This is a video summary of: Veletsianos, G. (2016). Digital Learning Environments. In Rushby, N. & Surry D. (Eds) Handbook of Learning Technologies (pp. 242-260). Wiley. Download the paper from: http://www.veletsianos.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/digital_learninig_environments.pdf

CFP: Greetings, my colleague and I are currently soliciting submissions for an edited collection tentatively titled “Mediating Misogyny: Gender, Technology, & Harassment” that may be of interest to some in this group. Please consider submitting & circulate widely, thanks! This…

*Call for Chapters* “Digital Affordances: Techno-Social and Critical Concerns” In the wake of numerous articles attempting to comprehend digital spaces and their impact on social and cultural norms, the idea of “affordances” has garnered much attention. But where do we…

CALL FOR CHAPTER PROPOSALS Proposal Submission Deadline: July 15th, 2016 End-User Considerations in Educational Technology Design Editors: Rod D. Roscoe, Scotty D. Craig, and Ian Douglas (Arizona State University) Introduction Educational technology development traditionally emphasizes strong pedagogical foundations and innovative…

International Journal of Designs for Learning STUDENT DESIGN CASE SLAM Are you a student of instructional design or learning sciences? Have you designed an instructional project, in class or outside of class? Share your design with other designers! Sign up…

Call for Presentations AECT-ICEM-USA Graduate Students Panel Presentations in Emerging Technologies: Learning Analytics, Quantified Self, & Personalized/Personal Learning: Keeping up with big data   An active professional community should observe and facilitate the contributions of graduate students.  ICEM-USA has long history…

The Technology, Knowledge and Learning (TKNL) journal invites submissions for a special issue “Big data in higher education: Research methods and analytics supporting the learning journey” to be published in 2017. One of the promises of big data in higher…

The Foundation for Blended and Online Learning has established a grant program to assist K-12 schools in the United States who have state-approved blended or online learning programs. The program is administered by Scholarship Management Services, a division of Scholarship…

The United States Distance Learning Association’s International Forum for Women in eLearning (IFWE) San Antonio, Texas Wednesday, November 30, 2016 – Friday, December 2, 2016   Call for Proposals Now Open! Due Date: June 17, 2016 USDLA is pleased to present…

*** Call for Papers *** Joint Special Issue of IEEE TETC and TLT on “Innovation in Technologies for Educational Computing” IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computing (TETC) IEEE Transactions on Learning Technologies (TLT) Link: https://www.computer.org/cms/transactions/cfps/cfp_tetcsi_itec.pdf *** Guest Editors ***…

Distance Education (volume 38, number 2, 2017) Special Issue on “Social Presence and Identity in Online Learning”   Social Presence is a multi-faceted  and complicated construct (see Biocca et al., 2003; Lombard & Ditto, 1997) that dates back to the…

Editors Dr. Purnendu Tripathi, Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU), India Dr. Siran Mukerji, Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU), India Call for Chapters Proposals Submission Deadline: May 25, 2016 Full Chapters Due: July 15, 2016 Submission Date: November 15,…

Special issue on “The Social Innovation capacity of Open Education and Learning” to be published at the Interaction Design and Architecture(s) Journal (IxD&A) a SCOPUS and Web of Science – Emerging Sources (Thomson Reuters) indexed Journal (ISSN 1826-9745, eISSN 2283-2998)…

Call for papers for a special issue of Computers in the Schools, focusing on Research on One-to-One Learning The special issue will be edited by Dr. William A. Sadera and Dr. Liyan Song. One-to-one computing is a learning environment where…

Call for Proposals Systems Thinking and Change in Education: (A Springer Major Reference Work) Do you work on changing education? Do you employ a perspective where systems thinking (linear or non-linear) describes causes and effects impacting education contexts? A new…

Call for Proposals: Technology, Instruction, Cognition, and Learning Special Issue: Meaningful transformation of instruction with rapidly changing learning technologies: Practice, theory, research, and ethical considerations and opportunities Technology, Instruction, Cognition and Learning (TICL) is an international, interdisciplinary journal of structural…

There’s just under a week left to submit! If you know of others who may have interesting topics to present on, please encourage them to submit. 2016 marks the eleventh annual Northwest eLearning Conference, which will be held in Eugene,…

AERA is pleased to announce that it is live-streaming select sessions at its 2016 Annual Meeting in Washington, D.C., April 8 to 12. Among the live-streamed sessions is a special address by U.S. Second Lady Jill Biden, on Monday, April 11,…

Academic publishing is a mess. However, despite the ongoing issues academics have with traditional publishing companies (e.g., signing over the copyright of their work, reviewing manuscripts for free, getting takedown notices for sharing copies of their own articles), the clear…

Uses of Video Annotation Software to Promote Deep Learning – SoTE 2106 from Michael Johnson

This summer we are pleased to offer a special topics elective called Introduction to Openness. This is an important topic that focuses on issues related to open content, open software, open online courses, and more. Course description: This is a…

Submit Your Creative Solution to a Significant Need in Higher Ed Today!  Look across your campus or organization for successful and innovative works that meet the WCET Outstanding Work criteria.  Encourage your colleagues to submit a nomination. The WCET Outstanding Work…

I regularly run across free access to great books online. The following are a few that have caught my attention recently. I personally love books so I would recommend purchasing each of these for your own library. Handbook of Distance…

Teacher Professional Development in the Digital Age: Design Considerations for MOOCs for Teachers from Chuck Hodges