The 25th Anniversary of the Annual Conference on Distance Teaching & Learning
August 4-7, 2009
Madison, Wisconsin
Sponsored by the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Education 

Deadline: All proposals must be submitted online at http://www.uwex.edu/disted/conference by January 20, 2009.

We invite you to submit a proposal to present at the 25th Annual Conference on Distance Teaching & Learning.

         Share your expertise and experience in the application of technology to the teaching and learning process

         Lead sessions on the planning and management of distance education programs

         Demonstrate your successful course and/or training material to others

         Guide discussions among colleagues

The 2009 conference program will offer more than 150 presentations to attendees in a wide variety of formats including Workshops, Information Sessions, Roundtable Discussions, Course Design Demos, and e-Poster Sessions. NEW formats this year include Blended Workshops, Point/Counterpoint Discussions, and Author Discussions. See our Web site for more information on all of these formats in addition to the proposal review criteria. We hope you are able to join us next year at the 25th anniversary celebration of this annual conference on distance education and training.

2009 Washington Symposium and Capitol Hill Poster Session
Washington, D.C.
March 30-31, 2009

Deadline for proposals: January 31, 2009

The National Center for Science and Civic Engagement (NCSCE) invites applications for the annual Washington Symposium, planned for March 30-31, 2009.  The event will be co-hosted by the University of Maryland with support from the Dean for Undergraduate Studies, the Vice President for Research, and the College of Chemical and Life Sciences.

Applications may be accessed at the Symposium webpage, http://www.sencer.net/Outreach/dcsymposium09.cfm, and will be accepted on a rolling basis. 

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Reading Between the Lives: Enhancing Students' Engagement with Reading
March 5, 2009
The Pyle Center
UW-Madison

Deadline: Feb 2, 2009

This free, one-day conference, sponsored by OPID, will bring together UW-System educators from across the disciplines to talk, think, and strategize about our students and their challenges with reading. The keynote speaker will be Dr. Corey Anton, Associate Professor in Communication at Grand Valley State University. Dr. Anton is the author of Selfhood and Authenticity, and winner of the Erving Goffman Award for Outstanding Scholarship in the Ecology of Social interaction, presented by the Media Ecology Association.

For more information:
http://www.uwp.edu/departments/teaching.center/linked_docs/Reading_Between_the_Lives_Call.pdf

To submit a proposal:
http://remark.uwp.edu/scripts/rws4.pl?FORM=RBL_Call_for_Submission-Registration

Suggested Presentation Topics include but are not limited to the following:

         What to do When Students Don’t Read

         Best Practices in the (Fill in the Discipline) Classroom

         What Happens When Students Need Help but Don’t Ask?

         Reading in the Multicultural Classroom

         Building Academic Literacy Through Online Discussion Forums

         What Students Need to Know About Reading in College

         Self-reflection and Collaboration on Classroom Practices in Reading

         Developing Comprehension Strategies for Constructing Meaning

         Use of Higher-level Questions (Application, Synthesis, Evaluation)       

         Critical and Creative Thinking   

Please direct any questions to:
Christine M. Tutlewski
Interim Coordinator, Learning Assistance
University of Wisconsin-Parkside
262-595-2001

9th Annual MERLOT International Conference: Teaching and Learning in a Networked World
August 13-17, 2009
Doubletree Hotel
San Jose, California, USA

Deadline: Monday, February 16th, 2009.

The MERLOT International Conference Committee seeks proposal submission for the ninth MERLOT International Conference (MIC09) in San Jose, California. Devoted to faculty development in the design, creation, utilization and evaluation of online teaching and learning materials this conference provides numerous opportunities to share, learn, and participate in conversations about teaching and learning with technology.

Conference attendees span all disciplines and the full continuum from novice to expert in the development and use of online resources.  The tracks featured this year follow the conference theme of “Teaching and Learning in a Networked World.”  They include:

         Track 1: Innovations in Online Teaching and Learning

         Track 2: Faculty Development

         Track 3: Featured Community of Practice: Mathematics and Statistics

         Track 4: Creative Collaborations

         Track 5: Evaluation and Assessment of Success

Mathematics and Statistics Are the Highlighted Communities of Practice.

While proposals from all disciplines are welcomed and encouraged, the MIC09 Conference Committee has highlighted the Mathematics and Statistics Communities of Practice. The Committee encourages Mathematics and Statistics discipline members to participate and submit proposals.

The MERLOT International Conference provides numerous opportunities to share, learn, and participate in conversations about teaching and learning with technology from experts and MERLOT users from around the world. There are excellent opportunities to network with colleagues, learn about new technologies, and make new friends.

The conference offers a full day of pre-conference workshops followed by two-and-one-half-days of colleague-to-colleague presentations. The Conference also includes Corporate Sponsor presentation and exhibits, presentations from MERLOT Award winners, and opportunities to gather over food and beverage. The Pre-conference activities will begin on Thursday, August 13th, while the Conference opens with a welcome reception on Thursday evening and ends at noon on Sunday, August 17th.

For additional information:  http://conference.merlot.org/2009/

Mar

AAC&U Conference
Integrative Learning: Addressing the Complexities
October 22-24, 2009
Atlanta, Georgia
http://www.aacu.org/meetings/integrative_learning/index.cfm

Deadline for submission of proposals: March 11, 2009

AAC&U's Network for Academic Renewal invites proposals that analyze the purposes, designs, and institutional supports for integrative learning; the assessment of integrative learning; and approaches to helping students connect their learning across discrete domains of knowledge.

Developing students' ability to integrate and apply learning is an important piece of what makes college education relevant for today's world. On any given day, newspaper headlines point to the need for graduates who are sophisticated in their thinking, able to discern complexity in situations, and motivated to continuously seek better, more responsible solutions to problems encountered in work, in life, and in society. Yet most students enter college unaccustomed to addressing the complexities inherent in disciplinary and cross-disciplinary learning, in applying their knowledge to novel circumstances, or in engaging diverse perspectives, either in day-to-day campus life, or in broader social, political, and economic contexts.

This conference seeks to highlight the new importance of integrative learning ten years into the new century. It will examine the kinds of learning that help students develop a sense of efficacy to tackle the deep and often entrenched problems facing us, and it will show how campuses are documenting and deepening students' integrative learning through assessment.

Submit your proposal online by filling in each field of the submission form as directed. For more information, please call 202.387.3760 or write to network@aacu.org.

We look forward to reading your proposals.

Apr

E-Learn 2009 - World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, & Higher Education
October 26 - 30, 2009 - Vancouver, British Columbia - Sheraton Vancouver Wall Centre Hotel

Submissions Deadline: April 29,2009

E-Learn 2009 - World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, & Higher Education is an international conference organized by the Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE) and co-sponsored by the International Journal on E-Learning.

This annual conference serves as a multi-disciplinary forum for the exchange of information on research, development, and applications of all topics related to e-Learning in the Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education sectors.

We invite you to attend E-Learn 2009 and submit proposals for papers, panels, best practices, roundtables, tutorials, workshops, posters/demonstrations, and corporate showcases/demos. The Conference Review Policy requires that each proposal will be peer- reviewed by three reviewers for inclusion in the conference program, proceedings book, and CD-ROM proceedings.

For more information and the submission form, click on
http://www.aace.org/conf/elearn/call.htm

The 15th Sloan-C International Conference on Online Learning: “The Power of Online Learning: Opportunities for Tomorrow.”

Proposals must be submitted by April 30, 2009 at www.sloanconsortium.org/aln/cfp

We invite you to submit a proposal for the 15th Sloan-C International Conference on Online Learning: “The Power of Online Learning: Opportunities for Tomorrow.” The conference strongly encourages proposals that reflect the implications for the field of specific e-learning experience and practices.

Proposals that address blended learning, issues of diversity, international applications of online learning, open educational resources and/or social networking are especially encouraged. Last year’s conference attracted over 1100 participants to more than 180 presentations, as well as exhibits, pre-conference workshops, keynote and plenary addresses, and a variety of other special events.

Program Tracks:

• Learning Effectiveness

• Technology and Emerging Learning Environments

• Student Services and Learner Support

• Faculty Development and Support

• Professional Development and Workforce Training

• Leadership and Societal Change

For complete details on online submission of proposals, visit our Website at www.sloanconsortium.org/aln

For more information, call 1-866-232-5834 (Toll Free), or email aln@mail.ucf.edu.

May

“Artists Training Artists”
A Collaborative Conference on Teaching and Learning Through the Arts

Submissions Deadline: May 15, 2009
Click for Proposal form

We are pleased to invite you to submit a proposal to present for the upcoming conference, entitled “Artists Training Artists – A Collaborative Conference on Teaching and Learning Through the Arts.”  This conference will be held June 10-12, 2009 at the Noel Center for the Arts on the campus of the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point.

The College of Fine Arts and Communication at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point has enjoyed a series of interdisciplinary collaborations. These efforts have produced interesting discoveries in teaching and learning principles. The UW System Office of Professional and Instructional Development (OPID) recognized this work by funding a grant for a conference exploring teaching and learning through the arts.

This meeting will be the first of its kind to bring UW-System arts faculty together. Participants will share best practices and build inter-institutional and/or inter-disciplinary communities that focus on teaching and learning through the arts. 

Our guest presenters for this conference will be:

Robert Duke, Director of theCenter for Music and Human Learning at the University of Texas-Austin.  (http://www.music.utexas.edu/directory/details.aspx?id=36)

Nancy Smith Fichter, Emeritus Professor of Dance, Florida State University.
(http://www.rinr.fsu.edu/winter96/departments/portrait.html)

All UW-System Arts faculty are invited and encouraged to attend. This conference will include opportunities for UW-System arts faculty to present papers, workshops, or lead panel discussions in the area of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning as it applies to the Arts.  Proposals that focus on SoTL discoveries through collaboration will be given highest consideration.   Registration, all conference sessions, and meals will be provided at no cost to UW-System faculty.

General Education and Assessment: Maintaining Momentum, Achieving New Priorities
February 18-20, 2010
Seattle, Washington
www.aacu.org

Deadline for submission of proposals: May 15, 2009

AAC&U's Network for Academic Renewal invites proposals that highlight fresh thinking and new approaches to help faculty, staff, and administrators maintain momentum in general education and assessment and reaffirm a commitment to educational quality amid mounting economic pressures and budget cuts.

Administrators, student affairs educators, and faculty, especially now, must work together to ensure that general education is more than an accumulated set of credits and that assessment practices both demonstrate accomplishment and deepen achievement. At a time when many campuses are scaling back to focus on "essentials," the essential role of general education and assessment cannot be overlooked.

This conference reaffirms a commitment to engaged liberal education as the guiding principle for campus action. The conference will draw on AAC&U's long-standing projects and publications on general education reform including work to bring diversity, global, and civic learning into general education and models for advancing scientific and quantitative literacy through real-world curricula and problem-based pedagogies.

Submit your proposal online by filling in each field of the submission form as directed. For more information, please call 202.387.3760 or write to network@aacu.org.

We look forward to reading your proposals.

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Washington, DC 20009

National Association of Biology Teachers 2009 Professional Development Conference
November 12, 2009
Sheraton Denver
Denver, Colorado

Deadline for proposals: Midnight, May 15, 2009

The NABT Four Year University/College Section’s Ad-hoc Research Committee invites you to submit a proposal to present your research paper on biology education for the 2009 Professional Development Conference.   This is a refereed session.  All papers will go through blind review.  Reviews will be guided by the following criteria:

• Subject/Problem:  Is there a clear focus, rationale, model, theory, or philosophy upon which the proposal is based?

• Design or Procedure:  Are the methodology, procedure, design, and organization appropriate?

• Analyses and Findings:  Do the syntheses of ideas or data analyses and findings appear to be appropriate and complete?  Do the conclusions drawn follow from the data?

• Contribution:  Do the conclusions contribute valuable insights into the teaching/learning of biology?

• General Interest:  Does the presentation promise to be of general interest to NABT members?

The format will be a traditional presentation for papers by individual or co-authors lasting 15 minutes each.  There will be five minutes between presentations. 

PROPOSAL SUBMISSION

In e-mail text include:

• Names of author(s) with organization affiliation (University, College, School System)

• Title of Submission

• Abstract (up to 200 words to be used in program if selected)

• Contact information for notification

Submit a PDF of the Proposal as an attachment (maximum five pages including references).  The body of the proposal should address the criteria as used in the review process:  1) subject/problem; 2) the design/procedure; 3) Analysis and Findings; 4) Contribution; and 5) General Interest.  Proposals should be word processed using a 12 font, single-spaced, with 1” margins format. 

WHERE TO SUBMIT PROPOSALS
Send your completed proposal document to cenvired@louisville.edu with NABT research proposal in the subject heading.  Members of the Ad-hoc Research Committee will send copies of your document without names and affiliation to two reviewers.  After review, committee members will select proposals with the highest scores for acceptance in the 2009 NABT Professional Conference Research Symposium

DATES
The proposal submission deadline is midnight on May 15, 2009.  Blind review will take place in May and June with final selection by June 15, 2009.  Submitters will be notified of acceptance or denial by July 22, 2009.  All presenters are required to register for the conference and provide a manuscript for distribution.

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The 2nd Annual SoTL Commons Conference:  An International Conference for the Scholarship of Teaching & Learning
March 11-13, 2009
Georgia Southern University
Statesboro, Georgia

Deadline for proposals: October 15, 2008. 

http://academics.georgiasouthern.edu/ijsotl/conference/2009/index.htm

Early registration is open and the online submission of proposals period ends on October 15, 2008. 

Keynote speakers will be Randy Bass (Georgetown University), Kathy Takayama (Brown University), and Laurie Richlin (Charles Drew University of Medicine and Health Science). 

The current issue of International Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching & Learning (IJ-SoTL) is online at http://academics.georgiasouthern.edu/ijsotl/v2n2.html.

The 2nd International Symposium on Academic Globalization: AG 2009
Orlando, Florida
July 10th - 13th, 2009
www.2009iiisconferences.org/AG

Deadlines: Papers/Abstracts Submissions and Invited Sessions Proposals: October 28, 2008

Authors Notifications: December 18, 2008
Camera-ready, full papers: February 11, 2009

All Submitted papers/abstracts will go through three reviewing processes: (1) double-blind (at least three reviewers), (2) non-blind, and (3) participative peer reviews. These three kinds of review will support the selection process of those papers/abstracts that will be accepted for their presentation at the conference, as well as those to be selected for their publication in JSCI Journal.

Authors of accepted papers who registered in the conference can have access to the evaluations and possible feedback provided by the reviewers who recommended the acceptance of their papers/abstracts, so they can accordingly improve the final version of their papers. Non-registered authors will not have access to the reviews of their respective submissions.

Awards will be granted to the best paper of those presented at each session. From these session's best papers, the best 10%-20% of the papers presented at the conference will be invited to adapt their papers for their publication in the Journal of Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics.

Also, we would like to invite you to organize an invited session related to a topic of your research interest. If you are interested in organizing an invited session, please, fill out the respective form provided in the conference web page. We will send you a password, so you can include and modify papers in your invited session.

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OPID’s Annual Spring Conference: Pedagogies of Hope: Inspiring, Understanding, and Assessing Student Learning
Apr 17-18, 2009
Hyatt Regency Hotel
Madison, WI 

Deadline for proposals is Dec. 22, 2008.

Click here for the RFP form.

We are pleased to invite you to submit a proposal to present a paper, workshop or panel discussion for OPID's annual Spring Conference, which will be held at the Hyatt Regency Hotel in Milwaukee on Friday and Saturday, April 17 and 18, 2009. 

This year's theme is "Pedagogies of Hope: Inspiring, Understanding, and Assessing Student Learning," which invokes optimistically looking to the future as the UW System embraces initiatives devoted to liberal education, inclusive excellence, and technology. 

In addition to presentations of individual projects, campus initiatives, and institutional collaborations, recent work in the UW System on threshold concepts, signature pedagogies and media matters (digital storytelling and second life) will make up the conference program, as well as the keynote speaker, Professor Melissa Harris-Lacewell. Professor Harris-Lacewell is Associate Professor of Politics and African American Studies at Princeton University. Her academic research interests include the study of African American political thought, black religious ideas and practice, and social and clinical psychology.  She is the author of the award-winning book, Barbershops, Bibles, and BET: Everyday Talk and Black Political Thought.  Professor Harris-Lacewell's creative and dynamic teaching is also motivated by the practical political and racial issues of our time.   Her presence at this conference will foreground the UW System's commitment to addressing the challenges facing contemporary students, recognizing the multiple influences on student learning in the classroom and the importance of investigating them.

We are excited about our Spring Conference and hope you will join us.  Additional highlights of plenary sessions, workshops and the conference schedule will be forthcoming once they are confirmed.