ACEN and NZACE Work Integrated Learning (WIL)/Cooperative Education Webinar

The web-conferencing platform used is Blackboard Collaborate (formerly Elluminate and Wimba). Participants require a computer (PC or Mac), a stable internet connection and headset (i.e. headphones and microphone). Blackboard Collaborate allows for a range of interactions (e.g. use of microphone, whiteboard, chat, feedback with emoticons, polling and web tour) and the Webinar can be recorded. Further instructions on joining the Webinar are available here.

The Future of eLearning: Collaboration, Engagement and Practice

Join us at the University of Melbourne for a workshop that has been designed to bring together all those with a keen interest in implications of virtuality for higher education and work in the 21st century. Keynote presenters will include Professor Ray Land (Durham University) and Professor Belinda Tynan (University of Southern Queensland) as well as several academic, business and industry members who will engage as part of a panel to reflect and engage with workshop participants.

This workshop has evolved from an Australian Teaching and Learning Council grant examining Business Education in the 21st Century. Submission of works relating to virtuality as it applies to team work, student engagement, e-learning and workplace applications are invited for the afternoon paper session.

Workshop Registration

Paper Submissions

• Virtuality and student learning outcomes
• E-Readiness
• Graduate skill attributes and virtual teams
• Connectivity and e-learning
• Future of e-learning
• E-learning innovation and practice
• Comparison of different e-learning technologies

Using Learning Design for Innovative eTeaching

The new field of Learning Design provides ways to describe innovative teaching strategies, and methods for their online implementation. The first half of James' presentation will be a Guest Lecture covering: Learning Design concepts and implementation, examples from the "LAMS" Learning Design system, and discussion of recent development and future prospects for the field. The second half of the presentation will be run as a workshop which will focus on discussion, questions and exploration of examples, including consideration of the connections between Learning Design and Curriculum Design.

Presenter: Professor James Dalziel, Director, Macquarie E-Learning Centre Of Excellence (MELCOE), Macquarie University. This presentation is part of an Australian Learning and Teaching Council National Teaching Fellowship.

Event: Guest Lecture

When: Wednesday 30 May 2012, 9.30am -10.30am

Where: Swinburne University of Technology, Hawthorn Campus (Ref:E6, enter from Burwood Road), ATC 101 (ground floor ATC Building)

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Equity and Quality 2012 conference - Beijing

Equity and Quality in Education: an international conference in Beijing, 23 – 24 October 2012 Organised in partnership between the IOE and Beijing Normal University, this biennial event, which in 2010 attracted 250 participants and submissions from 42 countries, provides a dynamic international forum for sharing research and good practice in education. This year's conference will address equity in education practice; moral and citizenship education; inclusive education; the influence and impact of research on education equity and quality; and communication, culture and identity.

Call for papers

Important dates

• Abstracts by 31 May 2012
• Authors notified by 15 July 2012
• Full papers by 15 September 2012
• Conference on 23 and 24 October 2012

For more information visit the Equity and Quality 2012 conference web page.

Workforce development conference: VET Matters

The Faculty of Workforce Development has an excellent day of collaborative learning through dialogue and ideas exchange planned for Wednesday 27 June at Sunshine Convention Centre. The Conference is aimed at people who believe collaboration expands ideas and 'gives them legs'. Workforce Develeopment teaching staff, the Leadership Team and the Executive Team will be in attendance along with invited guests and the VC Prof Dawkins who will Chair a Think Tank.

Click here more information about the conference and how to enrol.

Cloud and Crowd: Towards a collaborative future

Designs on eLearning

The eighth Designs on E-Learning international conference in the use of technology for teaching and learning in art, design and communication will be hosted by the Centre for Learning and Teaching (cltad) at University of the Arts, London.

Conference Themes:

• Social Media
• The Studio and Technology
• Digital Literacy
• User Generated Content
• Collaboration and Community Building
• Sustainability

The format of the conference will be innovative, with barcamps, streamed sessions, discussions, performances and creative work. We are particularly interested in submissions by artists, museums and galleries and those involved in Art and Design practice in education.

Visit the conference website.

RAISE Conference 2012

You are invited to attend the Researching, Advancing & Inspiring Student Engagement (RAISE) Conference on the 13th-14th September, 2012 in Southampton University, United Kingdom.

Conference registration will be available in May/June.

Full details of the conference are available at the RAISE website.

ACEN national conference 2012 - call for contributions

A cutting edge conference in work integrated learning (WIL) for practitioners and researchers from the tertiary education sector, industry, community, government representatives and students.

The organising committee of the 2012 Australian Collaborative Education Network (ACEN) National Conference, Collaborative Education: Investing in the Future, invites abstracts and proposals to be presented at the conference.

Click here for more details on the ACEN national conference 2012.