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CT [Campus Technology] Launches Virtual Summit on Distance Learning

Campus closures have led education institutions everywhere to scramble to move instruction to an online format. On May 5, the Campus Technology Distance Learning Summit will provide insight, ideas and information for education IT decision-makers grappling with the need for continuity of teaching and learning in these unprecedented times. Campus Technology

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Connecting through Educational Technology to Produce Effective Learning Environments Technology is with us everywhere which validates the horizontal-holistic approach for imperative questions of the period. For the transforming education landscape, challenges come increasingly from the socio-cultural-economic, structural and policy fields. Education has to be visionary to reach efficiency gains, new sources – and to offer […]

April 17, 2020 at 3pm EST: “Thinking on the Edge of the Box” – Michael Beaudoin, Ed. D., Emeritus Professor of Education

Current as well as aspiring distance education leaders, attempting to introduce innovative  programs and practices into conventional academic settings are often so eager to demonstrate they are ‘thinking outside the box’ that the new ideas they advocate appear too different and too radical compared to current practices, and thus frequently end-up alienating rather than attracting […]

USDLA 2020 Call For Proposals

The United States Distance Learning Association (USDLA) is pleased to announce the 2020 Annual Conference Call for Proposals. Proposals are now being accepted based on the conference theme, “Grooving Around the World with Digital & Distance Learning in Music City” and will be taking place May 18 – 21, 2020 in Music City: Nashville, Tennessee! United States […]

Exclusive Interview with Dr. Thomas J. Tobin, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Dr. Saba: You have a wide range of experience in educational technology, program management and distance education. What attracted you to this field? Dr. Tobin: I started out as an English literature PhD, teaching composition and nineteenth-century literature courses. While I was working on my doctorate, I was hired by a two year college in […]

The 28th ICDE World Conference on Online Learning

The 28th ICDE World Conference on Online Learning taking place in Dublin is one of the largest and most prestigious international conferences in the area. The conference theme of “Transforming Lives and Societies” anchors the growth of new models of open, online and digital learning in a number of big questions and the wider context […]

Proceedings of the International Association for Development of the Information Society

These proceedings contain the papers of the International Conference e-Learning 2018, which was organised by the International Association for Development of the Information Society, 17-19 July, 2018. This conference is part of the Multi Conference on Computer Science and Information Systems 2018, 17-20 July, which had a total of 617 submissions. The e-Learning (EL) 2018 […]

United States Distance Learning Association 2019 Nation Conference

The Future of Digital Distance Learning The United States Distance Learning Association (USDLA) 2019 National Conference is the premier event for professionals in the distance learning industry.   Our 2019 event will be held Monday May 20, 2019 – Thursday May 23, 2019 and promises to deliver an action-packed agenda that will bring together distance […]

It’s a Small, Small (Digital) World

MOSCOW — The conference was a lot like any other about the role of technology in learning today. Hot topics included questions about which students are well suited for online learning and whether they’re the ones policy makers are nudging into online programs, plentiful rhetoric about “big data” and alternative credentials, and much hand-wringing about […]

Penn State World Campus looks to develop, nurture students’ leadership skills

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — Penn State online learners will come together this month to learn how to be better leaders at the first Penn State World Campus Student Leadership Conference. The conference will be held Sunday, Oct. 28, and Monday, Oct. 29, at the HUB-Robeson Center at Penn State’s University Park campus. All Penn State […]