Opportunities for E-learning Scholarship

E-learning faculty and scholars interested in combining their teaching and scholarship may be interested in this site:

Presenting & Publishing Research on E-Learning

This website from my home institution, The University of Illinois Springfield, contains calls for papers and presentations on e-learning. Especially for junior faculty, and those just starting to teach online, this blog presents a clear and easy starting point for examining opportunities to present and publish all the work you have done to make your online classroom successful.

Educause

Educause is an organization dedicated to integrating technology and learning. Educause reaches across the educational spectrum and includes programs for administrators, faculty, and technologists (OK, I made up that term, but it seems appropriate for the vast array of those directly working directly with technology on campus.) From time to time, I will post items of potential interest from Educause. Today it is:

Educause Midwest Regional Conference, Chicago Illinois, March 23-25, 2009.

The conference is accepting presentation proposals until October 6, 2008.

The conference is broken down into 5 general topics (Taken verbatim from Educause's website)

1. Managing Enterprise Resources: Best Practices in Architecture and Implementation
2. IT Service Management Models in Higher Education
3. Emerging Practices: The Intersection of Teaching, Learning, and Technology
4. Building Information Services Together: Emerging Practices for Library and IT Collaborations to Advance Institutional Mission
5. Corporate and Campus Solutions

For faculty interested in presenting on "Emerging Practices: The Intersection of Teaching, Learning, and Technology" the following list provides a range of possible presentation topics:

• Pedagogy, strategies, and practices for online teaching and learning
• Faculty and student engagement
• Course management systems/learning management systems
• E-portfolios
• Instructional delivery models for blended/hybrid courses and self-paced, on-demand courses
• Integration of multimedia, learning objects, and reusable learning material
• Learning space design, development, and operation
• Virtual communities and other collaborative models
• Digital assets, digital rights, and copyright
• Assessing teaching and learning
• Leveraging existing enterprise services for innovation
• Strategic and consistent campus-wide faculty adoption of technology-assisted core practices
• Understanding what students want and need
• Using social networking tools

(List quoted from Educause's website)