild.com
July 18-20, 2010 Lausanne Laptop Institute, Lausanne Collegiate School, Memphis, Tennessee, USA. http://www.laptopinstitute.com/lil/
July 18-20, 2010 American Association of Collegiate Registrars and Admissions Officers Technology Conference, Westin Crown Center, Kansas City, Missouri, USA. http://www.aacrao.org/
July 18-21, 2010 National Staff Development Council (NSDC) Summer Conference, Seattle, Washington, USA. http://www.nsdc.org/
July 18-21, 2010 Association for Information Communications Technology Professionals in Higher Education (ACUTA) The Palace Hotel, San Francisco, California, USA. http://www.acuta.org/relation/downloadfile.cfm?docnum=446
July 18-22, 2010 International Association for Media and Communication Research (IAMCR): Communication and Citizenship. http://www.iamcr.org/
July 18-23, 2010 IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence (WCCI), Barcelona, Spain. http://www.wcci2010.org/
July 18-23, 2010 International Association for Computing Machinery's (ACM) Special Interest Group on Information Retrieval Conference, 33^rd, Geneva, Switzerland. http://www.sigir2010.org/doku.php
July 18-25, 2010 International Conference on Advances in Future Internet, 2^nd, Venice, Italy. http://www.iaria.org/conferences2010/AFIN10.html
July 19-22, 2010 International Conference on Critical Thinking: How to Teach Students to Master Content by Developing a Questioning Mind, 30^th annual, Berkeley, California, USA. http://www.criticalthinking.org/
July 19-23, 2010 EDUCAUSE Management Program, Boulder, Colorado, USA. http://net.educause.edu/TheEDUCAUSEInstituteManagementProgram/1734
July 19-23, 2010 Association for Educational Communications and Technology, Summer Research Symposium: The Evolution from Distance Education to Distributed Learning, Bloomington, Indiana, USA. http://www.aect.org/events/
July 19-23, 2010 International Symposium on Applications and the Internet (SAINT), 10^th, Seoul, Korea. http://www.saintconference.org/ or http://infonet.cse.kyutech.ac.jp/conf/saint10/
July 21-24, 2010 Paris International Conference on Education, Economy and Society, Novotel Paris Tour Eiffel, France. http://education-conferences.org/default.aspx
July 21-25, 2010 Society for Values in Higher Education: Making Choices – Sustainability in a World of Conflicting Values, Portland State University, Portland, Washington, USA. http://www.svhe.org/.
July 26-28, 2010 International Joint Conference on e-Business and Telecommunications (ICETE 2008), Athens, Greece. http://www.icete.org/
July 26-28, 2010 International Association for Development of the Information Society (IADIS) Informatics 2010, Freiburg, Germany. http://www.informatics-conf.org/
July 26-28, 2010 International Association for Development of the Information Society (IADIS) International Telecommunications, Networks, and Systems 2010, Freiburg, Germany. http://www.tns-conf.org/
July 26-28, 2010 International Association for Development of the Information Society (IADIS) International Conference on Wireless Applications and Computing, Freiburg, Germany. http://www.wac-conf.org/
July 26-28, 2010 International Association for Development of the Information Society (IADIS) International Conference on Game and Entertainment Technologies (GET2009), Freiburg, Germany. http://www.gaming-conf.org/
July 26-29, 2010 International Association for Development of the Information Society (IADIS) International Conference on e-Learning, Freiburg, Germany. http://www.elearning-conf.org/
July 26-30, 2010 Faculty Development Summer Institute on Active Learning and Teaching, 27^th, Charlottetown, PEI, Canada. http://www.upei.ca/lifelonglearning/FDSInstitute
July 26-30, 2010 Special Interest Group on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques, SIGGRAPH 2010: International Conference and Exhibition on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques, 37^th, Los Angeles, California, USA. http://www.siggraph.org/s2010/
June 26-31, 2010 International Association for Development of the Information Society (IADIS) Multi Conference on Computer Science and Information Systems (MCCIS), Freiburg, Germany. http://www.mccsis.org
July 27-29, 2010 International Association for Development of the Information Society (IADIS) International Conference on Computer Graphics and Visualization, Freiburg, Germany. http://www.cgv-conf.org/
July 28-30, 2010 International Conference on Intelligent Systems and Technologies (ICIST 2010), Toronto, Ontario, Canada. http://www.waset.org/conferences/2010/toronto/icist/
July 28-30, 2010 World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology (WASET) Summer Congress, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. http://www.waset.org/
July 28-30, 2010 International Conference on Human Computer Interaction (ICHCI 2010), Toronto, Ontario, Canada. http://www.waset.org/conferences/2010/toronto/ichci/
July 28-30, 2010 International Association for Development of the Information Society (IADIS) International Conference on Interfaces and Human Computer Interaction, Freiburg, Germany. http://www.ihci-conf.org/
July 28-30, 2010 International Association for Development of the Information Society (IADIS) e-Commerce, Freiburg, Germany. http://www.ecommerce-conf.org/
July 28-31, 2010 Association of Management/International Association of Management (AoM/IAoM), Las Vegas, Nevada, USA. http://www.aom-iaom.org
July 29-31, 2010 International Association for Development of the Information Society (IADIS) International Conference on Web Based Communities, Freiburg, Germany. http://www.webcommunities-conf.org/
July 29-August 2, 2010, International Workshop-Conference on Teaching Philosophy (IWCTP), 18^th biennial, sponsored by the American Association of Philosophy Teachers (AAPT), Coastal Carolina University, Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, USA. http://philosophyteachers.org/
July ?, 2010 Design Research Society Conference, 5^th biennial. The 4^th was held July 16-19, 2008 in Sheffield, United Kingdom. 2010 date to be determined. http://drs2008.designinquiry.wikispaces.net/
July ?, 2010 Technology for Engagement, Assessment and Communication in Higher Education (TEACH!) Conference was held July 15-18, 2008 at Durham, New Hampshire, USA. 2010 date to be determined. http://unh.edu/idc/teach/

August 2010

August 1-4, 2010 International Conference on Computing and ICT Research (ICCIR), 6^th, Makere University, Kampala, Uganda. http://www.cit.mak.ac.ug/
August 2-5, 2010 Interdisciplinary Social Sciences, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom. http://thesocialsciences.com/conference-2010/
August 3-6, 2010 Distance Teaching and Learning Conference, 26^th annual, sponsored by the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Education, Madison, Wisconsin, USA. http://www.uwex.edu/disted/conference
August 4-6, 2010 International Conference on Networked Digital Technologies (NDT), 2^nd, London Metropolitan Business School, London Metropolitan University, United Kingdom. http://dirf.org/ndt2010/
August 4-6, 2010 eAsia, Hyderabad, India. http://www.e-asia.org/2009/index.asp
August 7-11, 2010 Association of Teacher Educators Summer Conference, Kansas City, Missouri, USA. http://www.ate1.org/pubs/2010_Kansas_City_S.cfm
August 10-15, 2010 World Library and Information Congress, 76^th International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA) General Conference and Assembly: Open Access to Knowledge – Promoting Sustainable Progress, Gothenburg, Sweden. http://www.ifla.org/en/annual-conference
August 11-13, 2010 World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology (WASET) Summer Congress, Stockholm, Sweden. http://www.waset.org/
August 11-13, 2010 International Conference on Health and Medical Informatics (ICHMI 2010), Stockholm, Sweden. http://www.waset.org/conferences/2010/stockholm/ichmi/
August 12-13, 2010 Incorporating Games and Gaming Techniques into Your e-Learning, eLearning Guild Online Seminar http://www.elearningguild.com
August 12-15, 2010 Americas Conference on Information Systems, 16^th, Lima, Peru. http://www.amcis2010.org/home/
August 14-19, 2010 World Library and Information Congress, 76^th International Federation of Library Associations, Brisbane, Australia. http://www.ifla.org/IV/index.htm
August 16-20, 2010 European Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Lisbon, Portugal. http://ecai2010.appia.pt/
August 18-20, 2010 Interactive Technologies Conference, hosted by the Society for Applied Learning Technology (SALT), Sheraton Crystal City Hotel, Arlington, Virginia, USA. http://www.salt.org/
August 18-20, 2010 International Workshop on e-Activity, 4^th IEEE workshop, Yamagata University, Yonezawa, Japan. http://www.iwea.net/
August 18-20, 2010 International Conference on Computer and Information Science (ICIS2010), Yamagata University, Yamagata, Japan. http://acis.cps.cmich.edu:8080/ICIS2010/
August 18-21, 2010 IEEE International Conference on Development and Learning (ICDL 2010), 9^th, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA. http://www.icdl-10.org/
August 24-27, 2010 Tech-Ed Australia, Gold Coast Convention and Exhibition, Centre, Gold Coast, Australia. http://www.microsoft.com.au/teched/default.aspx or https://www.infosalons.com.au/teched2010/prereg/register.asp
August 25-27, 2010 Campus Technology 2010, Beijing, China. http://campustechnology.com/microsites/campus-technology-china/event-home.aspx
August 25-27, 2010 World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology (WASET) Summer Congress, Singapore. http://www.waset.org/
August 25-27, 2010 International Conference on Wireless and Mobile Communication Systems, Singapore. http://www.waset.org/conferences/2010/singapore/icwmcs/
August ?, 2010 Multimedia in Physics Teaching and Learning: Design, Development and Validation, 13^thGIREP 2008, Learning in Science Group conference was held August 18-22, 2008 in University of Cyprus, Cyprus. The conference is held every second year. http://www.ucy.ac.cy/girep2008/
August ?, 2010 International Conference on Web-based Learning (ICWL2010), 9^th, Shanghai University, Shanghai, China. http://www.hkws.org/events/icwl2010/

September 2010

September 1-4, 2010 European Higher Education Society Forum: Linking Society and Universities – New Missions for Universities, 32^nd, Valencia, Spain. http://www.eair.nl/
September 1-4, 2010 British Educational Research Association Conference, University of Warwick, near Coventry, United Kingdom. http://www.bera.ac.uk/
September 2-3, 2010 European Conference on Knowledge Management (ECKM), 11^th, Famalicão, Portugal. http://academic-conferences.org/eckm/eckm2010/eckm10-home.htm
September 4-6, 2010 The Society for Editors and Proofreaders Annual Conference: Succeeding through Innovation, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, United Kingdom. http://www.sfep.org.uk/pub/confs/conferences.asp
September 4-6, 2010 European Conference on Knowledge Management, 11^th, Famalicão, Portugal. http://academic-conferences.org/eckm/eckm2010/eckm10-home.htm
September 6-8, 2010 African Conference on Health Informatics (AfricaHI 2010), sponsored by the International Association of Science and Technology for Development (IASTED) Gaborone, Botswana. http://www.iasted.org/conferences/home-687.html
September 6-8, 2010 Modelling and Simulation, sponsored by the International Association of Science and Technology for Development (IASTED), Gaborone, Botswana. http://www.iasted.org/
September 6-11, 2010, European Conference on Digital Libraries, 14^th, Glasgow, United Kingdom. http://www.ecdl2010.org/
September 7, 2010 Association for Learning Technology (ALT) Conference: Into something rich and strange – making sense of the sea-change, Nottingham, United Kingdom. http://www.alt.ac.uk/index.html
September 7-9, 2010 International Networking Education in Healthcare (NET2010) Conference, 21^st, Cambridge University, United Kingdom, http://www.jillrogersassociates.co.uk/conferences/netinternational.htm
September 7-9, 2010 Association for Learning Technology Conference (ALT-C 2010): Into Something Rich and Strange – Making Sense of the Sea-Change, 17^th, Manchester, United Kingdom. http://www.alt.ac.uk/altc2010/
September 7-10, 2010 International Conference on Human Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services (Mobile HCI 2010), 12^th, Lisbon, Portugal. http://www.mobilehci2010.org/
September 8-11, 2010 European Association for Computer-Assisted Language Learning (EUROCALL), University of Bordeaux, Bordeaux, France. http://www.eurocall-languages.org/
September 9-10, 2010 European Conference on Information Management and Evaluation, 4^th, Lisbon, Portugal. http://academic-conferences.org/eckm/eckm2010/eckm10-home.htm
September 13-15, 2010 Higher Education in a World Changed Utterly: Doing More with Less, Paris, France, sponsored by the Institutional Management in Higher Education. www.oecd.org/edu/imhe/generalconference
September 15-17, 2010 World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology (WASET) Autumn Congress, Amsterdam, Netherlands. http://www.waset.org/
September 15-17, 2010 International Conference on Interactive Computer-aided Learning, 13^th, (ICL2010), Hasselt, Belgium. http://www.icl-conference.org/
September 15-18, 2010 European Association for International Education Conference, 22^nd, annual, Nantes, France. http://www.eaie.org/
September 16-17, 2010 e-Learning Instructional and Graphic Design Best Practices, eLearning Guild Online Seminar. http://www.elearningguild.com
September 16-17, 2010 European Conference on Innovation and Entrepreneurship (ECIE), 5^th, Athens, Greece. http://academic-conferences.org/ecie/ecie2010/ecie10-home.htm
September 20-23, 2010 International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP) World Computer Congress (WCC 2010): Build a Better World, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. http://www.wcc2010.org/
September 20-25, 2010 International Wireless and Mobile Communications (ICWMC 2010), 6^th, sponsored by International Academy Research, and Industry Association (IARIA), Valencia, Spain. http://www.iaria.org/conferences2010/ICWMC10.html
September 20-25, 2010 International Multi-Conference on Computing in the Global Information Technology, 5^th, sponsored by International Academy Research and Industry Association (IARIA), Valencia, Spain. http://www.iaria.org/conferences2010/ICCGI10.html
September 23-26, 2010 Lilly Conference on College and University Teaching, Central Michigan University, Traverse City, Michigan, USA. http://www.lillyconferences.com/
September 25-27, 2010 Council of Educational Facility Planners (CEFPI) Annual World Conference and Expo, 87^th, San Jose, California, USA. http://www.cefpi.org/i4a/pages/index.cfm?pageid=1
September 26-28, 2010 Educational Networking Conference (EdNET 2010), 22^st, Boston, Massachusetts USA. http://www.schooldata.com/ednetconference.asp
September 26-29, 2010 Open Distance Learning Association of Australasia, 19^th biennial conference, Sydney, Australia. http://odlaa.une.edu.au/events/events.html
September 27-29, 2010 European Association of Distance Teaching Universities (EADTU): Strategies and Business Models for LifeLong Learning - Frames of References Building on Good Practices, Universitäre Fernstudien Schweiz, Brig, Switzerland. http://www.eadtu.nl/
September 27-29, 2010 National University Telecommunications Network (NUTN) 2010, Colorado Springs, Colorado, USA. http://nutn.org/
September 27-Ocotber 1, 2010 International Association of School Librarianship (IASL 2010): Diversity, Challenge, Resilience – School Libraries in Action, 39^th, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. http://www.iasl-online.org/events/conf/2010/
September 28-29, 2010 World of Learning Conference and Exhibition, Birmingham, United Kingdom. http://www.learnevents.com/
September 28-30, 2010 World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology (WASET) Autumn Congress, Houston, Texas, USA. http://www.waset.org/
September 28-30, 2010 International Conference on Computer Education and Instructional Technology (ICCEIT 2010), Houston, Texas, USA. http://www.waset.org/conferences/2010/houston/icceit/
September 30-October 3, 2010 Library and Information Technology Association (LITA), Atlanta, Georgia, USA. http://www.lita.org/
September ?, 2010 Designs on eLearning Conference, Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, Georgia, USA. http://designsonelearning.psu.edu/
September ?, 2010 Australian Library and Information Association Biennial Conference was held September 2-5, 2008 in Alice Springs, Australia. http://www.alia2008.com/
September ?, 2010 Open Education Conference, 7^th annual, Barcelona, Spain. http://openedconference.org/
September ?, 2010 ACM SIGMOBILE International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking, 16^th annual, Chicago, Illinois, USA. http://www.sigmobile.org/mobicom/2009/
September ?, 2010 Mobile Learning Conference, Washington, D.C., USA. http://www.mobilelearning09.org/
International Conference on Research in Access and Developmental Education, 4^th, was held September 24-27, 2008 in San Juan, Puerto Rico. As the conference is held every four or five years, the next conference should be held in 2012 or 2013. http://www.ncde.appstate.edu/researchconf3.htm

October 2010

October 4-5, 2010 Distance Education and Training Council’s (DETC) Distance Education Workshop, The Brown Palace Hotel, Denver, USA. http://www.detc.org/meetingsReports.html
October 4-6, 2010 International Conference on Education and Educational Technology (EDU’10), 9^th, Iwate, Japan. http://www.wseas.us/conferences/2010/japan/edu/
October 5-8, 2010 ULearn10: Collaborate, Innovate, Educate, Christchurch, New Zealand, http://www.core-ed.net/ulearn/
October 6-8, 2010 Languages and the Media, 8^th, International Conference and Exhibition on Language Transfer in Audiovisual Media, Berlin, Germany. www.languages-media.com
October 7-8, 2010 Integrating Media into Your e-Learning, eLearning Guild Online Seminar. http://www.elearningguild.com
October 10-13, 2010 Handheld Learning: The International Event for Learning, Teaching and Mobile Computing, London, United Kingdom. http://www.handheldlearning2010.com
October 12-15, 2010 EDUCAUSE Annual Conference, Anaheim, California, USA. http://net.educause.edu/EDUCAUSEAnnualConference/1352
October 17-20, 2010 Presentation Summit (formerly PowerPoint Live ), Pacific Beach, San Diego, USA. http://www.betterppt.com/powerpoint_live/index.html
October 18-22, 2010 Internet and Multimedia Systems and Applications (IMSA 2010) Virtual Conference (It will be held online.), 14^th, sponsored by the International Association of Science and Technology for Development (IASTED). http://www.iasted.org/conferences/home-695.html
October 19-21, 2010 4G World 2010, McCormick Place, Chicago, Illinois, USA. https://4gworld.com/
October 19-22, 2010 International Society for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (ISSOTL), Liverpool, United Kingdom. http://www.issotl.org/conferences.html
October 20-22, 2010 International Association for the Scientific Study of Intellectual Disabilities (IASSID), 3^rd, Europe Congress, Rome, Italy. http://www.iassid.org/iassid/index.php
October 21-22, 2010 European Conference on Game Based Learning (ECGBL), 4^th, Copenhagen, Denmark. http://academic-conferences.org/ecgbl/ecgbl2010/ecgbl10-home.htm
October 21-23, 2010 Diversity, Learning, and Inclusive Excellence sponsored by the Association of American Colleges and Universities (AACU), Houston, Texas, USA. http://www.aacu.org/meetings/NetworkforAcademicRenewal.cfm
October 22-27, 2010 The Information Society for the Information Age, Hilton Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA. http://www.asis.org/conferences.html
October 24-27, 2010 Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Special Interest Group on University and College Computing Services (SIGUCCS) Fall Conference, Norfolk, Virginia, USA. http://www.siguccs.org/
October 24-27, 2010 Association for Information Communications Technology Professionals in Higher Education (ACUTA), Vienna, Virginia, USA. http://www.acuta.org/relation/downloadfile.cfm?docnum=446
October 25-27, 2010 Association of Research Libraries Library Assessment Conference: Building Effective, Sustainable, Practical Assessment, Baltimore, Maryland, USA. http://www.arl.org/stats/statsevents/sqacademy/index.shtml or http://www.libraryassessment.org/
October 25-29, 2010 Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Multimedia Conference, Firenze, Italy. http://www.acmmm10.org/
October 26-28, 2010 Supercomm (business and technology solutions), Chicago, Illinois, USA. http://www.nxtcommshow.com/
October 27-29, 2010 World DIDAC Basel: International Exhibition for Education and Training, Basel, Switzerland. http://www.worlddidacbasel.com/go/id/ss/lang/eng/
October 27-29, 2010 World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology (WASET) Autumn Congress, Kyoto, Japan. http://www.waset.org/
October 27-30, 2010 North American Council for Staff, Program and Organizational Development (NCSPOD), Vancouver, British Columbia, USA. http://www.ncspod.org/programs/conference2010
October ?, 2010 International Conference on Virtual Systems and Multimedia (VSMM), Soeul, Korea. http://www.vsmm2009.org/ or http://www.vsmm2010.org/

November 2010

November 3-7, 2010 Professional and Organizational Development (POD) Network in Higher Education Conference, Hyatt Regency St. Louis Riverfront, St. Louis, Missouri, USA. http://www.podnetwork.org/conferences/futureconferences.htm
November 5-8, 2010 Chief Academic Officers Institute, sponsored by the Council of Independent Colleges, St. Petersburg Beach Florida, USA. http://www.cic.edu/conferences_events/index.asp
November 6-8, 2010 National Conference on Students in Transition, 16^th, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA. http://www.sc.edu/fye/events/sit/index.html
November 6-9, 2010 Chief Academic Officers Institute, sponsored by the Council of Independent Colleges, Williamsburg, Virginia, USA. http://www.cic.edu/conferences_events/index.asp
November 7-10, 2010 American Association of Collegiate Registrars and Admissions Officers Annual Strategic Enrollment Management Conference, 20^th annual, Nashville, Tennessee, USA. http://www.aacrao.org/
November 7-10, 2010 State Educational Technology Directors Association (SETDA) Conference, location to be determined – Washington, D.C. or Crystal City, USA. http://setda.org/
November 8-9, 2010 The Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC) Digital Repositories Meeting, Baltimore, Maryland, USA. http://www.arl.org/sparc/index.shtml
November 10-12, 2010 World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology (WASET) Autumn Congress, Sydney, Australia. http://www.waset.org/
November 10-12, 2010 International Conference on Data Mining, Sydney, Australia. http://www.waset.org/conferences/2010/sydney/icdm/
November 10-13, 2010 Western Cooperative for Educational Telecommunications (WCET), 22^nd annual, La Jolla, California, USA. http://conference.wcet.info/2009/
November 11-13, 2010 Undergraduate Research sponsored by the Association of American Colleges and Universities (AACU), Durham, North Carolina, USA. http://www.aacu.org/meetings/NetworkforAcademicRenewal.cfm
November 12-16, 2010 Community College Business Officers Conference, Westin Hilton Island Resort and Spa, Hilton Head, South Carolina, USA. http://www.ccbo.org/conference/index.html
November 13-14, 2010 International Conference on Intellectual Capital, Knowledge Management, and Organisational Learning, Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, China. http://academic-conferences.org/icickm/icickm2010/icickm10-home.htm
November 17-19, 2010 infoComm Asia 2010, Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre, Hong Kong, China. http://www.infocomm-asia.com/
November 18-20, 2010 European Universities Continuing Education Network (EUCEN) Conference, 40^th, Granada, Spain. http://www.eucen.org/
November 19-21, 2010 American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL) Annual Convention, Boston, Massachusetts, USA. http://actfl.org/i4a/pages/index.cfm?pageid=4894
November 24-26, 2010 International Conference on Mobile, Wireless and Optical Communication, Venice, Italy. http://www.waset.org/conferences/2010/venice/icmwoc/
November 24-28, 2010 Pan-Commonwealth Forum on Open Learning (PCF6): Access and Success in Learning – Global Development Perspectives, 6^th, will be hosted by Indira Gandhi National Open University at the Le Meridien Cochin Resort and Convention Centre, Kochi, Kerala, India. http://www.col.org/pcf6
November ?, 2010 Inter-American Organization for Higher Education (IOHE) Biennial Congress: Higher Education and Governance, 15^th, was held at the Meliá Caribe Tropical Hotel, Bávaro, Dominican Republic. http://www.oui-iohe.qc.ca/ABOUT/en-index_congres.htm

December 2010

December 9-10, 2010 What’s Hot, What’s Not in e-Learning, eLearning Guild Online Seminar. http://www.elearningguild.com
December 10-12, 2010 International Conference on Arts and Technology (ArtsIT 2010), Chongqing, China. http://www.artsit.org/
December 13-16, 2010 International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies and Development (ICTD), hosted by ICT4D Collective and UNESCO, Royal Holloway, University of London, London, United Kingdom. http://www.gg.rhul.ac.uk/ict4d/ictd2010.html or http://www.ictd2009.org
December 14-16, 2010 E-Activities, 9^th, sponsored by WSEAS, University of Los Andes, Merida, Venezuela. http://www.wseas.us/conferences/2010/venezuela/e-activities/
December 29-31, 2010 International Conference on Communications, Networking and Mobile Computing, Bangkok, Thailand. http://www.waset.org/conferences/2010/bangkok/iccnmc/
December 29-31, 2010 International Conference on Computer, Information and Network Security (ICCINS 2010), Bangkok, Thailand. http://www.waset.org/conferences/2010/bangkok/iccins/
December ? 2010 International Conference on Asia-Digital Libraries (ICADL 2008): Universal and Ubiquitous Access to Information, 11^th, was held December 2-5, 2008 in Bali, Indonesia. The 2010 conference will be held in Australia. http://www.icadl.org/
December ?, 2010 International Conference on Experiential Learning, 12^th, will be held in Chile. http://www.icel.org.uk/2010.html

January 2011

January 4-7, 2011 Presidents Institute, sponsored by the Council of Independent Colleges, Palm Springs, California, USA. http://www.cic.edu/conferences_events/index.asp
January 7-12, 2011 American Library Association Midwinter Meeting, San Diego, California, USA. http://www.ala.org/
January 9-12, 2011 Association for Information Communications Technology Professionals in Higher Education (ACUTA) Winter Seminar, Pointe Hilton Resort at Tapatio Cliffs, Phoenix, Arizona, USA. http://www.acuta.org/home.cfm
January 30-February 1, 2011 American Association of Collegiate Registrars and Admissions Officers (AACRAO) Transfer Conference, annual, New Orleans Marriott at the Convention Center, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA. http://www.aacrao.org/
January 30-February 2, 2011 National Association of Independent Colleges and Universities (NAICU) Annual Conference, Washington, D.C., USA. http://www.naicu.edu/events/

February 2011

February 23-25, 2011 Consortium for North American Higher Education Collaboration (CONAHEC), biennial conference, location to be announced. http://www.conahec.org/conahec/Conferences/index.jsp
February 28-March 2, 2011 Association of University Technology Managers (AUTM) Annual Meeting, Caesars Palace, Las Vegas, USA. http://www.autm.net/events/dsp.events.cfm

March 2011

March 13-16, 2011 American Association of Collegiate Registrars and Admissions Officers Conference, 97^thannual, Washington State Convention and Trade Center, Seattle, Washington, USA. http://www.aacrao.org/
March 14-16, 2011 EDUCAUSE Midwest Regional Conference, Chicago, Illinois, USA. http://www.educause.edu/conference/mwrc/
March 30-April 2, 2011 Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL), 15^th biennial conference, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. http://www.ala.org/
March ?, 2011 European Symposium on Gender and ICT, 5^th, will be held in Bremen, Germany. http://www.informatik.uni-bremen.de/frautec/gict2009/page/home.html
March ?, 2011 Building the Scientific Mind BtSM 2011, Fourth Advanced Colloquium, Stellenbosch, South Africa. http://www.learndev.org/
March ?, 2011 The Observatory on Borderless Higher Education Global Forum organized by The Observatory on Borderless Higher and Athabasca University, Banff, Alberta, Canada. http://www.athabascau.ca/
March ?, 2011 European Symposium on Gender and ICT – Digital Cultures: Participation, Empowerment, Diversity, 6^th, Umea University, Sweden. http://www.informatik.uni-bremen.de/frautec/gict2009/page/home.html

April 2011

April 2-6, 2011 National Association for Research in Science Teaching (NARST), Caribe Royal, Orlando, Florida, USA. http://www.narst.org/
April 3-6, 2011 Association for Information Communications Technology Professionals in Higher Education (ACUTA) Annual Conference and Exhibition, 40^th, Hilton Bonnet Creek Resort, Orlando, Florida, USA.

May 2011

May 16-17, 2011 Enterprise Information and Technology Conference, Chicago, Illinois, USA. http://net.educause.edu/enterpriseconference
May 29-June 3, 2011 Association of International Educators Annual Conference, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. http://www.nafsa.org/
May ?, 2011 Ryerson Faculty Conference, 19^th annual, Ryerson University, Toronto, Canada. http://ww.ryerson.ca/lt/programs/conference/
May ?, 2011 EDUCAUSE Australasia, hosted by University of Technology , Australia. http://www.caudit.edu.au/

June 2011

June 20-24, 2011 International Conference on Thinking, 15^th, Belfast, Ireland. http://www.15ththinkingconference.com/
June 21-25, 2011 International Association for Language Learning Technology Conference hosted by University of California, Irvine, California, USA. http://www.iallt.org/conferences/iallt2011
June 23-25, 2011 International Society for Language Studies Conference, Renaissance Aruba Resort, Oranjestad, Aruba. http://www.isls-inc.org/conference.htm
June 23-29, 2011 American Library Association Annual Conference, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA. http://www.ala.org/
June ?, 2011 Science Learning and Teaching Conference, 4^th biennial conference. The 2009 conference was held at, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, United Kingdom. http://www.sltc.info/

July 2011

July 10-12, 2011 American Association of Collegiate Registrars and Admissions Officers Technology Conference,annual, Grand Sierra Hotel, Reno, Nevada, USA. http://www.aacrao.org/
July 25-28, 2011 International Conference on Critical Thinking, 31^st annual, Berkley, California, USA. http://www.criticalthinking.org/conference/index.cfm

August 2011

August 8-12, 2011 Special Interest Group on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques, SIGGRAPH 2011: International Conference and Exhibition on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques, 38^th, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. http://www.siggraph.org/s2011
August ?, 2011 National Association for Media Literacy Education, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. http://www.namle.net/

September 2011

September 6-9, 2011 British Educational Research Association Conference, Institute of Education, London, United Kingdom. http://www.bera.ac.uk/
September 13-15, 2011 International Conference on Education and Development, 11^th, sponsored by British Department of International Development, Cambridge International, Aga Kahn Foundation, and Jeremy Greenland Bursary Trust, Oxford, the United Kingdom, http://www.cfbt.com/UKFIET/

October 2011

October 2-5, 2011 International Council for Distance Education (ICDE) World Conference, 24^th, hosted by Universitas Terbuka, Bali, Indonesia. http://icde.org/
October 30-November 2, 2011 American Association of Collegiate Registrars and Admissions Officers Conference, 21^stannual, Sheraton San Diego Hotel, San Diego, California, USA. http://www.aacrao.org/

November 2011

November 5-8, 2011 Chief Academic Officers Institute, sponsored by the Council of Independent Colleges, St. Petersburg Beach, Florida, USA. http://www.cic.edu/conferences_events/index.asp

SharePoint Fear and Loathing by Learning Professionals

2009-11-18T07:55:00.001-08:00

I was surprised by the fear and loathing expressed around SharePoint yesterday at LearnTrends 2009. I don’t think it’s the best tool out there, but it likely is the best tool being adopted by your IT department and is part of the Enterprise 2.0 plan in your organization. My belief is that it’s going to be a big part of eLearning 2.0 for many workplace learning professionals. SharePoint 2010 looks to be a much better product.

As such, I’m always looking for people who want to discuss how they are using it. Certainly we’ll be doing more sessions like SharePoint in Corporate Learning - Free Micro Virtual Conference (see SharePoint Session Descriptions). And I’ll continue to collect examples of how organizations are Using SharePoint.

In fact, towards that end, I would appreciate you connecting with me (email, LinkedIn) if:

You work in an organization that is using SharePoint and might be interested in sharing how you are using it.
You are a consultant who works on SharePoint workplace learning implementations.
You are interested in how SharePoint can better be used in your organization.

Look forward to connecting with you.

Innovation Awards 2009

2009-11-17T13:56:00.001-08:00

We’ve just announced the innovation awards associated with LearnTrends 2009. The session was fraught with technical difficulties, so I thought it would be worth capturing a bit about each of the four award winners here.

CUDA Business Brain

CUDA technologies is a small software firm within the Hi Performance Learning and IQ Business Group in South Africa, the United Stated and Australia.

In 2007, they launched the CUDA Business Brain as an integrated Workplace Performance Support Solution. It provides a blend of learning management and performance support. Because they operate in bandwidth constrained locations, they have implemented an extremely light web interface. They provide automated content distribution capability. A unique a Visio enabled process publishing tool that 'walks' users through performance support when they need it. This combination, backed by flexible expert location, rating and ranking mechanisms, makes our offering stand apart in providing cutting edge performance support and learning management to large audiences.

Learnosity

Learnosity provide a set of tools to help in the assessment, teaching and learning of spoken language skills. The Learnosity system is designed for speaking, listening and learning via a mobile phone.

The use of the mobile phone allows students practice their spoken skills in and outside of the classroom, facilitating student-led learning. The use of such simple technology eliminates any required technical support in the classroom, and make the system extremely easy to use for both teachers and students. Voice-chat and text-chat facilitate structured, moderated and anonymous peer-to-peer learning.

Thinking Worlds

Thinking Worlds is a new kind of 3D “Serious Games” simulation engine and authoring tool. It provides an authoring interface that fuses a visual story boarding system with easy to follow templates, both of which require no programming skill at all. It makes it possible to develop rich simulations in a fast and cost-effective way. It publishes simulations that are both LMS and SCORM compliant. Playback is through standard technologies allowing easier distribution.

CLT Plug and Learn

CLT Plug&Learn is an interesting blended language learning course combining learning software with extensive online tutoring and regular (virtual) classroom training, framed by a placement test, a Kick-Off meeting and a final test. Based on the results of the placement test, students are offered a language course designed to meet their goals. During the self-study phase, they practice their written, reading, listening, comprehension and pronunciation skills with the language software. A tutoring team assists students via e-mail. They receive a weekly e-mail with their assignment, additional written production exercises, motivational and technical tips as well as personalized feedback based on the self-study results as recorded in the LMS.

Congratulations to the winners.

Be Ready to Take Advantage of Opportunities

2009-11-16T09:53:00.000-08:00

I participated in a session at DevLearn that I mentioned last week in my posts Missed Opportunities and Enough Tools for Now. The session was conducted where we broken into discussion groups around different topics each their own facilitator.

My group discussed that as learning professionals we need to put ourselves in position to be able to serve learners and internal/external clients through the best possible solution we can design and create given the constraints that exist. This might mean improving our capabilities around existing offerings. It also means getting ready to offer new kinds of solutions that are outside of what we currently deliver.

The challenge in this is:

There’s a very wide range of possible issues that we can be presented. It’s often hard to know ahead of time what your next request will be.
If we haven’t spent time and effort to be ready to offer a particular kind of solution, it’s harder to sell, harder to estimate, and has greater risk.
We have limited time and resources to spend trying new things out and putting ourselves in position to deliver them when needed.

Some of the specific suggestions that were made by the group:

Build strong internal networks and relationships in order to develop predictability and agility for the learning organization
Have discussions with lots of different parts of the organization in order to have a better sense of what’s coming in the future
Figure out what this means in terms of business / learner needs, likely requirements, and constraints
Get the key people in the room to brainstorm potential offerings
Build prototypes to learn and later be able to sell
Start real small on a project with no major impact
Learn to be a Translator – often the barrier is different language being used by different parts of the organization.
"Sneak it in"
Share among distributed learning organizations
Form a framework of offerings

The nice thing about this list is that it follows a process that I recommend around defining an eLearning Strategy.

Thanks to everyone who participated in this group or helped me last week via this blog to get prepared.

Dilbert Warns Me About Work Literacy

2009-11-16T09:01:00.001-08:00

Should the following Dilbert worry me about Work Literacy?

Much of the idea of Work Literacy is to help people who need to keep up with how technology impacts knowledge work.

Maybe reading blog posts about the topic is okay :)

LearnTrends Starts Tomorrow

2009-11-16T08:54:00.001-08:00

LearnTrends 2009 starts tomorrow! I’m really looking forward to very interesting conversations around the messy topic of convergence.

There seems to be quite a bit of last minute registration activity. We have over 500 attending and over 140 who say they might attend. Should be lively. There will be lots of time for conversation as well. Speakers generally are scheduled for half the time and half for discussion.

If for some reason you’ve not signed up (and read my blog)...

To register, you must first register on the LearnTrends community and then register on the Conference Event Page.

Look forward to “seeing” you tomorrow.

Enough Tools for Now

2009-11-11T06:06:00.000-08:00

Based on my post yesterday on Missed Opportunities, I received a really interesting email. The basic gist of the email could be summarized as:

Don’t we have enough tools for now?

At some level, this seems like a great question. We are already swimming in tools and new tools arrive faster than we can understand them much less try them. It seems somehow reasonable to simply say, let’s stop looking at new tools for a while and just get better with what we already have.

In Work Skills Keeping Up?, I discuss the Tilde Effect. And in some ways, there’s a really good point being made that there is no way we can truly keep up with the flood of tools and solutions. So, we have to make smart choices about how to stay up to speed.

Still I’ll stick with:

The bottom line for the Tilde Effect is that we live in a time of incredible innovation that directly affect the methods we use to work and learn. Our work skills cannot sit still. There's a lot of discussion about 21st century skills to be taught in schools, but what about the rest of us?

And the focus of that post is really about general metacognitive tools and methods for knowledge workers. If you are talking about tools, methods, analysis, etc. for technologies that impact learning and performance AND you believe you have a responsibility to help with design of appropriate solutions, then I don’t think you can say we have “enough tools for now.”

The better question is “How do you appropriately balance the need to stay up-to-speed with the fact that you cannot possibly spend enough time to truly stay up-to-speed?”

Back to the post from yesterday for more discussion on exactly that.

Missed Opportunities?

2009-11-10T06:34:00.000-08:00

I need your help. I’m supposed to be preparing for a panel session at DevLearn 2009. But instead, I’m finding myself wondering what I’m going to be discussing with people.

The panel description is:

From Learning to Performance — Using Technology to Make It Happen

Thursday November 12, 2009 01:15 PM

Tridib Roy Chowdhury, Adobe Systems, Inc.

Ruth Clark, Clark Training & Consulting
David Metcalf, University of Central Florida
Lance Dublin, Dublin Consulting
Joe Ganci, Dazzle Technologies Corp.
Tony Karrer, TechEmpower, Inc.

Historically, learning departments across organizations have followed the “shiny penny.” This high-powered panel will discuss how can one overcome this barrier to learning. You’ll discuss the key trends in technology-enabled learning such as self-service (learning by search, mobility, syndication), collaboration, etc., and learn some frameworks for execution.
In this session, you will learn:

Why “shiny penny” is not the right approach to organizational learning

Key trends in technology-enabled learning

Picking the right learning strategy suited for your organization

How organizations can adapt a productivity-oriented approach to learning technologies

Audience:
Intermediate and advanced participants should be associated with learning, training, or HR organizations at a strategic level.

Each of the panelists have been asked to prepare to lead small workgroups. My workgroup will focus on the topic of “missed opportunities.”

So, my first question – what would you expect to discuss around the topic of missed opportunities?

I’m thinking that we are talking about how the ever increasing set of technologies and solutions causes us to have to continually adapt. As soon as we feel good about our ability to build one kind of solution, we are expected to build the next. We don’t want to just fall prey to shiny object syndrome, but at the same time, we need to be ready to deliver good solutions using appropriate technologies as they arise.

So, if that’s what I’m supposed to be talking about, then:

How do you avoid missed opportunities? How do you stay prepared? How are you ready when the opportunity arises?

Or at least, what might you discuss as part of this working group if you were there?

Please help.

Trainer – Where to Now?

2009-11-05T06:18:00.000-08:00

There has been really great response to both Recommended End of Year eLearning Tools Spending? and this month's Big Question: Presenting the Value of Social Media for Learning. For both, lots of ideas that I never would have been able to provide on my own. I may be pushing my luck, but I received another question that I thought was a good question.

By way of background, this person is a teacher/trainer who is bright and has lots of great experience teaching and training different adults across different topics. He's well versed in "advanced Teaching-Learning techniques." But he's looking for a job right now and wants to point himself in a good direction. Here was his question:

I taught MS Office and HTML for 8 years in college, then went back for an MFA in Fine Art to give my right brain a chance. I have exceptional talent at training and communicating across disciplines and I’m trying to get back into the job market. Any ideas about where some “sweet spots” are, niches that are growing, companies that are doing especially well now? I appreciate any thoughts you can share.

But I've got to imagine this question is bigger than him. A lot of the core skills that a trainer has can be applied in a lot of different places. How do you decide where to focus your search? How do you figure out what companies are hiring trainers? And, of course, there's the thought in the back of my mind, do you need to re-skill to be more than a trainer?

What suggestions do you have for him?

Microphones and Audio Information

2009-11-04T10:33:00.000-08:00

I just saw a couple of comments on my post Recommended End of Year eLearning Tools Spending? that were asking about quality differences between a Blue Snowball mic and SHURE mics. While I wouldn't know the specific answer to this off the top of my head, I thought I'd show what I do to find a pretty close answer and some people who I could easily ask.

I start by going to eLearning Learning and then I search for something like audio which gets me quickly to a page that's a bunch of great posts and other items all about Audio in eLearning. The keywords on the left are highly related to audio as well, so I'll drill down to pages on Audio Voiceover or Audio Microphone. On the Audio Microphone page I scroll down to the Best of Posts and see a bunch of great posts:

Of course you could cheat and search just for Snowball and/or Shure and find some reviews. And make sure you read about creating the mini-sound booth shown below.

Recommended End of Year eLearning Tools Spending?

2009-11-03T06:09:00.000-08:00

I received a question today that I really wasn't sure how to answer and thought that lots of folks might have thoughts around this. Here's the question:

I have some extra budget money and I need to invest in software and hardware that will help me create cutting edge, top shelf eLearning programs.

I already have these software programs:

Articulate Suite '09

Adobe Master Suite CS3 (Not sure that I really need to upgrade to CS4)

Camtasia & Snag It

Are there any other must have software programs? It has to work with Articulate of course! Free software is always nice but I don't mind paying for high quality products. I have still and video cameras, a mic and a computer ... do you think I need any other hardware items? I'm happy with my LMS, so I don't need help there.

I can't claim that many of us will face the problem of having a budget that we need to use before the end of the year. But I thought it might be fun to help someone else spend their money.

I realize that with this little bit of information, it's almost impossible to have the right answer, but I'm sure there are lots of interesting possibilities.

What purchases would you suggest?

Learning Power Laws

2009-11-02T06:50:00.001-08:00

Great post by Dion Hinchcliffe - Twenty-two power laws of the emerging social economy where he discusses what Steve Balmer calls “the new normal”. Balmer talks about how a reset of economic expectations during the downturn has created an environment that is putting pressure on business to do more with less. Some of the specifics of this transformation are captured in the following graphic:

This is lines up really well with a lot of what I discuss in Business of Learning and Trends in Learning. The primary shifts he talks about are:

New resource constraints. Requiring that we find ways to accomplish our goals using fewer resources.
Value shifting from transactions to relationships.
Business flux.
Moving from change as the exception to change as the norm.
A shift of control to the edge of organizations.

Dion then goes through his 22 laws that are useful to understand what is going on with all of this shift. Several of them I regularly talk about:

Amara’s Law (backstory) states that "we tend to overestimate the effect of a technology in the short run and underestimate the effect in the long run." – I cite this in Work Skills Keeping Up? and Adoption of Web 2.0 and eLearning 2.0 Revisited and often use this during presentations. It's easy to look at any one technology and go through a hype cycle. We first think, wow this will really change things. Then we realize go through a cycle where we think, it's not that big a deal. But over time it often has pretty incredible effects that sneak up on us. This describes a lot of what we see around web 2.0 tools.
Jakob’s Law roughly tells us that "users spend most of their time on other sites", and so you must be there too. This has big impact on us as it forces us to think about being in the flow of where the work and learning will occur. See eLearning Portal Integration as one example of this.
The The Long Tail which tells us moving from providing best selling products to a wider spectrum of offerings gives an opportunity for larger, potentially more lucrative market overall, if you can service it cost effectively. This is a common theme in my posts: Long Tail Learning - Size and Shape and Corporate Learning Long Tail and Attention Crisis.
Principle of Least Effort notes that they will tend to use the most convenient method, in the least exacting way available, with interaction stopping as soon as minimally acceptable results are achieved. This is important for things like Social Software Adoption.

Overall, Dion's post is a great source for helping to think through what's really going on at a macro level with learning.

Presentation Backchannel Multitasking

2009-10-29T06:00:00.000-07:00

Some great responses to this month's big question New Presenter and Learner Methods and Skills. I'm learning a lot from the posts. A few random reactions and a few of the nuggets I've pulled out from the discussion.

Caveats to Multitasking is Generally Bad for Work and Learning

See my post on Multitasking for a summary of this. Or better, take a look at Ken Allan - Binge Thinking. Or Clive Shepherd's How should presenters address multitasking? simple statement:

Multitasking is an illusion – we are simply not capable of doing it.

But some caveats to this general rule.

Multitasking

Doodling and Notetaking are good.

Binge Thinking

I have learnt to take notes while giving nearly full attention to a presentation. It’s one multitasking practice that I’m good at.

Better Presentations = Less Multitasking

A log of the responses point out that a distracted audience is first a symptom of the presenter's ability to engage the audience.

Kristine Howard October Big Question

If you are going to present online or in person, do what it takes to do it well.

Clive Shepherd - How should presenters address multitasking?

The very best presenters will always hold attention.
Presenters tackling issues which are highly relevant to the participants will always hold attention.

Be Aware of What the Audience / Learner is Doing

Multitasking learners? Opportunity, not threat

I may very well be back channelling, bookmarking, googling, or even writing notes in my blog a a draft.

I like learning through dialogue. I enjoy the conversation around what that sage on the stage is talking about. My “multitasking” devices are a way to have that without being disruptive, so I’m not convinced they are a bad thing, just a reflective tool.

[but]

If a presentation is not engaging me, I will multitask in a less presenter pleasing manner, and by that I mean I may do some admin, catch up on what’s been going on.

Claudia Escribano: Presentations Re-Imagined

Why do people multi-task?

They’re distracted by other obligations.

They’re bored.

They’re sharing your presentation with their network.

They feel they learn better when they’re flitting between several activities.

Which several of these lead into the following.

Plan Better and Communicate Expectation with the Audience

I think Max Bezzina What presenters could do when the audience multi-tasks says it well:

Embrace the fact that people will be tempted to multi-task. If this is an issue for you and/or for the success of the presentation, tell them about it in the beginning of the presentation.

Kristine Howard October Big Question has some great specific suggestions:

If you can’t handle the constant laptop action while you are speaking, say so.
Don’t dictate, but negotiate a reasonable solution with your audience of adults.
If the backchannel doesn’t bother you as long as it stays in the back—for instance, you’d love a transcript for the evaluation aspect but can’t be involved with it while you are presenting–say so.
Suggest a hashtag for tweets right at the beginning and then move on and let it take care of itself.
Ask for a show of hands whether anyone is going to publicly share a summary or comprehensive notes via a blog (just like you share whether you will be providing copies of your materials).

Rani Gill: Social norms, expectations, attention, a game? also has some great suggestions:

Establish a new norm in your learning environment – via ground rules or other means. Discuss and create the norm up front.
Discuss how the backchannel can be used. What appropriate to say and not.
Expect the back-channel conversation – bring it to to the foreground occasionally during the presentation or have someone moderating it and bring it up.
Give the audience the #hashtag so you can let them know that you know and so that you can follow.

Claudia Escribano in Presentations Re-Imagined really provides an interesting way to handle this including asking people to volunteer to be distracted. Interesting thought. See her post for more detail than I'm providing. But I really like the thought and a good way to help establish the norm along the lines of Rani's post.

Tell participants upfront that your presentation is a little different from what they may be used to. It’s not just you talking to them; it’s a total participatory event in which everyone plays a role. Then present the roles and ask them to identify what role they’d like to play:

Listeners

Sharers

Note-Takers

Questioners

Activity Leaders

Distracted People

You could ask for a show of hands for each role. Or you could set aside parts of the room for each role and have people select their role as they come in and sit down.

This idea is somewhat echoed by Geoff Cain

You are still thinking of this as a problem instead of an opportunity - you have to learn how to harness the Google jockeys and tweeters.

Clayn suggests:

Each class period I randomly select a student to be the back channel moderator for that day. I see the moderator as filling the same role as an assistant sitting on the phone during an auction. They act as a proxy, voicing the bids of individuals over the phone. The back channel moderator will strive to respond to comments made, if they can, or voice the question -when appropriate - for general class consumption. Not only does this free me from trying to do this myself, it forces students into a more active role in the classroom.

Great idea to assign moderator to someone else during the session. This is maybe a role to add to the list the Claudia gives. And directly addresses the concern raised in Multitasking learners? Opportunity, not threat

I have presented online without a moderator before, and after a reasonable amount of experience, still find it hard to listen and read a backchannel, or talk and read a backchannel.

Which is how I feel. In fact, that's often my recommendation to anyone presenting at an online event. Of course, I'm moderating in most of those cases for people. When I myself am presenting, I know to ignore the back channel for periods of time and then tune back in. But having assigned a moderator, I can quickly ask them for help with what I should address.

Disrespectful?

My general sense is that people are split on whether "bad" multitasking is disrespectful.

Multitasking learners? Opportunity, not threat

I’ve heard many trainers complain online that it’s disrespectful to them when people multitask. I counter that it’s disrespectful to learners to present something that does not meet their needs, not wonder why they are not paying attention, then get offended when they don’t listen. If people aren’t paying attention, or multitasking in a bad way, it shows you that something isn’t working, and if handled well, can perhaps highlight some areas for improvement, whether they be with you, the content, the venue etc. It may also highlight that sometimes life just takes over and it’s got nothing to do with you as a presenter.

Clive Shepherd - How should presenters address multitasking?

I don’t mind this as long as they are polite about it: show some interest when the presenter starts up; look up and smile once in a while; try not to look as if the presenter has somehow intruded on your personal office space. Personally, if I’m paid to speak, I’ll put up with a lack of politeness; if I’m not, I’m quite prepared to walk off. Life’s too short.

What I recently saw was the audience being much more upset than the presenters about backchannel discussions that are straying being rude. I prefer an active audience myself. Of course, there are boundaries such as being offensive to the presenter in any backchannel.

Changes in Knowledge Work and Implications for Workplace Learning – The Keynote That Wasn't

2009-10-26T10:30:00.000-07:00

I was supposed to be in Vancouver right now for the eLearn Conference. The conference has a diverse attendee list and I was very much looking forward to my keynote presentation: Changes in Knowledge Work and Implications for Workplace Learning.

Unfortunately, some very sad news in my family as my wife's father, a man beloved by everyone who met him, passed away on Thursday. So, I won't be able to go and make my keynote presentation. I do want to thank the conference organizer, Gary Marks, for being incredibly understanding. And if you've been a long-time reader, you know that I'm not particularly adept at things like What to Say When a Colleagues' Family Member Dies. So, I'm not sure what to say or do in this situation either.

But I had to do something because I had scheduled a series of tweets to coincide with my keynote presentation time slot. This is something I did before and it was both great as a planning tool and received great feedback from the audience (see Twitter Conference Ideas). So what do I do with the tweets?

At first, I just planned to delete the tweets, but it seemed like a waste of the time I had spent. But I also realized that if I didn't do anything then right during the replacement keynote, I would be sending out competing tweets – which would compound the problem I created for the conference.

So, with my mind admittedly operating at less than full capacity this Sunday morning, I decided to just choose a particular time on Monday and have the tweets come out at that point. So, Monday, Oct. 26 at 12:30PM Pacific Time, all the tweets will fire off. Each points to content that's relevant to what I'd be talking about during the presentation. No idea if they will make sense without the context of the presentation.

I would very much welcome any thoughts or feedback on the content that is being referenced and the general themes. Feel free to do it via twitter or comments or whatever is easiest for you.

I'll try later in the week to pull together any feedback and some more thoughts.

Twitter Contest Winner

2009-10-22T06:23:00.000-07:00

The first round of the Digital Habitats Twitter Contest had 94 entries and the winner was:

@ChristyATucker

Congrats Christy! I'm now a bit jealous as you are getting a book that's going to be sitting by your desk for many years and it's signed by John and Nancy.

I think that the contest has already been successful, but there's still another chance to win.

Go here: http://bit.ly/MYIw to find out how you can still win.

By the way, even if you don't win a copy of the book, you can still come hear Nancy and John at LearnTrends 2009. In fact, John is doing two sessions.

Defending 2.0

2009-10-21T06:35:00.000-07:00

I saw an interesting post by Mark Oehlert "Learning 2.0" and why that name suddenly is torquing me off... Mark's main complaint and one that I've seen voiced before is that people are not really learning differently:

I really don't believe that humans are learning differently - meaning, I think we are constituting memories, adapting behavior, practicing new skills - those activities that typically make up learning from the human standpoint - in much the same way as we have for hundreds if not thousands of years. I'm talking about our internal processes.

This is pretty much what was discussed in New Way of Learning and the general answer was that it's doubtful that there's really a new way of learning, but there certainly are many related metacognitive tools and methods that have changed and that we need to adapt.

Still, I believe the crux of Mark's concern and where the disagreement comes …

So there is no "Learning 2.0" from the learners' view - there could well be "Instruction 2.0" or "Teaching 2.0" but think about what is really different there - those last two (and you could throw in Government 2.0, Education 2.0) address organizations and not learners and this gets to my second bothersome point about "Learning 2.0."

Let's put the burden on us and not on the learner.

That's exactly it. We aren't really talking about the learning itself, but rather the way in which we support learning within an organization. What is the role of the Learning Professional? And I would claim that there's a fairly substantial change when you go from eLearning 1.0 to eLearning 2.0 solutions.

The reason you can't call it "Instruction 2.0" or "Teaching 2.0" is that the very point of eLearning 2.0 is that it's learner driven. We are no longer in charge. We take a supportive role. We create an environment. We foster. We coach.

To do this, it requires a considerably different mindset. It makes sense for us to discuss this as 2.0 just to indicate that there's this substantial shift.

Certainly this has been debated quite a bit (see Is eLearning 2.0 Meaningful? - You Vote and 2.0 and Interesting Times). But I think the discussion is over. We've come to accept that we'll use the 2.0 moniker.

Mark – how about if we agree that if your Oregon State Beavers go down to defeat this weekend, we'll just agree that it's okay to use the terms Learning 2.0 and eLearning 2.0?

Rapid Learning Management Systems

2009-10-20T06:53:00.000-07:00

I've been asked numerous times over the past couple of years by various types of people and companies a very similar question:

I plan to or have been conducting and charging for training workshops for clients. I'd like to creating this as self-paced eLearning possibly with other capabilities as well. And I want to charge for this. How can I do that?

Two years ago, after quite a bit of discussion with most people who had this general question, I would figure out that it was going to be relatively easy for them to figure out how to author the eLearning courses, but it was going to be a harder decision on how to get that posted somewhere and available to their existing or new clients.

I was just asked the question again the other day. It's a company that has been offering 3-day workshops and now they want to put some portion of that content online. Ideally, they would offer it both publicly for fee and as well to particular clients.

While there are a lot of different Learning Management Systems with very different features, the requirements in this situation are a bit different. So here are some of the requirements I see for this customer that are a bit different from what you would find in a normal corporate LMS RFP.

To me this is a new kind of system. I'm temporarily calling this a Rapid Learning Management System. It's hosted. It's easy to use. It's a bit like rapid eLearning authoring tools, but aimed at the learning management side of this equation. If you know the right term for this, please let me know.

White Label

For their existing customers, they should be able to point them to a system that looks just like their own site.

Company Clients / Groups of Learners

Many of their customers (companies) come in with several learners. They need to be able to have these learners grouped together and provide reporting over those learners. The company will have a single administrative contact. The system should look and act like an individual LMS for that administrator. Also, if they make changes to the LMS overall, the company should inherit those changes.

Marketplace for Content

While they are going to need to take the lead on driving traffic to their courses, the system should allow for individuals and companies to find and sign up for their content.

My impression though is that despite the claims that the marketplace will help you get new customers, you should plan to do the work needed to get people there. Thus, you probably should be thinking about all the normal internet marketing approaches to driving people to sign up. And once they get to your landing page, it should be easy to get them across to the marketplace and have it transact with them.

Instructor, Virtual Classroom and Social Learning Support

In some cases, all that is needed is for the self-paced eLearning to be hosted, but in this case, they also still want to be able to interact with the learners. Instructors will still be there for the companies. And there should be some basic capabilities for asking questions, getting answers. Possibly some forums. In this case, it's limited, but I've run into situations where the plan was for 8 hours of self-paced online and then 1 day of online virtual classroom.

Authoring Support or SCORM?

A lot of the systems on the market seem to start with some kind of basic rapid authoring tool. I personally believe that it would be better for these systems to accept SCORM content from a few of the top authoring tools. Of course, that implies additional cost. However, if you are really authoring several hours of content and are going to take this seriously as a business, it would seem like that should be a good investment. Or maybe you just use an open-source or free. But I'd rather not have to learn all the quirks of one of these platforms. And I'd want my content to be transportable in case the platform goes away.

Other Requirements?

What am I missing? What other requirements are important in this situation?

Systems?

I'm currently pointing people to the following rapid learning management systems. I'm not claiming these address all of the above requirements. Rather that they generally are a hosted LMS solution that roughly corresponds to most of the requirements:

What other systems should be on the list?

LearnTrends Speakers and Topics Announced

2009-10-19T07:55:00.000-07:00

We've put up a preliminary schedule for LearnTrends 2009. You can find the conference description, preliminary schedule and session descriptions at:

LearnTrends 2009 Conference Agenda

Topics and Speakers include:

Introduction: Convergence in Learning - George Siemens, Tony Karrer & Jay Cross
The Immernet Singularity - Tony O'Driscoll
Extending Learning to the Edges of Organizations - Charles Jennings & Andy McGovern – Thomson Reuters
Reinventing Organizational Learning - Clark Quinn & Jay Cross
Enterprise 2.0, Convergence, & Innovation - Deb Schultz & Jerry Michalski
Building a Social Learning Environment - Jane Hart
Breaking Down Walls - Laura Overton
Convergent Learning and Web Squared - Jon, Jay, Clark, Charles, Jane, Harold
Merging Information, Learning and Social Media - Christy Confetti Higgins - Sun
Microlearning - Janet Clarey
Personal Knowledge Management - Harold Jarche
Challenge of Convergence - Pam Borios – Skillsoft – Books 24x7
Tools for Diverse Communities at Xerox Global- Jack Merklein & John Smith - Xerox
eLearning Outside the Training Box - John Smith & Nancy White

Register Now – Its Free - To register, you must first register on the LearnTrends community and then register on the Conference Event Page.

Innovation Awards - The conference will also include the LearnTrends Innovation Awards 2009. Please see that post for details.

Win the Twitter Content - And don't forget that you have until tomorrow to help promote the conference and win a free copy of Nancy and John's book. Contest - Win a Free Copy of Digital Habitats via LearnTrends 2009. Please help promote the conference and maybe you'll get a great book as a result.

I think this is going to be a really great online conference and discussion.

One of the things we are doing this year is asking speakers to keep their presentations to 25-30 minutes so that we have lots of times to have discussions.

I'm particularly looking forward to discussions around:

How information services and enterprise 2.0 are intersecting with Learning / eLearning?
Where does social really fit? Are social features really heading in the right direction or do we need to be thinking about stitching things together?
How are people thinking about structuring organizations with all of the stuff going on?
How and where do networks and communities fit in?
How the heck am I supposed to come up with an eLearning strategy when there's so much change going on?

One thing I should remind people is that a big part of the genesis of this conference was George, Jay and myself lamenting that while we go to conferences all the time, the presentations and discussions were most often aimed at broader audiences and more introductory topics. The purpose of this discussion is to dive into meatier topics that the three of us are interested in exploring. If you are a beginner, this may be a bit of a fire hose. If you've been in the industry for a while, but are grappling with some of the questions I've listed above, then please join us in the discussion.

eLearn 2009

2009-10-16T05:58:00.000-07:00

Just a quick note that I will be up in Vancouver for E-LEARN 2009 - World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare & Higher Education. If you are attending and see this post, please drop me a note. It's always good to connect with people face-to-face at events.

Convert ILT to eLearning - Estimating

2009-10-14T06:25:00.000-07:00

I received an inquiry from a reader and I'm hoping that people can chime in on their thoughts. It relates to my post about eLearning Costs, which bases cost estimates on seat time of the eLearning course. So, the basic question is:

We current provide a two day (16 hour) classroom training course for our employees. We are planning to prepare an e-learning course based on this classroom course. How should we estimate the e-learning course duration for this lesson? What are the important criteria in estimating eLearning duration when its based on a classroom course?

Conversion Estimation

Some resources on the conversion of Instructor-Led Training (ILT) to eLearning / Web-Based Training (WBT) – found through eLearning Learning using Convert ILT as the starting point:

In What Training Costs Part I: Converting Content from ILT to WBT, they discuss compression of ILT when its converted to eLearning:

Compression ratio: What would the length of the course be if it were online vs. classroom based? There's been a lot of research on this, and answers vary anywhere from 20% to 80% of the original length, but there's general agreement that an average compression ratio is typically about 50%, or a four hour course in the classroom should take the student 2 hours to complete online.

In Costs, Donald Clark talks about seat time during conversion:

Seat time is the time spent by the learner in a learning environment. For many types of content, elearning clearly offers an advantage. The research generally shows that there is at least a 50% reduction in seat time when a course is converted from classroom learning to elearning. Brandon Hall reports it is a 2:1 ratio.

"Brandon Hall, editor and publisher of the Multimedia & Internet Training Newsletter, cites an overall 50 percent reduction in seat time required for a student to learn the same content using online training as compared to in a classroom (Puget Sound Business Journal)."

Of course, a lot of this has to with the type of content. For example, we normally read at least twice as fast as compared to someone speaking. Thus such courses as compliance training offers a seat time advantage due to rather than having an instructor do all the talking, we can now just read it. However, if we are practicing a new skill, then there is normally no real time advantage as we need the same amount of time to practice in an elearning environment as we do in a classroom.

And Donald makes a good point about the fact that it takes more time when you are listening to audio as compared to reading (or skimming).

The 50% compression ratio is similar to what I've heard, but in almost every case there are a whole lot of factors the come into play. In Case Study: Converting an Existing Course to E-Learning, they detail a series of factors. Quite a good article when you are thinking about this conversion.

If there is an existing ILT course, how complete is it?
Are there any hands-on labs in the ILT course? Will these need to be converted? Is it feasible to do so?
Is the person doing the conversion already familiar with the ILT course?
Is the person doing the conversion already familiar with the product or service being taught?
Will subject matter experts (SMEs) be available for consultation as needed?
Will the person doing the conversion be dedicated to this project exclusively?
How many people will be working on the conversion team?
How much animation is required?
Is the scope of the conversion effort clearly defined?
What is the approval process? Who will sign off on the project?
How will the finished product be implemented within the organization?
Does the organization use a learning management system (LMS)? If so, will this product be required to interface with that LMS?
How will learning be measured?
Is the person doing the conversion familiar with the e-learning software? Does the person doing the conversion have prior experience with similar projects?

What factors do you consider? Do you think rules of thumb are okay to use?

Cost Comparison

The other question the reader asked is about calculating the value of doing the conversion:

For example, the current ILT course takes 2 days (16 hours). There are 10,000 employees who will take the training. Travel is not as much the issue as it is time away from the job and trainer costs. How do we go about calculating the possible return of delivering this as eLearning instead of ILT?

I'd recommend using some of the resources from a fairly old post ROI and Metrics in eLearning such as:

They look at a whole series of cost comparison factors and the last of these compares outcomes and costs in a research study. Quite good.

Again, I'd welcome pointers on this topic.

eLearning Portal Integration

2009-10-13T06:32:00.000-07:00

I've had a similar discussion several times over the past few months. These discussions center on what requirements should go into an LMS RFP and more broadly how the LMS should really be integrated into the organization.

Initially, the conversation was about having learning content appear on the enterprise portal. Many LMS vendors provide portlets, gadgets or widgets that allow for access of learning content (most often meaning courses and courseware) through the corporate portal. Assuming that your learning audience regularly visits the enterprise portal, then its great to be able to show employees upcoming learning events, training requirements, content that might be of interest, or other similar things.

This has been a common requirement for a number of years. And it's definitely a nice thing to have done. It's certainly better than putting a static link to your LMS somewhere on the corporate portal / intranet.

But this only scratches the surface of what it means to integrate the Learning Management System (LMS) into the systems that people use day-to-day in an enterprise. And this whole question is becoming more complicated as we look at the integration of the LMS and Social Learning. There's a question of whether social tools will be part of the LMS or outside the LMS. My gut says these tools are going to be separate from the LMS, e.g., SharePoint. So, this naturally brings up how you integrate the LMS with social tools as well.

So, when I'm thinking about eLearning Portal Integration, I'm now thinking about:

Exposing links to learning content in the enterprise portal
Searchable learning content integrated with enterprise search
Integrating social tools with learning content
Integration learning management with other day-to-day tools

Links and Searching Content

The first two items are a bit more common today and it really starts with the question: Is there content and knowledge in the LMS that would be useful day-to-day? In the post What Goes in the LMS? the general conclusion was that the LMS was really about housing finished course materials that need close tracking. But generally some of that content would be useful in a day-to-day context.

The first stage of integrating this content is to simply provide links to individual content items that are housed in the LMS. This requires the simplest kind of deep links. You can refer to a SCO from outside the LMS and launch directly to that SCO without the user needing to do anything else. FYI - deep linking is the ability for learning content to be linked to and launched from outside the LMS. Many LMS vendors provide this capability. And it can be really important if you want to create web sites outside the LMS that might provide context to a set of courses in the LMS.

For example, a Plateau case study (PDF) talks about:

The biggest benefit Reuters has seen from its Plateau LMS to date is from deep linking functionality. Previously it took users up to 15 clicks to go from system access to content launch. With deep links in Plateau, users can launch content in two or three clicks. Deep linking also enables Reuters to have a centralized, single point for all content.

Which also addresses why we don't really want to plan to send the user directly to the LMS for day-to-day access. See also: Tools for On-Demand Information - An LMS?

But the next level of content access from outside the LMS is search. The idea is that the course content should be integrated into enterprise search so that it can be found and used when the person needs help with something.

This is a more complex requirement as it means requirements for enterprise search, the LMS and most often the content as well. The content must content must be indexable, in other words, the search engine must be able to run through the content to see what's in there. For web pages, wiki pages, PDFs, Word Docs and other standard content that's easy. For courseware it can be hard. First the search engine may not be able to index the content because it'd buried in a proprietary format. Second, even if the search engine can find it, it may not know how to get a user to that piece of content. Launching a user to the beginning of a one-hour course because there is something in the middle that relates to the search is not a great result.

I would definitely like to hear from people who've made this level of integration happen – search level.

There are some off-the-shelf content vendors that have done a pretty good job around search integration. For example, Skillsoft along with its Books 24x7 provide good hooks for search and deep linking.

And what's interesting about both of these requirements is that we really are talking to exactly the issue that David points out in Who wants to see the LMS anyway:

Afterall, with the exception of the LMS vendor and the team who put it in, who really wants to see an LMS anyway....?

Integration with Social Tools or Other Day-to-Day Tools

A couple years ago, in New Kind of LMS?, I raised the question of whether we are headed to a new kind of LMS that will be much more integrated with day-to-day activities. What seems to be happening in the market is that LMS vendors are integrating social capabilities, but I'm not sure that gets us where we need to go. It somewhat relates with the issue above around search. Is the LMS only aimed at big pieces of content that will be used separate from the job? Or will it try to integrate into day-to-day. If it's separate from the job, then having embedded social tools might not make a lot of sense.

Other vendors are looking at taking things a different way. For example, SumTotal Systems recently announced SumTotal Stream that provides integration with particular tools:

Microsoft Outlook: SumTotal's integration allows access to Talent Development tasks within the widely adopted Microsoft Outlook email client. Not only will employees be able to react directly to Application alerts, they will be able to view Profile Information and provide real-time feedback to other employees with the SumTotal profile launch button that is available next to each User within the email view screens.
Facebook: With SumTotal's new Facebook Application, employees who typically use this Social Network will be able to receive Talent Development alerts and connect with colleagues all while in the Facebook site.
LinkedIn: SumTotal's LinkedIn API integration will allow employees to maintain their Portable Career Profile in LinkedIn, and then make this information available through SumTotal's ResultsOnDemand Performance application.

I applaud SumTotal for recognizing that these tools exist in a network of other systems. The interface is not really even the enterprise Portal. The interface is all of the places where that user goes and does things. Great move SumTotal!

This is really all about the issue I raised 3 years ago in terms of strategic choices for LMS Vendors in a few different posts such as: Moving from One to Many - LMS Products are Two Generations Behind and Point Solutions vs. Suites and Composition.

Of course, the challenge is deciding what you really want from your LMS today. The reality for today in most cases is to try to keep solutions relatively simple and hence keeping these requirements to a minimum. However, I am very curious what other people are doing around all of this today. Please chime in.

Sales Team Portal for Content and Expert Access

2009-10-12T06:11:00.000-07:00

I wanted to share some discussions I've recently had around an interesting project where the company provided the sales team a collaboration, content distribution and expert access portal.

Do you have a case study for me?

I'm hoping to do a lot of case studies over the next 6-12 months looking at interesting examples of the use of social/informal/web 2.0 learning. If you have an example, please drop me an email: akarrer@techempower.com. Another example of this is: Discussion Forums for Knowledge Sharing at Capital City Bank.

Background

I can't reveal the company used in this case study at their request. They are a large, distributed organization. Their large sales team sells a diverse and complex set of products and services to multiple markets.

Traditionally, the sales team searched for information on topics such as government regulations, product support and technology through a confederation of five Web-based collaboration and document management software systems. The sales team often would find themselves spending time navigating the many software systems for archived knowledge and often found documents that did not exactly address their question.

So, they would then go straight to the experts by phone and email for answers. And then they would sometimes take these answers and create new pockets of information which made the situation even worse.

This is a fairly common situation that many organizations face.

And a big part of the genesis for the project was when an executive was asked by a colleague about where to go to find a particular piece of information. The executive realized that they needed "One place to find all of our information.” That's where things really began to take off.

Exploration

They did a lot of exploration before landing on a solution. They went around to ask employees what issues they had with existing systems and what they needed. They asked what web sites the sales teams liked. “MSNBC, CNN and ESPN were good Web sites and simple to use. They could find just about everything from the home pages. If they didn’t, they could easily find what they needed by searching the site.”

Clearly, they wanted/needed the knowledge-exchange platform to be easy to use. Employees needed to be able to find information with a few clicks of a mouse. If the information did not yet exist in the system, employees wanted to be able to route it to an expert and get a timely response. They also wanted the expert’s responses to the sales team’s questions to be captured by the system. If the information already existed, employees should be able find information without repeatedly asking the experts. The software would also need to appeal to a cross-section of demographics.

The team went around to other companies to explore how they had addressed similar issues, what their solutions looked like and what their experiences had been. One particular conversation was with McDonalds where they found that a similar kind of system took several years before it really took off.

Initially they considered just doing the solution as a search solution that would be able to find content across the various systems. But the need was really for more than that. They needed to make sure that content was consistent. They wanted to be able to access experts and begin to build better communication. They really felt they needed more of a portal.

They looked at several different portal options and chose OutStart Participate. Part of the decision was also based on that they had good experience with Outstart products previously and they knew that it would be easier to get approval from IT and information security – which it was.

They then went around to executives within the sales organization to talk about what they wanted/needed. Of course, a big part of the conversation was making sure they had executive support and to set expectations about what was going to happen. They coached the executives around the need to point people to the system. They talked about patience. They discussed iterations. And they set reasonable expectations around the system.

Solution

The heart of the site is the document repository. Most all of the sales materials that sales people need are found on the site. This makes it a mission-critical part of their work. It means that sales people can upload selling documents or pass best practices back and forth easily without relying on e-mail.

The site is segmented into eight communities based on different departments. Those departments have some flexibility in their design and can have their own documents. Each community has several team members responsible for that community and certainly some communities are more active and creative with the site than others. For example, the clinical team uses the portal to share updates on new clinical offerings and services as part of their roll-out package.

One of the key features of the portal also is the “Expertise Exchange,” where sales people can communicate with experts. If you have a question about a particular product, just type in that question and get an answer from an expert or from the existing knowledge bank. The portal promises to get answers back within 48 hours, but the median time is roughly 4 hours.

The system has a section dedicated to looking at current news and what it means. For example, if a major publication does an article on the company or their specific part of the industry, it's important that a sales person is ready to address questions on their next sales call. So, a few directors in Sales Communications continually look for interesting news and then create a piece that links to the article, provides a bit more background and helps the sales person have a good answer to questions around the piece.

Originally this system started out as a replacement for several existing systems that had lots of content. Unfortunately, during the planning of the system the team came to realize that much of the existing content would not be usable in the new system. A lot of it was outdated or never approved.

Branding, Marketing and Roll-Out

One of the areas that I personally think the team did extremely well is in the branding, marketing and roll-out of the system.

The Sales Operations team branded the new system with a catchy name. They designed a nice logo for it. Came up with various associated things like the popular pen. They spent time making sure that the site would come across as something different and fun. Posters were funny. Yes, they highlighted useful features, but also made sure it was different from the posters they were used to seeing. This goes along with the nature of the site in that it's designed to be social. It's not complete (iteration required). And while it has a serious purpose, we can celebrate the fact that its not perfect.

To roll-out the project, they went on a road-trip where at each stop he led the users through a game based on "Who wants to be a millionaire?" The game required people to tell him how they would find some piece of information, get help, etc. Basically they had to show how they would use the system. They gave away prizes. And everyone had a good time.

If you look at the case study Discussion Forums for Knowledge Sharing at Capital City Bank, you can find some similarities in how this system was rolled out and the need for a lot of help for users to get things moving.

The team clearly recognizes the importance of branding, marketing and roll-out. A lot of similar kinds of sites get launched with an email. People just won't adopt if they don't really understand it and don't think about it.

Results

There are approximately 1,500 employees now relying on the portal for information, expertise and knowledge exchange. These employees are mainly comprised of sales executives, account managers, clinicians and consultants.

The collaborative nature of the portal is starting to change the culture. More and more people are using the portal as a place to update the sales organization about industry or product news and to share their latest experience. This practice eliminates much of the mass e-mailing that has gone on in the past, and experts are receiving fewer and fewer of the same kinds of questions.

After unveiling the portal, surveys were sent to several hundred members of the sales team to gauge reaction. Ninety-three percent felt the ability to ask for documents or support was “very or extremely helpful.” Ninety-five percent said the “training was clear,” and they “enjoyed learning about the portal.” Ninety-two percent said they would “visit the portal regularly each week.”

On a weekly basis, there is more than four times the number of active members on the portal versus the old patchwork of tools. The portal handles 17 times the number of questions from employees that the old tools fielded. All the answers to the questions are immediately available.

In addition, sales people can ask a question using their wireless devices and get immediate answers if the data is available. If the question goes to an expert, the sales person will get an e-mail when the answer is available.

Where's Learning and Development?

You may have been wondering as your read the case, where's L&D in this? In this company, L&D falls under the same unit as Sales Operations where the team sits. Yet, interestingly, L&D was not really involved in project. They have another tool they use to put up learning content. They are discussing merging some of the content going forward. And they are discussing how we can merge learning tools inside of the portal.

To me, this may have been a missed opportunity for the L&D organization. If they want to be seen as providing day-to-day value, they need to get into the flow. And the flow is now going through the portal. Likely there are some fairly simple technical solution as to get learning content to come through the portal.

Have Patience

Executives, users, and other stakeholders often go into this kind of project having the expectation that as soon as you launch, everyone will immediately jump in and use the system. Even with the great job that the team did around rolling out the system, he still preached that everyone needed to be patient around adoption. You will get an initial burst, followed by a lull and then slow adoption. Be prepared for that. And know that you can provide real value even with partial adoption.

You also should expect to iterate to make it better. The team regularly conducts focus groups with 6-8 users in a room (no executives). You need a thick skin during this, but you will get some real nuggets. And again, you need to set the expectation that this is a work-in-progress. Lots of changes will be required. For example, discussion boards and blogs have not been used that much in the system. The team has some ideas on where these might go. They also expect to have lots of changes to the UI over time to make it easier to use and easier to find information.

ePorfolios Blogs and Audience Response Systems at Back to School Night

2009-10-07T06:07:00.000-07:00

I must say that many back-to-school nights are a bit painful. For those of you who are not familiar with this, it's an evening where you go to the school (without your children) and the teachers tell you a little bit about how they will approach the year. This year, I attended three different back-to-school nights for my three children (elementary, middle school and high school).

Most teachers hand a sheet with all the information they plan to present (which is good because there are often lots of links and other helpful information). And then they proceed to walk through it. I'm sure most of you can relate. You are sitting there while the teacher reads what's on the sheet to you. You could have got the sheet delivered to you and then just visit the teacher another time. Of course, I'm not exactly the best audience and there's no Session Hopping available at back-to-school.

I believe that many teachers will tell you that it's equally painful going through from their side. My wife used to dread both back to school and open house nights. Not sure how my mother felt (a school teacher for 35 years). I should really have asked her before I posted this. But my guess is that she didn't really like it that much either. The nice thing about being a professor is that you never saw parents except on rare visits (shake their hand, exchange pleasantries) and at graduation. You never had to do a presentation to them.

So while I was really dreading having to do three different back-to-school nights, I must say there were two very pleasant surprises. And, just in case any of the other teachers who have my children in their class this year read this, I must say this whole year was an exceptionally good back to school night. Still there were two standouts.

ePortfolios and Blogs

My oldest daughter, a freshman in high school, has a fantastic teacher, Ms. Gerber, for Honors English. Ms. Gerber has the class creating ePorfolios and Blogging as teaching tools! I honestly almost fell out of my chair when she casually mentioned this. And I was struck by the stares of the other parents who clearly had no idea what she was saying.

Now I know that many of my fellow bloggers who come from education will be saying "no duh, Tony" this is happening all over the place. But it's a bit different when you see it really being applied.

As an example, the students watched the courtroom drama 12 Angry Men. Ms. Gerber asked the students to post comments in the class blog: Assignment Two. Certainly, seeing what the other students said in their responses is a great thing. There wasn't much interaction among the students as in Assignment One. But it was still good to see answers. And it was funny to see my daughter say:

I used to have a feeling I would be a good lawyer, because I have a lot of arguments with my dad, but now I'm not so sure. If that's what it's like in a courtroom, I wouldn't last very long!

Ms. Gerber also has started the students on a journey of creating an ePorfolio using Google Sites. They aren't much to look at yet, but having recently run across a few examples of ePortfolios that students have pulled together across several years – I'm sure that it's a great idea to have them starting on one now.

I'm quite curious what recommendations people have around how to effectively create an ePortfolio that will help you get into college. Currently, my daughter's portfolio is oriented around Years and Subjects. That doesn't seem right to me, but maybe it doesn't matter at this point. Any pointers?

Audience Response System

The other pleasant surprise was Mr. Luke Olesiuk, at the middle school. He teaches math and went through all of the normal stuff that all the teachers do. However, he made it quite enjoyable because he used an audience response system in the classroom and presented most everything that way. As we walked in, he provided each parent a clicker. It's from TurningPoint Systems – see it below:

Then he spent what I have to believe was a fair bit of time designing his presentation. Instead of saying, my goals for the year are X, Y, and Z. He would put a question on the projector that said - "My goals for the year are all of the following except one of these …" and he would list X, Y and Z and at least one funny response. I was surprised how effectively it kept everyone engaged. Most parent intentionally would get wrong answers (at least I hope), but it gave him opportunity to talk through why those were the goals or whatever.

Truly he turned something mundane into something fun. And he ended exactly on time (used a timer in his hand to track). Clearly he spent time designing this out, but the result was great. It made me think that with the advent of audience response via web solutions, this is going to make in-person presentations a lot more interesting in the future. Quite topical given: Narrowing Gap between Face-to-Face and Online Presentations and New Presenter and Learner Skills and Methods.

The only drag was the following note that we received:

Parents - I'm still missing Clicker # C14 from Back-To-School night last night...if you accidentally borrowed it after the presentation yesterday, please send it back with your student on Monday. Thank you!

Amazing that he doesn't lose them with kids, but does with parents.

Maybe if Turning Point Systems sees this post they can send him a new one. :)

Multitasking

2009-10-06T06:11:00.000-07:00

As way of background for this month's big question - <Insert link to Big Question>, I went to eLearning Learning and looked up Multitasking. Found some great posts. But the basic gist is that

Multitasking Generally is Bad for Work and Learning

Clive Shepherd - A challenge to the multitask assumption tells us:

According to work conducted at Stanford University and reported by Constance Holden in ScienceNOW Daily News under the heading Multitasking muddles the mind, "cognitive performance declines when people try to pay attention to many media channels at once." Clifford Nass, co-author of the study, claims "the study has a disturbing implication in an age when more and more people are simultaneously working on a computer, listening to music, surfing the Web, texting, or talking on the phone. Access to more information tools is not necessarily making people more efficient in their intellectual chores." Also disconcerting, he notes, is that "people who chronically multitask believe they're good at it."

Will Thalheimer - Younger Generation NOT Good at Multitasking Either!

Read this great article in the Monitor on Psychology by Rebecca A. Clay.

It says:

People in general are not good at multitasking.

Young people are no better than their elders at multitasking.

Multitasking actually takes longer. It is NOT a time saver.

Learning done while multitasking is shallower learning, leading not to deep understanding (and flexible mental models) but only to an ability to regurgitate rote information.

George Siemens – Multitasking

A report on multitasking (via Mark Bullen) states “heavy media multitaskers performed worse on a test of task-switching ability, likely due to reduced ability to filter out interference from the irrelevant task set”. BBC provides more commentary.

Ray Jimenez - Over-rated - The Myth of Multitasking

Christine Rosen writes on The Myth of Multitasking,, on the different studies debunking the idea that we learn best by multi-tasking.
"Discussing his research on National Public Radio recently, Poldrack warned, “We have to be aware that there is a cost to the way that our society is changing, that humans are not built to work this way. We’re really built to focus. And when we sort of force ourselves to multitask, we’re driving ourselves to perhaps be less efficient in the long run even though it sometimes feels like we’re being more efficient.”

Doodling and Note Taking is Good

Lars Hyland - Doodling, multitasking and memory

doodling doesn't detract from concentration. On the contrary, a slightly distracting secondary task may actually improve concentration during the performance of dull tasks that would otherwise cause a mind to wander.

I did a cursory summary of note taking and found that most research suggests that effective note taking practices with appropriate summarizing generally results in greater retention. I didn't find a really good summary of this, so would appreciate any pointers that provides a pretty good summary.

Contest - Win a Free Copy of Digital Habitats via LearnTrends 2009

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I've known Nancy White and John Smith for quite a while. Nancy has been my go to person for all things Communities and Networks and worked with me to create Communities and Networks Connection. So naturally when Nancy and John (with Etienne Wenger) put out the book Digital Habitats; Stewarding Technology for Communities I was very excited. And I've got to say that I agree with the recent comment in a post I saw:

Whenever I get stuck I’ll contact my friends at CPSquare: Etienne, Nancy and John. And while I know they all have a deep understanding of CoPs I tend to ask Etienne the theory questions, Nancy the technology questions and John the group dynamics questions. Together they are a formidable team. Sadly I think their new book, Digital Habitats, will give them strong cause to suggest I should RTFM: Read The Flipping Manual.

This is a really awesome book. I almost think it's more a performance support tool than a book. You really should get a copy and put it next to your computer. So, if you don't win the free copy, then you should go buy it.

So I'm very happy to announce to make two announcements:

1. Nancy White and John Smith will be doing a session at LearnTrends 2009 (a free online conference – you should definitely go register). And as a bonus, John will be doing another session with Jack Merklien of Xerox Global Services on communities. You can see details below on these two sessions.

2. Nancy and John have generously offered TWO FREE SIGNED copies of their book to people who help promote the conference and their sessions.

Entering the Contest

Twitter

1. Follow me - @tonykarrer on twitter.

2. Tweet and include a link back to this post.

I will use BackTweets to find people who link to this post. It handles short URLs. You can test to see if your tweet appears here.

Suggested tweets:

Twitter Contest – Free Copy of Digital Habitats – Stewarding Technology for Communities - http://bit.ly/MYIw #learntrends

Twitter Contest - LearnTrends 2009 – Free Online Conference - http://bit.ly/MYIw #learntrends

Retweet to enter contest: Free copy Digital Habitats – Stewarding Technology for Communities http://bit.ly/MYIw #learntrends

Retweet for chance to win a free copy of Digital Habitats http://bit.ly/MYIw #learntrends

Blog

Post an entry in your blog that links back to this post.

I will use IceRocket to search for your post. If you don't come up in the search, then drop a comment here to let me know about your post. Sorry if that turns out to be extra work, but I wanted a way to enter for those who don't use twitter. You can test that search here.

We would really appreciate if your blog post can also mention the conference and the innovation awards and the Digital Habitats Contest:

LearnTrends 2009 - Free Online Conference

LearnTrends Innovation Awards

Rules

1. We will accept only one entry per blog and per twitter account. If you have a blog and a twitter account, you will have two chances to win.

2. We will do our first drawing on October 21 based on all entries to the contest prior to Midnight Pacific Time on October 20.

3. We will do our second drawing on November 11 based on all entries made after the first drawing deadline and prior to Midnight Pacific Time on November 10.

Yes, that means that you will need to blog and/or tweet again on or after October 21 to be entered for the second book.

Feedback? Questions?

This is the first time we've ever tried something like this. I know that most of you have been nice enough to promote the conference even without any kind of a reward. So, I hope this is fun and seems like a good possible reward for helping get the word out. I'm certainly open to feedback on the idea, how we could do it better, etc.

And, of course, happy to answer any questions.

Session Descriptions

Below are the descriptions of the sessions that Nancy and John will be involved with at LearnTrends 2009. There will be a bunch of other sessions that should be announced by October 15.

E-learning outside the training box with Nancy White and John Smith

Once you've mastered enough of the new social media tools, training and development professionals are figuring out that technologies can change the boundaries around training itself, just as they can interrupt organizational boundaries. We offer two cases that illustrate the benefits and opportunities of these changed boundaries. In one, Nancy White talks about triangulating internal training and capacity building with external actors who part of the training and who validate it; that leads to more connections between people and has gained manager support. In the other, John Smith talks about a workshop that brings social activities into the center of the training experience, investing time in making the social connections a lasting and practical resource. We use the polarities that are developed in Digital Habitats to tie these examples together and give you design ideas for program development.

Nancy White, Full Circle Associates (http://www.fullcirc.com)
Nancy brings over 25 years of communications, technology and leadership skills in her work supporting collaboration, learning and communications in the NGO, non profit and business sectors. Grounded in community leadership and recognized expertise in online communities and networks, Nancy works with people to leverage their strengths and assets towards tangible goals and meaningful process. Nancy’s blog and Twitter stream are regularly recognized as leading sources on online communities and networks, knowledge management and knowledge sharing. Nancy is a respected speaker and workshop leader. She is a chocoholic and lives with her family in Seattle, Washington, USA.

John David Smith, Learning Alliances (http://learningalliances.net)
John brings over 25 years of experience to bear on the technology and learning problems faced by communities, their leaders and their sponsors. He coaches and consults on issues ranging from event design and community facilitation, to community design and evaluation, and technology selection and configuration. He has worked in the communities of practice area for the past 10 years and is the community steward for CPsquare, the international community of practice on communities of practice. He's the host of com-prac, the longest-running conversation about communities of practice on the 'Net. He is a regular workshop leader in CPsquare and elsewhere. He grew up in Humacao, Puerto Rico and now lives in Portland, Oregon.

Common tools for diverse communities at Xerox Global Services, with Jack Merklein and John Smith

Communities of practice are a well-established part of Xerox Global Services' knowledge strategy. Over the years, the tools that Xerox communities use has evolved through experimentation, innovation, and technology stewardship. All Xerox communities have access to a common set of tools: standardizing on that set of tools helps reduce the learning curve as staff move from one community to another. But communities choose a subset, evolve their own conventions and habits, and individual preferences determine what communities actually do. The current the mix of tools that are available includes blogs, wikis, document repositories, live meeting software and a calendar. Using the community orientations framework from Digital Habitats, we'll talk about some of the different communities at Xerox and how they use the standard tools in ways to fit their individual styles and needs. We'll also talk about how the different tools work together (for example, about community vs personal MS-Outlook calendars or how a wiki and a document repository overlap in some ways but serve different purposes at the same time).

Jack Merklein is with Xerox Global Services where his responsibilities include the development and care of communities of practice, internal knowledge management training and knowledge sharing initiatives. He also consults privately, and his client list covers both the public and private sector. Previous assignments include being the Director of Knowledge and Learning for Xerox Global Services. He is also a retired Lieutenant Colonel, US Army, with degrees from West Point and Golden Gate University. His service assignments included Director of Knowledge Management and Distance Learning while assigned as a senior faculty member at one of the Army's schools. He has served as a board member and chair of the Knowledge Management Certification Board, was a founder and first president of the Knowledge Management Professional Society, and was one of the original members of the U.S. federal government's Knowledge Management Standards Committee under the federal CIO's council. He has written articles for several magazines concerning how knowledge sharing initiatives can impact learning.