JANUARY 2009

January 3-4, 2009 New Presidents Program, sponsored by the Council of Independent Colleges, Hyatt Regency Coconut Point, Bonita Springs, Florida, USA. http://www.cic.edu/conferences_events/presidents/2009.asp.

January 4-7, 2009 Presidents Institute: Investing in the Future – Students, Institutions, and the Public Good sponsored by the Council of Independent Colleges, Hyatt Regency Cocomut Point, Bonita Springs, Florida, USA. http://www.cic.edu/conferences_events/presidents/2009.asp

January 4-7, 2009 Hawaii International Conference on Education, 7th annual, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA. http://www.hiceducation.org/cfp_edu.htm

January 5-8, 2009 College Teaching and Learning Conference and Applied Business Research Conference sponsored by the Clute Institute for Academic Research, Oahu, Hawaii, USA. http://www.cluteinstitute.org/hawaii_conference.htm

January 5-9, 2009 Macworld Conference and Expo, Moscone Center, San Francisco, California, USA. http://www.macworldexpo.com/live/20/

January 7-8, 2009 Presidential Vocational and Institutional Mission Seminar sponsored by the Council of Independent Colleges, Bonita Springs, Florida, USA. http://www.cic.edu/conferences_events/index.asp

January 7-9, 2009 EDUCAUSE Mid-Atlantic Regional Conference 2009, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. http://www.educause.edu/conference/marc/

January 7-9, 2009 International Multimedia Modeling Conference (MMM2009), 15th, Sophia-Antipolis, France. http://mmm2009.eurecom.fr/

January 8-10, 2009 e-CASE: International Conference on e-Commerce, e-Administration, e-Society, and e-Education, Singapore. http://www.e-case.org/

January 10-12, 2009 Conference on e-Learning Applications: Explore, Share and Stimulate Research in e-Learning Applications, 6th, Cairo, Egypt. http://www.aucegypt.edu/ResearchatAUC/conferences/elearning/Pag

January 11-14, 2009 Association for Communications Technology Professionals in Higher Education (ACUTA) Winter Seminar – Unified IP Communications Applications Across the Enterprise and Preparing Communications Technologies for Emergencies and Disasters, Palm Springs, California, USA. http://www.acuta.org/relation/downloadfile.cfm?docnum=446

January 12-14, 2009 Learning and Technology World Forum 2009, London, United Kingdom. https://gem.glasgows.co.uk/latwf/login_mailinglist.html

January 12-14, 2009 Management World 2009, Singapore. http://www.tmforum.org/browse.aspx

January 14-17, 2009 British Educational Technology Show, London, United Kingdom. http://www.bettshow.com/

January 14-18, 2009 Learning and Intelligent OptimizatioN (LION 3), Trento, Italy. http://www.intelligent-optimization.org/LION3/

January 15-18, 2009 International Alliance for Learning (IAL2009) Conference: Learning that Counts – From a Dream to Reality, 34th, Houston, Texas, USA. http://www.ialearn.org/conference.php

January 16-18, 2009 World Universities Forum, Mumbai, India. http://www.universitiesforum.com

January 18-21, 2009 Pacific Telecommunications Council Conference: Collaborating for Change – Strategies, Opportunities and Partnerships, 31st annual, Hilton Hawaiian Village Beach Resort and Spa, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA. http://www.ptc.org/ptc09/index.php

January 18-22, 2009. Multimedia Computing and Networking (MMCN), 16th annual, San Jose, California, USA. http://mirage.cs.uoregon.edu/mmcn2009/

January 19-20, 2009 iLearning Paris Forum 2009, 4th, Palais de Congrès, Paris, France. http://www.ilearnforum.eu/

January 19-21, 2009 International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence (ICAART), Porto, Portugal. http://www.icaart.org

January 20-22, 2009 EDCAUSE Learning Initiative (ELI) 2009: Orlando, Florida, USA. http://www.educause.edu/ELIEventsCalendar/92

January 20-22, 2009 Information Online, sponsored by the Australian Library and Information Association, Sydney Convention and Exhibition Centre, Sydney, Australia. http://www.information-online.com.au./sb_clients/iog/bin/iog_home.cfm?vm_key=

January 20-23, 2009 Australasian Computing Education Conference (ACSW 2009), 11th, Wellington, New Zealand. http://www.wikicfp.com/cfp/servlet/event.showcfp?eventid=3235& or http://www.cs.rmit.edu.au/conf/ace_2009/

January 21-23, 2009 Wisconsin State Education and Convention and Exhibit Show: Inspiring Today’s Leaders – Shaping Tomorrow’s World. Midwest Airlines Center, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA. http://www.wasb.org/convention/conv2009/index.php

January 21-24, 2009 Association of American Colleges and Universities Annual Meeting: Global Challenges, College Learning, and America’s Promise, 65th annual, Seattle, Washington, USA. http://www.aacu.org/meetings/annualmeeting/index.cfm

January 21-24, 2009 Florida Educational Technology Conference sponsored by the Florida Educational Technology Corporation (FETC), Orange County Convention Center, Orlando, Florida. http://www.fetc.org/

January 22-24, 2009 Technology, Reading and Learning Difficulties Conference, 26th, Hyatt Regency, San Francisco, California, USA. http://www.trld.com/

January 22-24, 2009 Training on Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning, Orchha, Madhya Pradesh, India. http://responsenet.org/show.detail.asp?id=14883

January 23-24, 2009 Educa 2009: Inspiration and Ideas from the Education Sector’s Professional Event, Helsinki Fair Centre, Helsinki, Finland. http://www.finnexpo.fi/educa/default.asp?code_language=en

January 24-30, 2009 International Conference on Current Trends in Theory and Practice of Computer Science, 35th, Hotel Arnika, Špindlerův mlýn, Czech Republic. http://www.ksi.mff.cuni.cz/sofsem09/

January 26-29, 2009 Annual Forum on e-Learning Excellence in the Middle East: Inspire, Innovate, Initiate, and Impact, 2nd, Jumeirah Beach Hotel, Dubai, United Arab Emirates. http://elexforum.etqm.ae/

January 26-February 21, 2009 American Association of Collegiate Registrars and Admissions Officers, (AACRAO) Registrar 101 online course. http://www.aacrao.org/pro_development/courses/registrar101.cf

January 28, 2009 eMarketing Techniques Conference, Austin Community College, Austin, Texas, USA. http://www.eMarketingTechniques.com

January 28-29, 2009 College and University Performance Conference, sponsored by the American Strategic Management Institute, Arlington, Virginia, USA. www.asmiweb.com/HigherEd/

January 28-29, 2009 Distance Learning as an e-Infrastructures Application: Innovation and Future Trends, New Delhi, India. http://www.e-agriculture.org/19.html?&no_cache=1&tx_ttnews[tt_ne

January 28-30, 2009 International Conference on Open and Distance Education, 5th, Dubai, United Arab Emirates. http://www.waset.org/icode08/

January 28-30, 2009 International Conference on Knowledge Management, Dubai, United Arab Emirates. http://www.waset.org/wcset09/dubai/ickm/

January 28-31, 2009 Assistive Technology Industry Association (ATIA) Conference and Exposition: Showcasing Excellence in Assistive Technology, Orlando, Florida, USA. http://www.atia.org/

January 30-31, 2009 Learning Technologies 2009, Olympia 2, London, United Kingdom. http://www.learningtechnologies.co.uk/conference/conference.cfm

January 30-February 1, 2009 Technology, Knowledge and Society, 5th international conference, Huntsville, Alabama, USA. http://technology-conference.com/

FEBRUARY 2009

February 1, 2009 DIDACTA 2009 Trade Fair for Education and Training, Stuttgart Trade Fair Centre, Stuttgart, Germany. http://www.didacta.de/

February 1-4, 2009 National Association of Independent Colleges and Universities (NAICU) Annual Conference, Washington, D.C., USA. http://www.naicu.edu/events/2009-annual-meeting

February 1-6, 2009 DigitalWorld, sponsored by the International Academy Research, and Industry Association (IARIA) and Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Computer Society, Cancun, Mexico. http://www.iaria.org/

February 1-6, 2009 International Conference on Advances in Computer-Human Interactions, 2nd, sponsored by the International Academy Research, and Industry Association (IARIA), Cancun, Mexico. http://www.iaria.org/conferences2009/ACHI09.html

February 1-6, 2009 International Conference on eHealth, Telemedicine, and Social Medicine, sponsored by the International Academy Research, and Industry Association (IARIA), Cancun, Mexico. http://www.iaria.org/conferences2009/eTELEMED09.html

February 1-6, 2009 International Conference on Mobile, Hybrid, and On-line Learning, sponsored by the International Academy Research, and Industry Association (IARIA), Cancun, Mexico. http://www.iaria.org/conferences2009/eL&mL09.html

February 2-5, 2009 International Conference on Computer Graphics, Visualization and Computer Vision, 17th, in cooperation with Eurographics, University of West Bohemia, Campus-Bory, Pilzen (near Prague), Czech Republic. http://wscg.zcu.cz/wscg2009/wscg2009.htm

February 3, 2009 Educational Technology Research Symposium, 3rd annual, Austin, Texas. http://www.tcea.org/convention/Symposium/Pages/default.aspx

February 3-4, 2009 National Seminar on ICT in Education 2009, Ipoh, Malaysia. http://ikict.upsi.edu.my/

February 3-5, 2009 LearnTec 2009 International Convention and Trade Fair for Educational and Information Technology, Karlsruhe, Germany. http://www.learntec.de/

February 4-6, 2009 Afrigraph: International Conference on Virtual Reality, Computer Graphics, Visualization and Interaction in Africa, 6th, Centurion Lake Hotel, outside Pretoria, South Africa. http://www.afrigraph.org/conf2009

February 4-6, 2009 Campus Architecture and Middleware Planning (CAMP) Workshop: Delivering, Sourcing, and Securing Services Throughout the Student Identity Life Cycle, sponsored by EDUCAUSE, Internet2, American Association of Collegiate Registrars and Admissions Officers (AACRAO), and the National Science Foundation, Tempe Mission Palms, Tempe, Arizona, USA. http://www.aacrao.org/meetings/

February 5-8, 2009 International Joint Conference on Computer Vision, Imaging and Computer Graphics Theory and Applications, Lisboa, Portugal. http://visigrapp.org/ or http://www.grapp.org/

February 7-10, 2009 American Council on Education Annual Meeting, 91st, Omni Shoreham Hotel, Washington, D.C., USA. http://www.acenet.edu//AM/Template.cfm?Section=Events2

February 8-11, 2009 International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI), Sanibel Island, Florida, USA. http://www.iuiconf.org/

February 9-11, 2009 Training 2009 Conference and Exposition, 32nd, sponsored by Training Magazine, Atlanta, Georgia, USA. http://www.trainingconference.com/learninggroup/training/2009/index.jsp

February 9-11, 2009 BbWorld Commerce ’09, Pointe Hilton Tapatio Cliffs Resort, Phoenix, Arizona, USA. http://www.blackboard.com/company/events/bbworldcommerce09

February 9-11, 2009 Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) International Conference on Web Search and Web Data Mining, Barcelona, Spain. http://www.wsdm2009.org/

February 9-March 7, 2009 American Association of Collegiate Registrars and Admissions Officers (AACRAO) Managing the Registrar’s Office: How to Do More with Less, online course, http://www.aacrao.org/pro_development/courses/managing.cfm

February 10-11, 2009 Bb Summit Latinoamérica, Tecnológico de Monterrey- Campus Santa Fe Mexico City, Mexico. http://www.blackboard.com/company/events/

February 12-14, 2009 Association of University Technology Managers (AUTM) Annual Meeting and Conference, Marriott Orlando World Center Resort, Orlando, Florida, USA. http://www.autm.net/events/dsp.events.cfm

February 13-15, 2009 Exploring the Tough Questions: From Inquiry and Dialogue to Better Student Learning sponsored by the Collaboration for the Advancement of College Teaching and Learning, Sheraton Bloomington Hotel, Bloomington, Minnesota, USA. http://www.collab.org/programsservices/conferences/conference

February 15-17, 2009 Design Principles and Practices, 3rd international conference, UDK University of the Arts, Berlin, Germany. http://g09.cgpublisher.com/conditions.html

February 16-18, 2009 Parallel and Distributed Computing and Networks, sponsored by the International Association of Science and Technology for Development (IASTED), Innsbruck, Austria. http://www.iasted.org/

February 16-18, 2009 Open Source Singapore Pacific-Asia Conference and Expo, Grand Hyatt Singapore, Singapore. http://www.osspac.com/

February 16-20, 2009 EDUCAUSE Management Program, Tempe, Arizona, USA. http://net.educause.edu/TheEDUCAUSEInstituteManagementProgram/1

February 18-20, 2009 Forum on Education Abroad (FORUMEA) Conference, Portland, Oregon, USA. http://www.forumea.org/

February 18-20, 2009 New Learning Technology Conference sponsored by the Society for Applied Learning Technology, Orlando, Florida, USA. http://www.salt.org/fl/orlandoP.asp

February 19-22, 2009 American Association of School Administrators National Conference on Education, San Francisco, California, USA. http://www.aasa.org/conferences/index.cfm

February 20, 2009 Digital Technologies in Language Education Symposium, 3rd, Nagoya University of Commerce and Business, Japan. http://wirelessready.nucba.ac.jp/

February 20-22, 2009, Lilly Conference on College and University Teaching, hosted by University of North Carolina at Greensboro, North Carolina, USA. http://www.lillyconferences.com/

February 21-24, 2009 eLearning 2009, sponsored by the Instructional Technology Council (ITC), Portland, Oregon, USA. http://www.itcnetwork.org/

February 23-26, 2009 eLearning Guild Winter Seminar: Focus on Learning for Organizational Success – Building Value with Social Learning, ILS, and Learning Transfer, Washington DC, USA. http://www.elearningguild.com/content.cfm?selection=doc.1066

February 24-27, 2009 Global Learning Summit: Harnessing the Power of Learning, 2nd annual, Singapore. http://www.globallearningsummit.com

February 25-27, 2009 Information Systems sponsored by International Association for Development of the Information Society (IADIS), Barcelona, Spain.

February 25-28, 2009 International Association for Development of the Information Society (IADIS) International Conference on e-Society, Barcelona, Spain. http://www.esociety-conf.org/

February 26-28, 2009 Mobile Learning 2009 sponsored by International Association for Development of the Information Society (IADIS), Barcelona, Spain. http://www.mlearning-conf.org/

February 27-28, 2009 Educational Computing Organization of Ontario (ECOO): Expanding Our Boundaries, Courtyard by Mariott Downtown, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. http://www.ecoo.org/

February 27-March 1, 2009 Spring Workshops on Critical Thinking, Berkeley, California, USA. http://www.criticalthinking.org/conference/2009Spring-index.cfm

February ?, 2009 Computer Graphics and Imaging, 10th international conference of the International Association of Science and Technology for Development (IASTED), was held February 13-15, 2008 in Innsbruck, Austria. http://www.iasted.org/conferences/home-600.html

February ?, 2009 First Canadian Blackboard Users’ Group Online Conference was held February 29, 2008. http://www.canbug.ca/registration/Details.html

MARCH 2009

March 1-4, 2009 American Association of Collegiate Registrars and Admissions Officers Conference, Hilton Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA. http://www.aacrao.org/

March 1-6, 2009 International Conference on Networking (ICN 2009), 8th annual, sponsored by International Academy, Research, and Industry Association (IARIA), Gosier, Guadeloupe. http://www.iaria.org/conferences2009/ICN09.html

March 2-6, 2009 Society for Information Technology and Teacher Education International Conference: Where History Lives – Indulge, Play, and Explore!, 20th, Embassy Suites Hotel and Convention Centre, Charleston, South Carolina, USA. http://site.aace.org/conf/

March 4-6, 2009 Arctic Institute on Innovations and Excellence in Teaching, University of Alaska, Fairbanks, Alaska, USA. http://www.lillyconferences.com/

March 4-7, 2009 Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education (SIGCSE) 2009, 40th, Chattanooga, Tennessee, USA. http://www.cs.arizona.edu/groups/sigcse09/

March 5-7, 2009 Computer-Using Educators Conference, Palm Springs, California, USA. http://www.cue.org/

March 5-7, 2009 Education and Development Conference, 4th annual, Royal Benja Hotel, Bangkok, Thailand. http://www.tomorrowpeople.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&

March 5-7, 2009 European Symposium on Gender and ICT – Digital Cultures: Participation, Empowerment, Diversity, 5th, Bremen, Germany. http://www.informatik.uni-bremen.de/frautec/gict2009/page/home.html

March 6-7, 2009 Celebration of Teaching and Learning, New York, USA. http://thirteencelebration.org/

March 6-8, 2009 Learning Spaces and Technology Workshop sponsored by the Council of Independent Colleges, Richmond, Virginia, USA. http://www.cic.edu/conferences_events/index.asp

March 8-11, 2009 National Association of Campus Card Users, 16th annual, Orlando, Florida, USA. http://www.naccu.org/

March 8-12, 2009 Applied Computing, 24th annual, sponsored by Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), Hilton Hawaiian Village, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA. http://www.acm.org/conferences/sac/sac2009/

March 9-11, 2009 International Technology, Education and Development (INTED) Conference, Valencia, Spain. http://www.iated.org/inted2009/

March 9-12, 2009 eLearning Guild Annual Gathering, Conference and Expo, Orlando, Florida, USA. http://www.elearningguild.com/content.cfm?selection=doc.24

March 9 or 13, 2009 (date to be announced) Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) International Workshop on PervasivE Learning (PerEL 2009), Galveston, Texas, 2009. http://wwwra.informatik.uni-rostock.de/perel09/

March 10-14, 2009 Computer Assisted Language Instruction Consortium (CALICO) Conference: Language Learning in the Era of Ubiquitous Computing, 26th, hosted by Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, USA. https://www.calico.org/conference/

March 11-13, 2009 The Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) Commons: A Conference for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, Georgia Southern University, Statesboro, Georgia, USA. http://www.georgiasouthern.edu/ijsotl/conference/

March 11-13, 2009 Distributed Learning Symposium 2009: Embracing and Becoming Drivers of Change/Innovation, Hyatt Regency Hotel, Calgary, Alberta, Canada. http://www.adeta.org

March 11-14, 2009 Universities and Colleges Information Systems Association (UCISA 2009), BT Convention Centre, Liverpool, United Kingdom. http://www.ucisa.ac.uk/events/

March 12, 2009 eConcordia Summit, Montreal, Quebec, Canada. http://www.econcordia.com/summit2009/

March 12-15, 2009 Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL): Pushing the Edge – Explore, Engage, Extend, Seattle, Washington, USA. http://www.ala.org/ala/acrl/acrlevents/acrleventsconferenc

March 12-15, 2009 International Conference on Technology in Collegiate Mathematics, 21st, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA. http://www.ictcm.org/

March 13-16, 2009 Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development (ASCD) Annual Conference and Exhibit Show: Learning Beyond Boundaries, 64th annual, Orange County Convention Center, Orlando, Florida, USA. http://www.ascd.org/conferences.aspx

March 14-18, 2009 Virtual Reality (VR 200), Cajundome Convention Centrer, Lafayette, Louisiana, USA. http://conferences.computer.org/vr/2009/

March 15-18, 2009 Innovations 2009 sponsored by the League for Innovation, Tahoe, Nevada, USA. http://www.league.org/i2009/

March 15-18, 2009 Middle East Education, Training, Equipment and Solutions (MEETES ’09) Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. http://www.acexpos.com/exhibitions/exhibition_index.php?exhibi

March 16-17, 2009 International Wireless Communications Expo (ICWE 2009) Las Vegas, Nevada, USA. http://www.iwceexpo.com/iwce2009/public/enter.aspx

March 16-18, 2009 Web-based Education (WBE), 8th, sponsored by the International Association of Science and Technology for Development (IASTED), Phuket, Thailand. http://www.iasted.org/conferences/home-644.html

March 16-18, 2009 International Conference on e-Learning and Distance Learning, 1st, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. http://www.eli.elc.edu.sa/en/index.php

March 16-19, 2009 College Teaching and Learning Conference, sponsored by the Clute Institute for Academic Research, San Antonio, Texas, USA. http://www.cluteinstitute.com/

March 16-19, 2009 International Workshop on Intelligent, Mobile and Internet Services in Ubiquitous Computing (IMIS2009), Fukuoka, Japan. http://imisconference.googlepages.com/imis09

March 16-20, 2009 Association of Research Libraries Service Quality Evaluation Academy, Hotel Monteleone, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA. http://www.arl.org/stats/statsevents/sqacademy/index.shtml

March 18-19, 2009 The e-Assessment Question 2007, 7th annual, Shaw Theatre and Novotel Euston, London, United Kingdom. http://www.e-assessment-question.co.uk/

March 18-22, 2009 Information Architecture Summit, 10th annual, sponsored by the Information Society for the Information Age, Memphis, Tennessee, USA. http://www.asis.org/conferences.html

March 19-22, 2009 National Science Teachers’ Association, 57th, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA. http://www.nsta.org/exhibitsadv/2009neworleans.aspx

March 20-21, 2009, Lilly Conference on College and University Teaching, hosted by International Alliance of Teacher Scholars, Pomona, California, USA. http://www.lillyconferences.com/

March 22-25, 2009 TechEd 2009: Technology in Education Conference and Exposition, 14th annual, sponsored by the Community College Foundation, Ontario Convention Center, Ontario, California, USA. http://www.techedevents.org/

March 22-26, 2009 Sciences of Electronics, Technologies of Information and Telecommunications (SETIT) Conference, 5th, Tunis, Tunisia. http://www.setit.rnu.tn/

March 23-24, 2009 International Conference in Games and Virtual Worlds for Serious Applications: Environment, Cultural Heritage, Health, Smart Buildings, V-commerce and Education, 1st, Coventry, United Kingdom. http://www.sgandvwconference.net/announcement.asp?event=42

March 23-25, 2009 EDUCAUSE Midwest Regional Conference, Chicago, Illinois, USA. http://www.educause.edu/conference/mwrc/

March 23-26, 2009 Web Information Systems and Technologies, 5th, Lisboa, Portugal. http://www.webist.org/cfp.htm

March 23-26, 2009 International Conference on Computer Supported Education (CSEDU 2009), Lisboa, Portugal. http://www.csedu.org/

March 24, 2009 Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC), Edinburgh, United Kingdom. http://www.jisc.ac.uk/events/2009/03/jiscconference09.aspx

March 24-26, 2009 New Media Consortium (NMC) Spring Virtual Symposium, http://www.nmc.org/ e

March 26-28, 2009 International Technology Education Association Annual Conference, 71st, Louisville, Kentucky, USA. http://www.iteaconnect.org/index.html

March 26-28, 2009 The Education Show, Birmingham, United Kingdom. http://www.education-show.com/edsh/show_home1.asp

March 26-28, 2009 European Universities Continuing Education Network (EUCEN) Conference: How to Transform a University into a LLL University, 37th, Leuven and Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium. http://www.eucen.org/ or http://www.uclouvain.be/242847

March 26-29, International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies, 5th, (WEBIST2009), Lisboa, Portugal. http://www.webist.org/

March 27, 2009 Work-based Learning for Education Professionals (WLE) Mobile Learning Symposium: Mobile Learning Cultures across Education, Work and Leisure, London, United Kingdom. http://symposium.londonmobilelearning.net/

March 29-April 1, ACM Special Interest Group on University and College Computing Services (SIGICCS 2009) Management Symposium, Nashville, Tennessee, USA. http://www.siguccs.org/index.htm

March 30-31, 2009 e-Learning and Distance Education: Learning in the New Millennium – Trends and Impact, 2nd, in collaboration with Allama Iqbal Open University, Islamabad, Pakistan. http://eldec.vu.edu.pk/

March 30-April 1, 2009 Computers in Libraries, Hyatt Regency, Arlington, Virginia, USA. http://www.infotoday.com/cil2009/

March 30-April 3, 2009 Eurographics 2009, 30th annual conference of the European Association for Computer Graphics, Munich, Germany. http://www.eurographics2009.de/

March 31-April 2, 2009 World Congress on Computer Science and Information Engineering, comprising symposiums on Communications & Mobile Computing, Computer Applications, Computer Design & VLSI, Data Mining & Data Engineering, Intelligent Systems, Multimedia & Signal Processing, and Software Engineering, Los Angeles, CA, USA. http://world-research-institutes.org/conferences/CSIE/2009

March 31-April 2, 2009 World Conference on Education for Sustainable Development, http://portal.unesco.org/education/en/ev.php-URL_ID=55176&URL_DO

March 31-April 3, 2009 Web 2.0 Expo, San Francisco, California, USA. http://www.web2expo.com/webexsf2009

March ?, 2009 Creative Teaching for Nursing Educators’ Conference, 34th annual, postponed until further notice, http://ctne.memphis.edu/

March ?, 2009 DigitalStream: Emerging Technologies in Teaching Languages and Culture will take a sabbatical in 2009. The 10th annual conference, hosted by California State University Monterey Bay, was held March 17-19, 2008 in Monterey, California, USA. http://wlc.csumb.edu:80/digitalstream/index.html

March ?, 2009 International Conference on Wireless, Mobile and Ubiquitous Technologies in Education (WMUTE2008), 5th, was held March 23-26, 2008 in Beijing, China. http://www.wmute2008.org/

APRIL 2009

April 1-2, 2009 LearnX Asia Pacific 2009: eLearning and Training Solutions International Conference and Expo, Sydney, Australia. http://www.learnx.net/learnx/

April 1-3, 2009 International Conference on Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare 2008, 3rd, London, the United Kingdom. http://www.pervasivehealth.org/

April 1-4, 2009 Canadian Moodle Moot: Open Spaces, Open Mind, in co-operation with Athabasca University, Mayfield Hotel and Suites, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. http://moodlemoot.ca/moodle/

April 1-4, 2009 University Continuing Education Association Conference: Transcending Boundaries, Boston, Massachusetts, USA. http://www.ucea.edu/

April 2-3, 2009 Annual Higher Education Summit, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. http://www.highereducationsummit.com.au/informaoz/highereducationsummit/home/

April 2-3, 2009 International Telecommunications Society Asian Symposium, Bangkok, Thailand, http://www.itsworld.org/

April 4-7, 2009 American Association of Community Colleges Convention, 89th annual, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. http://www.aacc.nche.edu/

April 4-7, 2009 National School Boards Association, San Diego, California, USA. http://www.nsba.org/conference/

April 5-7, 2009 Distance Education and Training Council’s Conference, 83rd annual, Hotel Del Coronado, Coronado, California, USA. http://www.detc.org/meetingsReports.html

April 5-8, 2009 Wimba Connect 2008, Doubletree Paradise Valley Resort, Scottsdale, Arizona, USA. http://www.wimba.com/connect09/

April 5-9, 2009 International Conference on Management of Technology. 18th, Orlando, Florida, USA. http://www.iamot.org/

April 6-8, 2009 BbWorld Europe ’09, Spain. http://www.blackboard.com/company/events/

April 8-10, 2009 Edutech 2009: Education Technology and Services Show, Muscat, Oman. http://www.oite.com/edutech

April 9-10, 2009 eLearning and Software for Education (eLSE 2009), Bucharest, Romania. http://adl.unap.ro/else2009

April 13-16, 2009 American Association of Collegiate Registrars and Admissions Officers (AACRAO) Conference: Charting the Path to Institutional and Student Success, 95th, McCormick Place West, Chicago, Illinois, USA. http://www.aacrao.org/chicago/

April 13-17, 2009 American Educational Research Association (AERA), San Diego, California, USA. http://aera.net/

via eLearning Technology

In New Work and New Work Skills, I discuss the fact that most of us have not participated in formal learning since college on foundational knowledge work skills - especially metacognitive skills. Our last formal learning used card catalogs, microfiche readers, Xerox machines, libraries, etc.


Most of us have strong skills in some areas and are much weaker in others simply due to the fact that we acquire our skills in completely ad hoc ways.

When were you taught:

* how to take take notes on a laptop during a meeting,
* how to filter a flood of new content,
* how to reach out via networks to find expertise,
* how to leverage the wisdom of crowds?


Tilde Effect

What epitomizes the situation for me is the Google ~ operator. A lot of people who are concept workers use Google every day and have no idea that the ~ operator even exists. Sure they can get along without it. I only use it in about 2-3% of my searches. And folks can probably get along without using the filetype, inurl or a myriad of other search operators and techniques.

But, the fact that concept workers claim in surveys to be above average in their search skills but they don't incorporate these operators tells me that there's a gap.

Tilde Effect - gap between available tools and methods and the average capabilities of concept workers due to the ad hoc nature of work skills acquisition.

My strong belief is that the foundations of knowledge work are changing fairly quickly and most of us learn completely through ad hoc mechanisms that are not likely to yield good coverage. If you could have an expert look over your shoulder at how you do things on a day-to-day basis, you likely could find many improvements. Every one of us would be somewhat embarrassed to have that expert sitting there because we know that we could stand to do things better.

Tangible Impact

The Tilde Effect at an individual level has massive aggregate impact.

A recently released Workplace Productivity Survey, reported by MSNBC, had the following findings:

* 62 percent of professionals report that they spend a lot of time sifting through irrelevant information to find what they need;
* 68 percent wish they could spend less time organizing information and more time using the information that comes their way.
* 85 percent agree that not being able to access the right information at the right time is a huge time-waster.
* More than 40 percent of the survey participants indicate an inability to handle future increases in information flow.
* White-collar professionals spend an average of 2.3 hours daily conducting online research, with one in 10 spending four hours or more on an average day.

The figure from Basex as reported in the New York Times of $650B as the cost of information overload is staggering.

When you couple this with the fact that we have moved to a knowledge economy where the dominant value is our concept work capabilities and where pace needs to be continually faster - we can't afford to have a workforce that lags in their concept work skills.

Bottom Line

The bottom line for the Tilde Effect is that we live in a time of incredible innovation that directly affect the methods we use to work and learn. Our work skills cannot sit still. There's a lot of discussion about 21st century skills to be taught in schools, but what about the rest of us?



And how important is this? Let me rely on a few other people to help here:

We tend to overestimate the effect of a technology in the short run and underestimate the effect in the long run.
Roy Amara, Institute for the Future.

It’s not the strongest of the species that survive, it’s the ones most adaptable to change.
Darwin

Being adaptable in a flat world, knowing how to ‘learn how to learn,’ will be one of the most important assets any worker can have, because job churn will come faster, because innovation will happen faster.
Friedman

The most important contribution management needs to make in the 21st Century is to increase the productivity of the knowledge worker.
Drucker

We are truly in a time of incredible innovation of work skills. We are struggling to keep up. And we need to collectively be focused on this issue!

Other Posts in the Series

* Tool Set 2009
* Work Skills Keeping Up
* Top-Down Strategy
* Better Memory
* Information Radar
* Networks and Learning Communities
* Collaborate
* Twitter as Personal Work and Learning Tool
* Search
* Browser Short Cuts

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