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Why Attend Conferences? UW Annual Conference on Distance Teaching & Learning’s 25th Anniversary

Web Courseworks

The choices of eLearning and distance learning conferences are plentiful— see the list below of the ones I keep on my own radar screen. This week I will be attending my fifth conference of the year in my hometown of Madison, WI: The Annual Conference on Distance Teaching and Learning, hosted by the University of Wisconsin.

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10 Great Moments in eLearning History

SHIFT eLearning

In November 1999, Elliott Masie coined the word "eLearning" at his TechLearn Conference at Disneyworld. Others in the industry have already used the term "online learning," which basically points to the same concept. Others in the industry have already used the term "online learning," which basically points to the same concept.

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Learning & Development Conferences for 2018

Limestone Learning

January 30 –February 1, 2018 Elliott Masie’s Curation & Learning LAB , Saratoga Springs, New York Elliott Masie hosts a small group of learning colleagues in a 2 ½ day intensive exploration and lab experience at the 10,000 square foot MASIE Learning LAB deeply exploring, experimenting, assessing and deploying a range of curation strategies.

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eLearning Conferences 2011

Tony Karrer

link] December 2-3, 2010 Enhancing Learning Experiences in Higher Education : An International Conference, hosted by the Centre for the Enhancement of Teaching and Learning, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China. link] February 8-11, 2011 Exploiting Affordances for Learning , Leuven, Belgium. Charles, Missouri, USA.

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Covid-19 Aid: Free Tools and Resources for Virtual Learning and Remote Work

Talented Learning

Moodle and Totara LMS Implementation & Hosting. Need to deploy an online learning environment rapidly? eThink is offering free open-source learning platform hosting through July 1st for any new client that signs a contract before May 1st. Digital Meetings and Events Hosting. For distance learning.

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Rethinking conferences

Jay Cross's Informal Learning

I’ve learned a whale of a lot from these events over the last twenty years. Through their presentations at conferences, Allison Rossett, Elliott Masie, Gloria Gery, and scores of other awesome teachers have shaped the thinking of the greater learning and development community of practice. 4) What makes a conference great?

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Top 68 eLearning Posts from April - Hot Topics iPad Google Buzz

eLearning Learning Posts

Upside Learning Blog , April 29, 2010 Moodle is a good LMS with which has grown over the years and offers a host of functionality and features that are very useful to have in an LMS. Designed for Learning , April 26, 2010 Blended learning is not a new thing. It is not a new-age way of thinking about learning.