Conferences Upcoming

Looking for a development activity? You'll not only find workshops available through the Sloan Consortium, but here are some conferences that are coming up:

You've still got time to register for the MERLOT 2007 Conference in New Orleans, which is 8/7-8/10.

The 23rd Annual Conference on Distance Teaching and Learning will be held 8/8-8/10 in Madison, WI.

The E-Learning Guild is offering Advanced e-Learning Instructional Design: New Techniques and Strategies in an Online Workshop on 8/16-8/17.

The Sixth International Internet Education Conference (ICT-Learn 2007) will be held September 2-4 in Cairo, Egypt.

The Designs on E-learing Conference, Learning and Teaching with Technology in Art Design and Communication wil be held September 13-14th at the University of the Arts London IT Research & Development Unit (ITRDU)

The 13th Annual Sloan Consortium Conference is coming up in November in Orlando, FL.

Make Money Teaching Online (Review)

I just recently got my hands on a copy of Make Money Teaching Online (Babb & Mirabella, 2007). I've posted a review. Enjoy!

Special Issue Link

A special Citizenship issue of the Institute Of Education's online journal Reflecting Education is available at: http://www.reflectingeducation.net/index.php/reflecting/issue/view/3/showToc

August Issue

I'm working on putting together articles for a second issue; I've already solicited a couple of specific articles from folks, and would like to have another book review. If you are interested in submitting an article or review for the next issue, please contact me immediately.

JISC News

Hi,

as one of the participants at the 2006 Jisc online conference, we thought you might be interested in the 2007 conference, Innovating e-Learning 2007 - Institutional Transformation and Supporting Lifelong Learning, 11 - 14 June 2007

This second conference focuses on the potential of e-learning in transforming practice within institutions and in supporting lifelong learning. The keynote presenters will offer a rich variety of perspectives on these themes:

Theme 1: Institutional transformation Day 1: Terry Mayes, Emeritus Professor, Glasgow Caledonian University, and Day 2: Dr John Guy, Principal, and Dr Mike Docker, Director, ICLT, the Sixth Form College, Farnborough

Theme 2: Supporting Lifelong Learning, introduced by Robin Mason, Professor of Educational Technology at The Institute of Educational Technology, The Open University

The concluding presentation will be given by Oleg Liber, Professor of e-Learning and Director of the Research Centre for Educational Technology and Interoperability Standards (CETIS), University of Bolton.

As well as these keynote presenters, there is a very large number of other sessions and presentations, making up what we hope is an exciting and useful programme. The full programme (and booking
information) can be seen at:

www.jisc.ac.uk/elp_conference07

As last year, the conference will be open for a week for pre-conference reading, from the 4th June. The conference itself will run from 11-14 June and will then remain open for viewing for a full month, until 15 July.

Hope to see you there,

Geoff.

Geoff Minshull
Direct Learn Services Ltd
Company no: 04268722

Tel: +44 (0)161 408 3860
Skype: geoffm

Sign up for the JISC Innovating e-Learning conference, 2007:
http://www.jisc.ac.uk/elp_conference07

JISC Conference 2007

I attended JISC's 2006 Conference last spring, and I really learned a lot. It was nice to be at a conference meeting that was not school specific and didn't have the sorts of pressures that job retreats do. I highly encourage folks to sign up and enjoy this year's conference if you are in Birmingham (it looks as if this year's conference is on-site only). Check out http://www.jisc.ac.uk/events.aspx for full information.