Upcoming Conferences

Mark your calendars! COLTT conference will be held August 3-4, 2011

COLTT Registration is Now Open https://www.cusys.edu/coltt/2011/registration.html

The University of Colorado at Boulder invites the community to attend its 14th annual COLTT conference, which will be held this August 3-4 on the CU-Boulder campus.

COLTT 2011 engages participants in learning about teaching practices and technologies, challenging the way they think about both. Hundreds of faculty, staff, and students from a variety of educational institutions along the Front Range gather for this annual event held within sight of Boulder's beautiful Flatirons. They attend presentations and hands-on workshops, network, and gather effective practices that change they way they teach and learn in classrooms, online, and in virtual environments.

Early registration for this popular conference is available at a discount until July 7, 2011. The conference program includes rich and provocative offerings:

•    The keynote speaker on August 3rd will be Gardner Campbell who currently serves as Director of Professional Development and Innovative Initiatives at Virginia Tech, where he is also an Associate Professor of English.

•    The featured speaker on August 4th will be writer and award-winning photojournalist Michael Kodas, author of the best-selling book High Crimes: The Fate of Everest in an Age of Greed.

•    Presentations such as Gaming Education: Things I Have Learned in My Online Course So Far; Leveraging Game Psychology for Better Learning; Friends and Twits: Social Media and Education; Introduction to Digital Graphics; Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 3 and Photoshop CS 5; Photography Workflow; and Quick and Easy Videos: Producing and Uploading Video Content offer opportunities for engaged and hands-on learning.

•    The ever-popular Café Pédagogique, lead by Dr. JJ Cohen, is an opportunity to network with colleagues at Laudisio restaurant in Boulder on the first evening of the conference. This optional additional event has limited seating available and pre-registration is required.

You can access more information about COLTT 2011 online at:
https://www.cusys.edu/coltt/2011/index.html

Questions about COLTT 2011 can be directed to Deborah Keyek-Franssen, Conference Director, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it or Jill Lester, COLTT Conference Coordinator, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .

27th Annual Conference on Distance Teaching & Learning
Madison, Wisconsin: August 3-5, 2011

The Annual Conference on Distance Teaching and Learning hosted by the University of Wisconsin-Madison takes place August 3-5, 2011 in Madison, Wisconsin. This conference presents opportunities to interact with your peers on best practices, research, and resources on the design and delivery of distance education and training. You can gain additional information by visiting http://depd.wisc.edu

4th Annual Emerging Technologies for Online Learning International Symposium
A joint symposium of The Sloan Consortium and MERLOT
July 11-13, 2011
Fairmont Hotel, San Jose, California
The symposium, focusing on the technologies, networking and systems that drive online learning effectiveness, tracks highlight and demonstrate research, application and effective practices and noteworthy technological tools in the following areas:
•    Cutting Edge Technologies
•    Pedagogy
•    Administration, Infrastructure, and Support Services
•    Instructional Design and Support of Online Classes
•    New Learning Communities
•    Inventive Uses of Media and Tools

http://sloanconsortium.org/et4online

23th Annual WCET Conference
October 26-29, 2011
City Center Marriott Denver Colorado

Wednesday, October 26, 2011 12:00 PM - Saturday, October 29, 2011 12:00 PM (Mountain Time)

Where: Denver City Center Marriott,

1701 California Street

Denver, Colorado 80202

Phone: 303-541-0233

http://wcetconference.wiche.edu/

17th Annual Sloan Consortium International Conference on Online Learning