Facebook Group “Groups for Schools” feature today which will allow American colleges to create Group pages accessible only within the school community. LinkedIn LinkedIn is a business-oriented social networking service. Founded in December 2002 and launched on May 5, 2003,…

Awards Call for Entries: 2015 Campus Technology Innovators Awards Nominations are now open for the 2015 CT Innovators Awards. By Rhea Kelly 01/05/15 Campus Technology Innovators Awards 2015 Campus Technology is looking for innovative colleges and universities that have deployed…

Call-for-papers “Design-based research for online learning environment development” The International Journal of Social Media and Interactive Learning Environments (http://www.inderscience.com/jhome.php?jcode=ijsmile) aims to provide an avenue for researchers to share experiences and research finding on the use of technology for teaching and…

Hollow Wood – Audiotree Live from Audiotree Live on Vimeo.

This original list of Educational Technology and related conferences was prepared by Clayton R. Wright, crwr77 at gmail.com, November 12, 2014. I have shortened it — focusing on a select number of conferences that interest me each month. Please refer…

What is it like to learn and participate in MOOCs? Special Issue – Call for papers Educational Media International Scholarly Peer-Reviewed Journal published by Taylor & Francis   Overview While during 2011-2012 the mass media were largely exuberant about MOOCs…

I like how Seitzinger differentiates between the role of presence and curation: Ascilite2014 The Networked Professional from Joyce Seitzinger

WCET 2014 from Patrick Lowenthal

Boise State Blackboard Conference — Building Learning Community from Patrick Lowenthal

Sadly I missed this session but I was glad to see the slides on Slideshare. This made me think of Fadde and Vu’s chapter Blended Online Learning: Benefits, Challenges and Misconceptions. As well as some work I am doing on…

AECT 2014 social presence and video from Patrick Lowenthal

*** Call for Papers *** IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computing (TETC) Special Issue/Section on Emerging Trends in Education *** Submission Deadline: March 1, 2015 *** (see below for all the important dates) *** Guest Editors *** Phillip A.…

AECT 2014 – Design guidelines for infograhpics from Patrick Lowenthal

According to his website: “David Weinberger writes about the effect of technology on ideas. He is the author of Small Pieces Loosely Joined and Everything Is Miscellaneous, and is the co-author of The Cluetrain Manifesto. His most recent book, Too…

I have thought a bit about academic’s online presence and have written about it–see Intentional Web Presence. I really like this detailed four-step guide: https://open.uct.ac.za/bitstream/handle/11427/2652/OpenUCT_academics_online_presence_guide_2014_version.pdf?sequence=5

Class as a Fully Realized Online RPG Faculty of Boise State University have converted a class to a fully game-based approach that leverages role-play characteristics, MMORPG leveling and skill building, and an immersive game-based design. This session will outline the…

New AERA Open Access Journal Now Accepting Article Submissions WASHINGTON, D.C., October 9, 2014 – AERA Open, a new scholarly journal from the American Educational Research Association (AERA), is now accepting article submissions. The publication is the first open access journal in the field of…

Call For Articles: Special Issue of the Bulletin of the Technical Committee on Learning Technology “eLearning and Linked Open Data” Guest Editors: Salvador Sanchez-Alonso and Enayat Rajabi Information Engineering research unit University of Alcalá, Spain {salvador.sanchez, enayat.rajabi}@uah.es With the proliferation of…

Call for Papers Special Issue on Technology support for fostering life-long learning of learners with disabilities  in Journal of Educational Technology & Society (SSCI indexed) Special issue publication date: January 2016 IMPORTANT DATES Full papers due : 15 March 2015…

The following are selected conferences that interest me related to instructional design, educational technology and online learning. These were taken from Educational Technology and Education Conferences #31 June to December 2014 Clayton R Wright (1)   September 2014  September 1-5, 2014…

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The following information came from the Canadian Initiative for Distance Education Research (CIDER) website. October 1, 2014 Meta-analysis of the CoI Framework Madelaine Befus, Athabasca University This presentation focuses on exploring the shape and scope of the corpus of CoI…

CALL FOR PAPERS – SPECIAL ISSUE E-Learning and Digital Media (www.wwwords.co.uk/elea) DIGITAL LITERACIES IN THE US SOUTH GUEST EDITORS: Heather M. Pleasants & Ryan M. Rish Digital literacy practices have often been celebrated as means of transcending the constraints of…

Learning styles: Research and Expert Opinion from Chuck Hodges

NEPC Panel 2014 – What Do We Know, and What Should We Know, About Virtual Schools? from Michael Barbour