Conferences

Nov. 3-4, 2006, in Bay City, MI
The conference focuses on learning communities: thematically linked courses from two or more disciplines. Presenters explore issues related to collaboration in various and complex teaching and learning settings. The conference theme, Something Incredible Out of Nothing: Creating and Maintaining Dramatic Innovation, will help participants explore the innovative, diverse and creative ways that learning communities enhance student learning. The range of presentations will be of interest to newcomers and veterans alike. Past conference strands include classroom practices, classroom models, innovative approaches and technology, leadership issues and trends, critical thinking, first or freshman-year experience programs, and starting and maintaining learning communities programs.

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Delta College, October 20, 2006
This hybrid seminar will include a one-week online component and a one-day face-to-face hands-on workshop. Participants will learn the skills necessary to produce high-quality learning objects that will address a learning activity in their own course. Using specific low-cost/no-cost software they will create the learning objects that they have designed. Participants will have the option to then upload their work to the Learning Objects Repository for other faculty to use as well.

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League.org
Charlotte, NC, October 22-25, 2006
"The League for Innovation's annual Conference on Information Technology (CIT) offers a diverse program and cutting-edge exposition exploring the intelligent application of information technology in community and technical colleges."

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Videocasting...idyll by a stream or a pod
University of Buffalo - North Campus
October 20, 2006
The purpose of this one-day conference is to discuss and disseminate recent findings and experiences about academic coursecasting and its cousins - podcasting, webcasting and other digital/distance education technologies. The focus will be on large scale digital video applications for the creation and distribution of instructional content. Sessions will explore the identity of coursecasting, including the pedagogical implications.

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Leading for the Common Good
Chicago, IL, April 20-24, 2007
It is time for the colleges and universities accredited by The Higher Learning Commission to share stories about leadership, and the 2007 Annual Meeting provides a forum for that sharing. Critics often portray higher education as being too insular, too self-protective, and too cautious to offer significant leadership for the common good. In this age of accountability, we believe that a very different case can and must be made.

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National Council for the Social Sciences (NCSS)
Washington DC, December 1-3, 2006
This year’s conference theme is “Social Studies: Promise and Practice.” The word “promise” suggests potential; we all wonder about the potential of social studies, the endless possibilities that result from opening the eyes and minds of our students—as well as our own—to the world, to the past and the present, and to the promise of a bright future. “Practice” involves all that we do to make ourselves better social studies educators, including the acquisition and application of new knowledge and skills. We bring enthusiasm to the classroom every day, and experience the delight of discovering something new and unknown to make us better prepared to enhance student learning.

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Connecting to Transformational Agendas
Washington, DC, November 9-12, 2006
This year’s Conference theme emphasizes the influence of the scholarship of teaching and learning on the multiple contexts in which we work: classrooms, institutions, disciplines and professions, communities, and national educational policy spheres. The conference also explores the influence of broader currents of transformation on the theory and practice of the scholarship of teaching and learning. In a rich variety of ways, we hope that all of the meeting’s sessions—from large plenaries to individual sessions and posters—help continue mapping the scholarship of teaching and learning against the backdrop of the most important issues and contexts in higher education.

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Portland, OR, October 25-29, 2006
This year's conference will offer a wide variety of sessions on instructional development best practices, research, and evaluation. Each session is attached to one or more tracks. These tracks include: Assessment and Evaluation; Diversity; Faculty and Instructional Development; Graduate Student Professional Development; Learning Theories and Research; Organizational Development; Small Colleges; Scholarship of Teaching and Learning; STEM; Technology.

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Dallas, October 9-12, 2006
"The size and scope of the annual conference ensure that you have a wealth of choices and will return to your campus with fresh ideas and useful information, as well as a stronger network of colleagues in the field. As the premier information technology gathering for higher education, this event draws attendees from all professional levels, from all sizes and types of institutions, and from across the United States and around the world."

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