Hi, This is an online conference that might be of interest to some of you.
Like a traditional conference you have to pay (i think its about 50 dollars
& you pay online) but i've attended some of the ones in previous years and
its a great model as well as a good experience.
Cheers,
Nick


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From: Jim Shimabukuro <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: 15 March 2000 22:20
Subject: TCON2000 Keynotes: Preview


>
> [NOTE: This is the second of three announcements re TCON2000. The first,
> previewing the presentations, was distributed on 3/14/00. The third,
> announcing the writing teams and special panel-forums, will be distributed
> in the next day or two. For further information, please contact Jim
> Shimabukuro <[log in to unmask]> or Bert Kimura <[log in to unmask]>]
>
>                     KEYNOTE PRESENTATIONS
>
>                         Fifth Annual
>         Teaching in the Community Colleges Online Conference
>                      "A Virtual Odyssey:
>           What's Ahead for New Technologies in Learning?"
>                       April 12-14, 2000
>
> To register: <https://ohai.kcc.hawaii.edu/tcc2k_reg.taf>
> [For further info, email Diane Goo <[log in to unmask]>]
>
> For general information: <http://leahi.kcc.hawaii.edu/org/tcon2000>
>
> Dr. Bert Kimura and A. Nadine Burke have assembled an outstanding list of
> keynoters for the Fifth Annual Teaching in the Community Colleges Online
> Conference, "A Virtual Odyssey: What's Ahead for New Technologies in
> Learning?" During the three-day, completely online event, each keynote
> will be linked to an asynchronous forum, and registered participants will
> have an opportunity to join in the discussion that's generated by the
> presentation. LiveChat breakout sessions are also planned for most of the
> keynotes, and these, too, will be open to all participants.
>
> MARK MILLIRON, EDWARD LEACH, and STELLA PEREZ. "A Vision of What's to
> Come: Innovation, Collaboration, and Learning at Our Fingertips." Milliron
> is President and CEO, Leach is Director of Programs, and Perez is Director
> of League Online--League for Innovation in the Community College, Mission
> Viejo, California. This keynote will explore how emerging technologies are
> changing the nature of the League, and by extension, the community college
> field at-large. The ability to strategically access innovation,
> effectively encourage collaboration, and powerfully improve learning is
> expanding options and opening possibilities like we never could have
> imagined. The keynoters invite you to share in this visioning process with
> them, as they take stock of and take steps down the road ahead.
>
> MAURI COLLINS and ZANE BERGE. "Convergence to Divergence." Collins is
> Instructional Designer and Instructor, Center for Learning Technologies,
> Academic Technology Services, Old Dominion University, Norfolk, Virginia;
> and Berge is Director of Training Systems, Instructional Systems
> Development Graduate Program in the University of Maryland System, UMBC
> Campus. The history of the Internet parallels that of the converging of
> communication technologies--a phenomenon that touches and links people in
> their homes, businesses and schools.  Educational institutions looking for
> future success will leverage this convergence to offer high-tech/high
> touch learning opportunities.
>
> STEPHEN C. EHRMANN. "Evaluating Computer-Intensive Programs: Start before
> the Beginning and Look Away from the Computers." Ehrmann is Director of
> the Flashlight Program and Vice President, The TLT Group, The Teaching,
> Learning, and Technology Affiliate of The American Association for Higher
> Education. Flashlight develops and applies research tools for studying
> local uses of technology in education.  Dr. Ehrmann also helps lead other
> TLT Group programs to support institutional change in areas such as
> connected education.  He is an expert in a variety of areas including
> innovation in education, evaluation of the role of technology in
> education, distance and distributed learning, and the development and
> viability of computer courseware
>
> PEG WHERRY and TAMARA AUID. "What's Ahead--and Behind: One Institution's
> Odyssey with Online Support Services." Wherry is the Distance Learning
> Director and Auid is the Online Project Leader--Weber State University,
> Ogden, Utah. WSU Online, the virtual campus of Weber State University, is
> now in its third year of operation, offering 158 courses to some 2000
> students this spring.  Plans and good intentions for providing student and
> support services have evolved through several stages since 1997.  This
> paper will discuss that evolution, steps taken to date, and future plans.
>
> BARRY WILLIS. "Distance Education's Best Kept Secrets." Willis is
> Professor and Associate Dean for Outreach, College of Engineering,
> University of Idaho. In a relatively short period of time, distance
> education (e.g., web-supported instruction, videoconferencing,
> instructional television, etc.) has been transformed from a quaint
> irrelevancy to a lightening rod for change on many university campuses.
> The accompanying claims of what can and can't, should and shouldn't be
> done have resulted in an ever-widening gap between the rhetoric and
> reality of distance education. Closing this gap can be accelerated by
> considering a number of "lessons learned" that guide the development and
> implementation of many successful distance delivered programs.
>
>
> ----------
> ADDITIONAL BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION ON KEYNOTERS
>
> ZANE BERGE's scholarship in the field of computer-mediated communication
> and distance education includes numerous articles, chapters, workshops,
> and presentations. Most notable are Dr. Berge and Collins' recently
> published books: a three-volume set, Computer-Mediated Communication and
> the Online Classroom, which encompasses higher and distance education; and
> a four-volume set, Wired Together: Computer-Mediated Communication in the
> K-12 Classroom.
>
> MAURI COLLINS is an Instructional Designer and Instructor with the Center
> for Learning Technologies, Academic Technology Services at Old Dominion
> University. While at Northern Arizona University, she instituted and
> managed NAU's Online Conference Center and chaired the NAUweb conferences.
> With Zane Berge, Ms. Collins has edited two series for Hampton Press: CMC
> and the Online Classroom (1995) and Wired Together: The Online Classroom
> in K-12 (1998). For the American Center for the Study of Distance
> Education, Ms. Collins edits the monthly online journal DEOSNEWS and
> moderates the DEOS-L discussion group.
>
> STEPHEN C. EHRMANN has authored or co-authored four books and over thirty
> articles that have appeared in publications such as Academe, Change
> Magazine, Assessment Update, the Chronicle of Higher Education, Educom
> Review, Metropolitan University, Liberal Education, Machine Mediated
> Learning, On the Horizon, and Technology Source.  Dr. Ehrmann has been a
> member of several panels and commissions, including, most recently, the
> National Academy of Sciences/National Research Council Committee on
> Information Technology.
>
> EDWARD J. LEACH coordinates the League's national technology projects,
> including the annual Conference on Information Technology. He has served
> as Provost for Special Programs and International Education at St.
> Petersburg Junior College; a consultant to community colleges in the areas
> of student retention programs and personnel affirmative action plans; the
> Vice President for Human Resources at SPJC; the Director of Human
> Resources at Central Florida Community College.
>
> MARK MILLIRON: Prior to coming to the League, Dr. Milliron served as the
> Executive Director of Oracle Corporation's Global Learning Initiatives
> (GLI). He has also served as Vice President for Academic and Student
> Services at Mayland Community College (NC), Executive Assistant to the
> Vice Chancellor for Educational and Student Development at the Maricopa
> Community Colleges (AZ), and Kellogg Research Fellow at The University of
> Texas at Austin.
>
> STELLA PEREZ has served as President of WC Software and Technology and
> Learning Consultants, specializing in information technology,
> instructional computing, and research services for corporate and community
> college associates. Dr. Perez's work experience includes over fifteen
> years of teaching, directing, and developing computer-based instructional
> services both in the corporate sector and in college and university
> programs.
>
> PEG WHERRY is one of two program directors in continuing education at
> Weber State University, with responsibility for distance learning
> activities as well as professional development programs.  Peg has been
> involved with WSU Online, a virtual campus, from its early concept
> development through its launch in 1997.
>
> BARRY WILLIS has authored two textbooks: Distance Education: Strategies
> and Tools and Distance Education: A Practical Guide.  Dr. Willis serves as
> Contributing Editor of the Journal of Educational Technology.
>
> ----- end of announcement -----
>
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