2011 UPCEA Career and Economic Development - January 12-14, 2011 Clearwater Beach, FL

CALL FOR PRESENTERS
Ecological systems are defined by the interrelationships among organisms and their environment. Economic development is driven by innovation. Like an ecological system, economic development depends upon the interrelationships among education and training providers, employers, and government policymakers. The job training funding from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA), as well as changes to Pell Grant funding and the unemployment insurance system, were designed to bring postsecondary education within the reach of increased numbers of working Americans.

Yet these changes represent but a first step in addressing the nation’s need to raise the educational attainment level of its workforce. To get ahead, access to ongoing postsecondary education and training is vital over the career span. Yet the
current system is skewed toward short-term training created to get the unemployed into the jobs and gives short shrift to building the skill levels of workers through investments in ongoing education and training.

The American postsecondary education system divides into two silos: one provides programs that serve the needs of traditional-age, full-time students; and another supplies a wide array of convenient, albeit stand-alone, education and training modules which offer neither a recognized credential nor a pathway to a career. In a knowledge-based economy, the successful businesses will be those most dependent on quality human capital to spur innovation. Professional and continuing education units contribute to economic development by providing customized corporate training, offering certificate and master’s degree programs for emerging professional fields, facilitating technology transfer, and supporting innovation incubators for start-ups and small businesses.

UPCEA’s 17th Annual Career and Economic Development Forum (formerly Workforce Development Forum) will bring together leaders from the business, government, non-profit, and academic sectors to discuss workforce trends, public policy directions, partnership models, and education programs. Participants at this Forum will explore the role played by college and university professional and continuing education organizations in responding to the changing nature of workforce development, education, and training. The Program Planning Committee is soliciting concurrent session presentations related to three general themes: Responding to Market Forces, Certification and Credentialing, and Effective Strategies.

Guidelines for Concurrent Session Proposals
• Provide a session title and description (in 500 words or less) of your proposal.
• Provide the name, organizational affiliation, and contact information (email and mailing address) of all presenters in the proposed session, and a primary contact person. In addition, please provide a maximum 100-word bio for each presenter.
• Provide an abstract (maximum of 75 words) of your proposal for use in the Forum program.
• List any other presentation needs.
• E-mail the proposal by September 24, 2010, to UPCEA Career and Economic Development Forum, Barbara Kessler, bkessler@virginia.edu.

E-Learn 2010 FINAL CALL ~ October 18 - 22, 2010 * Orlando, Florida

E-Learn 2010 -- World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, & Higher Education is an international, annual conference which serves as a multi-disciplinary forum for the exchange of information on research, development, and applications of all topics related to e-Learning in these four sectors.


All presentation proposals are reviewed and selected by a respected, International Executive Advisory Board and Program Committee, based on merit and the perceived value for attendees. Accepted proposals will be included in the conference program and Proceedings, available on EdITLib - Education & Information Technology Digital Library.

E-Learn spans all disciplines and levels of education and attracts more than 1,000 attendees from over 60 countries. We invite you to attend E-Learn and submit proposals for presentations.


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Keynote & Invited Speakers and Workshops

Keynote Speakers
Tony Bates, Tony Bates Assoc. Ltd, Canada
Paul Kim, Stanford University, USA
Gardener Campbell, Baylor University, USA
Michelle Selinger, Cisco Inc., Australia
Invited Speakers
Vanessa Deneen, Florida State University, USA

Chuck Dziuban, Joel Hartman & Patsy Moskal, University of Central Florida, USA
Lawrence Johnson, NMC, USA

Colla Jean MacDonald, University of Ottawa, Canada

Andrew Ross, Florida Virtual School, USA

Brent Schlenker, eLearning Guild, USA

Michael Searson, Kean University, USA

The 2011 Teaching Professor Conference ~ May 20-22 ~ Atlanta, GA

For educators who are passionate about the art and science of teaching, The Teaching Professor Conference is the premier event in the U.S. There is no better forum for an exhilarating exchange of ideas with your colleagues.

The 2011 Teaching Professor Conference is the place to hear about the latest pedagogical research.
If you have previously submitted a proposal for past conferences, we sincerely ask you to submit again. And if you have never submitted a proposal for a workshop or poster session, we ask that you seriously consider this opportunity to share your work at the conference.

The Teaching Professor Conference will be held this May 20-22, 2011 at the Sheraton Atlanta Hotel in Atlanta, Georgia.

Featured topical areas are:
Topical Area 1: Learning
Topical Area 2: Activities that Engage Students
Topical Area 3: Teaching Specific Types of Courses
Topical Area 4: Instructional Vitality: Ways to Keep Teaching Fresh and Invigorated
Topical Area 5: Teaching and Learning with Technology
Topical Area 6: Grading and Feedback

For more information about the proposal process and how to submit your proposal, please click here: http://www.teachingprofessor.com/conference/proposals.


The Teaching Professor Conference is three intensive days of plenary sessions, workshops, poster sessions, and more. Here is your chance to be a part of it in 2011.

Deadline for proposal submissions is Friday, October 22nd, 2010.

Conference on Higher Education Pedagogy ~ Virginia Tech ~ February 3-4, 2011

Call for Proposals
All proposals must be submitted electronically using the Research/Practice Proposal Template or the Poster Proposal Template. Please follow the guidelines for the content construction of the three types of proposals: Research Sessions, Practice Sessions and Poster Sessions.

Call for Proposals
Due Date: Thursday, October 7, 2010


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Session Types

Concurrent Sessions: Concurrent sessions provide the presenter with the opportunity to engage participants in either the research or practice of the scholarship of teaching and learning.

Research Sessions: Research sessions are designed to inform participants of the design, implementation and results of empirical research focused on teaching and learning in higher education. More details »

Practice Sessions: Practice sessions are focused on sharing, modeling and discussing higher education teaching and learning, while allowing for interaction among session participants. More details »

Poster Sessions: Poster sessions provide the contributor with the opportunity to present and discuss scholarly research and/or practice addressing higher education pedagogy with conference participants in an informal scholarly environment. More details »

Please Note: There will be a limited number of Concurrent Sessions, thus some authors who submit for a Concurrent Session may be asked to present as a Poster Session instead.

Potential Topics
Session topics may address a wide range of elements related to higher education pedagogy and the investigation, understanding and improvement of higher education teaching and learning. Session topics may be focused on a specific domain (e.g., English, Business, Engineering) or may be interdisciplinary, transdisciplinary or multidisciplinary.

Assessing Student Learning
Employing Innovative Pedagogy
Teaching for Individual Differences
Implementing Effective Strategies
Designing Effective Instruction
Integrating Technology Effectively
Creating Domain Specific Pedagogy (e.g., English, chemistry, engineering, history, art, wildlife science)
Funding and Publishing the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning
Submit a Proposal
Proposals for either Concurrent Sessions or Poster Sessions must be submitted online.

SITE International Conference ~ March 7 - 11 ~ Nashville, TN

SITE 2011 is the 22nd annual conference of the Society for Information Technology and Teacher Education. This society represents individual teacher educators and affiliated organizations of teacher educators in all disciplines, who are interested in the creation and dissemination of knowledge about the use of information technology in teacher education and faculty/staff development. SITE is a society of the Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE).

SITE is unique as the only organization which has as its sole focus the integration of instructional technologies into teacher education programs. SITE promotes the development and dissemination of theoretical knowledge, conceptual research, and professional practice knowledge through conferences, books, projects, and the Journal of Technology and Teacher Education (JTATE).

You are invited to attend and participate in this annual international forum which offer numerous opportunities to share your ideas, explore the research, development, and applications, and to network with the leaders in this important field of teacher education and technology.

Call Deadline - October 21, 2010

The Journal of Educators Online Call for Papers ~ January 2011 Issue

Call for Papers, January 2011 Issue

The Journal of Educators Online invites you to submit original papers in the broad area of computer-mediated learning† to include pedagogy, content, technical and organizational issues for the January 2011 issue. Published biannually (January and July), for online educators, students and policy makers. The Journal of Educators Online is an online peer review scholarly journal serving the needs of the online academic community world-wide. For more information, please visit the journal’s website at www.thejeo.com.

The journal’s multidisciplinary scope offers authors the opportunity to submit papers that are highly focused or broad in scope. Topics include methods to improve online instruction, barriers and opportunities for online education, delivery methods, what works and what does not, financial issues, discipline specific issues, technical issues, online versus face-to-face issues, online content to enhance in-class instruction, instructor and student assessment methodologies, group and individual student online instructional issues, funding initiatives, book and software reviews, and accreditation issues.

Submission Instructions

Submit via e-mail an MS WORD copy of your manuscript to the editor, Matt Elbeck, at melbeck@troy.edu. Typical length of submission is twenty-five pages (A4 or Letter size with one inch margins), double spaced, including abstract, appendices, references, figures, and tables. Deadline for the January 2011 issue is November 30, 2010.

Include a cover page with the paper's title and the name, address, telephone number, and e-mail address of the contact person.

For format, we require use of the American Psychological Association’s style guide.

Papers will be reviewed using an external double-blind review process. Names of author(s) should appear only on the title page. Authors should not identify themselves or their institution elsewhere in the paper. Paper review and feedback from the editor typically takes 4 to 6 weeks from receipt of your paper.

Submission indicates that the paper or a similar version of it has not been previously published, accepted for publication, and/or is not currently under consideration for publication elsewhere.

Thank you for your manuscript!

Matt Elbeck, PhD
Editor, Journal of Educators Online

†Computer-mediated learning occurs when an individual interactively learns (formally or informally, synchronously or asynchronously) about material via computer where the learning materials and pedagogy are developed to take advantage of the available technologies.

16th Annual ALN Conference - Orlando - Nov. 3-5

“The Power of Online Learning: Stimulating New Possibilities”

We invite you to submit a presentation for the 16th Sloan-C International Conference on Online Learning: “The Power of Online Learning: Stimulating New Possibilities.” The conference strongly encourages presentations that report on online and blended learning research, theory , and practice at all levels. Proposals that address blended learning, issues of diversity, international applications of online learning, open educational resources, social networking, online learning and community colleges, and/or K-12 online education are especially encouraged. Last year’s conference attracted over 1375 participants to more than 200 presentations, as well as exhibits, pre-conference workshops, keynote and plenary addresses, and a variety of other special events.