U-TELL

Proposals are being accepted for the EDUCAUSE Midwest Regional Conference (Chicago in March). I hope to be submitting a couple proposals.

Each proposal will be evaluated in one of the tracks listed below.

* Building Information Services Together: Emerging Practices for Library and IT Collaborations to Advance Institutional Mission
* Emerging Practices: The Intersection of Teaching, Learning, and Technology
* IT Service Management Models in Higher Education
* Managing Enterprise Resources: Best Practices in Architecture and Implementation
* Corporate and Campus Solutions

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Conference September 18 and 19 in Walter Library.

This year’s conference will be an all-day forum featuring papers and posters on innovative research using the internet and other digital technologies. There will be four presentation/discussion groups (see 2008 schedule) grouped by research themes in the areas of virtual reality, social networking and learning technologies, followed with small group discussion to facilitate interactivity and networking among participants.

I will be presenting on a research project about Maximizing Social Presence in Online Learning in Friday's panel. They are still looking for posters for Thursday.

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CALL FOR PAPERS:
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Special Issue of E-Learning on globally networked learning in higher education
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E-Learning, a peer-reviewed international journal directed towards the study of e-learning in its diverse aspects, invites submissions for a special issue on “Globalizing Higher Education Across the Disciplines: Innovative Partnerships, Policies, and Pedagogies for Globally Networked Learning Environments; guest edited by Doreen Starke-Meyerring.

Early national and global policy discourses around the role of the internet in higher education advanced utopian and dystopian understandings of the internet as a new global market for existing industrial-model, locally produced higher education courses and programs to be repackaged for global delivery and global trade online. As a result, hundreds of millions of public and private dollars have been spent on global internet-based higher education marketing consortia, many of which have since failed. As initial responses to digital technologies, these initiatives had largely tried to reproduce established institutionally bounded practices in digital environments, disregarding the networked nature and peer production potential of digital technologies, and therefore lacking pedagogical innovation to re-envision learning in a globally networked world.

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