Tuesday, November 30, 2010

Best Lecture

I just read George Siemens post Will online lectures destroy universities?  He makes the point that despite articles like Why free online lectures will destroy universities – unless they get their act together fast:

Statements like “universities are obsolete” or “universities are dying” are comical. And untrue. Universities are continuing to grow in enrolment and general influence in society. Calling universities obsolete while we are early on in the so-called knowledge economy is like declaring factories obsolete in the 18th century just as the industrial revolution was taking hold. Utter nonsense.

While George does talk about challenges in education, I think he misses part of the point of the article.  And this is something that I’ve been thinking (and writing – see Physics Lectures) about for a long time.  Here’s the point:

  • It’s incredibly easy to capture and distribute lectures.
  • Rather than getting a lecture from whoever is teaching your course locally, wouldn’t it be better to get a world-class lecture.

As the article points out:

At the same time, millions of learners around the world are watching world-class lectures online about every subject imaginable, from fractional reserve banking to moral philosophy to pharmacology, supplied by Harvard, MIT, and The Open University.

Have you seen Planet Earth or watched a Professor Lewin physics presentation?  There’s basically no way to compete with those sources.  And wouldn’t it be better to get the best available lecture with local discussion, studying, testing, etc.?

I’m not quite sure that I buy the article’s contention that:

The simple fact is that university lectures never worked that well in the first place – it’s just that for centuries, we didn’t have any better option for transmitting information. In fact, the success of top universities, both now and historically, is in spite of lectures, not because of it.

Maybe that’s because I’ve learned a lot in schools that way.  But even if you keep lectures, but you open up everyone to the Best Lecture available on a given topic … The implications here for education are profound. 

Best Lectures in Corporate Training

I also believe the implications here are profound for corporate training.  We can continue to hide behind the myth that our content is special and different.  Some of the time, that’s quite true.  But there’s a lot of content (leadership, management, safety, etc.) that really should not be replicated by every organization.

Instead, we should be looking for the Best Lecture and work our specifics around that.  Of course, that’s sometimes made harder because despite the Open Content movement in education, there’s less of a movement in corporate learning (and some barriers: Open Content in Workplace Learning?, Creative Commons Use in For-Profit Company eLearning?).

What’s also interesting about this situation is that there are similar barriers from the content creators standpoint.  In the Business of Learning, I talk about the challenges as a content creator and how the business models might work.  And every day, I’m talking with people who have great content and could be creating the Best Lecture on a topic.  And while they can easily capture it, getting it distributed in a way that pays is difficult.  Instead, they need to package it into a unit that is self-contained.  They need something similar to an LMS or a course that runs in a corporate LMS.  But it certainly won’t look like a Best Lecture model with corporate eLearning professionals being able to act like local discussion, studying, testing.

I’m not sure what any of this will look like in education or in corporate training – but I am sure it will be quite different in 20 years from how we do it today.

Monday, November 29, 2010

New and Improved Adobe Acrobat X

Adobe Acrobat remains one of the best kept secrets in the software industry. While many users, use the ubiquitous Adobe Acrobat Reader to open, print and display files on the web- many are unaware of the engine that makes this all happen. I have been fortunate enough to be provided with a Reviewer Copy of Adobe Acrobat X Pro which was recently released into the marketplace. As a long time user of Adobe Acrobat I was looking forward to working with the latest version of Acrobat to see what new and innovative features were build into this version. Adobe Acrobat X is now available for both Windows and Macintosh computers and builds on the long tradition of Acrobat as easy to use tool to create and publish PDF files.

The most significant change that you will see when you start up Adobe Acrobat X is in the interface. If you have used any of Adobe's newer applications you will feel right at home. Adobe has really done their homework and analyzed how users are most likely to use Acrobat and reconfigured the menus. You will notice on the right had side of the screen three different tabs, Tools, Comments, and Share. Clicking on any of these items will reveal a Pane with the associated tools and features. Being a long time user of Acrobat it was always a challenge to find where I might find the tool that I was looking for. Having the new interface now makes it a cinch to know exactly where to find something. The new interface is very intuitive and makes it easy for you to be as efficient as possible when you are looking for the right tool. The simplicity of the interface is going to be a hallmark of this version and one that I know I will enjoy using.

Creating PDF files is a lot easier to create with the new version of Adobe Acrobat X. Simply select the Create button from the menu and you have your choice of how you would like to create your PDF. One of the areas that has been vastly improved is creating a PDF from Scanner. I found that Adobe Acrobat X was much faster at creating the PDF and the finished PDF file size was much smaller than in the past. There were significant improvements in the Optical Character Recognition Engine which would account for better recognition of scanned material. Having a fully search-able PDF document with a small footprint really foots the bill for me.

One of my favorite features which was introduced in version 9 of Acrobat is the concept of a PDF Portfolio. This is an extremely powerful tool  and one that I feel has the potential to take this product far both in business and education sectors. As the term would implies a PDF Portfolio is a way for you to include a range of different types of  files and media formats and wrap it up in a PDF envelope. With a PDF Portfolio one could include a Word, Excel, Audio, Video, PDF documents and convert it into one single PDF file that can be delivered to your client or student. When they receive the PDF Portfolio you can package it and brand it with your company's colors or logo. Your recipient then receive I highly stylized PDF portfolio with easy to use navigation that can be opened with the free Adobe Acrobat Reader (version 9 or X) and presented with the files in the order that you wold like to present them in. Perfect for a business or educational portfolio which displays a range of different content and media. Adding video and Flash content is easier than ever and allows you to bring your documents to life with video playing inside your PDF portfolios.

Sending your PDF documents just got a lot easier with the advent of the new Adobe Service called Adobe SendNow Online. Adobe SendNow Online. is now integrated within Adobe Acrobat X and can be accessed from the Share tab. Adobe SendNow Online, as you can tell from the name, stores your files in the cloud and provides a link to your PDF that you can email to your recipients right within Adobe Acrobat X. If you have ever had the problem of sharing large PDF files via email, then you will really like how Adobe handles this new feature. Simply enter the recipients email address and they will receive a link to download the file. It is really that simple and you can control how much time they have before the link expires and receive delivery receipts when it is downloaded. The integration of Adobe SendNow Online with Adobe Acrobat X is really seamless and you will be asking yourself how did you ever live without it.

Working with Adobe Acrobat as much as I do, I am extremely pleased with this upgrade and the thought that went into making this easier and more intuitive to use. Right out of the box you will find Adobe Acrobat X a pleasure to work with. With a little time you will find that Adobe Acrobat X is one of thiose must have applications that you will turn to for all of your creative needs.

PS: Look for another post on the Action Wizard and Forms coming soon

Saturday, November 27, 2010

Panther: Extending extents / Estendendo os extents

This article is written in English and Portuguese
Este artigo está escrito em Inglês e Português

English version:

Back to Panther... Although I'm not in the video on the right, I do love Informix. That doesn't mean I ignore some issues it has (or had in this particular case). One thing that always worries an Informix DBA is the number of extents in his tables. Why? Because it used to have a maximum amount, and because that maximum was pretty low (if compared with other databases). But what is an extent? In short an extent is a sequence of contiguous pages (or blocks) that belong to a specific table or table partition. A partition (a table has one or more partitions) has one or more extents.
Before I go on, and to give you some comparison I'd like to tell you about some feedback I had over the years from a DBA (mostly Oracle, but who also managed an Informix instance):
  • A few years ago he spent lots of time running processes to reduce the number of extents in a competitor database that had reach an incredible number of extents (around hundreds of thousands). This was caused by real large tables and real badly defined storage allocation
  • Recently I informed the same customer that Informix was eliminating the extent limits and the same guy told me that he was afraid that it could lead to situations as above. He added, and I quote, "I've always admired the way Informix deals with extents"
So, if a customer DBA is telling that he admires the way we used to handle extents, and he's afraid of this latest change, why am I complaining about the past? As in many other situations, things aren't exactly black and white... Let's see what Informix have done well since ever:

  1. After 16 allocations of new extents Informix automatically doubles the size of the next extent for the table. This decreases the number of times it will try to allocate a new extent. So, using only this rule (which is not correct as we shall see) if you create a table with a next size of 16K, you would reach 4GB with around 225 extents.
  2. If Informix can allocate a new extent contiguous to an already existing one (from the same table of course) than it will not create a new one, but instead it will extend the one that already exists (so it does not increase the number of extents). This is one reason why rule number one may not be seen in practice. In other words, it's more than probable that you can reach 4GB with less than 225 extents.
  3. In version 11.50 if I'm correct, a fix was implemented to prevent excessive extent doubling (rule 1). If the next extent size is X and the dbspace only has a maximum of Y (Y < X) informix will allocate Y and will not raise any error.
    If this happens many times, we could end up having a number of allocated pages relatively small, but a next extent size too big. There's a real problem in this: If in these circumstances we create another chunk in the same dbspace, and after that our table requires another extent, the engine could reserve a large part of the new (and possibly still empty) chunk to our table. This can be much more than the size already allocated to the table. To avoid this, extent doubling will only happen when there is a reasonable relation between the new calculated next extent size and the space effectively allocated to the table.
  4. Extent description in Informix have never been stored in the database catalog. This leads to simpler and efficient space management. Compared to other databases that used to do the management in the catalog, they tend to hit issues in the SQL layer and at the same time these were slower. One of our competitors changed that in their later versions, and DBAs have seen improvement with that (but they had to convert). Informix always worked the better way...
So, these are the good points. Again, why was I complaining? Simply because although Informix has done a pretty good job in preventing the number of extents to grow too much, we had a very low limit for the number of extents. In platforms with a system page size of 2K this was around 220-240 extents (max), and for 4K platforms is was around the double of that (440-480). With version 10 we started to be able to have greater page sizes, and that increases the maximum number of extents per partition.
Why didn't we have a fix limit and why was it different in several platforms? In order to explain that we must dive a bit deeper in the structure of a dbspace and tables. Each partition in Informix has a partition header. Each partition header is stored in exactly one Informix page. There is a special partition in every dbspace (tablespace tablespace) that holds every partition headers from that dbspace. This special partition starts in a specific page but then, it can contain more than one extent.
Also important to understand this is the notion of slot. Most Informix pages contain several slots. For a data page, a slot contains a row (in the simplest cases). A partition header is a page that contains 5 slots:
  1. Slot 1
    This contains the partition structure (things like creation date, partition flags, maximum row size, number of special columns - VARCHAR and BLOB -, number of keys - if it's an index or has index pages -, number of extents and a lot of other stuff. If you want to see all the details check the sysptnhdr table in $INFORMIXDIR/etc/sysmaster.sql. It's basically an SQL interface for the partition headers in the instance.
    In version 11.50 this slot should occupy 100 bytes. Previous versions can have less (no serial 8, and bigserial)
  2. Slot 2
    Contains the database name, the partition owner, the table name and the NLS collation sequence
  3. Slot 3
    Contains details about the special columns. If there are no special columns this slot will be empty
  4. Slot 4
    Contains the description for each key (if it's an index or a mix). Starting with version 9.40, by default the indexes are stored in their own partitions. This was not the case in previous versions. A single partition could contain index pages interleaved with data pages.
    Currently, by default, a partition used for data should not have any key, so this slot will be empty
  5. Slot 5
    Finally, this is the slot that contains the list of extents.
Now we know the list of extents must be stored in the partition header. And the partition header has 5 slots, and the size of first four may vary. This means that the free space for slot 5 (extent list) is variable. These are the reasons why we had a limit and why that limit was not fixed. It would vary with the table structure for example. And naturally it would vary with the page size.
A table that reached it's maximum number of extents was a very real and serious problem in Informix. If you reach the table limit for number of extents and all your table's data pages are full, the engine would need to allocate one more extent in order to complete new INSERTs. But for that it would require some free space in the partition header. If there was no space left, any INSERT would fail with error -136:

-136 ISAM error: no more extents.

After hitting this nasty situation there were several ways to solve it, but all of them would need temporary table unavailability, which in our days is rare... We tend to use 24x7 systems. Even systems that have a maintenance window would suffer with this, because most of the time the problem was noticed during "regular" hours...

So, I've been talking in the past... This used to be a problem. Why isn't it a problem anymore? Because Panther (v11.7) introduced two great features:
  1. The first one is that it is able to automatically extend the partition header when slot 5 (the extent list) becomes full. When this happens it will allocate a new page for the partition header that will be used for the extent list. So you should not see error -136 caused by reaching the extent limit. At first you may think like my customer DBA: "wow! Isn't that dangerous? Will I get tables/partitions with tens of thousands of extents?". The answer is simple. You won't get that high number of extents because all the nice features that were always there (automatic extent concatenation, extent doubling...) are still there. This will just avoid the critical situation where the use of the table would become impossible (new INSERTs). And naturally it doesn't mean that you should not care about the number of extents. For performance reasons it's better to keep them low
  2. The second great feature is an online table defragmenter. They can grow forever, but that's not good. Once you notice you have a table with too many extents you can ask the engine to defragment it. I will not dig into this simply because someone else already did it. I recommend you check the recent DeveloperWorks article entitled "Understand the Informix Server V11.7 defragmenter"

Versão Portuguesa:

De volta à Panther... Apesar de não estar no vídeo à direita, eu adoro o Informix. Isso não significa que ignore alguns problemas que ele tem (ou tinha neste caso particular). Uma coisa que preocupa qualquer DBA Informix é o número de extents das suas tabelas. Porquê? Porque esse número tinha um máximo, e porque esse máximo era bastante baixo (se comparado com outras bases de dados). Mas o que é um extent? De forma simples, um extent é uma sequência contígua de páginas (ou blocos) que pertencem a uma tabela ou partição de tabela. Uma partição (uma tabela tem uma ou mais partições) tem um ou mais extents.
Antes de continuar, e para estabelecer uma comparação, gostaria de transmitir algum feedback que ao longo de anos tive de um DBA (essencialmente Oracle, mas também geria uma instância Informix):

  • Há alguns anos atrás passou bastante tempo a executar processos para reduzir o número de extents de uma base de dados concorrente do Informix. Essa base de dados tinha tabelas que atingiram um número incrível de extents (na casa das centenas de milhar). Isto foi causado por tabelas verdadeiramente grandes e cláusulas de alocação de espaço realmente mal definidas
  • Recentemente informei esse mesmo cliente que o Informix ia eliminar o limite de extents, e a mesma pessoa disse-me que tinha receio que isso pudesse levar a situações como a de cima. Ele acrescentou, e cito: "Se há coisa que sempre admirei foi a maneira como o Informix gere os extents".
Assim sendo, se um DBA de um cliente diz que admira a maneira como geríamos os extents e ele próprio receia a eliminação de limites, porque é que eu me queixo do passado? Como em muitas outras situações, as coisas não são bem a preto e branco... Vejamos o que o Informix sempre fez bem:

  1. Após cada 16 novos extents adicionados, o Informix automaticamente duplica o tamanho do próximo extent da tabela. Isto diminui o número de vezes que tenta reservar um novo extent. Usando apenas esta regra (o que não é correcto como veremos a seguir), se criar uma tabela com o extent mínimo (16KB), a tabela pode crescer até aos 4GB com cerca de 225 extents.
  2. Se o Informix conseguir reservar um novo extent que seja contíguo a um que já esteja alocado à mesma tabela, então em vez de criar um novo, vai alargar o já existente (portanto não aumenta o número de extents). Esta é a razão porque a regra anterior pode não ser verificada na práctica. Por outras palavaras é mais que provável que consiga atingir os 4GB com menos de 225 extents.
  3. Salvo algum erro, na versão 11.50 foi introduzida uma melhoria para prevenir a duplicação excessiva do tamanho do próximo extent (regra 1). Se o tamanho do próximo extent for X, mas o dbspace só tiver um máximo de Y espaço livre contíguo (Y < X) o Informix vai criá-lo com o tamanho Y e nem se queixará de nada. Se isto acontecer muitas vezes, podemos acabar por ter um número de páginas efectivas de uma tabela ou partição relativamente pequeno e um tamanho para o próximo extent muito grande. Existe um problema real nisto: Se nessas cirunstâncias for criado um novo chunk nesse dbspace, e a tabela precisar de novo extent, pode acontecer que o motor reserve grande parte, ou mesmo a totalidade do novo chunk para a tabela (possivelmente muito mais que o tamanho já reservado até então). Para evitar isto, a duplicação do tamanho do próximo extent só acontece quando o novo tamanho tem uma relação razoável com o espaço reservado até então. Caso contrário o tamanho do próximo extent a alocar não é duplicado.
  4. A informação dos extents em Informix nunca foi guardada nas tabelas de catálogo. Isto faz com que a sua gestão seja mais simples e eficiente. Comparada com outras bases de dados que faziam a gestão no catálogo, estas tendiam a encontrar problemas e constrangimentos próprios da camada de SQL, e ao mesmo tempo eram mais lentas. Um dos concorrentes mudou isto há umas versões atrás e os seus utilizadores viram benefícios bem notórios (mas tiveram de converter). O Informix sempre trabalhou da melhor forma...
Estes são os pontos positivos. Mais uma vez, porque é que me estava a queixar? Simplesmente porque apesar de o Informix sempre ter feito um trabalho extraordinário na prevenção contra um elevado número de extents, nós tinhamos um limite, e era muito baixo. Em plataformas com um tamanho de página de sistema de 2KB este limite rondava os 220-240 extents, e em plataformas de 4KB o limite era cerca do dobro (440-480). Com a versão 10 pudemos passar a ter páginas maiores, e isso aumenta o limite.
Porque é que o limite não é fixo, e porque é diferente consoante a plataforma? Para explicar isto temos de nos debruçar de forma mais detalhada na estrutura física de um dbspace e tabela. Cada partição em Informix tem um cabeçalho. Cada cabeçalho de partição é guardado numa página Informix. Existe uma partição especial em cada dbspace (designada habitualmente por tablespace tablespace) que guarda todos os cabeçalhos das partições criadas nesse dbspace. Esta partição especial começa numa página específica do primeiro chunk do dbspace, mas pode ter mais que um extent.
Igualmente importante para compreender isto é a noção de slot. A maioria das páginas Informix estão divididas em slots. Para uma página de dados um slot contém uma linha de dados da tabela (caso mais simples). Um cabeçalho de partição é uma página que contém cinco slots:

  1. Slot 1
    Este contém a estrutura da partição (coisas como a data de criação, flags, tamanho máximo de uma linha, numéro de colunas ditas especiais - VARCHAR e BLOBs -, número de chaves - se for um indíce ou tiver páginas de indíce -, número de extents e uma série de outros detalhes. Se tiver curiosidade em saber o que lá está guardado consulte a tabela sysptnhdr na base de dados sysmaster (ou o ficheiro $INFORMIXDIR/etc/sysmaster.sql). Basicamente esta tabela é um interface SQL sobre todos os cabeçalhos de partição da instância Informix.
    Na versão 11.50 este slot ocupa 100 bytes. Versões anteriores podem ocupar menos (ausência do serial8 e bigserial)
  2. Slot 2
    Contém o nome da base de dados, dono da partição, nome da tabela e a NLS collation sequence
  3. Slot 3
    Contém detalhes sobre todas as colunas especiais. Se não existirem colunas especiais (VARCHAR e BLOB) este slot estará vazio. Se existirem, o tamanho ocupado dependerá da estrutura da tabela.
  4. Slot 4
    Contém a descrição de cada chave (se for um índice ou um mix). Desde a versão 9.40, por omissão os indíces são guardados em partição à parte. Isto não era assim em versões anteriores. Uma partição podia conter páginas de indíces e de dados.
    Actualmente, por omissão, uma partição usada para dados não deve ter nenhuma chave, e assim este slot deve estar vazio
  5. Slot 5
    Finalmente, este é o slot que contém a lista dos extents.

Agora sabemos que a lista de estents tem de ser guardada no cabeçalho da partição. E este contém cinco slots sendo que o tamanho dos primeiros quatro varia. Isto implica que o espaço livre para o slot cinco (a lista de extents) é variável. Estas são as razões porque tinhamos um limite e porque esse limite era variável. Variava por exemplo com a estrutura da tabela. E naturalmente variava com o tamanho da página.
Uma tabela que atingisse o número máximo de extents tornava-se num problema sério em Informix. Quando tal acontece, se todas as páginas de dados estiverem cheias, o motor terá de reservar um novo extent para completar novos INSERTs. Mas para isso necessitaria de espaço livre no cabeçalho da partição. Portanto, não havendo aí espaço livre todos os INSERTs falhariam com o erro -136:

-136 ISAM error: no more extents.

Depois de batermos nesta situação havia várias formas de a resolver, mas todas elas necessitavam de indisponibilidade temporária da tabela, o que nos dias que correm é um bem raro... A tendência é usarmos sistemas 24x7. Mesmo sistemas que tenham janela de manutenção sofreriam com isto, porque na maioria das vezes o problema manifestava-se durante o horário normal ou produtivo...

Bom, mas tenho estado a falar no passado.... Isto costumava ser um problema. Porque é que já não o é? Porque a versão 11.7 (Panther) introduziu duas excelentes funcionalidades:

  1. A primeira é que a partir de agora é possível estender automaticamente o cabeçalho da partição quando o slot cinco enche. Nesta situação, uma nova página é reservada para o cabeçalho da partição e a lista de extents pode crescer. Portanto não deverá voltar a ver o erro -136 causado por atingir o limite de extents. À primeira vista pode ter a mesma reacção que o DBA do meu cliente. "Epa! Mas isso não é perigoso? Vou passar a ter tabelas/partições com dezenas de milhares de extents?". A resposta é simples. Não vai atingir esses números de extents porque todas as boas características que sempre existiram (junção automática de extents, duplicação de tamanho do próximo extent...) ainda estão presentes e funcionais. Isto apenas evitará a situação crítica em que o uso da tabela se tornava impossível (para novos INSERTs). E naturalmente isto não significa que passemos a ignorar o número de extents das nossas tabelas. Por questões de desempenho é melhor mantê-los baixos.
  2. A segunda grande funcionalidade é um desfragmentador online de tabelas ou partições. O número de extents pode crescer indefinidamente, mas isso não é bom. Assim que notar que tem uma partição com um número elevado de extents pode pedir ao motor que a desfragmente. Não vou aprofundar este tema, simplemente porque já foi feito. Recomendo que consulte um artigo recente do DeveloperWorks intitulado "Understand the Informix Server V11.7 defragmenter". Infelizmente o artigo só tem versão em Inglês

Wednesday, November 24, 2010

UDRs: In transaction? / Em transacção?

This article is written in English and Portuguese
Este artigo está escrito em Inglês e Português

English version:

Introduction

I just checked... This will be post 100!!!... I've never been so active in the blog... We have Panther (full of features that I still haven't covered), I did some work with OAT and tasks that I want to share, and besides that I've been trying some new things... Yes... Although I've been working with Informix for nearly 20 years (it's scaring to say this but it's true...) there are aspects that I usually don't work with. I'd say the one I'm going to look into today is not used by the vast majority of the users. And that's a shame because:
  1. It can solve problems that we aren't able to solve in any other way
  2. If it was more used, it would be improved faster
Also, many people think that this is what marked the decline of the Informix company. You probably already figured out that I'm talking about extensibility. To recall a little bit of history, in 1995, Informix had the DSA architecture in version 7. And it acquired the Illustra company, founded by Michael Stonebraker and others. Mr. Stonebraker already had a long history of innovation (which he kept improving up to today) and he stayed with Informix for some years. All the technology around Datablades and extensibility in Informix comes from there... Informix critics say that the company got so absorbed in the extensibility features (that it believed would be the "next wave") that it loosed the market focus. Truth is that the extensibility never became a mainstream feature neither in Informix or in other databases, and all of them followed Informix launch of Universal Server (1996): Oracle, IBM DB2 etc.

But, this article will not focus on the whole extensibility concept. It would be impossible and tedious to try to cover it in one blog article. Instead I'll introduce one of it's aspects: User Defined Routines (UDRs), and in particular routines written using the C language.

There is a manual about UDRs, and I truly recommend that you read it. But here I'll follow another approach: We'll start with a very simple problem that without C UDRs would be impossible to solve, define a solution for it, and go all the way to implement it and use it with an example.


The problem

Have you ever faced a situation where you're writing a stored procedure in SPL, and you want to put some part of it inside a transaction, but you're afraid that the calling code is already in a transaction?
You could workaround this by initiating the transaction and catching the error (already in transaction) with an ON EXCEPTION block.
But this may have other implications (ON EXCEPTION blocks are tricky when the procedure is called from a trigger). So it would be nice to check if the session is already in a transaction. A natural way to do that would be a call to DBINFO(...), but unfortunately current versions (up to 11.7.xC1) don't allow that. Meaning there is no DBINFO() parameter that makes it return that information.


Solution search

One important part of Informix extensibility is the so called Datablade API. It's a set of programmable interfaces that we can use inside Datablades code and also inside C UDRs. The fine infocenter has a reference manual for the Datablade API functions. A quick search there for "transaction" makes a specific function come up: mi_transaction_state()
The documentation states that when calling it (no parameters needed) it will return an mi_integer (let's assume integer for now) type with one of these values:
  • MI_NO_XACT
    meaning we don't have a transaction open
  • MI_IMPLICIT_XACT
    meaning we have an implicit transaction open (for example if we're connected to an ANSI mode database)
  • MI_EXPLICIT_XACT
    meaning we have an explicit transaction open
This is all we need conceptually.... Now we need to transform ideas into runnable code!

Starting the code

In order to implement a C UDR function we should proceed through several steps:
  1. Create the C code skeleton
  2. Create the C code function using the Datablade API
  3. Create a makefile that has all the needed instructions to generate the executable code in a format the engine can use
  4. Compile the code
  5. Use SQL to define the new function, telling the engine where it can find the function and the interface to call it, as well as the language and other function attributes
  6. Test it!



Create the C code skeleton

Informix provides a tool called DataBlade Developers Kit (DBDK) which includes several components: Blade Manager, Blade Pack and Bladesmith. Blade Manager allows us to register the datablades against the databases, the Blade Pack does the "packaging" of all the Datablades files (executable libraries, documentation files, SQL files etc.) that make up a datablade. Finally Bladesmith helps us to create the various components and source code files. It's a development tool that only runs on Windows but can also be used to prepare files for Unix/Linux. For complex projects it may be a good idea to use Bladesmith, but for this very simple example I'll do it by hand. Also note I'm just creating a C UDR. These tools are intended to deal with much more complex projects. A Datablade can include new datatypes, several functions etc.
So, for our example I took a peek at the recent Informix Developer's Handbook to copy the examples.

Having looked at the examples above, it was easy to create the C code:


/*
This simple function returns an integer to the calling SQL code with the following meaning:
0 - We're not within a transaction
1 - We're inside an implicit transaction
2 - We're inside an explicit (BEGIN WORK...) transaction
-1 - Something unexpected happened!
*/

#include <milib.h>

mi_integer get_transaction_state_c( MI_FPARAM *fp)
{
mi_integer i,ret;
i=mi_transaction_state();
switch(i)
{
case MI_NO_XACT:
ret=0;
break;
case MI_IMPLICIT_XACT:
ret=1;
break;
case MI_EXPLICIT_XACT:
ret=2;
break;
default:
ret=-1;
}
return (ret);
}

I've put the above code in a C source file called get_transaction_state_c.c

Create the makefile

Again, for the makefile I copied some examples and came up with the following. Please consider this as an example only. I'm not an expert on makefile building and this is just a small project.


include $(INFORMIXDIR)/incl/dbdk/makeinc.linux

MI_INCL = $(INFORMIXDIR)/incl
CFLAGS = -DMI_SERVBUILD $(CC_PIC) -I$(MI_INCL)/public $(COPTS)
LINKFLAGS = $(SHLIBLFLAG) $(SYMFLAG)


all: get_transaction_state.so

clean:
rm -f get_transaction_state.so get_transaction_state_c.o


get_transaction_state_c.o: get_transaction_state_c.c
$(CC) $(CFLAGS) -o $@ -c $?

get_transaction_state.so: get_transaction_state_c.o
$(SHLIBLOD) $(LINKFLAGS) -o $@ $?


Note that this is a GNU Make makefile. The first line includes a makefile that IBM supplies with Informix. It basically contains variables or macro definitions. You should adapt the include directive to your system (the name of the makefile can vary with the platform) and make sure that the variables I use are also defined in your system base makefile.
After that I define some more variables and I create the makefile targets. I just want it to build the get_transaction_state.so dynamically loadable library and for that I'm including the object (get_transaction_state_c.o) generated from my source code (get_transaction_state_c.c). Pretty simple if you have basic knowledge about makefiles

Compile the code

Once we have the makefile we just need to run a simple command to make it compile:


cheetah@pacman.onlinedomus.net:informix-> make
cc -DMI_SERVBUILD -fpic -I/usr/informix/srvr1150uc7/incl/public -g -o get_transaction_state_c.o -c get_transaction_state_c.c
gcc -shared -Bsymbolic -o get_transaction_state.so get_transaction_state_c.o
cheetah@pacman.onlinedomus.net:informix->
The two commands run are the translation of the macros/variables defined in the makefile(s) and they simply compile the source code (1st command) and then generate the dynamic loadable library. If all goes well (as it naturally happened in the output above), we'll have a library on this location, ready for usage by Informix:


cheetah@pacman.onlinedomus.net:informix-> ls -lia *.so
267913 -rwxrwxr-x 1 informix informix 5639 Nov 23 22:06 get_transaction_state.so
cheetah@pacman.onlinedomus.net:informix-> file *.so
get_transaction_state.so: ELF 32-bit LSB shared object, Intel 80386, version 1 (GNU/Linux), dynamically linked, not stripped
cheetah@pacman.onlinedomus.net:informix->

Use SQL to define the function

Now that we have executable code, in the form of a dynamic loadable library, we need to instruct Informix to use it. For that we will create a new function, telling the engine that it's implemented in C language and the location where it's stored. For that I created a simple SQL file:


cheetah@pacman.onlinedomus.net:informix-> ls *.sql
get_transaction_state_c.sql
cheetah@pacman.onlinedomus.net:informix-> cat get_transaction_state_c.sql
DROP FUNCTION get_transaction_state_c;

CREATE FUNCTION get_transaction_state_c () RETURNING INTEGER
EXTERNAL NAME '/home/informix/udr_tests/get_transaction_state/get_transaction_state.so'
LANGUAGE C;
cheetah@pacman.onlinedomus.net:informix->


So, let's run it...:


cheetah@pacman.onlinedomus.net:informix-> dbaccess stores get_transaction_state_c.sql

Database selected.


674: Routine (get_transaction_state_c) can not be resolved.

111: ISAM error: no record found.
Error in line 1
Near character position 36

Routine created.


Database closed.

cheetah@pacman.onlinedomus.net:informix->


Note that the -674 error is expected, since my SQL includes a DROP FUNCTION. If I were using 11.7 (due to several tests I don't have it ready at this moment) I could have used the new syntax "DROP IF EXISTS...".

So, after this step I should have a function callable from the SQL interface with the name get_transaction_state_c(). It takes no arguments and returns an integer value.

Test it!

Now it's time to see it working. I've opened a session in stores database and did the following:
  1. Run the function. It returned "0", meaning no transaction was opened.
  2. Than I opened a transaction and run it again. It returned "2", meaning an explicit transaction was opened
  3. I closed the transaction and run the function by the third time. As expected it returned "0"
Here is the output:


cheetah@pacman.onlinedomus.net:informix-> dbaccess stores -

Database selected.

> EXECUTE FUNCTION get_transaction_state_c();


(expression)

0

1 row(s) retrieved.

> BEGIN WORK;

Started transaction.

> EXECUTE FUNCTION get_transaction_state_c();


(expression)

2

1 row(s) retrieved.

> ROLLBACK WORK;

Transaction rolled back.

> EXECUTE FUNCTION get_transaction_state_c();


(expression)

0

1 row(s) retrieved.

>

We haven't seen it returning "1". That happens when we're inside an implicit transaction. This situation can be seen if we use the function in an ANSI mode database. For that I'm going to use another database (stores_ansi), and naturally I need to create the function there (using the previous SQL statements). Then I repeat more or less the same steps and the result is interesting:


cheetah@pacman.onlinedomus.net:informix-> dbaccess stores_ansi -

Database selected.

> EXECUTE FUNCTION get_transaction_state_c();


(expression)

0

1 row(s) retrieved.

> SELECT COUNT(*) FROM systables;


(count(*))

83

1 row(s) retrieved.

> EXECUTE FUNCTION get_transaction_state_c();


(expression)

1

1 row(s) retrieved.

>
If you notice it, the first execution returns "0". Since I have not done any operations there is no transaction opened. But just after a simple SELECT, the return is "1", meaning an implicit transaction is opened. This has to do with the nature and behavior of ANSI mode databases.
If you use them and you intend to use this function you must take that into consideration. Or you could simply map the "1" and "2" output of the mi_transaction_state() function return into simply a "1". This would signal that a transaction is opened (omitting the distinction between implicit and explicit transactions).

Final considerations

Please keep in mind that this article serves more as a light introduction to the C language UDRs than to solve a real problem. If you need to know if you're already in transaction (inside a stored procedure for example) you can use this solution, but you could as well try to open a transaction and capture and deal with the error inside an ON EXCEPTION block.

Also note that if this is a real problem for your applications, even if you're inside an already opened transaction, you can make your procedure code work as a unit, by using the SAVEPOINT functionality introduced in 11.50. So, in simple pseudo-code it would be done like this:

  1. Call get_transaction_state_c()
  2. If we're inside a transaction then set TX="SVPOINT" and create a savepoint called "MYSVPOINT" and goto 4)
  3. If we're not inside a transaction than set TX="TX" and create one. Goto 4
  4. Run our procedure code
  5. If any error happens test TX variable. Else goto 8
  6. If TX=="TX" then ROLLBACK WORK. Return error
  7. Else, if TX=="SVPOINT" then ROLLBACK WORK TO SAVEPOINT 'MYSVPOINT'. Return error
  8. Return success
After this introduction, I hope to be able to write a few more articles related to this topic. The basic idea is that sometimes it's very easy to extend the functionality of Informix. And I feel that many customers don't take advantage of this.
Naturally, there are implications on writing C UDRs. The example above is terribly simple, and it will not harm the engine. But when you're writing code that will be run by the engine a lot of questions pop up.... Memory usage, memory leaks, security stability... But there are answers to this concerns. Hopefully some of them (problems and solutions) will be covered in future articles.


Versão Portuguesa:

Introdução

Acabei de verificar.... Este será o centésimo artigo!!! Nunca estive tão activo no blog... Temos a versão Panther (11.7) (cheia de funcionalidades sobre as quais ainda não escrevi), fiz algum trabalho com tarefas do OAT que quero partilhar, e para além disso tenho andado a testar coisas novas... Sim... Apesar de já trabalhar com Informix há perto de 20 anos (é assustador dizer isto, mas é verdade...) há áreas de funcionalidade com as quais não lido habitualmente. Diria que aquela sobre a qual vou debruçar-me hoje não é usada pela maioria dos utilizadores. E isso é uma pena porque:
  1. Permite resolver problemas que não têm outra solução
  2. Se fosse mais usada seria melhorada mais rapidamente
Adicionalmente, existe muita gente que pensa que isto foi o que marcou o declínio da empresa Informix. Possivelmente já percebeu que estou a falar da extensibilidade. Para relembrar um pouco de história, em 1995, a Informix tinha a arquitectura DSA (Dynamic Scalable Architecture) na versão 7. E adquiriu a empresa Illustra, fundada por Michael Stonebraker e outros. O senhor Stonebraker já tinha um longo passado de inovação (que prossegue ainda actualmente) e permaneceu na Informix durante alguns anos. Toda a tecnologia à volta dos datablades e extensibilidade teve aí a sua origem.... Os críticos da Informix dizem que a companhia ficou tão absorvida pelas funcionalidades de extensibilidade (que acreditava serem a próxima "vaga") que perdeu o foco do mercado. A verdade é que a extensibilidade nunca se tornou em algo generalizado nem no Informix nem em outras bases de dados, e todas elas seguiram o lançamento do Informix Universal Server (1996): Oracle, IBM DB2 etc.

Mas este artigo não irá focar todo o conceito de extensibilidade. Seria impossível e entediante tentar cobrir tudo isso num artigo de blog. Em vez disso vou apenas introduzir um dos seus aspectos: User Defined Routines (UDRs), e em particular rotinas escritas usando linguagem C.

Existe um manual que cobre os UDRs, e eu recomendo vivamente a sua leitura. Mas aqui seguirei outra abordagem: Começarei com um problema muito simples, que sem um UDR em C seria impossível de resolver, definirei uma solução para o mesmo, e prosseguirei até à implementação e utilização da solução com um exemplo.

O problema

Alguma vez esteve numa situação em que estivesse a escrever um procedimento em SPL, e quisesse colocar parte dele dentro de uma transacção, mas tivesse receio que o código que chama o procedimento já estivesse com uma transacção aberta?

Poderia contornar o problema iniciando uma transacção e apanhando o erro (already in transaction) com um bloco de ON EXCEPTION

Mas isto teria outras implicações (os blocos de ON EXCEPTION podem criar problemas se o procedimento for chamado de um trigger). Portanto seria bom poder verificar se a sessão já está no meio de uma transacção. Uma forma natural de o fazer seria recorrer à função DBINFO(...), mas infelizmente as versões actuais (até à 11.7.xC1) não permitem isso. Ou seja, não há nenhum parâmetro desta função que permita obter a informação que necessitamos.

Pesquisa da solução

Uma parte importante da extensibilidade no Informix é a chamada Datable API. É um conjunto de interfaces programáveis que podemos usar dentro de datablades e também dentro de UDRs em C. O infocenter tem um manual de referência das funções do Datablade API. Uma pesquisa rápida por "transaction" faz aparecer uma função: mi_transaction_state()

A documentação indica que quando a chamamos (não requer parâmetros) irá retornar um valor do tipo mi_integer (equivale a um inteiro) com um destes valores:
  • MI_NO_XACT
    significa que não temos uma transacção aberta
  • MI_IMPLICIT_XACT
    significa que temos uma transacção implícita aberta (por exemplo se estivermos conectados a uma base de dados em modo ANSI)
  • MI_EXPLICIT_XACT
    significa que temos uma transacção explícita aberta
Isto é tudo o que necessitamos conceptualmente.... Agora precisamos de transformar uma ideia em código executável!

Começando o código

Para implementarmos um UDR em C necessitamos de efectuar vários passos:
  1. Criar o esqueleto do código C
  2. Criar a função com código C usando o datablade API
  3. Criar um makefile que tenha todas as instruções necessárias para gerar o código executável num formato que possa ser usado pelo motor
  4. Compilar o código
  5. Usar SQL para definir uma nova função, indicando ao motor onde pode encontrar a função, o interface para a chamar bem como a linguagem usada e outros atributos da função
  6. Testar!

Criar o código em C

O Informix fornece uma ferramenta chamada DataBlade Developers Kit (DBDK) que incluí vários componentes: Blade Manager, Blade Pack e Bladesmith. O Blade Manager permite-nos registar datablades em bases de dados, o Blade Pack faz o "empacotamento" de todos os ficheiros de um datablade (bibliotecas executáveis, ficheiros de documentação, ficheiros SQL, etc.). Finalmente o Bladesmith ajuda-nos a criar vários componentes e código fonte. É uma ferramenta de desenvolvimento que apenas corre em Windows mas que pode ser usado para preparar ficheiros para Unix/Linux. Para projectos complexos será boa ideia usar o Bladesmith mas para este exemplo simples farei tudo à mão. Apenas estou a criar um UDR em C. Estas ferramentas destinam-se a lidar com projectos muito mais complexos. Um Datablade pode incluir novos tipos de dados, várias funções etc.
Assim, para o nosso exemplo dei uma espreitadela ao recente Informix Developer's Handbook para copiar alguns exemplos.

Depois de ver os exemplos referidos, foi fácil criar o código em C:
/*
This simple function returns an integer to the calling SQL code with the following meaning:
0 - We're not within a transaction
1 - We're inside an implicit transaction
2 - We're inside an explicit (BEGIN WORK...) transaction
-1 - Something unexpected happened!
*/

#include <milib.h>

mi_integer get_transaction_state_c( MI_FPARAM *fp)
{
mi_integer i,ret;
i=mi_transaction_state();
switch(i)
{
case MI_NO_XACT:
ret=0;
break;
case MI_IMPLICIT_XACT:
ret=1;
break;
case MI_EXPLICIT_XACT:
ret=2;
break;
default:
ret=-1;
}
return (ret);
}

Coloquei o código acima num ficheiro chamado get_transaction_state_c.c


Criar o makefile

Também para o makefile, limitei-me a copiar alguns exemplos e gerei o seguinte. Por favor considere isto apenas como um exemplo. Não sou especialista em construção de makefiles e isto é apenas um pequeno projecto.


include $(INFORMIXDIR)/incl/dbdk/makeinc.linux

MI_INCL = $(INFORMIXDIR)/incl
CFLAGS = -DMI_SERVBUILD $(CC_PIC) -I$(MI_INCL)/public $(COPTS)
LINKFLAGS = $(SHLIBLFLAG) $(SYMFLAG)


all: get_transaction_state.so

clean:
rm -f get_transaction_state.so get_transaction_state_c.o


get_transaction_state_c.o: get_transaction_state_c.c
$(CC) $(CFLAGS) -o $@ -c $?

get_transaction_state.so: get_transaction_state_c.o
$(SHLIBLOD) $(LINKFLAGS) -o $@ $?


Este makefile destina-se ao GNU Make. A primeira linha incluí um makefile fornecido pela IBM com o Informix. Este, basicamente, contém definições de variáveis e macros. Deve adaptar a directiva include ao seu sistema (o nome do makefile pode variar com a plataforma) e garanta que as variáveis que usei estão definidas no makefile base do seu sistema.
Depois disso defini mais algumas variáveis e criei os targets. Apenas quero que gere a biblioteca dinâmica get_transaction_state.so e para isso estou a incluir o objecto (get_transaction_state_c.o) gerado a partir do meu código fonte (get_transaction_state_c.c). Bastante simples se tiver conhecimentos básicos de makefiles.


Compilar o código

Depois de termos o makefile apenas necessitamos de um comando simples para executar a compilação:


cheetah@pacman.onlinedomus.net:informix-> make
cc -DMI_SERVBUILD -fpic -I/usr/informix/srvr1150uc7/incl/public -g -o get_transaction_state_c.o -c get_transaction_state_c.c
gcc -shared -Bsymbolic -o get_transaction_state.so get_transaction_state_c.o
cheetah@pacman.onlinedomus.net:informix->
Os dois comandos executados são a tradução dos macros/variáveis definidos no(s) makefiles(s), e apenas compilam o código fonte (primeiro comando) e depois geram a biblioteca dinâmica. Se tudo correr bem (como naturalmente aconteceu no output acima), teremos a biblioteca nesta localização, pronta a ser usada pelo Informix:
cheetah@pacman.onlinedomus.net:informix-> ls -lia *.so
267913 -rwxrwxr-x 1 informix informix 5639 Nov 23 22:06 get_transaction_state.so
cheetah@pacman.onlinedomus.net:informix-> file *.so
get_transaction_state.so: ELF 32-bit LSB shared object, Intel 80386, version 1 (GNU/Linux), dynamically linked, not stripped
cheetah@pacman.onlinedomus.net:informix->

Usar SQL para definir a função

Agora que temos o código executável, na forma de uma biblioteca dinâmica, precisamos de instruir o Informix para usá-la. Para isso vamos criar uma nova função, dizendo ao motor que está implementada em linguagem C e qual a localização onde está guardada. Faremos isso com um script SQL simples:

cheetah@pacman.onlinedomus.net:informix-> ls *.sql
get_transaction_state_c.sql
cheetah@pacman.onlinedomus.net:informix-> cat get_transaction_state_c.sql
DROP FUNCTION get_transaction_state_c;

CREATE FUNCTION get_transaction_state_c () RETURNING INTEGER
EXTERNAL NAME '/home/informix/udr_tests/get_transaction_state/get_transaction_state.so'
LANGUAGE C;
cheetah@pacman.onlinedomus.net:informix->


Vamos executá-lo...:


cheetah@pacman.onlinedomus.net:informix-> dbaccess stores get_transaction_state_c.sql

Database selected.


674: Routine (get_transaction_state_c) can not be resolved.

111: ISAM error: no record found.
Error in line 1
Near character position 36

Routine created.


Database closed.

cheetah@pacman.onlinedomus.net:informix->


Repare que o erro -674 é expectável, dado que o meu SQL incluí a instrução DROP FUNCTION (e ela ainda não existe). Se estivesse a usar a versão 11.7 (devido a vários testes não a tenho operacional agora) podia ter usado a nova sintaxe "DROP IF EXISTS".

Portanto depois deste passo, devo ter uma função que pode ser chamada pela interface SQL com o nome get_transaction_state_c(). Não recebe argumentos e retorna um valor inteiro.


Testar!

Agora é tempo de a ver a trabalhar. Abri uma sessão na base de dados stores e fiz o seguinte:
  1. Corri a função. Retornou "0", o que significa que não havia transacção aberta
  2. Depois abri uma transacção e executei a função novamente. Retornou "2", o que significa que uma transacção explícita estava aberta
  3. Fechei a transacção e corri a função pela terceira vez. Como esperado retornou "0"
Aqui está o output:


cheetah@pacman.onlinedomus.net:informix-> dbaccess stores -

Database selected.

> EXECUTE FUNCTION get_transaction_state_c();


(expression)

0

1 row(s) retrieved.

> BEGIN WORK;

Started transaction.

> EXECUTE FUNCTION get_transaction_state_c();


(expression)

2

1 row(s) retrieved.

> ROLLBACK WORK;

Transaction rolled back.

> EXECUTE FUNCTION get_transaction_state_c();


(expression)

0

1 row(s) retrieved.

>

Não vimos o retorno "1". Isso acontece quando estamos dentro de uma transacção implícita. Esta situação pode ser vista se a função estiver a ser executada numa base de dados em modo ANSI. Para isso vou usar uma outra base de dados (stores_ansi), e naturalmente necessito de criar a função aqui (usando as instruções SQL anteriores). Depois repito mais ou menos os mesmos passos e o resultado é interessante:

cheetah@pacman.onlinedomus.net:informix-> dbaccess stores_ansi -

Database selected.

> EXECUTE FUNCTION get_transaction_state_c();


(expression)

0

1 row(s) retrieved.

> SELECT COUNT(*) FROM systables;


(count(*))

83

1 row(s) retrieved.

> EXECUTE FUNCTION get_transaction_state_c();


(expression)

1

1 row(s) retrieved.

>
Se reparar, a primeira execução retornou "0". Como ainda não tinha efectuado nenhuma operação não havia transacção aberta. Mas logo a seguir a um simples SELECT já retorna "1", o que significa que uma transacção implícita estava aberta. Isto prende-se com a natureza e comportamento das bases de dados em modo ANSI.
Se as usa e pretende usar esta função terá de ter isto em consideração. Ou poderá simplesmente mapear o retorno "1" e "2" da função mi_transaction_state() no retorno "1" da função criada por si. Isto sinalizaria que uma transacção estava aberta (omitindo a distinção entre transacção implícita e explícita).

Considerações finais

Relembro que este artigo serve mais como introdução aos UDRs na linguagem C que propriamente para resolver um problema real.
Se necessitar de saber se já está numa transacção (dentro de uma stored procedure por exemplo) pode usar esta solução, mas também podia tentar abrir uma transacção e capturar e gerir o erro dentro de um bloco ON EXCEPTION.

Chamo a atenção também para que se isto é um problema real das suas aplicações, mesmo que esteja já dentro de uma transacção, pode fazer com que o código da sua stored procedure trabalhe como uma unidade, usando a funcionalidade dos SAVEPOINTs, introduzida na versão 11.50. Em pseudo-código seria feito assim:

  1. Chamar a get_transaction_state_c()
  2. Se estamos dentro de uma transacção então estabelecer TX="SVPOINT" e criar um savepoint chamado "MYSVPOINT". Ir para 4)
  3. Se não estamos dentro de uma transacção então estabelecer TX="TX" e criar uma. Ir para 4)
  4. Correr o código da procedure
  5. Se ocorrer algum erro testat a variável TX. Ir para 8)
  6. Se TX =="TX" então ROLLBACK WORK. Retornar erro.
  7. Senão, SE TX=="SVPOINT" então ROLLBACK WORK TO SAVEPOINT 'MYSVPOINT'. Retornar erro
  8. Retornar sucesso
Depois desta introdução espero conseguir escrever mais alguns artigos relacionados com este tópico. A ideia base é que algumas vezes é muito fácil estender a funcionalidade base do Informix. E sinto que muitos clientes não tiram partido disto.
Naturalmente há implicações em escrever UDRs em C. O exemplo acima é terrivelmente simples, e não trará prejuízo ao motor. Mas quando escrevemos código que será executado pelo motor surgem uma série de questões... Utilização de memória, fugas de memória, segurança, estabilidade.... Mas existem respostas para estas preocupações. Espero que alguns (problema e soluções) sejam cobertos em artigos futuros.

Saturday, November 20, 2010

Mind Mapping in the Cloud with Comapping

As I try to move more and more of my work to the cloud I keep going back to one application time and time again and that is Comapping. Comapping is a simple and easy to use mind mapping application that runs within the browser and gives me access to my maps from anywhere that I have access to the web. I should note up front, that Comapping has really become a great way for me to share information when I am presenting or teaching my graduate courses. It is easy to place web links and attach documents to the map which then gives my students access to the information that I need to provide them.

In many ways my Comapping maps can be thought up as a way for me to transport information that I need to share with others. One of the key features of Comapping is the ability to publish the information in such a way that it is easy to re-purpose it on a wiki, Blog, Google Site, or within Moodle. I have developed a number of Comapping maps for my graduate classes that I teach which is ideal since Comapping provides me with the embed code to publish it right within Moodle. This feature alone is worth its weight in gold. Now my students have access to web resources that are just a click away or they can download PDF files that I have attached to the map. If you haven't tried Comapping I urge you to take a look at it and see how it can help you manage the information more efficiently.

Here is an example of a Comapping map that I have used for some of my presentations:


Qwiki- New Informational Video Mashup

I recently came across this new informational  mashup service that is in beta called Qwiki which automatically creates a video complete with audio on a topic of your choice. The service is very engaging and I thought would be an ideal way for students to get an overview on a topic by watching the Qwiki video. There are invitations available for the service while it is still in beta - but it is very engaging and has lots of potential for the work we do. So if you have a chance check it out and let me know what you think.

Thursday, November 18, 2010

Free PaperShow for Teachers Demo

Join me on Monday November 29th at 10 am EST for a free demonstration of PaperShow for Teachers.Find out how this innovative presentation tool can be used in the classroom, boardroom, or for webinars. Click here to sign up.PaperShow for Teachers is a cost effective tool to spice up lessons, presentations and webinars. Learn how you can use PaperShow for Teachers for brainstorming sessions or for capturing ideas in the classroom. Once you have captured the information you can easily share it as a PDF file. PaperShow for Teachers also lets you annotate images or your PowerPoint slides to make for richer and more engaging presentations. So sign up for this free webinar and learn about the power of this cost effect presentation tool. Click here to sign up.  Once you sign up you will receive a link for the webinar. Hope to see you there! Brian

Text-to-Speech Costs – Licensing and Pricing

This post is part of the series on Text-to-Speech (TTS) for eLearning written by Dr. Joel Harband and edited by me. The other posts are:

In this post, we will look more closely at costs of Text-to-Speech and issues around TTS Voice Licensing and Pricing.  The subject of TTS voice licensing and pricing is important because it helps e-learning practitioners understand which TTS tools they are legally allowed to use for their specific applications as well as letting them estimate the costs and pricing models of using these TTS tools.

Voice Talent Rates and Implications on TTS Licensing and Pricing

When the TTS voice manufacturers looked for a pricing model for their product, they naturally looked at the model used by real voice talents, including the rates and the types of usage.

Here are some examples of rates of voice talents suited for e-learning (voice talents for advertising can be a lot more). The rates are given in $ per hour of recorded sound.

Site

Rate per hour

www.e-learningvoices.com/price-per-minute.php

$1200

www.voices.com

$800-$1200

www.voice123.com

$1800 (median)

www.narratorfiles.com

$650

The average for this type of voice talent is about $1200/hour.

In addition, voice talents and voice producers tend to charge depending on the purpose of the recording and size of the intended audience of the recording. If the recording is going to be heard by many people and helps the customer make a lot of money, the voice talents expect to get more money than if the recording has a very limited use. The rates will be different for local, regional or national broadcasts. For example: a 30 second recording for a TV commercial broadcast all over the US may cost several times more than a five minute recording for a local documentary (voice123.com).

The TTS vendors learned two things from the voice-talent pricing model:

  • The price level – Because of their perceived lower voice quality, TTS voices need to be priced much lower than their real counterparts to be an attractive alternative
  • The TTS voice price need to be fixed according to the value of its use to the customer.

Based on the second criterion, the TTS vendors work with the following two general usage categories:

  • Personal Use - reading books, making sound files for personal use, etc. This is a low value usage.
  • Audio Distribution – a sound file that was created with the voice is distributed and played to an audience. This usage has a higher value.

Audio Distribution

Audio distribution, which is similar to broadcasting a voice talent recording, is considered to be a usage that is more valuable to the customer. Within audio distribution the following categories exist. They are listed according to increasing value to the customer:

  • Internal audio distribution - a company puts an audio training presentation with the TTS sound file on an internal server – intended for company employees only
  • Public audio distribution - a company puts an audio product presentation they made with the TTS sound file on a public web site – intended for a more general audience. Includes call centers.
  • Selling a TTS sound file for profit - a company sells an audio training presentation they made with the TTS sound file for profit

E-learning courses created by corporations are typically in the category of internal audio distribution – the course is put on the company server to be accessed by company employees.

TTS Voice Licenses

The TTS voice vendors enforce the intended usage of a voice by a voice license, which precisely describes the restrictions on the use of the voice. Strictly speaking, the vendors sell a license to use the voice software rather than selling the voice itself.

The following licenses are used:

Personal Use License – this license covers personal use of the TTS voice by the customer and expressly prohibits audio distribution - thus cannot be used for e-learning. Examples of products that use voices with personal license are: Natural Reader, TextAloud, Read the Words, and Spoken Text.

Personal licenses are sold for a low fixed price. In general, a price less than $50 indicates a personal license.

Audio Distribution License (ADL) – This is the license that permits audio distribution and is the type of license required for e-learning in business and education. The voice vendors have fixed the rate for an ADL license to be around 1/3 – 2/3 of the price of the equivalent voice talent ($1200/hour), depending on the TTS voice quality. The basic TTS voices cost $360/hour of recorded time and for the best TTS voices the rate can go up to $720/hour of recorded time.

The TTS voices with ADL are sold in three ways:

  • Fixed Price – this model allows a company to purchase any TTS voice with full audio distribution rights from a vendor without being tied to the specific authoring tools (e.g., Captivate) and its bundled voices. In talking to vendors (Neospeech), I was told that this model had been selected by some companies. Acapela also offers a model like this for unrestricted ADL.  The fixed price depends on the exact usage. A typical price for internal training courses is $2500, which represents about 7 hours of recorded time.
  • On-Demand - Voices can be purchased via on-demand web services or desktop products that accept text and generate sound files. They charge according to elapsed time of the generated file, at a rate of about $6/min ($360/hour).
  • From a Reseller – A company purchases voices from a reseller at a reduced price. The price is lower because the reseller has bought voices in volume. This is the case for Adobe Captivate and Tuval Software’s Speech-Over Professional where those companies resell the voices bundled with their products and the voice license terms are specified with the product. At present, the purchase price for these tools includes a fixed price for the voice license that does not depend on the elapsed time of the generated file.

Course developers generally are going to use bundled products, i.e., from a reseller.  In some cases, there will be use of other models.  

Friday, November 12, 2010

Matchware Announces Mindview 4

It just came to my attention that Matchware has announced MindView 4 which is chock full of new and exciting features. One of the hallmarks of this release is collaboration and the ability to share your MindView 4 maps in a shared workspace.This feature will certainly herald in new and innovative ways to use mind mapping in the work space. Matchware has also included some new formatting and styles that can qucikly be applied and there is now the ability to Export to PDF which looks interesting.I for one am looking forward to finding out first hand the ins and outs of what looks to me to be a fantastic upgrade. Hope to do a review soon!

Thursday, November 11, 2010

eLearning Conferences 2011 Updated

May 18 2011 - Updated conferences with new list for June - December 2011 (and beyond).

Clayton R. Wright has done his amazing list of conferences again this year and has asked me to post again. Past years eLearning Conferences 2010, eLearning Conferences 2009. You can contact him at: crwr77@gmail.com. This list is focused mostly on the first half of the year: January to June 2011. And it covers a broad range of types of topics.

Please note that events, dates, titles, and locations may change; thus, CHECK the specific conference website. Note also that some events will be cancelled at a later date. All Internet addresses were verified at the time of publication. No liability is assumed for any errors that may have been introduced inadvertently during the assembly of this conference list. If possible, please do not remove the contact information when you re-distribute the list as that is how I receive updates and corrections. If you publish the list on the web, please note its source.

If you are mounting your own conference, please ensure that the following information is clearly visible on your web page and/or poster: the name of the event, location (including country), date of the event, the FULL name of the sponsoring organization, and an e-mail contact address. Often conference organizers forget to provide the full name of the organization and an e-mail contact address. And send that to Clayton.

Conference 2011

December 2010

November 30-December 3, 2010 International Workshop on Cloud Privacy, Security, Risk and Trust (CPSRT), Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, USA. http://cpsrt.cloudcom.org/ or http://2010.cloudcom.org/

December 1, 2010 UNESCO-Commonwealth of Learning Policy Form on Open Educational Resources (OER): Taking OER beyond the OER Community – Policy and Capacity, UNESCO Headquarters, Paris, France. http://www.icde.org/en/icde_news/Invitation+to+Policy+Forum+on+OER+at+UNESCO.b7C_wlHUZh.ips or www.col.org/OERPolicy

December 1, 2010 Security and Defence Learning: International Forum on Technology Assisted Learning and Training for Defence, Security and Emergency Services, 6th, Hotel InterContinental Berlin, Berlin, Germany. http://www.security-defence-learning.com/

December 1-3, 2010 Online Educa Berlin International Conference on Technology Supported Learning and Training, 16th, Hotel InterContinental, Berlin, Germany. www.online-educa.com

December 1-3, 2010 Worldwide Forum on Education and Culture, Rome, Italy. http://www.theworldwideforum.org/1.html

December 1-3, 2010 Worlddidac, international exhibition about educational materials and professional training, 2nd, Hanoi, Vietnam. http://www.worlddidacvietnam.com/

December 1-3, 2010, Office of Women in Higher Education National Leadership Forum, 76th, sponsored by the American Council on Education, Washington, D.C., USA. http://www.acenet.edu//AM/Template.cfm?Section=Events2

December 1-3, 2010 European Conference on Web Services (ECOWS), 8th, Ayia Napa, Cyprus. http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/ecows10/

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. http://www.cetl.hku.hk/conference2010/

December 2-5, 2010 Asian Conference on Education, 2nd annual, Ramada Osaka, Osaka, Japan. http://ace.iafor.org/

December 3, 2010 City University of New York (CUNY) IT Conference, 9th, New York, New York, USA. http://www.centerdigitaled.com/conference.php?confid=435

December 4-7, 2010 Technology Information Education Services (TIES) Educational Technology Conference, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA. http://www.ties.k12.mn.us/Conferences.html

December 4-8, 2010 National Staff Development Council, Atlanta, Georgia, USA. http://www.nsdc.org

December 5-8, 2010 Australasian Society for Computers in Learning in Tertiary Education Conference (ASCILITE): Curriculum, Technology and Transformation for an Unknown Future, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia. http://www.ascilite.org.au/index.php?p=conference

December 5-8, 2010 Big Ideas Fest, 2nd conference focused on innovation in education, Ritz-Carlton Hotel, Half Moon Bay, California, USA. http://www.bigideasfest.org/

December 5-10, 2010 Executive Leadership Institute, sponsored by the League of Innovation in the Community Colleges, Phoenix, Arizona, USA. http://www.league.org/eli/

December 6, 2010 International Workshop on Smart Homes for Tele-Health, 3rd, Miami, Florida. http://myweb.dal.ca/naslam/smartel-10/

December 6-8, 2010 EDUCAUSE Center for Applied Research (ECAR) Symposium, La Costa, Carlsbad, California, USA. http://www.educause.edu/ecar/symposia?page_id=96

December 6-8, 2010 Assessing Quality in Higher Education, 3rd international conference, Lahore, Pakistan. http://www.icaqhe2010.org/

December 6-9, 2010 Mobile and Ubiquitous Systems: Computing, Networking and Services (MOBIQUITOUS), 7th annual, Sydney, Australia. http://www.mobiquitous.org/

December 6-9, 2010 New Zealand Association for Research in Education, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand. http://www.nzare.org.nz/

December 6-10, 2010 Computer Security Applications Conference, 26th, Austin, Texas, USA. http://www.acsac.org

December 7-10, 2010 Australasian Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 23rd, Adelaide, Australia. http://ai10.cis.unisa.edu.au/

December 7-11, 2010 Blueprint for Excellence National Conference, Walt Disney World, Orlando, Florida, USA. http://www.blueribbonschools.com

December 7-11, 2010 International Conference on Web-based Learning (ICWL), 9th, organized by Shanghai University, Shanghai, China. http://www.hkws.org/conference/icwl2010/index.html or http://www.hkws.org/events/icwl2010/

December 8-10, 2010 International Conference on Web-based Learning (ICWL 2010), 9th, Shanghai, China. http://iic.shu.edu.cn/icwl2010/ or http://www.hkws.org/conference/icwl2010/index.html

December 8-10, 2010 Career College Association Symposium 2010: Higher Education Today and Tomorrow, The Fairmont Hotel, Washington, D.C., USA. http://www.career.org/iMISPublic/AM/Template.cfm?Section=Upcoming_Events&Template=/TaggedPage/TaggedPageDisplay.cfm&TPLID=43&ContentID=17332

December 9-10, 2010 What’s Hot, What’s Not in e-Learning, eLearning Guild Online Seminar. http://www.elearningguild.com

December 10-11, 2010 Ubiquitous Learning Conference, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. http://ubi-learn.com/conference-2010/

December 10-11, 2010 Effective Teaching and Learning in Higher Education, hosted by the American University of Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon. http://www.aub.edu.lb/conferences/etlhe/Pages/index.aspx

December 10-12, 2010 International Conference on Arts and Technology (ArtsIT 2010), Chongqing, China. http://www.artsit.org/

December 12-15, 2010 International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS): Information Technology – Gateway to the Future, Saint Louis, Missouri, USA. http://icis2010.aisnet.org/

December 13-15, 2010 International Workshop on Multimedia Technologies for E-Learning (MTEL), 5th, sponsored by IEEE, Taichung, Taiwan. http://www.virtuos.uni-osnabrueck.de/pub/conferences/mtel-2010/cfp.html

December 13-15, 2010 Workshop on Multimedia for Cooking and Eating Activities (CEA), 2nd, Taichung, Taiwan. http://www.ccm.media.kyoto-u.ac.jp/CEA2010/

December 13-15, 2010 International ICST Conference on Electronic Healthcare for the 21st Century (eHealth 2010), Casablanca, Morocco. http://www.electronic-health.org/

December 13-16, 2010 International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies and Development (ICTD), hosted by ICT4D Collective and UNESCO, Royal Holloway, University of London, London, United Kingdom. http://www.gg.rhul.ac.uk/ict4d/ictd2010.html or http://www.ictd2010.org/?page_id=21

December 14, 2010 International Workshop on Knowledge Discovery Using Cloud and Distributed Computing Platforms, Sydney, Australia. http://www.ornl.gov/sci/knowledgediscovery/CloudComputing/KDCloud-10/

December 14-16, 2010 E-Activities (e-Learning, e-Communities, e-Commerce, e-Management, e-Marketing, e-Governance and Tele-working), 9th, sponsored by World Scientific and Engineering Academy and Society (WSEAS), University of Los Andes, Merida, Venezuela. http://www.wseas.us/conferences/2010/venezuela/e-activities/

December 14-16, 2010 Society for Research into Higher Education (SRHE) Annual Conference, Newport, South Wales, United Kingdom. http://www.srhe.ac.uk/conference2010/index.asp

December 15-18, 2010 ACM Special Interest Group on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques, SIGGRAPH Asia 2010, 3rd, Seoul, South Korea. http://www.siggraph.org/asia2010/

December 16-17, 2010 International Conference on Information and Communication Technology (ICICT), Madurai, Tamil Nadu, India. http://www.tsm.ac.in/icict2010/

December 16-18, 2010 International Conference on Ubiquitous Information Technologies and Applications (CUTE 2010), 5th, Sanya, China. http://grid.hust.edu.cn/CUTE2010/

December 17-19, 2010 One Voice San Francisco International Conference and Forum for Educators sponsored by the One Voice Institute of Elemental Ethics and Education, San Diego, California, USA. http://www.elementalethics.com/

December 17-21, 2010 Asian Technology Conference in Mathematics, 15th, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. http://atcm.mathandtech.org/

December 18-20, 2010 World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology (WASET) Summer Congress, Bangkok, Thailand. http://www.waset.org/

December 23-25, 2010 International Conference on Computer and Information Technology (ICCIT), 13th, Dhaka, Bangladesh. http://www.iccit-bd2010.net/

December 28-30, 2010 International Conference on Information and Multimedia Technology (ICIMT), 2nd, Hong Kong, China. http://www.icimt.org/

December 29-31, 2010 International Conference on Communications, Networking and Mobile Computing, Bangkok, Thailand. http://www.waset.org/conferences/2010/bangkok/iccnmc/

December 29-31, 2010 International Conference on Computer, Information and Network Security (ICCINS 2010), Bangkok, Thailand. http://www.waset.org/conferences/2010/bangkok/iccins/

January 2011

January 2-5, 2011 International Conference on Distributed Computing and Networking (ICDCN), 12th, Bangalore, India. http://www.icdcn.org/

January 3-5, 2011 International College Teaching and Learning Conference, sponsored by the Clute Institute for Academic Research, Maui, Hawaii, USA. http://www.cluteinstitute.com/

January 3-6, 2011 National Institute on the Teaching of Psychology (NIToP), 33rd annual, The TradeWinds Island Grand Hotel, St. Petersburg Beach, Florida, USA. http://nitop.org

January 4-7, 2011 Presidents Institute, sponsored by the Council of Independent Colleges, Palm Springs, California, USA. http://www.cic.edu/conferences_events/index.asp

January 4-7, 2011 International Congress for School Effectiveness and Improvement Conference (ICSEI 2011), 24th, Limassol, Cyprus. http://www.icsei.net/

January 4-7, 2011 Hawaii International Conference on Education, 9th annual, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA. http://www.hiceducation.org/cfp_edu.htm

January 5-7, 2011 International Conference on Multimedia Modeling, 17th, Howard International House, Taipei, Taiwan. http://mmm2011.org/

January 6-9, 2011 International Consumer Electronics Show (CES), Las Vegas, Nevada, USA. http://www.cesweb.org/

January 7, 2011 Higher Ed Tech Summit, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA. http://higheredtechsummit.com/

January 7-9, 2011 International Conference on e-Education, e-Business, e-Management and e-Learning (IC4E), Mumbai, India. http://www.iacsit.org/ic4e/

January 7-9, 2011 International Conference on Computer Modeling and Simulation (ICCMS 2011), 3rd, organized by the International Association of Computer Science and Information Technology, Mumbai, India. http://iccms.org/

January 7-12, 2011 American Library Association Midwinter Meeting, San Diego, California, USA. http://www.ala.org/

January 9-12, 2011 Association for Information Communications Technology Professionals in Higher Education (ACUTA) Winter Seminar, Pointe Hilton Resort at Tapatio Cliffs, Phoenix, Arizona, USA. http://www.acuta.org/home.cfm

January 9-12, 2011 Hawaii International Conference on Arts and Humanities, 9th annual, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA. http://www.hichumanities.org/

January 10-12, 2011 Video for Learning Lab and Seminar, sponsored by the Masie Center, Saratoga Springs, New York, USA. http://masieweb.com/

January 10-14, 2011 International Conference on Experiential Learning (ICEL 2011): The Energy of a Learning Experience, 12th, University of Andres, Bello, Bellavista, Santiago, Chile. http://www.icel.org.uk/2011.html or http://www.adventurelearning.cl/icel2011/

January 11-12, 2011 Committee on College Teaching and Learning Conference: Student Motivation and Active and Integrative Learning, 10th annual, Niagara University, Niagara, New York, USA. http://www.niagara.edu/conference-information/

January 11-13, 2011 National Educational Telecommunications Association (NETA), Nashville, Tennessee, USA. http://netaonline.org/2011/index.htm

January 11-13, 2011 International Conference on Digital Library Management: Extending Benefits of Modern Technology to Public, Academia and Special Libraries, Kolkata, India. http://www.teriin.org/events/icdlm/background.php

January 12, 2011 The World Education – Arts, Sciences and the Evolving Education Culture, New Delhi, India. www.icetcs.org

January 12-14, 2011 EDUCAUSE Mid-Atlantic Regional Conference, Baltimore, Maryland, USA. http://net.educause.edu/content.asp?SECTION_ID=101&bhcp=1

January 12-15, 2011 British Educational Technology Show, London, United Kingdom. http://www.bettshow.com/

January 12-15, 2011 The World Education Congress: World Education – The Arts, Sciences and Culture, New Delhi, India. www.we.asc.org

January 13-14, 2011, Institute for New Chief Academic Officers, sponsored by the American Council on Education, Tampa, Florida, USA. http://www.acenet.edu//AM/Template.cfm?Section=Events2

January 13-14, 2011 Being Global 2011: Strategies and Models for Internationalizing Canadian Higher Education, sponsored by Higher Education Strategy Associates, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. http://www.beingglobalconference.com/index.php

January 14-16, 2011 World Universities Forum, 4th, Hong Kong, China. http://www.universitiesforum.com or ontheuniversity.com/conference-2011/

January 16-19, 2011 Pacific Telecommunications Council: Connecting Life 24/7, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA. http://www.ptc.org/

January 16-19, 2011 International Engineering and Technology Education Conference, Taylor’s University College, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. http://www.ietec.my/

January 17-19, 2011 Connecting Rural Communities Asia Forum: Developing Connectivity, Content and Capacity for Rural Communities, 4th annual, Jaipur, India. http://www.events.cto.int/CRCAsia2011

January 17-20, 2011 Australasian Computing Education (ACE) Conference, 13th, Perth, Western Australia, Australia. http://www.sci.usq.edu.au/conferences/ace2011/

January 17-20, 2011 Australasian Computer Science Week (ACSW), Curtin University of Technology, Perth, Australia. http://conf.isi.qut.edu.au/aisc11/

January 17-21, 2011 Learning and Intelligent OptimizatioN (LION 4), Rome, Italy. http://www.intelligent-optimization.org/LION5/

January 18-20, 2011 International Conference on Creating, Connecting and Collaborating through Computing, 9th, Kyoto, Japan. http://www.cm.is.ritsumei.ac.jp/c5-11/

January 18-20, 2011 e-CASE & e-Tech: International Conference on e-Commerce, e-Administration, e-Society, e-Education and e-Technology, Tokyo, Japan. http://www.e-case.org/

January 19-20, 2011 Wisconsin State Education and Convention and Exhibit Show, 90th, Frontier Airlines Center, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA. http://www.wasb.org/

January 19-22, 2011 The Association for Science Teacher Education International Conference: Explore the Boundaries, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA. http://theaste.org/meetings/2011conference/index.htm

January 20, 2011 New Approaches to Peer Mentor Training, organized by Academic Impressions, to be held online. http://www.academicimpressions.com/events/event_listing.php?i=1023

January 20-21, 2011 Project Management Office Summit, sponsored by the American Strategic Management Institute, Arlington, Virginia, USA. http://www.asmiweb.com/

January 20-22, 2011 Association for Science Teacher Education Conference, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA. http://theaste.org/

January 21, 2011 Outcomes-Based Academic Assessment Reporting, organized by Academic Impressions, offered online. http://www.academicimpressions.com/events/event_listing.php?i=1034

January 21-23, 2011 Good Teaching Conference North, sponsored by the California Teachers’ Association, Marriott Hotel, San Jose California, USA. http://www.regonline.com/builder/site/Default.aspx?eventid=766394

January 22-28, 2011 International Conference on Current Trends in Theory and Practice of Computer Science, 37th, Novy Smokovec, Slovakia. http://kedrigern.dcs.fmph.uniba.sk/kralovic/sofsem2011/

January 23-25, 2011 Case-Nais Independent Schools Conference, 41st annual, sponsored by the Council for Advancement and Support of Education (CASE), Chicago, Illinois, USA. http://www.case.org/Conferences_and_Training/CASE-NAIS11.html

January 23-28, 2011 GlobeNet 2011, including the International Conference on Networks (10th), International Conference on Systems (6th), and the International Conference on Advances in Databases, Knowledge and Data Applications (3rd), St. Maarten, The Netherland Antilles. http://www.iaria.org/conferences2011/GlobeNet11.html

January 24-27, 2011 World Congress on Computer Science and Information Technology organized by the International Foundation for Modern Education and Scientific Research, Cairo, Egypt. http://www.infomesr.org/WCSIT11.html

January 25-27, 2011 World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology (WASET) Summer Congress, Dubai, United Arab Emirates. http://www.waset.org/

January 25-29, 2011 Macworld Conference and Expo, Moscone Center, San Francisco, California, USA. http://www.macworldexpo.com/

January 26-27, 2011 Learning Technologies 2011, Olympia 2, London, United Kingdom. http://www.learningtechnologies.co.uk/

January 26-28, 2011 International Conference on Information Technology and Travel Tourism (ENTER), 18th, Innsbruck, Austria. http://www.enter2011.org/

January 26-29, 2011 Association of American Colleges and Universities (AAC&U) Annual Meeting: Global Positioning - Essential Learning, Student Success and the Currency of U.S. Degrees, 67th, San Francisco, California, USA. http://www.aacu.org/meetings/annualmeeting/index.cfm

January 26-29, 2011 Assistive Technology Industry Association (ATIA) Leadership Forum on Accessibility, 4th, Caribe Royale Resort, Orlando, Florida, USA. http://www.atia.org/

January 27-28, 2011 Management World 2011, Raffles City Convention Centre, Singapore. http://www.tmforum.org/Conferences/734/Home.html

January 27-28, 2011 e-Learning Symposium, 6th annual, University of Southampton, Southampton, the United Kingdom. http://www.llas.ac.uk/events/6196

January 27-29, 2011 Reforming Higher Education and Research, Paris, France. http://www.iau-aiu.net/other/other_meeting/other_next_year.html or

http://www.resup.u-bordeaux2.fr/lesactualites/RESUP%202011.pdf

January 28-29, 2011 Educa, Helsinki, Finland. http://www.finnexpo.fi/educa/default.asp?code_language=en

January 28-29, 2011 Designing the 21st Century Classroom, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA. http://www.21stcenturyschools.com/Workshop_Schedule_Location.htm

January 28-30, 2011 International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence (ICAART), 3rd, Rome, Italy. http://www.icaart.org

January 30-February 1, 2011 American Association of Collegiate Registrars and Admissions Officers (AACRAO) Transfer Conference, annual, New Orleans Marriott at the Convention Center, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA. http://www.aacrao.org/

January 30-February 2, 2011 National Association of Independent Colleges and Universities (NAICU) Annual Conference, Washington, D.C., USA. http://www.naicu.edu/events/

January 30-February 2, 2011 Winter Senior Executive Management Seminar, sponsored by the Career College Association, Beaver Creek, Colorado, USA. http://www.career.org/iMISPublic/AM/Template.cfm?Section=Upcoming_Events&Template=/TaggedPage/TaggedPageDisplay.cfm&TPLID=43&ContentID=17332

January 30-February 3, 2011 Lotusphere, 18th annual, sponsored by IBM, Walt Disney World Swan and Dolphin Resort, Orlando, Florida, USA. http://www-01.ibm.com/software/lotus/events/lotusphere2011/

January 31-February 3, 2011 Florida Educational Technology (FETC) Conference, Orlando, Florida, USA. http://www.fetc.org/

January 31-February 3, 2011 International Conference in Central Europe on Computer Graphics, Visualization and Computer Vision, 19th, in cooperation with Eurographics, Plzen (near Prague), Czech Republic. http://wscg.zcu.cz/

January 31-February 3, 2011 Annual Forum on e-Learning Excellence in the Middle East: Being at the Leading Edge – How to Give Quest for Excellence a New Meaning, 4th, Dubai, United Arab Emirates. http://elexforum.etqm.ae/

January 31-February 3, 2011 Quality Conference in the Middle East: TQM and Excellence – A Framework for Managing Governance and Corporate Social Responsibility, 5th, Dubai, United Arab Emirates. http://congress.hbmeu.ac.ae/qc/conference-overview

January 31-February 3, 2011 Conference on e-Learning Excellence in the Middle East – In Search of New Paradigms for Re-Engineering Education, 4th, Dubai, United Arab Emirates. http://congress.hbmeu.ac.ae/learning/conference-chair-message

January 31-February 3, 2011 e-Health Conference in the Middle East: Excellence in Health Care – From Global Perspectives to Local Opportunities, 3rd, Dubai, United Arab Emirates. http://congress.hbmeu.ac.ae/ehealth/call-paper-2011

International Lifelong Learning in Europe Conference, 12th, was held January 27-29, 2010 in Tuusula, Finland. The conference will not be held it 2011 and may be held in 2012. http://www.lline.fi/

Technology, Reading and Learning Difficulties Conference, 26th, was held January 22-24, 2009 at the Hyatt Regency, San Francisco, California, USA. Due to the current economic uncertainty, future conferences have been postponed. http://www.trld.com/

As of Nov. 11, 2010, information for the 2011 versions of the 2010 events below was not available.

January 12-14, 2010 Learning and Technology World Forum 2010, London, United Kingdom. http://www.latwf.org/

January 14-17, 2010 International Alliance for Learning (IAL2010) Conference: New Frontiers in Learning and Innovation, 35th, Houston, Texas, USA. http://www.ialearn.org/conference.php

January 19-22, 2010 International Conference on Science, Mathematics and Technology Education, 6th, Hualien, Taiwan. http://block.sec.ntnu.edu.tw/3C/smte/index.asp

February 2011

February 1-2, 2011 iLearning Paris Forum 2011, 6th, Espace Champerret, Paris, France. http://www.ilearningforum.org/

February 1-2, 2011 Connections 2011: Conference on Higher Education Assessment, Blacksburg, Virginia, USA. http://www.assessmentconferences.com/

February 1-3, 2011 LearnTec 2010 International Convention and Trade Fair for Educational and Information Technology: The Potential for Growth in Vocational Education and Training, 19th, Karlsruhe, Germany. http://www.learntec.de/

February 1-3, 2011 Information Online, 15th, Australian Library and Information Association (ALIA) Conference and Exhibition, Sydney, Australia. http://www.information-online.com.au/

February 2-4, 2011 American Society for Training and Development (ASTD) TechKnowledge, San Jose, California, USA. http://www.astd.org/content/conferences/

February 2-4, 2011 Design Principles and Practices, 5th international conference, University of Rome, Rome, Italy. http://designprinciplesandpractices.com/conference/

February 2-4, 2011 Conference for Industry and Education Collaboration (CIEC), sponsored by the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE), Palm Springs, California, USA. http://www.asee.org/conferences/ciec/2010/index.cfm

February 2-5, 2011 Ontario Library Association Super Conference, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. http://www.accessola.com/

February 3-4, 2011 Conference on Higher Education Pedagogy, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia, USA. http://www.cider.vt.edu/conference/

February 3-7, 2011 World Conference on Educational Sciences, 3rd, Bahcesehir University, Istanbul, Turkey. http://www.wces.info/

February 4-6, 2011 Lilly Conference on College and University Teaching, Koury Center, Greensboro, North Carolina, USA. http://www.lillyconferences.com/

February 4-8, 2011 Conference on the First-Year Experience, 30th annual, Atlanta, Georgia, USA. http://www.sc.edu/fye/annual/index.html

February 7-9, 2011 Training 2011 Conference and Expo, sponsored by Training Magazine, San Diego, California, USA. http://www.trainingconference.com or www.trainingmagevents.com

February 7-10, 2011 International Conference on New Technologies, Mobility and Security, 4th, sponsored by the International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP) Paris, France. http://www.ntms-conf.org/

February 7-11, 2011 EDUCAUSE Management Program, Boulder, Colorado, USA. http://net.educause.edu/TheEDUCAUSEInstituteManagementProgram/1734

February 7-11, 2011 Texas Computer Education Association (TCEA) Convention and Exposition: No Limits – Technology Beyond Imagination, 31st annual, Austin, Texas, USA. http://www.tcea.org

February 8-11, 2011 Exploiting Affordances for Learning, Leuven, Belgium. http://ppw.kuleuven.be/cipt/WOG2011/WOG2011welcome.html

February 8-11, 2011 iConference 2011, hosted by the University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA. http://www.ischools.org/iConference11/2011index/

February 9-12, 2011 Music Library Association, 80th, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. http://program.musiclibraryassoc.org/

February 9-12, 2011 Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) International Conference on Web Search and Web Data Mining, 4th, Hong Kong, China. http://www.wsdm2011.org/

February 11-12, 2011 Georgia Conference on College and University Teaching, Kennesaw, Georgia, USA. http://www.kennesaw.edu/cetl/conferences/gaconf/2011.html

February 11-13, 2011 American Association of Colleges of Nursing Faculty Development Conference, Austin, Texas, USA. http://www.aacn.nche.edu/Conferences/11FacDev.htm

February 11-13, 2011 American Political Science Association Teaching and Learning Conference, Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA. http://www.apsanet.org/content_31632.cfm

February 12-16, 2011 World Federation of Associations for Teacher Education (ATE) Annual Meeting, Caribe Royale Hotel, Orlando, Florida, USA. http://www.ate1.org/pubs/ATEs_Meetings_Page.cfm

February 13-16, 2011 Pennsylvania Educational Technology Expo and Conference (PETE & C), Hershey, Pennsylvania, USA. http://www.peteandc.org/

February 13-16, 2011 International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI), Palo Alto, California, USA. http://www.iuiconf.org/

February 14-16, 2011 EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative (ELI) Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C., USA. http://www.educause.edu/eli/events?page_id=5540

February 14-16, 2011 International Conference on Digital Libraries and Knowledge Organization, Haryana, India. http://www.mdi.ac.in/ICDK/Home.html

February 14-16, 2011 O’Reilly Tools of Change for Publishing Conference, 5th annual, produced by O’Reilly Media, New York City, New York, USA. http://conferences.oreillynet.com/

February 14-16, 2011 Artificial Intelligence and Applications International Conference, sponsored by the International Association of Science and Technology for Development (IASTED), 11th, Innsbruck, Austria. http://www.iasted.org/ l

February 14-16, 2011 Midwest Education Technology Conference (METC), St. Charles, Missouri, USA. http://metcconference.org/moodle2011/

February 14-17, 2011 Education 2011-2021: Global Challenges and Perspectives of Blended and Distance Education presented by DE Hub and the Open and Distance Learning Association of Australia (ODLAA), Sydney, Australia. http://www.dehub.edu.au/summit2011/index.html

February 14-17, 2011 Mobile World Congress, Barcelona, Spain. http://www.mobileworldcongress.com/

February 15-17, 2011 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 15-18, 2011 Education 2011-2021 Summit: Global Challenges and Perspectives of Blended and Distance Learning, hosted by the Open and Distance Learning Association of Australia (ODLAA) and the Distance Education Research Consortium (DEHub), Sydney, Australia. http://www.dehub.edu.au/summit2011/about.html

February 15-18, 2011 Global TIME: Global Conference on Technology, Innovation, Media and Education, offered online, sponsored by the Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE), http://www.aace.org/conf/gtime/

February 16-18, 2011 Computer Graphics and Imaging, 12th international conference of the International Association of Science and Technology for Development (IASTED), Innsbruck, Austria. http://www.iasted.org/

February 16-18, 2011 National Association for Bilingual Education, 40th annual, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA. http://www.nabe.org/conference.html

February 17-18, 2011 Phi Delta Kappa International Conference on Innovations in Teaching and Learning, Atlanta, Georgia, USA. http://www.pdkintl.org/member/summit.htm

February 17-19, 2011 Educators’ Symposium on Accelerating Learning, Anaheim, California, USA. http://www.renlearn.com/Symposiums/default.aspx

February 17-19, 2011 American Association of School Administrators (AASA) National Conference on Education, 143rd, Denver, Colorado, USA. http://www.aasa.org/conferences/index.cfm

February 17-19, 2011 International Conference on Information Systems and Economic Intelligence, 4th, Marrakech, Morocco. http://www.wikicfp.com/cfp/servlet/event.showcfp?eventid=11304&copyownerid=15165

February 17-21, 2011 Advancing Science Serving Society (AAAS) Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C., USA. http://www.aaas.org/meetings/

February 17-21, 2011 American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Annual Meeting, 177th, Washington, D.C., USA. http://www.aaas.org/meetings/2011/

February 19-22, 2011 eLearning 2011, sponsored by the Instructional Technology Council (ITC), TradeWinds Island Grand Resort, St. Pete Beach, Florida, USA. http://www.itcnetwork.org/

February 20-22, 2011 Instructional Technologies Strategies Conference (ITSC), Portland, Oregon, USA. http://itsc.oetc.org/index.php

February 20-23, 2011 Association of International Education Administrators (AIEA) Competition and Collaboration in the Global Transformation of Higher Education, San Francisco, California, USA. http://www.aieaworld.org/

February 21-23, 2011 International Conference of e-Learning and Distance Learning, 2nd, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. http://www.elc.edu.sa/portal/

February 21-23, 2011 IEEE World Congress on Internet Security (WorldCIS-2011), London, the United Kingdom, http://www.worldcis.org/

February 21-23, 2011 Symbiosis International Conference on Open and Distance Learning, biennial, Pune, India. http://www.scdl.net/sic/sicindex.asp

February 21-25, 2011 Asia-Pacific Advanced Network Meeting, 31st, Hong Kong, China. http://www.apan.net/

February 22, 2011 Digital Future of Higher Education, Thompson Rivers University, Kamloops, British Columbia, Canada. http://www.tru.ca/digifuture.html

February 22-23, 2011 Japan MoodleMoot: Moodle Teachers and Developers Conference, 3rd, Kochi University of Technology, Kochie Japan. http://netcourse.org/courses/ or http://netcourse.org/moot/

February 22-24, 2011 Global TIME: Global Conference on Technology, Innovation, Media and Education, sponsored by the Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE), offered online. http://aace.org/conf/gtime/

February 22-24, 2011 Technology Information Center for Administrative Leadership, Little Rock, Arkansas, USA. http://www.portical.org/ar_conference/index.html

February 22-25, 2011 Illinois Computing Educators' (ICE) Technology Conference: Celebrating 25 Years of Transforming Education, Illinois, USA. http://www.iceberg.org/

February 22-26, 2011 DIDACTA Trade Fair for Education and Training, Stuttgart, Germany. http://www.didacta.de/

February 23-25, 2011 New Learning Technologies Conference, sponsored by the Society for Applied Learning Technology (SALT), Walt Disney World, Orlando, Florida, USA. http://salt.org/fl/orlandoP.asp?pn=orlando

February 23-25, 2011 Global Learning Summit, 4th, annual, Singapore. http://www.globallearningsummit.com

February 23-25, 2011 National Association of Independent Schools (NAIS) Annual Conference, Gaylord National Convention Center, National Harbor, Maryland, USA. http://www.nais.org/

February 23-25, 2011 Multimedia Systems 2011, San Francisco, California, USA. http://www.mmsys.org/

February 23-25, 2011 Consortium for North American Higher Education Collaboration (CONAHEC), biennial conference, location to be announced. http://www.conahec.org/conahec/Conferences/index.jsp

February 23-25, 2011 World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology (WASET), Penang, Malaysia. http://www.waset.org/

February 23-28, 2011 Digital World 2011 including International Conference on Digital Society (5th), International Workshop for Innovative Methods for Intrusion Prevention and Detection Systems (1st), International Conference on Advances in Computer-Human Interactions (4th), International Conference on e-Health, Telemedicine and Social Medicine (3rd), International Conference on Mobile, Hybrid and Online Learning (3rd), International Conference on Information, Process, and Knowledge Management (3rd), and International Conference on Technical and Legal Aspects of the e-Society, sponsored by the International Academy, Research and Industry Association (IARIA), Gosier, Guadeloupe, France. http://www.iaria.org/conferences2011/DigitalWorld11.html

February 23-26, 2011 Learning Disabilities Association of America International Conference, 48th annual, Jacksonville, Florida, USA. http://www.ldanatl.org/conference/index.asp

February 24-25, 2011 International Society for the Social Studies Annual Conference, University of Central Florida, Orlando, Florida, USA. http://www.theisss.org/

February 24-25, 2011 Green Universities Conference, 2nd annual, Sydney, Australia. http://www.informa.com.au/conferences/education/green-universities-conference

February 24-26, 2011 American Association of Colleges of Teacher Education (AACTE): Telling the Story – Writing the Next Chapter, 63rd, San Diego, California, USA. http://www.aacte.org/index.php?/component/option,com_events/Itemid,28/agid,40/day,24/month,02/task,view_detail/year,2011/

February 24-26, 2011 American Association of Colleges Master’s Education Conference, Scottsdale, Arizona, USA. http://www.aacn.nche.edu/Conferences/11Masters.htm

February 24-27, 2011 National Association of Secondary Principals (NASSP) Annual Convention and Exposition, 95th, San Francisco, California, USA. http://www.nasspconference.org/

February 25, 2011 The Digital Future of Higher Education, Thompson Rivers University, Kamloops, British Columbia, Canada. http://www.tru.ca/digifuture.html

February 25-26, 2011 Designing the 21st Century Classroom, San Francisco, California, USA. http://www.21stcenturyschools.com/Workshop_Schedule_Date.htm

February 25-27, 2011 National Association of Community College Teacher Education Programs (NACCTEP): Making Waves, San Diego, California, USA. http://www.nacctep.com/

February 25-27, 2011 T3 – Teachers Teaching with Technology International Conference, San Antonio, Texas, USA. http://www.t3ww.org/ or http://education.ti.com/educationportal/sites/US/nonProductSingle/pd_internationalconferences.html

February 27-March 1, 2011 Learning Analytics and Knowledge (LAK) 2011, hosted by the Technology Enhanced Knowledge Research Institute (TEKRI) of Athabasca University, Banff, Alberta, Canada. https://tekri.athabascau.ca/analytics/

February 27-March 1, 2011 BrainStorm 12.0: K12 Technology Conference for IT Personnel, 12th annual, Kalahari Resort, Wisconsin Dells, Wisconsin. http://www.brainstormk12.com/

February 27-March 2, 2011 Innovations 2011, sponsored by the League for Innovation in the Community College, San Diego, California, USA. http://www.league.org/#Inn2011

February 28, 2010 Consortium for School Networking Initiative (CoSN) International Symposium, 9th, Washington, DC, USA. http://www.cosn.org/Events/CoSNConference/Symposium/tabid/5529/Default.aspx

February 28-March 2, 2011 Association of University Technology Managers (AUTM) Annual Meeting, Caesars Palace, Las Vegas, USA. http://www.autm.net/events/dsp.events.cfm

February 28-March 2, 2011 Electronic Resources and Libraries Conference, Austin, Texas, USA. http://electroniclibrarian.com/erlwiki/ER%26L

February 28-March 2, 2011 ACCC Winter Symposia: Applied Research, sponsored by the Association of Canadian Community College, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. http://accc.ca/

February 28-March 2, 2010 National Federation of Advanced Information Services (NFAIS), Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. http://www.nfais.org/page/23-archive-nfais-2010-annual-conference

February 28-March 3, 2011 VoiceCon: Enterprise Communications, Orlando, Florida, USA. http://www.voicecon.com/orlando/

Problem-Based Learning and Active Learning Methodologies (PBL 2010): Connecting People, Ideas and Communities, was held February 8-12, 2010 at the University of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil. A conference is expected to be held in Cali, Columbia, in 2010, but a date has not been finalized. http://each.uspnet.usp.br/pbl2010/

As of Nov. 11, 2010, information for the 2011 versions of the 2010 events below was not available.

February 19-20, 2010 Digital Asia: Language, Technology and Community, 4th, Nagoya University of Commerce and Business, Japan. http://wirelessready.nucba.ac.jp/

February 19-21, 2010 Reaching At-Promise Students National Conference, 5th annual, (focuses on reaching at-risk youth), San Diego, California, USA. http://www.atpromiseconference.org/

March 2011

March 1-2, 2011 Management World Middle East 2011, Dubai, United Arab Emirates. http://www.tmforum.org/ManagementWorldMiddle/8619/home.html

March 1-3, 2011 e-Gov Africa Forum, 5th annual, Yaounde, Cameroon. http://www.events.cto.int/eGovAfrica2011

March 2-3, 2011 Gender Equality in Higher Education, Sydney, Australia. http://www.informa.com.au/conferences/education/gender-equality-in-higher-education-1

March 2-4, 2011 Team-Based Learning Collaborative (TBLC), 10th annual, Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA. http://tblc.roundtablelive.org/

March 2-4, 2011 Early Education and Technology for Children (EETC), 1st annual, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA. http://www.eetcconference.org/

March 3-5, 2011 General Education 3.0: Next-Level Practices Now, sponsored by the Association of American Colleges and Universities (AACU), Chicago, Illinois, USA. http://www.aacu.org/meetings/generaleducation/index.cfm

March 3-5, 2011 Information Fluency Workshop, San Antonio, Texas, USA. http://www.cic.edu/conferences_events/workshop/information_fluency.asp

March 4-6, 2011 Spring Workshops on Critical Thinking, Berkeley, California, USA. http://www.criticalthinking.org/

March 5-7, 2011 Education and Development Conference, 6th annual, Bangkok, Thailand. http://www.tomorrowpeople.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=42&Itemid=93

March 5-7, 2011 International Conference on Computer Graphics Theory and Applications (GRAPP 2011), Algarve, Portugal. http://www.grapp.visigrapp.org/

March 5-8 2011 American Council on Education Annual Meeting: Reaching Higher, 93rd, Washington Hilton, Washington, D.C., USA. http://www.acenet.edu//AM/Template.cfm?Section=Events2

March 6-8, 2011 Managing Planning, Managing Change: Transforming the Academic Landscape, College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, sponsored by the Society for College and University Planning (SCUP), Virginia, USA. http://www.scup.org/page/regions/ma/2011

March 6-13, 2011 Pakistan International Education Exhibition, Islamabad, Pakistan. http://www.educationexhibitions.com.pk/

March 7-8, 2011 International Wireless Communications Expo (ICWE 2011) Las Vegas, Nevada, USA. http://www.iwceexpo.com/iwce2011/public/enter.aspx

March 7-9, 2011 International Technology, Education and Development (INTED) Conference, 5th annual, Valencia, Spain. http://www.iated.org/inted2011/

March 7-11, 2011 Society for Information Technology and Teacher Education, (SITE), 22nd, Sheraton Music City Hotel, Nashville, Tennessee, USA. http://site.aace.org/

March 7-11, 2011 Building the Scientific Mind (BtSM2011), Fourth Advanced International Colloquium: Learning for Sustainable Futures, organized by the Learning Development Institute. Stellenbosch, South Africa. http://www.learndev.org/BtSM2011.html.

March 7-April 8, 2011 Teaching that Informs and Transforms: Strategies and Techniques for Engaging and Challenging Today’s Learners, sponsored by the National Resource Center, University of South Carolina, offered online. http://www.sc.edu/fye/events/

March 8-9, 2011 FITC Design and Technology Conference (focuses on Flash, graphic and digital design), Amsterdam, the Netherlands. http://www.fitc.ca/

March 9-11, 2011 The Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) Commons, 4th, Georgia Southern University, Statesboro, Georgia, USA. http://www.georgiasouthern.edu/ijsotl/conference/

March 9-11, 2011 Emerging Directions in Global Education (EDGE): Catalysing Change, New Delhi, India. http://www.edgeforum.in/2010/index.php

March 9-12, 2011 Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education (SIGCSE 2011, Dallas, Texas, USA. http://www.sigcse.org/sigcse2011/

March 10-12, 2011 Going Global 2011, organized by the British Council, Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre, Hong Kong, China. http://www.britishcouncil.org/goingglobal-gg5-programme.htm

March 10-12, 2011 Mobile Learning 2011, sponsored by International Association for Development of the Information Society (IADIS), Avila, Spain. http://www.mlearning-conf.org/

March 10-13, 2011 National Science Teachers Association (NSTA): Celebrating the Joy of Science – Imagine and Create, San Francisco, California, USA. http://www.nsta.org

March 10-13, 2011 International Conference on the e-Society 2011, sponsored by the International Association for Development of the Information Society (IADIS), Avila, Spain. http://www.esociety-conf.org/

March 11-12, 2011 Lilly Conference, hosted by the International Alliance of Teachers Scholars, Pomona, California, USA. http://lillyconferences.com/

March 11-12, 2011 Going Global 2011: World Education – the Powerhouse, Hong Kong, China. http://www.britishcouncil.org/goingglobal

March 11-13, 2011 Information Systems, sponsored by the International Association for Development of the Information Society (IADIS) Avila, Spain. http://www.is-conf.org/

March 11-20, 2011 South by Southwest (SXSW ’10), 24th, Austin, Texas, USA. http://sxsw.com/

March 12-13, 2011 International Workshop on Education, Technology and Computer Science, Wuhn, China. www.icetcs.org

March 12-16, 2011 Student Affairs Administrators in Higher Education (NASPA) Annual Conference: Education for Lives of Purpose, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. http://www.naspa.org/conf/default.cfm

March 13-16, 2011 American Association of Collegiate Registrars and Admissions Officers Conference, 97th annual, Washington State Convention and Trade Center, Seattle, Washington, USA. http://www.aacrao.org/

March 14-15, 2011 Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC), Liverpool, United Kingdom. http://www.jisc.ac.uk/events.aspx

March 14-16, 2011 International College Teaching and Learning Conference, sponsored by the Clute Institute for Academic Research, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA. http://www.cluteinstitute.com/

March 14-16, 2011 EDUCAUSE Midwest Regional Conference, Chicago, Illinois, USA. http://www.educause.edu/conference/mwrc/

March 14-16, 2011 Microcomputers in Education Conference, Tempe, Arizona, USA. http://mec.asu.edu/

March 14-16, 2011 Assessment Conference organized by the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB), Atlanta, Georgia, USA. http://www.aacsb.edu/assessment/index.html

March 14-18, 2011 Association of Research Libraries Service Quality Evaluation Academy, Hotel Monteleone, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. http://www.arl.org/

March 14-19, 2011 International Technology and Persons with Disabilities Conference, 26th annual, San Diego, California, USA. http://www.csunconference.org/index.cfm?EID=80000300

March 15-17, 2011 National Facilities Management and Technology (NFMT), Baltimore, Maryland, USA. http://www.nfmt.com/

March 16-18, 2011 Workshop on Technology in Distance Education, Boa Vista, Roraima, Brazil. http://www.uab.ufrr.br/wtead/

March 16-18, 2011 Michigan Association for Computer Users in Learning (MACUL) Conference: Detriot, Michigan, USA. http://www.macul.org/

March 16-18, 2011 Office of Women in Higher Education Regional Leadership Forum, sponsored by the American Council on Education, Charleston, South Carolina, USA. http://www.acenet.edu/AM/Template.cfm?Section=Events2

March 17, 2011 Introduction to Project Management, sponsored by the Leadership Foundation for Higher Education, London, United Kingdom. http://www.lfhe.ac.uk/evt-crs-prog/calendar/introprojmgtmar2011.html

March 17-19, 2011 The Education Show, Birmingham, United Kingdom. http://www.education-show.com/

March 17-19, 2011 Computer Using Educators (CUE) Inc.: Ignite, Inspire and Innovate Learning, annual conference, hosted by the Computer Using Educators and the Community College Foundation, Palm Springs, California, USA. http://www.cue.org

March 17-19, 2011 Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL) Convention, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA. http://www.tesol.org/s_tesol/convention2011/

March 17-20, 2011 International Conference on Technology in Collegiate Mathematics, 23rd, Denver, Colorado, USA. http://www.ictcm.org/

March 17-20, 2011 National Art Education Association (NAEA) Annual Convention: Creativity, Imagination and Innovation, Seattle, Washington, USA. http://www.arteducators.org/news/national-convention

March 18-19, 2011 Celebration of Teaching and Learning, New York, New York, USA. http://thirteencelebration.org/

March 18-21, 2011 Creativity Workshop, New York, New York, USA. http://www.creativityworkshop.com/

March 19-23, 2011 Virtual Reality (VR 2011), Waltham, Massachusetts, USA. http://conferences.computer.org/vr/2011/

March 19-23, 2011 Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW): Building Bridges, Hangzhou, China. http://cscw2011.org/

May 20-22, 2011 Teaching Professor Conference, 8th annual, Atlanta, Georgia, USA. http://www.teachingprofessor.com/conference

March 20-22, 2011 Experiential Learning in Virtual Worlds, 1st, Prague, Czech Republic, http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/at-the-interface/education/experiential-learning-in-virtual-worlds/call-for-papers/

March 20-25, 2011, WebTel comprising International Conference on Telecommunications (7th), International Conference on Internet and Web Applications and Services (6th) and the International Conference on Internet Monitoring and Protection (6th) sponsored by the International Academy Research, and Industry Association (IARIA), St. Maarten, The Netherlands Antilles. http://www.iaria.org/

March 21-22, 2011 E-Learning Summit, Melbourne, Australia. http://www.informa.com.au/conferences/education/e-learning-summit

March 21-23, 2011 Computers in Libraries 2010, 26th annual, Hilton Washington, Washington, D.C., USA. http://www.infotoday.com/cil2011/

March 21-23, 2011 World Congress on Sustainable Technologies (WCST-2011), sponsored by the Infonomics Society, London, the United Kingdom. http://www.wcst.org/

March 21-23, 2011 Society for College and University Planning (SCUP): Inspiring Community, Pacific Regional Conference, Seattle, Washington, USA. http://www.scup.org/page/regions/pa/2011

March 21-23, 2011 BbWorld Transact 2011, Scottsdale, Arizona, USA. http://www.blackboard.com/ or http://www.bbworldtransact.com/2011/content.asp?id=1743

March 21-24, 2011 Orlando Annual Multi-Disciplinary Conference, sponsored by the International Journal of Arts and Sciences, annual, Rosen College of the University of Central Florida, Orlando, Florida, USA. http://www.internationaljournal.org/orlando.html

March 21-25, 2011 Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications, Seattle, USA. http://www.percom.org/

March 21-25, 2011 Applied Computing, 26th annual, sponsored by Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), TaiChung, Taiwan. http://www.acm.org/conferences/sac/sac2011/

March 22-25, 2011 The Chair Academy’s International Conference for Post-Secondary Leaders: Leading in the Time of Change, 20th, Dallas, Texas, USA. http://portal.acm.org/ or http://www.mc.maricopa.edu/community/chair/conference/2011/11index.html

March 23-25, 2011 Universities and Colleges Information Systems Association (UCISA 2011), Edinburgh, United Kingdom. http://www.ucisa.ac.uk/events/

March 23-25, 2011 Learning Solutions Conference and Expo, sponsored by the eLearning Guild, Orlando, Florida, USA. http://www.elearningguild.com or http://www.learningsolutionsmag.com/content/1420/learning-solutions-conference-2010-home

March 23-26, 2011 Sciences of Electronics, Technologies of Information and Telecommunications Conference (SETIT 2011), 6th, Sousse, Tunisia, http://www.setit.rnu.tn/

March 24-25, 2011 Project-Based Learning, Plugged In!, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA. http://www.21stcenturyschools.com/Workshop_Schedule_Location.htm

March 24-26, 2011 Network for Academic Renewal Conference: Engaged STEM Learning – From Promising to Pervasive, sponsored by the Association of American Colleges and Universities, Miami, Florida, USA. http://www.aacu.org/meetings/stem/index.cfm

March 24-26, 2011 International Technology Education Association (ITEA) Annual Conference: Preparing the STEM Workforce – The Next Generation, 73rd, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA. http://www.iteaconnect.org/index.html

March 24-26, 2011 Network for Academic Renewal Conference: Engaged Stem Learning - Promising to Pervasive Practices, organized by the Association of American Colleges and Universities, Miami, Florida, USA. http://www.aacu.org/meetings/stem/index.cfm

March 25-27, 2011 Technology, Knowledge and Society, 7th international conference, University of the Basque County, Vizcaya, Spain. http://technology-conference.com/ or http://techandsoc.com/conference-2011/

March 26, 2011 One Voice Washington International Conference and Forum for Educators sponsored by the One Voice Institute of Elemental Ethics and Education, Washington, D.C., USA. http://www.elementalethics.com/

March 26-28, 2011 Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development (ASCD) Annual Conference: Bold Actions for Complex Challenges, San Francisco, California, USA. http://www.ascd.org/conferences.aspx

March 26-30, 2011 American College Personnel Association (ACPA), Baltimore, Maryland, USA. http://convention.myacpa.org/

March 27-30, 2011 International Conference on Integrated Computing Technology (INTECH 2011), 1st, Federal University of Sao Carlos, Sao Carlos, Brazil. http://www.dirf.org/intech/

March 27-30, 2011 International Conference on Society and Information Technologies (ICSIT), 2nd, Orlando, Florida, USA. http://www.iiis2011.org/icsit/website/default.asp?vc=29

March 27-30, 2011 International Conference on Education, Training and Informatics (ICETI), 2nd, Orlando, Florida, USA. http://www.iiis2011.org/icsit/website/default.asp?vc=31

March 28-29, 2011 Sloan Consortium Blended Learning Conference and Workshop, 8th annual, Oak Brook, Illinois, USA. http://sloanconsortium.org/blended

March 28-30, 2011 e-Learning Regional Conference: e-Learning…Education for All, Kuwait. http://www.erc2011.org/en/home.html

March 28-31, 2011 Web 2.0 Expo. San Francisco, California, USA. http://conferences.oreillynet.com/

March 28-April 1, 2011 International World Wide Web Conference (WWW2010), 20th annual, Hyderabad, India. http://wwwconference.org/www2011/

March 28-April 1, 2011 Global Learn Asia Pacific 2011: Global Conference on Learning and Technology, Melbourne, Australia. http://aace.org/conf/glearn/

March 29-31, 2011 World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology (WASET) Spring, Manila, the Philippines. http://www.waset.org/

March 29-31, 2011 International Conference on Communication and Information Technologies in Education, Manila, Philippines. http://www.waset.org/conferences/2011/manila/iccite/

March 30-31, 2011 The e-Assessment Question 2011, 9th annual, America Square Conference Centre, London, United Kingdom. http://www.e-assess.co.uk/

March 30-April 2, 2011 Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL), 15th biennial conference, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. http://www.ala.org/

March 30-April 2, 2011 Global Forum on Cross-Border Higher Education: Levelling the International Playing Field – A New Global Regionalism for Sustainable Partnerships, Student Mobility and Open and Distance Learning organized by The Observatory on Borderless Higher Education and Athabasca University, Banff, Alberta, Canada. http://www.obhe.ac.uk/home or http://www.athabascau.ca/

March 30-April 3, 2011 The Information Society for the Information Age Summit, sponsored by the American Society for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T), Hyatt Regency, Denver, Colorado, USA. http://www.asis.org/conferences.html

March ?, 2011 European Symposium on Gender and ICT – Digital Cultures: Participation, Empowerment, Diversity, 6th, Umea University, Sweden. http://www.informatik.uni-bremen.de/frautec/gict2009/page/home.html

As of Nov. 11, 2010, information for the 2011 versions of the 2010 events below was not available.

March 10-12, 2010 IDEA10: Learning Futures – Technology Challenges, a series of events focusing on technology and education, sponsored by the Council of Australian University Directors of Information Technology (CAUDIT), Melbourne, Australia. http://www.caudit.edu.au/index.php/events/?dayID=11&monthID=03&yearID=2010

March 17-19, 2010 International Online Conference for Teaching and Learning, 8th annual, sponsored by the State of Illinois and Learning Times, online. http://www.internationalonlineconference.org/ or http://www.learningtimes.com/news/elearn-magazine-review-finkelstein/

April 2011

April 3-5, 2011 Distance Education and Training Council’s (DETC) Conference, 85th annual, the Williamsburg Lodge, Virginia, USA. http://www.detc.org/meetingsReports.html

April 3-5, 2011 EDUCAUSE Australiasia, Sydney, Australia. http://www.caudit.edu.au/index.php/94/

April 3-5, 2011 Technology and Innovation in Education (TIE) 2011, 25th annual, Rapid City, South Dakota, USA. http://conference.tie.net/

April 3-6, 2011 Association for Information Communications Technology Professionals in Higher Education (ACUTA) Annual Conference and Exhibition: Succeeding in the New Reality, 40th, Hilton Bonnet Creek Resort, Orlando, Florida, USA. http://www.acuta.org/wcm/acuta/

April 3-6, 2011 National Association for Research in Science Teaching (NARST) International Annual Conference, Caribe Royale, Orlando, Florida, USA. http://www.narst.org/

April 4-6, 2011, IEEE Engineering Education (EDUCON2011): Learning Environments and Ecosystems in Engineering Education, Amman, Jordan. http://www.educon-conference.org/educon2011/index.htm

April 4-6, 2011 EDUCAUSE Security Professionals Conference, San Antonio, Texas, USA. http://www.educause.edu/SecurityConference

April 4-7, 2011 Canada International Conference on Education (CICE 2011), Hart House, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. http://www.ciceducation.org/

April 4-8, 2011 International Conference on College Teaching and Learning, 22nd, Sawgrass Golf Resort & Spa, Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida, USA. http://www.teachlearn.org/

April 4-May 6, 2011 Models and Methods of Student Advising: Promoting Career and Academic Success and Transition, sponsored by the National Resource Center, University of South Carolina, offered online. http://www.sc.edu/fye/events/

April 6, 2011 Standards of Good Practice Institute: Ethics and Integrity in Education Abroad, sponsored by the Forum on Education Abroad, Boston, Massachusetts, USA. http://www.forumea.org/Institute11.htm

April 6-8, 2011 Making the Connection: Praxis and Theory in Education Abroad. sponsored by the Forum on Education Abroad, Boston, Massachusetts, USA. http://www.forumea.org/conference11.htm

April 6-8, 2011 Plymouth e-Learning Conference: Learning in a Connected World, 6th, University of Plymouth, Plymouth, United Kingdom. http://www2.plymouth.ac.uk/e-learning/contact.html

April 6-9, 2011 University Professional and Continuing Education Association (UPCEA): Doing What Matters – New Knowledge and Strategies (UPCEA) Conference, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. http://www.ucea.edu/ or http://www.ucea.edu/profdev/2011annconf/

April 6-9, 2011 Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC): All Our Relations – Contested Space, Contested Knowledge, 11th, Atlanta, Georgia, USA. http://www.ncte.org/cccc/conv

April 6-9, 2011 National Service-Learning Conference, 22nd, Atlanta, Georgia, USA. http://www.nylc.org/pages-newsevents-events-The_22nd_Annual_National_Service_Learning_Conference?oid=9431

April 6-9, 2011 Museums and the Web 2011, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. http://www.archimuse.com/mw2011/pdfs/mw2011-call.pdf

April 7-9, 2011 Department and Division Chair Workshop, sponsored by the Council of Independent Colleges (CIC), Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA. http://www.cic.edu/

April 7-10, 2011 National Association of Elementary School Principal (NAESP), 90th, Tampa, Florida, USA. http://s15.a2zinc.net/clients/naesp/naesp11/public/enter.aspx or http://www.naesp.org/

April 8-12, 2011 American Educational Research Association (AERA) Annual Meeting: Inciting the Social Imagination – Education Research for the Public Good, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA. http://aera.net/

April 8-12, 2011 The Higher Learning Commission (HLC) Annual Conference: Quality in Higher Education, 115th, Chicago, Illinois, USA. http://annualconference.ncahlc.org/

April 8-12, 2011 Higher Learning Commission: Quality in Higher Education, 116th annual, Chicago, Illinois, USA. http://www.ncahigherlearningcommission.org/ or http://annualconference.ncahlc.org/

April 8-13, 2011 International Performance Improvement Conference, Walt Disney World San Hotel, Orlando, Florida, USA. http://www.ispi.org/

April 9-11, 2011 National School Boards Association, San Francisco, California, USA.

http://www.nsba.org/conference/

April 9-12, 2011American Association of Community Colleges Convention (AACC) Annual Convention, 91st annual, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA. http://www.aacc.nche.edu/

April 10-13, 2011 ACM Special Interest Group on University and College Computing Services (SIGUCCS) Management Symposium, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. http://www.siguccs.org/

April 10-14, 2011 International Conference on Management of Technology (IAMOT): Technology and the Global Challenges – Security, Energy, Water, and the Environment, Miami Beach, Florida, USA. http://www.iamot.org/

April 10-15, 2011 European Conference on Academic Disciplines, sponsored by the International Journal of Arts and Sciences, Gottenheim, Germany. http://www.internationaljournal.org/germany.html

April 11-13, 2011 International Conference on Information Technology: New Generations (ITNG), 8th, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA. http://www.itng.info/

April 11-14, 2011 O’Reilly MySQL Conference and Expo: The Ecosystem and Beyond, Santa Clara, California, USA. http://conferences.oreillynet.com/

April 11-15, 2011 Eurographics 2011, 32nd annual, sponsored by the European Association for Computer Graphics, Bangor University, Llandudno, Wales, the United Kingdom. http://eg2011.bangor.ac.uk/

April 12-14, 2011 Technology, Colleges, and Community Worldwide Online Conference, 16th annual, to be held online. http://tcc.kcc.hawaii.edu

April 12-15, 2011 International Association of Facilitators (IAF) North American Conference, Denver, Colorado, USA. http://www.iafna.org/

April 13-15, 2011 Computer Assisted Learning (CAL’11): Learning Futures – Education, Technology, Sustainability, Manchester, United Kingdom. http://www.cal-conference.elsevier.com/

April 13-15, 2011 Learning Futures Festival: Follow the Sun. Online. Hosted by the University of Leicester, United Kingdom with handovers between Leicester (UK), Seattle (USA), and Toowoomba (Australia). http://www2.le.ac.uk/departments/beyond-distance-research-alliance/festival

April 13-16, 2011 The Global Forum on Technology and Innovation in Teaching and Leading, Dubai, United Arab Emirates. http://www.teachingandleading.com/index.php?pid=400

April 14-17, 2011 European Teacher Education Network (ETEN) Annual Conference, Hogeschool van Amsterdam, Amsterdam Institute of Education, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. http://www.eten-online.org/

April 15-16, 2011 Consortium for Computing Sciences in Colleges South Central Regional Conference, 22nd, Sam Houston State University, Huntsville, Texas. USA. http://www.sci.tamucc.edu/ccsc/

April 15-17, 2011 International Conference on Knowledge Discovery (ICKD), sponsored by the International Association of Computer Science and Information Technology (IACSIT), Chengdu, Sichuan, China. http://www.ickd.org/

April 16-17, 2011 Crossing Borders: Traveling, Teaching and Learning in a Global Age. Nanjing, Jiangsu, China. http://crossingborders2011conference.weebly.com/

April 17-20, 2011 National Association of Campus Card Users (NACCU), 18th annual, Baltimore, Maryland, USA. http://www.naccu.org/

April 17-21, 2011 Commission on Adult Basic Education (COABE), San Francisco, California, USA. http://www.coabe.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=conferences

April 17-22, 2011 NexComm 2011 including the International Conference on Advances in Multimedia (3rd) and the International Conference on Digital Telecommunications (6th), sponsored by the International Academy Research, and Industry Association (IARIA), Budapest, Hungary. http://www.iaria.org/

April 18-19, 2011 European Conference on Intellectual Capital (ECIC), 3rd, Nicosia, Cyprus. http://academic-conferences.org/ecic/ecic2011/ecic11-home.htm

April 18-20, 2011 Canada International Conference on Education, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. http://www.ciceducation.org/CICE-2011/

April 18-20, 2011 Librarians’ Information Literacy Annual Conference (LILAC), British Library, London, England. http://lilacconference.com/WP/

April 18-20, 2011 Asia-Pacific Web Conference, 13th, Beijing, China. http://deke.ruc.edu.cn/apweb2011/

April 18-20, 2011 International Conference on Communications and Mobile Computing (CMC 2010), 3rd, Qingdao, China. http://world-research-institutes.org/conferences/CMC/2011/index.html

April 18-21, 2011 European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR), 33rd, Dublin, Ireland. http://ecir2011.dcu.ie/

April 19-21, 2011 O’Reilly Where 2.0 Conference: Mapping, Mobile and Local, Santa Clara, California, USA. http://conferences.oreillynet.com/

April 19-22, 2011 Russian Education Forum, Moscow, Russia. http://www.mvk.ru/eng/exhibitions/990_c_2011_4.shtm

April 19-23, 2011 National Business Education Association: Educating for Success in Business and Life, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA. http://www.nbea.org/newsite/conferences/convention/convention.html

April 20-21, 2011 International Symposium on Web Services, 4th Hammamet, Tunisia. http://www.miracl.rnu.tn/wss11/

April 20-23, 2011 Texas Distance Learning Association Conference, 14th, Grand Hyatt, San Antonio, Texas, USA. http://www.txdla.org/conference/2011/

April 22-24, 2011 International Language Conference, 2nd, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. http://www.iiu.edu.my/ilc/

April 25-27, 2011 International Conference on Innovations in Information Technology, 7th, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. http://www.it-innovations.ae/iit10/index.html

April 25-28, 2011 Russian Education Forum 2011. Moscow, Russia. http://www.mvk.ru/eng/exhibitions/branches/ or http://www.mvk.ru/eng/exhibitions/990_a.shtm

April 25-29, 2011 Latin-American Symposium on Dependable Computing, 5th, São José dos Campos, São Paulo, Brazil. http://www.inpe.br/ladc2011/

April 27-28, 2011 International Conference on Information Management and Evaluation (ICIME), 2nd, Ryerson University, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. http://academic-conferences.org/icime/icime2011/icime11-home.htm

April 27-28, 2011 Dalhousie Conference on University Teaching and Learning, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. http://learningandteaching.dal.ca/dcutl/index.html

April 27-28, 2011 Canadian eLearning Conference (CeLC 2011): Partnerships, hosted by the Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. http://blogs.elearning.ualberta.ca/wpmu/celc2010/about/celc-2011/

April 27-28, 2011 Designing the 21st Century Classroom, Interlaken, Switzerland. http://www.21stcenturyschools.com/Workshop_Schedule_Date.htm

April 27-29, 2011 European Next Web Conference. Amsterdam, the Netherlands. http://thenextweb.com/conference/

April 27-29, 2011 Annual Higher Education Summit, 9th, Sofitel Brisbane, Brisbane, Australia. http://www.highereducationsummit.com.au/

April 27-29, 2011 International Conference on Communication and Information Technologies (ICCIT), Rome, Italy. http://www.waset.org/conferences/2011/rome/iccit/

April 27-30, 2011 International Gender and Education Association Conference, 8th, Exeter, the United Kingdom. http://www.genderandeducation.com/conferences-and-events/future_conferences/gea-conference-2011/

April 28-29, 2011 Opportunities and New Directions: Canadian Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. http://cte.uwaterloo.ca/research_on_teaching_and_learning/index.html?tab=5

April 28-29, 2011 National Student Teaching and Supervision Conference, 5th, Slippery Rock, Pennsylvania, USA. http://www.student-teacher-supervision.org/

April 28-29, 2011 International Scientific Conference on eLearning and Software for Education (eLSE), Bucharest, Romania. http://www.adlunap.ro/else2011/

April 28-29, 2011 eLearning and Software for Education Conference, 7th, Bucharest, Romania. http://adlunap.ro/else2011/

April 28-30, 2011 European Computing Conference (ECC ’11), 5th, sponsored by World Scientific and Engineering Academy and Society (WSEAS) Paris, France. http://www.wseas.us/conferences/2011/paris/ecc/index.html

April 28-30, 2011 The Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB) International Conference and Annual Meeting (ICAM), New York, New York, USA. http://www.aacsb.edu/ICAM2011/

April 29, 2011 Greening the Classroom and Curriculum, Interlaken, Switzerland. http://www.21stcenturyschools.com/Workshop_Schedule_Date.htm

April 29, 2011 One Voice Houston International Conference and Forum for Educators sponsored by the One Voice Institute of Elemental Ethics and Education, Houston, Texas, USA. http://www.elementalethics.com/

April 29-30, 2011 IEEE International Conference on Information and Network Technology, Chennai, India. http://www.icint.org/

April 29-may 1, 2011 Faculty Student Multidiscipline Global Conference, Hong Kong, China. http://www.facultystudentconference.org/

April 29-May 3, 2011 Council of Science Editors (CSE) Annual Meeting, Baltimore, Maryland, USA. http://www.councilscienceeditors.org/i4a/pages/index.cfm?pageid=1

April ?, 2011 21st Century Learning and Sharing: Engaging for Success! Spring Online Conference, sponsored by BC Partners in Online Learning will probably be held during the first week of April 2011. http://virtualschooling.wordpress.com/tag/virtual-school-society/

As of Nov. 11, 2010, information for the 2011 versions of the 2010 events below was not available.

April 12-14, 2010 CiTE, The Pearson eCollege Users Conference, Denver, Colorado, USA. http://cite.ecollege.com/

April 12-16, 2010 EDU-INFOTECH 2010 (exhibition of software and information technologies in education), 9th, Moscow, Russia. http://www.mvk.ru/eng/ or http://www.mvk.ru/eng/exhibitions/calendar/2011_2.shtm

April 21-22, 2010 Virtual School Society’s (VSS) Annual Spring Conference, Coast Plaza Hotel and Suites, Vancouver, BC, Canada. http://www.learnnowbc.ca/educators/Conference/conference2010.aspx

April 21-23, 2010 Consortium for North American Higher Education Collaboration (CONAHEC), Houston, Texas, USA. http://www.conahec.org/conahec/Conferences/index.jsp

April 26-28, 2010 Emerging Technologies in Academic Libraries (EMTACL 10), Trondheim, Norway. http://www.ntnu.no/ub/emtacl/

April 28-30, 2010 European Conference on Digital Archiving (ECA 2010), 8th, Geneva, Switzerland. http://www.bar.admin.ch/eca2010/index.html?lang=en

May 2011

May 1-3, 2011 American Telemedicine Association (ATA) International Meeting and Trade Show, 16th, Tampa, Florida, USA. www.americantelemed.org

May 1-5, 2011 Canada MoodleMoot: Open Learning and Open Collaboration, sponsored by Athabasca University and the Technology Enhanced Knowledge Research Institute, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. http://moodlemoot.ca or CanadaMoot@knowplace.ca

May 1-5, 2011 Comparative and International Education Society Conference: Education is that which liberates”, 55th annual, Montreal, Quebec, Canada. http://www.cies.us/groups.htm

May 2-4, 2011 FITC Design and Technology Conference (focuses on Flash, graphic and digital design), Toronto, Ontario. http://www.fitc.ca/

May 3-5, 2011 Information and Communications Technology Exhibition and Conference, 6th, Karachi, Pakistan. http://www.connectitpakistan.com/

May 3-6, 2011 Canadian Association of Research Libraries Annual General Meeting, Montreal, Quebec, Canada. http://www.carl-abrc.ca/horaire/calendar-e.html

May 3-6, 2011 FMX 2011 Conference on Animation, Effects, Games and Interactive Media, 16th, Stuttgart, Germany. www.fmx.de

May 4-6, 2011 International Conference in Games and Virtual Worlds for Serious Applications, National Technical University of Athens, Athens, Greece. http://www.coventry.ac.uk/ec/~fotisl/VSGames2011/index.html

May 5-6, 2011 Manitoba Association for Distributed Learning and Training (MADLaT) Conference, 10th, Collège Universitaire de Saint-Boniface, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. www.madlat.ca

May 5-7, 2011 International Conference on Information and Communication Technology and Accessiblity, 3rd, Gammarth-Tunis, Tunisia. http://www.icta.rnu.tn/

May 5-7, 2011 Learning and the Brain: The Science of Success – Optimizing Student Performance and Reducing Failure, Chicago, Illinois, USA. http://www.learningandthebrain.com/brain29.html

May 6-7, 2011 Western Canadian Conference on Computing Education, 16th annual, UNBC, Prince George, British Columbia, Canada. http://wccce.ok.ubc.ca/

May 6-9, 2011 International Conference on Computer Supported Education (CESDU), 3rd, Noordwijkerhout, The Netherlands. http://www.csedu.org/

May 6-9, 2011 International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies, 7th, Noordwijkerhout, The Netherlands. http://www.webist.org/

May 7-9, 2011 International Conference on Cloud Computing and Services Sciences (CLOSER 2011), 1st, Noordwijkerhout, The Netherlands. http://closer.scitevents.org/

May 7-12, 2011 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI), 30th, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. http://chi2011.org/

May 8-9, 2011 International Federation of Training and Development Organisations (IFTDO) World Conference and Exhibition, Warsaw, Poland. http://www.iftdo.net/

May 8-11, 2011 International Conference on Telecommunications (ICT2011), 18th sponsored by IEEE, Ayia Napa, Cyprus. http://www.ict2011.org/

May 9-10, 2011 IEEE International Conference on Information Management and Engineering, 3rd, Zhengzhou, China. http://www.icime.org/

May 9-12, 2011 International Conference on Sociology, 5th annual, hosted by the Athens Institute for Education and Research, Athens, Greece. http://www.atiner.gr/sociology.htm

May 9-June 10, 2011 Proving and Improving: The Pillars of First-Year Assessment, sponsored by the National Resource Center, University of South Carolina, offered online. http://www.sc.edu/fye/events/

May 10-11, 2011 Streaming Media East: The Business and Technology of Online Video, Hilton New York, NY, USA. http://www.streamingmedia.com/east/

May 10-12, 2011 Information Technology in Education Conference (ITEC2011): Defence, Training, Simulation, Education, London, United Kingdom. http://www.itec.co.uk

May 11-13, 2011 m-Libraries Conference, 3rd, University of Southern Queensland, Brisbane, Australia. http://library.open.ac.uk/mLibraries/2011/index.html

May 11-13, 2011 International Conference on Information Technology, 5th, Amman, Jordan. http://www.alzaytoonah.edu.jo/icit/pages/index.aspx

May 12-13, 2011 Riding the Wave of Change: National Education and Technology Conference, sponsored by the Evergreen School Division, Gimli, Manitoba, Canada. http://www.esd.mb.ca/wave/

May 12-14 American Institute of Architects (AIA) National Convention and Design Exposition, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA. http://convention.aia.org/

May 13-14, 2011 Designing the 21st Century Classroom, Washington, D.C. USA. http://www.21stcenturyschools.com/Workshop_Schedule_Date.htm

May 13-18, 2011 Medical Library Association (MLA), Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA. http://www.mlanet.org/am/meetings.html

May 14-15, 2011 Methodological Aspects of Teaching Mathematics, Jagodina, Serbia. http://matm2011.blogspot.com/

May 15, 2011 Investigating Our Practice, 14th annual, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. http://eplt.educ.ubc.ca/programs/institutes/iop.php

May 15-18, 2011 Canadian Network for Innovation in Education (CNIE) Conference: Cascades of Innovation, 4th annual. McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. http://www.cnie-rcie.ca/?q=node

May 16-17, 2011 EDUCAUSE Enterprise Information and Technology Conference, Chicago, Illinois, USA. http://net.educause.edu/enterpriseconference

May 16-17, 2011 Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SOTL) Academy, 3rd annual, Eastern Michigan University, Ypsilanti, Michigan, USA. http://www.emich.edu/sotlacademy/

May 16-17, 2011 Ryerson Faculty Conference, Ryerson University, Toronto, Ontario. http://www.ryerson.ca/lt/programs/conference/

May 16-19, 2011 Learning Impact 2011, sponsored by IMS Global Learning Consortium, Long Beach, California, USA. http://www.imsglobal.org/learningimpact2010/

May 16-19, 2011 Archiving in the Digital Age, Salt Lake City, Utah. http://www.imaging.org/IST/conferences/archiving/

May 16-19, 2011 International Conference on Communication and Mass Media, 9th annual, Athens, Greece. http://www.atiner.gr/media.htm

May 17-19, 2011 Department and Division Chair Workshop, sponsored by the Council of Independent Colleges (CIC), Baltimore, Maryland, USA. http://www.cic.edu/

May 17-21, 2011 Computer Assisted Language Instruction Consortium (CALICO) Conference: Mediated Learning Communities, University of Victoria, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. https://calico.org/page.php?id=456

May 19-21, 2011 The Role of Graduate Employment and Tracking Systems for Continuous Curricula Development and Quality Enhancement in Higher Education, sponsored the the UNESCO European Centre for Higher Education (CEPES) Sibiu, Romania. http://conferences.ulbsibiu.ro/unescocepes/en/

May 19-21, 2011 International Conference on Research Challenges in Information Science (RCIS), 5th, Guadeloupe, France. http://www.rcis-conf.com/

May 20-21, 2011 StudyWorld 2011: International Fair for Higher and Continuing Education, Berlin, Germany. http://www.studyworld2011.com/

May 20-22, 2011 The Teaching Professor Conference, 8th, Atlanta, George, USA. http://www.teachingprofessor.com/

May 21-25, 2011 Association for Institutional Research Annual Forum: Passport to New Ideas, Better Decisions, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. http://www.airweb.org/?page=1967

May 22-24, 2011 International Conference on Information and Communication Systems, Amman, Jordan. http://www.icics.info/Conf.aspx

May 22-25, 2011 American Society for Training and Development (ASTD) Conference and Exposition, Orlando, Florida, USA. http://www.astd.org/content/conferences/

May 22-25, 2011 Distance Learning Administration, Savannah, Georgia, USA. http://www.westga.edu/~distance/dla/

May 22-27, 2011 BioSciencesWorld 2011, sponsored by the International Academy Research, and Industry Association (IARIA), Venice, Italy. http://www.iaria.org/

May 22-27, 2011 InfoSys 2011, including International Conference on Networking and Services (7th), sponsored by the International Academy Research, and Industry Association (IARIA), Venice, Italy. http://www.iaria.org/

May 23-26, 2011 International Conference on Education, 13th annual, Athens, Greece. http://www.atiner.gr/education.htm

May 23-26, 2011 American Canadian Conference for Academic Disciplines, sponsored by the International Journal of Arts and Sciences, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. http://www.internationaljournal.org/toronto.html

May 23-26, 2011 International Conference on Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare, 5th, Dublin, Ireland. http://www.pervasivehealth.org/

May 23-26, 2011 Management World 2011, Acropolis Convention Centre, Nice, France. http://www.tmforum.org/Conferences/734/Home.html

May 24-26, 2011 Department and Division Chair Workshop, sponsored by the Council of Independent Colleges (CIC), Louisville, Kentucky, USA. http://www.cic.edu/

May 24-27, 2011 International Institute on Partnerships: Reciprocal Partnerships – Transforming Higher Education and Community for the Future, Portland State University, Portland, Oregon, USA. http://www.pdx.edu/cae/contact-us

May 24-27, 2011 Qualitative and Quantitative Methods in Libraries International Conference (QQML2011), 3rd, Athens, Greece. secretariat@isast.org

May 24-27, 2011 Future in Review Conference, Laguna Beach, California, USA. http://www.futureinreview.com/index.php

May 25-26, 2011 Designing the 21st Century Classroom, Melbourne, Australia. http://www.21stcenturyschools.com/Workshop_Schedule_Date.htm

May 25-27, 2011 European Association for Distance Learning (EADL), 26h, Vienna, Austria. http://www.eadl.org/

May 25-27, 2011 World Academy of Science Engineering and Technology, Tokyo, Japan. http://www.waset.org/

May 25-27, 2011 e-Learning Africa: International Conference on ICT for Development, Education and Training, 6th, Mlimani City Conference Centre, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. http://www.elearning-africa.com/

May 25-27, 2011 Graphics Interface 2011, 37th, Memorial University, St. John’s, Newfoundland, Canada. http://www.graphicsinterface.org/

May 25-27, 2011 International Educational Technology Conference, 11th, Boğaziçi University, Istanbul, Turkey. http://www.iet-c.net/confvenue.php

May 25-27, 2011 Canadian Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 24th, Saint John’s, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. http://www.canadianai.ca/AI_2011/

May 25-28, 2011 Canadian Library Association National Conference and Trade Show, 66th, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. http://www.cla.ca/

May 26-27, 2011 E-Learning Baltics (eLBa), Rostock, Germany. http://www.e-learning-baltics.de/

May 26-28, 2011 Computer Animation and Social Agents (CASA 2011), 24th annual, Chengdu, China. http://www.cad.zju.edu.cn/casa2011/

May 27, 2011 Greening the Classroom and the Curriculum, Melbourne, Australia. http://www.21stcenturyschools.com/Workshop_Schedule_Date.htm

May 27-29, 2011 Editors’ Association of Canada (EAC): Editing in the Age of e-Everything Conference, Simon Fraser University, Harbour Centre, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. http://www.editors.ca/conference/index.html

May 27-29, 2011 Faculty Student Multidiscipline Global Conference, Paris, France. http://www.facultystudentconference.org/

May 28-31, 2011 Association of Canadian College and University Teachers of English (ACCUTE), University of New Brunswick and St. Thomas University, Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada. http://www.accute.ca/conference.html

May 28-June 5, 2011 Congress 2011 of the Humanities and Social Sciences: Coasts and Continents – Exploring Peoples and Places, sponsored by the Canadian Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences (CFHSS). Event will be held at the University of New Brunswick and St. Thomas University, Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada. http://www.congress2011.ca/ or http://www.congress2011countdown.ca/news.html

May 29-June 1, 2011 National Institute for Staff and Organizational Development (NISOD) International Conference on Teaching and Leadership Excellence: Putting Teaching and Learning on the Map, 33rd, Austin, Texas, USA. http://www.nisod.org/conference/

May 29-June 1, 2011 e-Health 2011, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. http://www.e-healthconference.com/

May 29-June 2, 2011 Learning in Higher Education: Beyond Transmission – Innovations in University Teaching, 5th international, sponsored by the International Academic Association for the Enhancement of Learning in Higher Education, Aghia Marina, Aegina Island, Greece.

May 29-June 2, 2011, International Association of Scientific and Technological University Libraries (IATUL): Libraries for an Open Environment – Strategies, Technologies and Partnerships, 32nd annual, Warsaw, Poland. http://www.iatul2011.bgpw.congressor.eu/

May 29-June 3, 2011 Association of International Educators Annual Conference, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. http://www.nafsa.org/

May 30-June 1, 2011 Redesigning Pedagogy: Transforming Teaching, Inspiring Learning, Singapore, Singapore. http://conference.nie.edu.sg/2011/index.php

May 30-June 2, 2011 International Conference on Psychology, 5th annual, Athens, Greece. http://www.atiner.gr/psychology.htm

May 30-June 2, 2011 International Conference on Philosophy, 6th annual, Athens, Greece. http://www.atiner.gr/philosophy.htm

May 30-June 2, 2011 International Conference for Academic Disciplines, 2nd, sponsored by the International Journal of Arts and Sciences, Harvard University, Boston, Massachusetts, USA. http://www.internationaljournal.org/harvard.html

May 30-June 3, 2011 Association of African Universities: Strengthening the Space of Higher Education in Africa, Stellenbosch, South Africa. http://www.aau.org/announce/detail.htm?ai=276?lang=fr

May 31-June 3, 2011 Electronics Components and Technology Conference (ECTC), 61st, Lake Buena Vista, Florida, USA. http://www.ectc.net/

May 31-June 4, 2011 Computex: Shaping the Future, 31st, Taipei, Taiwan. http://www.computextaipei.com.tw/

May ?, 2011 EDUCAUSE Australasia, hosted by University of Technology , Australia. http://www.caudit.edu.au/

May ?, 2011 Canadian Undergraduate Technology Conference (CUTC), 12th annual, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. http://www.cutc.ca/2010/

May ? 2011 Leading Learning Conference, 6th, hosted by the Toronto Catholic District School Board, the Trillium-Lakelands District School Board, the Peel District School Board, the York Regional School Board, and York University, Hockley Valley Resort, Orangeville near Toronto, Ontario, Canada. www.leadinglearning.org

As of Nov. 11, 2010, information for the 2011 versions of the 2010 events below was not available.

May 2-5, 2010 United States Distance Learning Association (USDLA) Conference, 4th annual, St. Louis, Missouri, USA. http://usdla.org/

May 3-4, 2010 International Conference on Networked Learning, 7th, Aalborg, Denmark. http://www.networkedlearningconference.org.uk/

May 10-14, 2010 Future e-Learning Conference on Innovations in Learning for the Future, 3rd, Istanbul, Turkey. http://www.futurelearning.org.tr/index_eng.php

May 13-14, 2010 The London Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL), 8th International Conference: Disciplines, Pedagogies and Cultures for SoTL, London, United Kingdom. http://www.tvu.ac.uk/instil/London_SoTL_Conference_2010.jsp

May 23-26, 2010 International Conference of MIT Learning International Networks Consortium, 5th, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. http://linc.mit.edu/linc2010/ May not be held in 2011.

June 2011

June 1-2, 2011 International Conference on Education and Learning in Mobile Age (CELMA) 2011, Lake District, The United Kingdom. http://celma.hud.ac.uk/

June 1-2, 2011 EdTech sponsored by the Irish Learning Technology Association, 12th annual, Waterford Institute of Technology (WIT), Waterford, Ireland. http://ilta.net/

June 1-3, 2011 EDUCAUSE Southeast Regional Conference, Charlotte, North Carolina, USA. http://www.educause.edu/serc

June 1-3, 2011 Society for Scholarly Publishing Conference, Boston, Massachusetts, USA. http://www.sspnet.org/

June 1-3, 2011 Wireless Communications, sponsored by International Association of Science and Technology for Development (IASTED), Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. http://www.iasted.org/conferences/home-730.html

June 1-4, 2011 The International Institute for SoTL Scholars and Mentors (formerly The National Carnegie Academy for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning - CASTL Institute): Transformational Learning – Engaging Education in a Global World, hosted by Creighton University, Omaha, Nebraska, USA. http://www.creighton.edu/castl/

June 1-4, 2011 International Conference on Supercomputing, 25th, Tucson, Arizona, USA. http://www.ics-conference.org/

June 2-3, 2011 British Columbia Educational Technology Users Group (ETUG): 3 Cups of T: Teaching, Technology and Transformation, Selkirk College, Nelson, British Columbia, Canada. http://etug.ca/

June 2-4, 2011 Association of Canadian Archivists, 36th annual, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. http://www.archivists.ca/content/annual-conference

June 2-4, 2011 Jean Piaget Society Annual Meeting: Cultural Supports for Developing Mathematical and Scientific Reasoning, 41st, Berkeley, California, USA. http://www.piaget.org/Symposium/2011/register.html

June 2-5, 2011 Lilly Conference on College and University Teaching, hosted by International Teaching Learning Cooperative, Bethesda, Maryland, USA. http://lillyconferences.com/dc/default.shtml or http://lillyconferences.com/

June 3, 2011 Internationalization of Standards in Higher Education: Accountability, Student Learning Outcomes and Collaborations in Quality Assurance Agencies, sponsored by the Higher Education Evaluation and Accreditation Council of Taiwan, Taipei, Taiwan. http://www.heeact.edu.tw:8080/conference/index.html

June 3-4, 2011 Clickers Conference: Transforming Teaching and Learning, Houston, Texas, USA. http://www.clickersconference.com/

June 3-5, 2011 Japan Association for Language Teaching Computer Assisted Language Learning (JALT), Kurume University, Fukuoka, Japan. http://jaltcall.org/news/index.php

June 5-7, 2011 Association of Canadian Community Colleges (ACCC) Annual Conference: Sustainability – Education for Tomorrow, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. http://accc.ca/

June 5-7, 2011 Association for the Assessment of Learning in Higher Education (AALHE) Conference: The Practice of Assessment, 1st annual, Lexington, Kentucky, USA. http://www.aalhe.org/annual-conference

June 5-8, 2011 Canadian Association for University Continuing Education (CAUCE) Conference: Sense and Sustainability, 58th, University of St. Michael’s College, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. http://cauce-aepuc.ca/news-events/conference.aspx

June 5-8, 2011 Canadian Higher Education and Information Technology (CANHEIT 2011), 9th annual, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. http://www.cuccio-cdpiuc.ca/en/canheit/index.php

June 5-9, 2011 Annual Summer Institute on College Teaching, 33rd annual, sponsored by the Virginia Tidewater Consortium for Higher Education, Williamsburg, Virginia, USA. http://vtc.odu.edu/development/summerInstitute.html

June 5-9, 2011 IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC2011), Kyoto, Japan. http://www.ieee-icc.org/

June 6-7, 2011 Asia Pacific LAMS and Learning Design Conference: Learning Design for a Changing World, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, Singapore. http://lams2011.lamsfoundation.org/index.html

June 6-8, 2011 Association of Private Sector Colleges and Universities (APSCU) Annual Convention and Expo: Changing Lives in Changing Times, Grapevine (near Dallas), Texas, USA. http://www.apscuconvention.org/

June 6-9, 2011 European College Teaching and Learning (ETLC) and European Applied Business Research (EABR), sponsored by the Clute Institute, Barcelona, Spain. http://www.cluteinstitute.com/conferences.html

June 6-9, 2011 Hypertext 2011: ACM Conference on Hypertext and Hypermedia, Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands. http://www.ht2011.org/

June 7-9, 2011 Innovations in e-Learning Symposium: Learning without Limits, 7th annual, Fairfax, Virginia, USA. http://innovationsinelearning.gmu.edu/

June 7-11, 2011 International Conference on Open Repositories, 6th, Austin, Texas, USA. http://www.openrepositories.org/ or http://conferences.tdl.org/0R2011/OR2011main

June 8-9, 2011 SOLSTICE & CLTR Conference: Effective Practices – Enhancing Learning, Teaching and Student Success, Edge Hill University, Ormskirk, The United Kingdom. http://www.edgehill.ac.uk/solstice/Conference2010/index.htm or http://www.edgehill.ac.uk/solstice/Conference2011/index.htm

June 8-9, 2011 Broadcast and Film Africa 2011, Accra, Ghana. http://www.aitecafrica.com/

June 8-9, 2011 Smart E-Learning, Moscow, Russia. http://www.elearning-russia.ru/forum/forum2011/index.php

June 8-9, 2011 eLearning Forum Asia 2011, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, Singapore. http://elfasia.org/elfa2011/

June 8-9, 2011 Asia Pacific MLearning Conference: Mobile Learning and Edutainment, Bandung, Indonesia. http://www.apacmlearning.com/main/

June 8-10, 2011 International Conference on e-Learning in the Workplace (ICELW 2011), Teachers College, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA. http://www.icelw.org/

June 8-10, 2011 Department and Division Chair Workshop: Leading from the Middle – The Critical Administrative Link, sponsored by the Council of Independent Colleges (CIC), San Diego, California, USA. http://www.cic.edu/

June 8-10, 2011 International Conference on New Horizons in Education (INTE), Guarda, Portugal. http://www.ipg.pt/Inte2011/

June 8-11, 2011 International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems (ICEIS). 13th, Beijing, China. http://www.iceis.org/

June 8-11, 2011 International Conference on New Directions in the Humanities, 9th, Universidad de Granada, Campus La Cartuja, Granada, Spain. http://thehumanities.com/conference-2011/

June 9-10, 2011 Trends and Future of Sustainable Development, Tampere, Finland. http://conference2011.wordpress.com/

June 9-10, 2011 Lync User Forum (Microsoft Lync – a telephony solution), Westin Denver-Westminster, Westminster, Colorado, USA. http://www.lyncuserforum.com/

June 9-11, 2011 European Conference on Information Systems: ICT and Sustainable Service Development, Helsinki, Finland. http://www.ecis2011.fi/

June 9-11, 2011 International Conference for Theory and Practice in Education, 4th, Budapest, Hungary. http://www.eduscience.hu/indexconferences.html

June 9-11, NASPA (Student Affairs Administrators in Higher Education) Assessment and Persistence Conference, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA. http://www.naspa.org/programs/apc/default.cfm

June 10-12, 2011 Asian Conference on Language Learning (ACLL): Connecting Theory and Practice, Ramada Osaka, Osaka, Japan. http://www.acll.iafor.org/

June 10-12, 2011 Adult Education Research (AERC), 52nd annual, and the National Conference of the Canadian Association for the Study of Adult Education (CASAE), 30th, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. http://www.adulterc.org/Conference.htm

June 10-12, 2011 International Conference on Knowledge and Education Technology (ICKET), Chengdu, China. http://www.icket.org/

June 10-12, 2011 International Conference on Computer Science and Information Technology (ICCSIT), 4th, IEEE conference, Chengdu, China. http://www.iccsit.org/

June 11-17, 2011 InfoComm10: Information Communications Marketplace, Orlando, Florida, USA. www.infocomm.org

June 11-18, 2011 College Teaching and Learning Mediterranean Conference Cruise, sponsored by the Clute Institute for Academic Research. http://www.cluteinstitute.com

June 12-15, 2011 Learning College Summit, sponsored by the League for Innovation in the Community College, hosted by Maricopa Community College District, Phoenix, Arizona, USA. http://www.league.org/lcs/

June 12-15, 2011 Special Libraries Association, 102nd annual, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. http://www.sla.org/content/Events/index.cfm

June 12-15, 2011 International Society for Professional Innovation Management (ISPIM): Sustainability in Innovation – Innovation Management Challenges, Hamburg, Germany. http://conference.ispim.org/

June 12-15, 2011 Computer Graphics International (CGI 2011), Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. http://cgi2011.site.uottawa.ca/

June 12-17, 2011 Certificate for International Education Professionals Summer Institute, Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada. http://quic.queensu.ca/training/ietpsummerinstitutenew.asp

June 13-15, 2011 EduComm 2011, Hilton Hotel, Walt Disney World Resort, Orlando, Florida, USA. http://educommconference.com/

June 13-15, 2011 International Workshop on Content-Based Multimedia Indexing, 9th, Madrid, Spain. http://www-vpu.eps.uam.es/cbmi2011/

June 13-17, 2011 International Digital Libraries: Bringing Together Scholars, Scholarship and Research Data, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. http://jcdl2011.org

June 14-16, 2011 Sakai Conference, 12th annual, Berlin, Japan. http://sakaiproject.org/portal

June 14-17, 2011 World Association for Cooperative Education (WACE) World Conference ’11, hosted by Drexel University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. http://www.waceinc.org/philly2011/index.html

June 15-17, 2011 eLearning DevCon 2011, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA. http://www.elearndevcon.com/

June 15-17, 2011 Planning and Growing Online Learning Initiatives, San Diego, California, USA. http://www.academicimpressions.com/events/event_listing.php?i=1113

June 15-17, 2011 Multidisciplinary Symposium on the Design and Evaluation of Digital Content for Education (SPDECE 2011), Ciudad Real-Almagro, Spain. http://spdece2011.uclm.es/

June 15-17, 2011 National Institute on the Assessment of Adult Learning, Atlantic City, New Jersey, USA. http://www.tesc.edu/4398.php

June 15-18, 2011 International Conference of the Society for Teaching and Learning in Higher Education (STLHE): From Here to the Horizon, 31st, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada. http://www.stlhe.ca/en/conf_and_events/STLHE-Annual-Conference.php or http://www.usask.ca/stlhe2011/

June 15-18, 2011 New Media Consortium (NMC) Summer Conference, Madison, Wisconsin, USA. http://www.nmc.org/2011-summer-conference

June 16-17, 2011 Institute for New Chief Academic Officers, sponsored by the American Council on Education, Washington, D.C., USA. http://www.acenet.edu//AM/Template.cfm?Section=Events2

June 16-17, 2011 The Future of Education, Florence, Italy. http://www.pixel-online.net/edu_future/index.php

June 16-17, 2011 Higher Education Institutional Research Conference: Scanning the Horizons – Institutional Research in a Borderless World, 4th annual, Kingston-Upon-Thames, The United Kingdom. http://www.heir2011.org.uk/

June 16-17, 2011 European Conference on eGovernment, 11th, University of Ljbljana, Ljubljani, Slovenia. http://academic-conferences.org/eceg/eceg2011/eceg11-home.htm

June 16-17, 2011 Learning and Entertainment Evolutions Forum (LEEF), Harrisburg University, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, USA. http://www.harrisburgu.edu/LEEF2011/ or http://www.prlog.org/10953362-learning-and-entertainment-evolution-forum-2011-set-for-june.html

June 16-18, 2011 International Worldsviews Conference on Media and Higher Education, 1st, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. http://worldviewsconference.com/

June 16-20, 2011 One Voice Santa Fe International Conference and Forum for Educators sponsored by the One Voice Institute of Elemental Ethics and Education, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA. http://www.elementalethics.com/

June 17-20, 2011 International Association of Campus Law Enforcement Administrators (IACLEA) Annual Conference and Exposition, 53rd, Charlotte, North Carolina, USA. http://www.iaclea.org/Visitors/events/Conference/index.cfm

June 17-20, 2011 World Congress of University Presidents, Rectors and Vice-Chancellors: Building Bridges through Education, New York, New York, USA. http://www.bcdmionline.com/IAUP/index.htm

June 18-22, 2011 International Institute for New Faculty Developers, sponsored by the Professional and Organizational Development (POD) Network in Higher Education, Kennesaw (outside of Atlanta), Georgia, USA. http://www.podnetwork.org/conferences/2011-IINFD/index.htm

June 18-23, 2011 InSITE 2011, the Informing Science + Information Technology Education Joint Conference, Novi Sad, Serbia. http://2011.informingscience.org/

June 19-22, 2011 European Distance and e-Learning Network (EDEN) Annual Conference: Learning and Sustainability. 20th anniversary, organized in collaboration with Dun Laoghaire Institute of Art, Design and Technology, University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland. http://www.eden-online.org/

June 19-22, 2011 ICDE Standing Conference of Presidents (SCOP): Open Learning in a New Economy, hosted by the International Council of Distance Education (ICDE) and SUNY Empire State College, New York, NY, USA. http://choose.esc.edu/scop2011/

June 19-22, 2011 National Conference on Student Assessment, sponsored by the Council of Chief State School Officers, Orlando, Florida, USA. http://programs.ccsso.org/projects/national_conference_on_student_assessment/

June 19-22, 2011 Digital Humanities 2011, Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA. https://dh2011.stanford.edu/

June 19-24, 2011 International Conference on Wireless and Mobile Communications (ICWMC 2010), 7th, sponsored by International Academy Research, and Industry Association (IARIA), Luxembourg. http://www.iaria.org/conferences2011/ICWMC11.html

June 19-24, 2011 International Multi-Conference on Computing in the Global Information Technology, 6th, sponsored by International Academy Research and Industry Association (IARIA), Luxembourg. http://www.iaria.org/conferences2011/ICCGI11.html

June 20-21, 2011 European Conference on Research Methodology for Business and Management Studies (ECRM 2011), 10th, Normandy Business School, Caen, France. http://academic-conferences.org/ecrm/ecrm2011/ecrm11-home.htm

June 20-21, 2011 Global Mobility Roundtable (GMR 2011), 10th, Como, Italy. http://www.mbusiness2011.org/

June 20-22, 2011 European Access Network (EAN): Student Diversity in Higher Education – Conflicting Realities, 20th anniversary, Vrije Universiteit University, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. http://www.ean-edu.org

June 20-22, 2011 International Symposium on Web3D Technology 2011, 16th, Paris, France. http://conferences.web3d.org/web3d2011/

June 20-22, 2011 Global Information Technology Management Association (GITMA) World Conference 2011, 12th annual, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA. http://www.gitma.org/

June 20-22, 2011 MODISM World Canada 2011 International Conference and Trade Show: Modelling and Simulation - Enabling Visionaries to Develop the Next Generation of Products and Processes, 4th, sponsored by the Canadian eLearning Enterprise Alliance, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. http://www.modsimworldcanada.com/

June 20-23, 2011 International Conference on Computational Science and Its Applications, 11th, University of Cantabria, Santander, Spain. http://www.iccsa.org/

June 20-23, 2011 Cities, Technologies and Planning (CTP11), University of Cantabria, Santander, Spain. http://www.unibas.it/utenti/murgante/ctp_11/descr.html

June 20-23, 2011 International Workshop on Geographical Analysis, Urban Modeling, Spatial Statistics, GOEG-AN-MOD11, 6th, University of Cantabria, Santander, Spain. http://www.unibas.it/utenti/murgante/geog_an_mod_11/index.html

June 20-24, 2011 Doctoral Seminar, 2nd annual, organized by Athabasca University, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. https://tekri.athabascau.ca/dr_seminar/

June 20-24, 2011 International Conference on Thinking, 15th, Belfast, Ireland. http://www.15ththinkingconference.com/

June 20-24, 2011, EDUCAUSE Learning Technology Leadership Program, Portland, Oregon, USA. http://net.educause.edu/TheEDUCAUSEInstituteLearningTechnologyLeadershipProgram/6273

June 20-24, 2011 Virtual Educa: International Conference on Education, Professional Training, Innovation, Cooperation and Development, 12th, Monterrey, Mexico. http://www.virtualeduca.org

June 20-24, 2011 Social Networks and Learning, 2nd, organized by the Technology Enhanced Knowledge Research Institute (TEKRI) at Athabasca University, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. https://tekri.athabascau.ca/dr_seminar/

June 20-24, 2011 IEEE International Symposium on World of Wireless, Mobile and Multimedia Networks (WoWMoM), 12th, Lucca, Italy. http://www.ieee-wowmom.org

June 21, 2011 Developing and Providing Integrated Student Services in Higher Education – Creating the “One Stop” Shop for Students, offered online by Innovative Educators, http://www.innovativeeducators.org/product_p/597.htm

June 21-22, 2011 International Congress T3L: CAT Tools, Translation and Localization Technologies: The Coming of Age of Translation Technologies in Translation Studies, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain. http://tradumatica.uab.cat/conference/

June 21-23, 2011 Telecom World Congress: Creating Scalable Solutions, 6th annual, Marriott Hotel, Amsterdam, Netherlands, http://www.terrapinn.com/2011/twc/index.stm

June 21-23, 2011 mLearnCon: Mobile Learning Conference and Expo: Put Learning in Motion, Fairmont Hotel, San Jose, California, USA. http://www.elearningguild.com/mLearnCon/content/1603/mlearncon---home

June 21-23, 2011 International Workshop on Interactive Environments and Emergent Technologies for eLearning (IEETeL), 2nd, Dijon, France. http://sites.google.com/site/ieet4el/call-for-papers

June 21-24, 2011 Nothing Left to the Imagination? Media Arts Conference, Sheffield Hallam University, Sheffield, The United Kingdom. http://nothinglefttotheimagination.wordpress.com/

June 21-24, 2011 CommunicAsia 2011, 22nd, International Communications and Information Technology Exhibition and Conference, Marina Bay Sands, Singapore, Singapore. http://www.communicasia.com/

June 21-25, 2011 International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS 2011), 31st, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA. http://www.seas.gwu.edu/~cheng/ICDCS2011/index.html

June 21-25, 2011 International Association for Language Learning Technology Conference hosted by University of California, Irvine, California, USA. http://www.iallt.org/conferences/iallt2011

June 22-23, 2011 National Higher Education Symposium: Corporate Strategy and Performance Management, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. http://www.iium.edu.my/csqa/symposium2011

June 22-24, 2011 Online Teaching Conference 2011: Be an Open Learning Hero, Orange Coast Community College, Costa Mesa, California, USA. http://otc11.org/?mkt_tok=3RkMMJWWfF9wsRonvKzIZKXonjHpfsX57e0pXKeg38431UFwdcjKPmjr1YIBTsp0dvycMRAVFZl5nQlUFvWYdY5B7vA%3D

June 22-24, 2011 Office of Women in Higher Education National Leadership Forum, 77th, sponsored by the American Council on Education (ACE), Washington, DC, USA. http://www.acenet.edu/Content/NavigationMenu/ProgramsServices/OWHE/Leading/National_Leadership.htm

June 22-24, 2011 Office of Women in Higher Education National Leadership Forum, sponsored by the American Council on Education, Washington, D.C., USA. http://www.acenet.edu/AM/Template.cfm?Section=Events2

June 22-24, 2011 ELPUB, Electronic Publishing: Digital Publishing and Mobile Technologies, Istanbul, Turkey. http://www.elpub.net/

June 22-24, 2011 International Conference on Mathematics in Sport, 3rd, The Institute of Mathematics and Its Application, The Lowry, Salford Quays, The United Kingdom. http://www.ima.org.uk/Conferences/3rd_maths_sport/

June 22-24, 2011 Mobilware2011: International Conference on MOBILe Wireless MiddleWARE, Operating Systems and Applications, 4th, London, The United Kingdom. http://www.mobilware.org/

June 22-25, 2011 Faculty Learning Community Developers’ and Facilitators’ Summer Institute, 12th annual, sponsored by the International Alliance of Teacher Scholars, Kellogg West Ranch at California Polytechnic State University, Pomona, California, USA. http://www.iats.com/conferences/flc/index.shtml

June 23-24, 2011 Cyber Security Forum, sponsored by the Commonwealth Telecommunications Organisation, London, The United Kingdom. http://www.cto.int

June 23-24, 2011 Designing the 21st Century Classroom, San Antonio, Texas, USA. http://www.21stcenturyschools.com/Workshop_Schedule_Location.htm

June 23-25, 2011 International Society for Language Studies Conference, Renaissance Aruba Resort, Oranjestad, Aruba. http://www.isls-inc.org/conference.htm

June 23-26, 2011 Media Ecology Association (MEA): Space, Place, and the McLuhan Legacy, 12th annual convention, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. http://mea2011.org/

June 23-28, 2011 Library and Information Technology Association (LITA), New Orleans, Louisiana, USA. http://www.lita.org/

June 23-29, 2011 American Library Association Annual Conference and Exhibition, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA. http://www.ala.org/

June 24, 2011 Standards of Good Practice Institute: Beyond the Basics of Health, Safety and Security, sponsored by the Forum on Education Abroad, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, USA. http://www.forumea.org/StInstit-June11.htm

June 24-26, 2011 State Educational Technology Directors Association (SETDA) Emerging Technologies Forum, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. http://setda.org/web/guest/2011schedule_etforum

June 24-26, 2011 World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology (WASET) Summer Congress, Paris, France. http://www.waset.org/

June 26-28, 2011 International Telecommunications Society Asia-Pacific Regional Conference: Convergence in the Digital Age, Taipei, Taiwan. http://www.itsworld.org/ or http://www.its2011taiwan.com/

June 26-29, 2011 International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE 2011): Unlocking Potential, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. http://www.iste.org/

June 26-July 4, 2011 Creativity Workshop, Crete, Greece. http://www.creativityworkshop.com/

June 27-28, 2011 International Conference on e-Learning, 6th, University of British Columbia, Kelowna, British Columbia, Canada. http://academic-conferences.org/icel/icel2011/icel11-home.htm

June 27-29, 2011 International Conference on Information Society (i-Society 2011), London, The United Kingdom. http://www.i-society.eu/i-Society%202011/

June 27-29, 2011 Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education (ITiCSE 2011), 16th annual, Darmstadt, Germany. http://iticse2010.bilkent.edu.tr/

June 27-29, 2011 International Conference on Information Society (i-Society), London, The United Kingdom. http://www.i-society.eu/

June 27-29, 2011 Saving Your Organisation from Boring eLearning, Rydges Lakeside Canberra, Canberra, Australia. http://www.arkgroupaustralia.com.au/Events-D069elearning.htm

June 27-30, 2011 Telecoms World Africa, Cape Town, South Africa. http://www.terrapinn.com/2011/telecomza/

June 27-July 1, 2011 ED-MEDIA 2011: World Conference on Educational Multimedia, Hypermedia and Telecommunications, sponsored by the Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE), Lisbon, Portugal. http://aace.org/conf/

June 27-July 1, 2011 National Science Teachers Association (NSTA) Urban Science Education Leadership (USEL) Academy: Developing Elementary and Middle School Leaders in Urban Districts to Improve Teaching and Learning of Science, Holiday Inn Inner Harbor, Baltimore, Maryland, USA. http://www.nsta.org

June 28, 2011 Learning and Teaching Conference, Ealing Campus, Thames Valley University, London, The United Kingdom. http://www.tvu.ac.uk/instil/Events.jsp

June 28-30, 2011 International Conference on Open Learning and Distance Education, Paris, France. http://www.waset.org/events.php

June 28-30, 2011 International Conference on e-Education and e-Learning, Paris, France. http://www.waset.org/events.php

June 28-30, 2011 International Conference on Education and Information Technology (ICEIT 2010), Paris, France. http://www.waset.org/events.php

June 28-30, 2011 International Conference on Innovation, Technology and Knowledge Economy, (ICITKE), Paris, France. http://www.waset.org/events.php

June 28-30, 2011 International Association for Development of the Information Society (IADIS) e-Commerce, e-Business and e-Service, Paris, France. http://www.waset.org/events.php

June 28-July 1, 2011 Foundations of Digital Games, Bordeaux, France. http://www.fdg2011.org/

June 29-July 1, 2011 Forum for Access and Continuing Education (FACE) Annual Conference: Lifelong Learning and Community Development, University of Glasgow, Scotland. http://www.f-a-c-e.org.uk/conferences.html

June 29-July 1, 2011 Pacific Rim First Year in Higher Education (FYHE): Design for Student Success, 14th, Esplanade Hotel, Fremantle, Western Australia. http://www.fyhe.com.au/

June 29-July 1, 2011 Teacher Training Conference, Walt Disney World Swan and Dolphin Hotel, sponsored by the National Association of African American Studies and Affiliates, Orlando, Florida, USA. http://www.naaas.org/

June 29-July 2, 2011 International Conference on Communities and Technologies, Brisbane, Australia. http://ct2011.urbaninformatics.net/

June 30-July 1, 2011 College Media Conference, 25th annual, sponsored by the Council of Independent Colleges, Washington, DC, USA. http://www.collegemediaconference.org/

June 30-July 1, 2011 Open Knowledge Conference (OKCon), 6th annual, Berlin, Germany. http://okcon.org/2011

June 30-July 1, 2011 Social Media and the Academy: Enhancing and Enabling Scholarly Communication, London, The United Kingdom. http://www.ucl.ac.uk/infostudies/e-publishing/

June 30-July 1, 2011 Effective Learning in the Biosciences: Equipping Students for the 21st Century, Edinburgh, The United Kingdom. http://www.bioscience.heacademy.ac.uk/bioconf/

June 30-July 2, 2011 International Education: Focus on the Learner, organized by the Centre for Research in International Education, 5th biennial, Auckland, New Zealand. http://www.ais.ac.nz/287/centre-for-research-in-international-education/

June 30-July 2, 2011 International Conference on Innovative, Mobile and Internet Services in Ubiquitous Computing (IMIS2011), 5th, Korean Bible University, Seoul, Korea. http://133.220.110.102/conf/imis/2011/

July 2011

July 1-2, 2011 International Conference on Computing and Computer Vision, Kathmandu, Nepal. http://www.icccv.org/

July 1-3, 2011 International Conference on Educational Technologies (EDUTE ‘ 11) sponsored by the World Scientific and Engineering Academy and Society (WSEAS), Iasi, Romania. http://www.wseas.org/

July 1-3, 2011 Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development (ASCD) Summer Conference: Differentiated Instruction, Understanding by Design, What Works in Schools, and Curriculum Mapping, Boston, Massachusetts, USA. http://www.ascd.org/conferences.aspx

July 1-5, 2011 International History, Philosophy and Science Teaching Conference, 11th, Thessaloniki, Greece, http://ihpst.net/

July 3-8, 2011 Africa Forum: Access Africa – Social Inclusion for All Persons, Ghana Institute of Management and Public Administration, Accra, Ghana. http://www.perkins.org/idp/africa-forum/

July 4-6, 2011 International Conference on Education and New Technologies (EDULEARN11), Barcelona, Spain. http://www.iated.org/edulearn11/

July 4-7, 2011 Higher Education Research and Development Society of Australasia (HERDSA) Conference, Gold Coast, Australia. http://www.herdsa.org.au or http://conference.herdsa.org.au/2011/

July 4-8, 2011 International Conference on Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning, 9th, Hong Kong, China. http://www.isls.org/cscl2011/home.htm

July 4-11, 2011 International Conference of the Learning Sciences (ICLS), 10th, sponsored by the International Society of the Learning Sciences, Hong Kong, China. http://www.isls.org/

July 5-7, 2011 Science, Technology, Higher Education and Society in the Conceptual Age, Krakow, Poland. http://www.sthesca.eu/

July 5-8, 2011 International Conference on Learning, 18th, University of Mauritius, Mauritius. http://thelearner.com/conference-2011/

July 5-8, 2011 International Study Association for Teachers and Teaching (ISATT): Back to the Future: Legacies, Continuities and Changes in Educational Policy, Practice and Research, 15th, biennial, University of Minho, Braga, Portugal. http://www.isatt.org/Conferences.htm

July 5-8, 2011 International Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing (IWCMC) Conference, 7th, Istanbul, Turkey. http://www.iwcmc.org/

July 5-8, 2011 International Conference on Technology in Mathematics Teaching, 11th, University of Portsmouth, Portsmouth, The United Kingdom. http://ictmt10.org/ or http://ictmt11.org

July 5-9, 2011 International Conference on Comparative Education and Teacher Training, 9th, organized by the Bulgarian Comparative Education Society, Sofia, Bulgaria. http://bces.conference.tripod.com/

July 5-10, 2011 IEEE International Conference on Web Services (ICWS), Washington DC, USA. http://conferences.computer.org/icws/2010/

July 6, 2011 Enhanced and Transformed: Tales from the Digital Age, University of Greenwich, London, The United Kingdom. https://showtime.gre.ac.uk/index.php/edu/tel-conference

July 6-7, 2011 eLearning 2.0 Conference, London, The United Kingdom. http://www.elearning2.org/

July 6-8, 2011 International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies (ICALT), 11th, Athens, Georgia, USA. http://www.ask4research.info/icalt/2011/others/

July 6-8, 2011 Education in a Changing Environment: Creativity and Engagement in Higher Education, 6th international conference, University of Salford, Manchester, The United Kingdom. http://www.ece.salford.ac.uk/

July 6-8, 2011 Electronic Visualisation and Arts (EVA), sponsored by the Computer Arts Society and the Chartered Institute for IT, London, The United Kingdom. http://www.eva-london.org/

July 6-8, 2011 African Education Week Convention and Learning Expo 2011, Johannesburg, South Africa. http://www.spintelligent-events.com/education-week2010/en/index.php

July 6-9, 2011 Sound and Music Computing Conference, 8th, Padova, Italy. http://smc2011.smcnetwork.org

July 6-14, 2011 Creativity Workshop, Barcelona, Spain. http://www.creativityworkshop.com/

July 7-9, 2011 International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies in Education, Rhodes, Greece. http://www.icicte.org/index.htm

July 7-9, 2011 International Conference on Information Communication Technologies in Education (ICICTE), Rhodes, Greece. http://www.icicte.org/

July 7-9, 2011 International Conference on Education (ICE), Samos Island, Greece. http://www.ineag.gr/ice/index.php

July 8-9, 2011 International Conference on E-Learning and Knowledge Management Technology, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. http://www.icekm.com/

July 9-12, 2011 National Association of College and University Business Officers (NACUBO), Tampa, Florida, USA. http://www.nacuboannualmeeting.org/ or nacubo.org

July 9-14, 2011 International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, Hilton Orlando Bonnet Creek, Orlando, Florida, USA. http://www.hcii2011.org/

July 10-12, 2011 American Association of Collegiate Registrars and Admissions Officers Technology Conference, annual, Grand Sierra Hotel, Reno, Nevada, USA. http://www.aacrao.org/

July 10-12, 2011 Lausanne Laptop Institute, Lausanne Collegiate School, Memphis, Tennessee, USA. http://www.laptopinstitute.com/lil/

July 10-13, 2011 Presidential Vocation and Institutional Mission Seminar, Napa, California, USA. http://www.cic.edu/projects_services/grants/vocation_mission.asp

July 10-15, 2011 Desire2Learn Users’ Conference: FUSION 2011 – Elevate, Denver, Colorado, USA. http://www.desire2learn.com/fusion/

July 11-12, 2011 Blackboard Developers’ Conference, organized by Blackboard, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA. http://www.blackboard.com/Company/Events-Center/Global-BbWorld.aspx

July 11-12, 2011 Canadian Teachers’ Federation President’s Forum: Education Reform – in the interest of students, 3rd annual, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. http://www.ctf-fce.ca/Events/Forum/

July 11-13, 2011 Emerging Technologies for Online Learning International Symposium: Empowering Next Generation Teaching, 4th annual, organized by Sloan Consortium and MERLOT, Fairmont Hotel, San Jose, California, USA. http://sloanconsortium.org/et4online/ or http://www.merlot.org/merlot/index.htm

July 11-13, 2011 Blackboard Collaborate: Connections Summit 2011, Venetian Hotel, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA. http://www.connections-summit.blackboard.com/2011/content.asp?id=1900 or

http://www.blackboard.com/Company/Events-Center/Global-BbWorld.aspx

July 11-13, 2011 International Conference on ICT in Teaching and Learning: Education Unplugged – Mobile Technologies and Web 2.0. Hong Kong, China. http://ict2011.com/pages/

July 11-13, 2011 Computers and Advanced Technology in Education (CATE), sponsored by the International Association of Science and Technology for Development (IASTED), Cambridge, The United Kingdom. http://www.iasted.org/conferences/

July 11-13, 2011 Graphics and Virtual Reality, sponsored by the International Association of Science and Technology for Development (IASTED), Cambridge, The United Kingdom. http://www.iasted.org/conferences/

July 11-13, 2011 ePortfolio 2011, 9th, London, The United Kingdom. http://www.epforum.eu/

July 11-13, 2011 Australian University Community Engagement Alliance (AUCEA) National Conference: Next Steps: Building a New Engagement Agenda – Leadership, Research, Learning, and Partnerships, 8th annual, Sydney, Australia. http://www.aucea.org.au/events/next-steps/ or http://aucea.com.au/events/2011-aucea-national-conference

July 11-13, 2011 International Conference on Networked Digital Technologies, 3rd, University of Macau, Macau, China. http://www.dirf.org/ndt/

July 11-13, 2011 Interdisciplinary Social Sciences, University of New Orleans, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA. http://thesocialsciences.com/conference-2011/

July 11-15, 2011 EDUCAUSE Institute Leadership Program, Boulder, Colorado, USA. http://net.educause.edu/node/1733?time=1229911317

July 11-15, 2011 User Modeling, Adaptation, and Personalization (UMAP), Girona, Spain. http://www.umap2011.org/

July 11-15, 2011 International Conference on Multimedia and Expo, sponsored by IEEE, Barcelona, Spain. http://www.icme2011.org/

July 11-16, 2011 Association on Higher Education and Disability (AHEAD) Conference: Sustainable Access through Partnership, Seattle, Washington, USA. http://www.ahead.org/

July 12-13, 2011 African Education Summit: Agenda for Investment in Technology and Infrastructure, Rabat, Morocco. http://www.africanbrains.net/our-events/

July 12-14, 2011 International Internet Education Conference (ICT-LEARN 2011), 10th, Cairo, Egypt. http://www.distant-learning.net

July 12-15, 2011 BbWorld, organized by Blackboard, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA. http://www.blackboard.com/Company/Events-Center/Global-BbWorld.aspx

July 12-15, 2011 African Council for Distance Education (ACDE): Bridging the Development Gap in Africa through Open and Distance Learning, 3rd, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. http://www.out.ac.tz/acde/

July 12-15, 2011 National Conference on Differentiated Instruction, sponsored by the Staff Development for Educators, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA. http://www.sde.com/Conferences/Differentiated-Instruction/index.asp

July 12-15, 2011 International Conference on Innovation and Management, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. http://iam2011.org/

July 12-15, 2011 July 26-29, 2010 Information Visualisation, 15th international, hosted by London University, London, The United Kingdom. http://www.graphicslink.co.uk/IV2011/

July 12-16, 2011 Global Business and Technology Association (GBATA) Conference: Fulfilling the Worldwide Sustainability Challenge – Strategies, Innovations and Perspectives for Forward Momentum in Turbulent Times, 13th, Istanbul, Turkey. http://www.gbata.com

July 13-15, 2011 International Conference on Communication and Information Technology, sponsored by World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology (WASET), Amsterdam, Netherlands. www.waset.org

July 13-15, 2011 World Education Summit, The Ashok, New Delhi, India. http://www.worldeducationsummit.net/Default.aspx

July 13-17, 2011 Engaging Departments Institute, organized by the Association of American Colleges and Universities, Ellicott City, Maryland, USA. http://www.aacu.org/meetings/engaging_depts/index.cfm

July 14-15, 2011 Innovation in Teaching, Research and Management in Higher Education, organized by the Southeast Asian Ministers of Education Organization Regional Training Center (SEAMEO) Regional Training Center (RETRAC) and the British Council, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. http://www.vnseameo.org/InternationalConference2011/

July 14-16, 2011 International Conference on Information Communication Technologies in Health, 9th, Samos Island, Greece. http://www.ineag.gr/ICICTH/index.php

July 14-16, 2011 Communications and Information Technology (CIT 11), 5th, co-organized by The World Scientific and Engineering Academy and Society (WSEAS) and the North Atlantic University Union (NAUN), Corfu Island, Greece. http://www.naun.org/conferences/2011/cit/index.html

July 14-16, 2011 Education and Educational Technologies, Corfu Island, Greece. http://www.naun.org/conferences/2011/edu/index.html

July 14-16, 2011 International Conference on Technology for Education (T4E), 3rd annual, IIT Madras, Chennai, India. http://www.iiitb.ac.in/t4e/

July 14-19, 2011 Association of Private Sector Colleges and Universities (APSCU) Leadership, Potomac, Maryland, USA. http://www.career.org/iMISPublic/AM/Template.cfm?Section=Upcoming_Events&CONTENTID=23339&TEMPLATE=/CM/ContentDisplay.cfm

July 14-22, 2011 Creativity Workshop, Florence, Italy. http://www.creativityworkshop.com/

July 15-16, 2011 International Conference on Education Technology and Computer, 3rd, Changchun, Jilin, China. http://www.icetc.org/

July 16-18, 2011 Association of Physical Plant Administrators (APPA) 2011, Atlanta, Georgia, USA. http://www.appa.org/

July 16-22, 2011 International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 22nd, Barcelona, Spain. http://ijcai-11.iiia.csic.es/

July 17-20, 2011, Embrace the Journey for School-Based Professional Learning, sponsored by Learning Forward (formerly known as the National Staff Development Council – NSDC), Indianapolis, Indiana, USA. http://www.learningforward.org/summer11/index.cfm

July 17-20, 2011 Moodle Moot AU 2011, Sydney, Australia. http://moodlemoot.org.au/

July 17-20, 2011 Association for Information Communications Technology Professionals in Higher Education (ACUTA), Baltimore, Maryland, USA. http://www.acuta.org/relation/downloadfile.cfm?docnum=446

July 17-22, 2011 International Society for the Systems Sciences (ISSS) Conference, 55th, Hull University Business School, Hull, The United Kingdom. http://isss.org/world/

July 17-23, 2011 International Education and Resource Network (iEARN), 18th annual conference and youth summit, 15th, Kaohsiung, Taiwan. http://iearn.org/index.html

July 18-20, 2011 International Symposium on Smart Graphics, 11th, Bremen, Germany. http://www.smartgraphics.org/sg11/index.html

July 18-21, 2011 EDUCAUSE Cornell Institute for Computer Policy and Law Annual Seminar, Ithaca, New York, USA. http://net.educause.edu/ConferencesSeminarsandInstitutePrograms/31

July 18-21, 2011 World Congress in Computer Science, Computer Engineering and Applied Computing (WORLDCOMP 2011), Las Vegas, Nevada, USA. http://www.world-academy-of-science.org/worldcomp10/ws

July 18-21, 2011 International Conference on Computer Graphics and Virtual Reality, 15th, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA. http://www.world-academy-of-science.org/worldcomp11/ws/conferences/cgvr11

July 18-21, 2011 International Conference on Computer Design, 11th annual, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA. http://www.world-academy-of-science.org/worldcomp11/ws/conferences/cdes11

July 18-21, 2011 International Conference on e-Learning, e-Business, Enterprise Information Systems and e-Government, 10th annual, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA. http://www.world-academy-of-science.org/worldcomp11/ws/conferences/eee11

July 18-21, 2011 International Conference on Frontiers in Education: Computer Science and Computer Engineering, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA. http://www.world-academy-of-science.org/

July 18-21, 2011 International Conference on Foundations of Computer Science, 7th annual, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA. http://www.world-academy-of-science.org/worldcomp11/ws/conferences/fcs11

July 18-21, 2011 International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 13th annual, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA. http://www.world-academy-of-science.org/worldcomp11/ws/conferences/icai11

July 18-21, 2011 International Conference on Internet Computing, 12th annual, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA. http://www.world-academy-of-science.org/worldcomp11/ws/conferences/icomp11

July 18-21, 2011 International Conference on Information and Knowledge Engineering, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA. http://www.world-academy-of-science.org/worldcomp11/ws/conferences/ike11

July 18-21, 2011 International Conference on Security and Management, 10th, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA. http://www.world-academy-of-science.org/worldcomp11/ws/conferences/sam11

July 18-21, 2011 International Conference on Semantic Web and Web Services, 7th annual, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA. http://www.world-academy-of-science.org/worldcomp11/ws/conferences/swws11

July 18-21, 2011 International Conference on Software Engineering Research and Practice, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA. http://www.world-academy-of-science.org/

July 18-21, 2011 International Conference on Wireless Networks, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA. http://www.world-academy-of-science.org/

July 18-21, 2011 International Joint Conference on e-Business and Telecommunications (ICETE 2008), 8th, Athens, Greece. http://www.icete.org/

July 18-21, 2011 International Conference on Wireless Information Networks and Systems, Seville, Spain. http://www.winsys.icete.org/

July 18-22, 2011 EDUCAUSE Management Program, Boulder, Colorado, USA. http://net.educause.edu/TheEDUCAUSEInstituteManagementProgram/1734

July 18-22, 2011 International Symposium on Applications and the Internet (SAINT), IEEE/IPSJ International Symposium, 11th, Munich, Germany. http://www.saintconference.org/

July 18-22, 2011 International Joint Conference on e-Business and Telecommunications, 8th, Seville, Spain. http://www.icete.org/

July 18-29, 2011 Making Education Relevant and Interactive through Technology (MERIT), Krause Center for Innovation, Foothill College, Los Altos, California, USA. http://sites.google.com/site/kcimeritprogram/

July 18-29, 2011 online and August 8-11, 2011 onsite, Institute for Emerging Leadership in Online Learning, Penn State University, Pennsylvania, USA. http://www.outreach.psu.edu/programs/emerging-leadership/?CID=110

July 19-21, 2011 International Conference on Weblogs and Social Media (ICWSM 2011), 5th, Barcelona, Spain. http://www.icwsm.org/2011/

July 19-22, 2011 Education and Information Systems, Technologies and Applications (EISTA), 9th, Orlando, Florida, USA. http://www.iiis2011.org/imsci/Website/AboutConfer.asp?vc=5

July 19-22, 2011 International Conference on Improving University Teaching: The Collaborative Classroom, 36th, Bielefeld, Germany. http://www.iutconference.org/

July 20-21, 2011 Management World Africa 2011, Johannesburg, South Africa. http://www.tmforum.org/Conferences/734/Home.html

July 20-21, 2011 International Research Forum, sponsored by the National Association of African American Studies (NAAAS), Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University, Port Elizabeth, South Africa. http://www.naaas.org/

July 20-21, 2011 Towards a Digital Mathematics Library, Bertinoro, Italy. http://www.fi.muni.cz/~sojka/dml-2011.html

July 20-22, 2011 International Association for Development of the Information Society (IADIS) Informatics 2011, Rome Italy. http://www.informatics-conf.org/

July 20-22, 2011 International Association for Development of the Information Society (IADIS) International Telecommunications, Networks, and Systems 2011, Rome Italy. http://www.tns-conf.org/

July 20-22, 2011 International Association for Development of the Information Society (IADIS) International Conference on Wireless Applications and Computing, Rome, Italy. http://www.wac-conf.org/

July 20-22, 2011 Intelligent Interactive Multimedia Systems and Services, 4th, University of Piraeus, Piraeus (Athens), Greece. http://iimss-11.kesinternational.org/

July 20-23, 2011 International Association for Development of the Information Society (IADIS) International Conference e-Learning, Rome, Italy. http://www.elearning-conf.org/

July 20-23, 2011 Paris International Conference on Education, Economy and Society, France. http://education-conferences.org/default.aspx

July 20-26, 2011 International Association for Development of the Information Society (IADIS) Multi Conference on Computer Science and Information Systems (MCCIS), Rome, Italy. http://www.mccsis.org

July 21-22, 2011 Audio, Video and Rich Media for eLearning, offered by the eLearning Guild, online. http://www.elearningguild.com/online-forums/content/1851/2011-olf---july-21--22

July 21-23, 2011 New and Aspiring Heads Institute: Essential Skills for New and Aspiring International Schools Head, sponsored by the Association of International Schools in Africa. Miami, Florida, USA. http://www.aisa.or.ke/page.cfm?id=359&verbose=176&backcal=1

July 22-24, 2011 International Association for Development of the Information Society (IADIS) International Conference on Game and Entertainment Technologies (GET2011), Rome, Italy. http://www.gaming-conf.org/

July 22-24, 2011 International Association for Development of the Information Society (IADIS) International Conference on Internet Applications and Research, Rome, Italy. http://www.iar-conf.org/

July 22-24, 2011 International Association for Development of the Information Society (IADIS) International Conference on Collaborative Technologies, Freiburg, Germany. http://www.collaborativetech-conf.org/

July 22-25, 2011 National Media Education Conference and Research Summit, sponsored by the National Association for Media Literacy Education, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. http://namle.net/conference/

July 23-24, 2011 Character Education Conference, 17th annual, St. Louis, Missouri, USA. http://www.characterplus.org/page.asp?page=425

July 23-24, 2011 International Conference on Information Technology and Computer Science (ITCS 2011), 3rd, Huangshi, China. http://www.icitcs.org/itcs2011/

July 23-26, 2011 American Association of Law Libraries, 104th, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. http://www.aallnet.org/events/

July 23-27, 2011 Society for College and University Planning (SCUP) Annual International Conference and Idea Marketplace: Integrated Solutions – How & Now, 46th, National Harbour, Maryland, USA. http://www.scup.org/page/annualconf/46

July 24-26, 2011 ITC 2011 Distance Education Leadership in a Time of Change, sponsored by the Instructional Technology Council, Colorado Springs, USA. http://www.itcnetwork.org/leadership/academy.html

July 24-26, 2011 International Association for Development of the Information Society (IADIS) International Conference on Computer Graphics and Visualization, Freiburg, Germany. http://www.cgv-conf.org/

July 24-26, 2011 International Association for Development of the Information Society (IADIS) International Conference on Interfaces and Human Computer, Rome, Italy. http://www.ihci-conf.org/

July 24-26, 2011 International Association for Development of the Information Society (IADIS) International Conference on ICT, Society and Human Beings, Rome, Italy. http://www.ict-conf.org

July 24-27, 2011 International Conference on Computer Science and Education (ICCSE), 6th, Singpore. http://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/conferencedetails/index.html?Conf_ID=18325

July 24-28, 2011 International Association for Computing Machinery's (ACM) Special Interest Group on Information Retrieval Conference, 34th, Beijing, China. http://www.sigir2011.org/

July 24-29, 2011 Building Learning Communities, Boston, Massachusetts, USA. http://www.novemberlearning.com/blc

July 24-29, 2011 Technical Institute for Developmental Educators, 13th, Texas State University, San Marcos, Texas, USA. http://www.ci.txstate.edu/tide/tidehome.htm

July 25-27, 2011 International Multi-Conference on Innovative Developments in ICT (INNOV 2011), 2nd, including International Conference on Green Computing, International Conference on e-Health Services and Technologies, International Conference on Technology-Enhanced Learning, and International Conference on IT-enabled Innovation in Enterprise, Sofia, Bulgaria. http://www.innov.org/home.asp

July 25-27, 2011 Australian CIO Summit, Royal Pines Resort Gold Coast, Ashmore, Queensland, Australia. http://www.australianciosummit.com/

July 25-27, 2011 Best Practices in Blended Course Design, San Diego, California, USA. http://www.academicimpressions.com/events/event_listing.php?i=1143

July 25-27, 2011 International Forum and Workshop for Teaching and Learning in Higher Education: Innovations in Teaching and Learning to Meet the Demands of the 21st Century, organized by the Teaching and Learning Centre, Universiti Brunei Darussalam, Bandar Seri Begawan, Brunei Darussalam. http://www.ubd.edu.bn/forum/TLC%20Forum/TLC.htm

July 25-28, 2011 International Conference on Critical Thinking, 31st annual, Berkeley, California, USA. http://www.criticalthinking.org/conference/index.cfm

July 25-28, 2011, Campus Technology Conference, 18th annual, Seaport World Trade Center, Boston, Massachusetts, USA. http://events.campustechnology.com/events/ct-summer-educational-technology-conference/home.aspx

July 26-31, 2011 American Alliance for Theatre and Education (AATE), Chicago, Illinois, USA. http://www.aate.com/

July 27-28, 2011 International Conference on e-Learning, 6th, Kelowna, British Columbia, Canada. http://academic-conferences.org/icel/icel2011/icel11-home.htm

July 27-29, 2011 World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology (WASET) Summer Congress, Paris, France. http://www.waset.org/

July 27-29, 2011 International Conference on Computer and Instructional Technology (ICCIT), Bali, Indonesia. http://www.waset.org/conferences/2011/bali/iccit/

July 27-29, 2011 International Conference of Organizational Innovation (ICOI), Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, Selangor Darul Ehsan, Malaysia, http://www.iaoiusa.org/2011icoi/

July 27-29, 2011 Asia Teaching English as a Foreign Language (TEFL) International Conference: Teaching English in a Changing Asia – Challenges and Directions, 9th, Seoul, Korea. http://www.asiatefl.org/2011conference/conference2.html

July 27-30, 2011 National Board for Professional Teaching Standards Conference, Washington, DC, USA. http://www.nbpts.org/about_us/2011_national_conference

July 27-31, 2011 Society for Values in Higher Education: Making Choices – Immigration and Identities – Academic Cultures in Transition, Elmhurst College, Elmhurst, Illinois, USA. http://www.svhe.org/

July 28-29, 2011 EDUCAUSE Center for Applied Research (ECAR): IT as a Game Changer, Chicago, Illinois, USA. http://net.educause.edu/ecar11

July 28-30, 2011 Assessment in the Arts, Denver, Colorado, USA. http://assessmentconference.rmcad.edu/index.html

July 29-31, 2011 International Conference on the Teaching of Psychology, co-hosted by Kwantlen Polytechnic University, Douglas College and Langara College in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. http://kwantlen.ca/ictp.html

August 2011

August 1-2, 2011 Collegiate Learning Assessment (CLA) Meeting, sponsored by the Council of Independent Colleges (CIC), Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA. http://www.cic.edu/conferences_events/index.asp

August 1-3, 2011 eduWeb Conference, 6th annual, San Antonio, Texas, USA. http://www.eduwebconference.com/

August 1-3, 2011 eWorld Forum: Bridging the Knowledge Divide, The Ashok, New Delhi, India. http://www.eworldforum.net/

August 1-4, 2011 International Conference on Computing and ICT Research (ICCIR), 7th, Makere University, Kampala, Uganda. http://www.cit.mak.ac.ug/

August 1-5, 2011 Faculty Development Summer Institute on Active Learning and Teaching, 28th, Charlottetown, PEI, Canada. http://lifelonglearning.upei.ca/professionaldevelopment/FDSInstitute

August 2-3, 2011 The Internet Show Africa, Sandton, South Africa. http://lanyrd.com/2011/internetshowza/

August 2-5, 2011 FileMaker DevCon, San Diego, California, USA. http://www.filemaker.com/developers/devcon/index.html

August 3-5, 2011 The Annual Conference on Distance Teaching and Learning, 27th, Madison, Wisconsin, USA. http://www.uwex.edu/disted/conference/

August 3-5, 2011 Distance Education and Teacher Education in Africa (DETA): Ensuring the Highest Possible Quality of Education in a Changing Africa, 3rd, Eduardo Mondlane University, Maputo, Mozambique. http://www.deta.up.ac.za/

August 3-5, 2011 Institute for New Chief Academic Officers, sponsored by the American Council on Education (ACE), Chaska, Minnesota, USA. http://www.acenet.edu/AM/Template.cfm?Section=CAOS1

August 3-5, 2011 International Conference on e-Technologies and Networks for Development (ICeND2011), 1st, Dar-es-Salaam, Tanzania. http://www.sdiwc.net/tn/

August 4-7, 2011 American Psychological Association Annual Convention, 119th, Washington, DC, USA. http://apa.org/convention/index.aspx

August 4-7, 2011 Wikimania 2011, 7th annual, Haifa, Israel. http://wikimania2011.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page

August 4-7, 2011 Americas Conference on Information Systems: A Renaissance of Information Technology for Sustainability and Global Competitiveness, 17th, Detroit, Michigan, USA. http://www.amcis2010.org/home/

August 5-9, 2011 Association of Teacher Educators Summer Conference: Creating a Global Community of Learners – Guiding the Future of Education, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. http://www.ate1.org/pubs/2010_Kansas_City_S.cfm

August 7-11, 2011 International Association of School Librarianship, 40th, and International Forum on Research in School Librarianship (15th): School Libraries – Empowering the 21st Learner, Kingston, Jamaica. http://www.iasl-online.org/events/conf/2011/

August 7-11, 2011 American Association for Artificial Intelligence Conference, San Francisco, California, USA. http://www.aaai.org/Conferences/AAAI/aaai11.php

August 7-11, 2011 Special Interest Group on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques, SIGGRAPH 2011: International Conference and Exhibition on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques, 38th, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. http://www.siggraph.org/s2011

August 8-9, 2011 International Computing Education Research Workshop and Doctoral Consortium, 7th, Providence, Rhode Island, USA. http://dumheter.eu/ or contact jem@cs.umu.se

August 9-10, 2011 Chief Academic Officers and Chief Financial Officers Solving Problems Together: Effective Campus Leadership, sponsored by the American Council on Education (ACE), Washington, DC, USA. http://www.acenet.edu/Content/NavigationMenu/ProgramsServices/CEL/CAOandCFOCollaboration/CAO_CFO_Workshop.htm

August 10-12, 2011 International Conference on Hybrid Learning (ICHL 2011), 4th, Hong Kong, China. http://hkuspace.hku.hk/ichl2011/

August 11-13, 2011 Satellites and Education Conference XXIV: Earth Speaks – We Listen, Los Angeles, California, USA. http://www.sated.org/index04.htm

August 12-14, 2011 International Conference on Information System and Management (ISM) 2011, Wuhan, China. http://www.massconf.org/ism2011/

August 13-18, 2011 World Library and Information Congress: Libraries Beyond Libraries – Integration, Innovation and Information for All, 77th, sponsored by the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (ILFA), San Juan, Puerto Rico. http://www.ifla.org/en/ifla77

August 17-18, 2011 Conference on eLearning and IT Offshoring, New York, NY, USA. http://www.business-coordinators.com/

August 17-19, 2011 Washington Interactive Technologies Conference, sponsored by the Society for Applied Learning Technology (SALT), Reston, Virginia, USA. http://www.salt.org/dc/washingtonp.asp

August 17-20, 2011 Shanghai International Conference on Social Science, Shanghai, China. http://www.shanghai-ic.org/

August 18-19, 2011 E-Learning Assessment and Evaluation Approaches, offered by the eLearning Guild, online. http://www.elearningguild.com/online-forums/content/1852/2011-olf---aug-18--19-

August 18-20, 2011 International Conference on Distributed Multimedia Systems, 17th, Florence, Italy. http://www.ksi.edu/seke/dms11.html

August 19-21, 2011 International Conference on Education and Management Technology, 2nd, Shanghai, China. http://www.icemt.org/

August 21-27, 2011, Netware 2011 including The International Conference on Advances in Future Internet (3rd), the International Conference on Emerging Security Information, Systems and Technologies (5th) sponsored by the International Academy Research, and Industry Association (IARIA), French Riviera, France. http://www.iaria.org/

August 22-26, 2011 Linguapolis Summer School: A Toolbox for Design-Based Research, Antwerp, Belgium, http://summerschool.linguapolis.be

August 22-27, 2011 Web Intelligence and Intelligent Technology, sponsored by IEEE, WIC and ACM, Lyon, France. http://wi-iat-2011.org/

August 24-27, 2011 Development and Learning and Epigenetic Robotics (IEEE-ICDL-EPIROB), 1st joint IEEE international conference, Frankfurt, Germany. http://www.icdl-epirob.org/

August 25-26, 2011 All Ireland Society for Higher Education (AISHE): The Challenge for Graduates in a Changed World, Dublin City University, Dublin, Ireland. http://www.aishe.org/ or http://www.aishe.org/events/2010-2011/conf2011/index.html

August 25-26, 2011 eAssessment Scotland 2011 – Keeping It Real, University of Dundee, Scotland, The United Kingdom. http://www.e-assessment-scotland.org

August 27, 2011 One Voice Chicago International Conference and Forum for Educators sponsored by the One Voice Institute of Elemental Ethics and Education, Chicago, Illinois, USA. http://www.elementalethics.com/

August 27-28, 2011 International Conference on Information and Computer Technology (ICICT 2011), Yantai, China. http://www.icict.org/

August 28, 2011 One Voice St. Louis International Conference and Forum for Educators sponsored by the One Voice Institute of Elemental Ethics and Education, St. Louis, Missouri, USA. http://www.elementalethics.com/

August 28-31, 2011 European Higher Education Society Forum: Bridging cultures, promoting diversity – higher education in search of an equilibrium, 33rd annual, Warsaw, Poland. http://www.eair.nl/

August 29-31, 2011 International Conference on Collaboration Technologies, 6th, Tokyo, Japan. http://www.collabtech.org/

August 29-September 2, 2011 International Conference on Database and Expert Systems Applications (DEXDA), 22nd, Toulouse, France. http://www.dexa.org/

August 30-September 2, 2011 Brazilian Association of Distance Education (ABED), International Congress of Distance Education, Manaus, Brazil. http://www.abed.org.br/congresso2011/

August 30-September 2, 2011 Microsoft TechEd Australia, Queensland, Australia, http://australia.msteched.com/

August 30-September 2, 2011 International Conference on Human Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services (Mobile HCI 2010), 13th, Stockholm, Sweden. http://www.mobilehci2011.org/

August 30-September 3, 2011 European Association for Research in Learning and Instruction (EARLI): Education for a Global Networked Society, 14th biennial, Exeter, The United Kingdom. http://www.earli.org/

August 31-September 2, 2011, IEEE International Conference on Computer and Information Technology (CIT), 11th, Pafos, Cyprus. http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/CIT2011/

August 31-September 3, 2011 European Association for Computer-Assisted Language Learning (EuroCALL), University of Nottingham, The United Kingdom. http://www.eurocall-languages.org/

September 2011

September 1-2, 2011 European Conference on Knowledge Management (ECKM), 12th, University of Passau, Germany. http://academic-conferences.org/eckm/eckm2011/eckm11-home.htm

September 3-4, 2011 International Online Language Conference (IOLC 2011), 4th, offered online, http://iolc2011.ioksp.com/index.htm

September 4-7, 2011 Digital Resources for the Humanities and Arts: Connected Communities – Global or Local2Local, University of Nottingham Ningbo, Ningbo, China. http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/drha/index.aspx or http://www.arts-humanities.net/event/drha_2011_digital_resources_humanities_arts_conference

September 5-6, 2011 Conference on Systems of Innovation and the New Role of Universities (COSINUS), Bristol, The United Kingdom. http://www1.uwe.ac.uk/bbs/conferences/cosinus

September 5-7, 2011 MobiMedia 2011: International Mobile Multimedia Communications Conference, 7th, Cagliari, Italy. http://www.mobimedia.org/

September 5-8, 2011 Computer Graphics, Computer Vision and Mathematics (GRAVisMa’2011), Ostrava, Czech Republic. http://gravisma.zcu.cz/

September 5-9, 2011 European Science Education Research Association (ESERA), biannual conference, Lyon, France. http://www.esera2011.fr/

September 6-7, 2011 e-Learning Korea 2011, Seoul, Korea. http://www.elearningasia.net/_2011/

September 6-7, 2011 International Conference on Mobile Learning, E-Society and E-Management (ICMLEM), Prague, Czech Republic. http://www.icedmat.com/

September 6-8, 2011 International Networking for Education in Healthcare Conference (NET2011), Churchill College, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, The United Kingdom. http://www.jillrogersassociates.co.uk

September 6-8, 2011 International Conference of the Association for Learning Technology (ALT-C 2011): Thriving in a Colder and More Challenging Climate, University of Leeds, Leeds, The United Kingdom. http://www.alt.ac.uk/altc2011/

September 6-9, 2011 British Educational Research Association Conference, Institute of Education, London, The United Kingdom. http://www.bera.ac.uk/

September 6-9, 2011 International Conference on Internet Technologies and Applications, 4th, Glyndwr University, Wrexham, North Wales, The United Kingdom. http://www.ita11.org/

September 7-9, 2011 Active Media Technology, Lanzhou, China. http://wi-consortium.org/conferences/amtbi11/

September 7-9, 2011 Edutainment 2010, 6th International Conference on E-learning and Games.

Taipei, Taiwan. http://ccc.k12.edu.tw/10014_10000123/public/web/edutainment2011/

September 8-9, 2011 European Conference on Information Management and Evaluation (ECIME), 5th, Como, Italy. http://academic-conferences.org/ecime/ecime2011/ecime11-home.htm

September 8-10, 2011 International Conference on Internet Studies, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. http://www.internet-studies.org/

September 12-14, 2011 International Distance Education Conference: Open Distance Learning – Achieving Sustainable Development for the Bottom Billion, hosted by the Universitis Sains Malaysia, Park Royal Hotel, Penang, Malaysia. Penang, Malaysia. https://sites.google.com/site/idecmy2011/Home

September 12-14, 2011 European Symposium on Research in Computer Security, 16th, Leuven, Belgium. https://www.cosic.esat.kuleuven.be/esorics2011/ or http://homepages.laas.fr/esorics/

September 12-15, 2011 SimHealth 2011: Education, Innovation and Research, Sydney, Australia. http://www.simhealth.com.au/

September 12-16, 2011 Australian Library and Information Technicians Conference: Back to Basics, Perth, Australia. http://conferences.alia.org.au/libtec2011/

September 13-15, 2011 International Conference on Education and Development, 11th, sponsored by British Department of International Development, Cambridge International, Aga Kahn Foundation, and Jeremy Greenland Bursary Trust, Oxford, The United Kingdom, http://www.cfbt.com/UKFIET/

September 13-16, 2011 European Conference on Educational Research (ECER): Urban Education, Berlin, Germany. http://www.eera-ecer.eu/ecer/ecer2011/

September 13-16, 2011 European Association for International Education Conference, 23rd, annual, Copenhagen, Denmark. http://www.eaie.org/

September 14-15, 2011 LearnX Asia Pacific 2011: eLearning and Training Solutions International Conference and Expo, Brisbane, Australia. http://www.learnx.net/learnx/

September 14-16, 2011 European Foundation for Quality in E-Learning (EFQUEL) Innovation Forum, 5th, Oeiras, Portugal. http://www.efquel.org/

September 14-16, 2011 European Conference on Web Services, Lugano, Switzerland. http://ecows2011.inf.usi.ch/

September 14-17, 2011 European Conference on Creativity and Innovation, University of the Algrave-Faro, Algrave, Portugal. http://www.eaci.net/eccixii/

September 15-16, 2011 Top Trends in eLearning, offered by the eLearning Guild, online. http://www.elearningguild.com/online-forums/content/1853/2011-olf---sept-15--16

September 15-16, 2011 European Conference on Innovation and Entrepreneurship (ECIE), 6th, Aberdeen, Scotland, The United Kingdom. http://academic-conferences.org/ecie/ecie2011/ecie11-home.htm

September 15-17, 2011 International Conference on Hands-on Science (HSci2011), 8th, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia. http://www.hsci.info/

September 15-17, 2011 Multimedia in Physics Teaching and Learning, Ljubljana, Slovenia. http://www.mptl.eu/workshops.htm or http://colos.fri.uni-lj.si/mptl_hsci/program.html

September 15-17, 2011 Council of Educational Facility Planners (CEFPI) Annual World Conference and Expo: Engage! Enlighten! Envision!, 88th, Nashville, Tennessee, USA. http://www.cefpi.org/i4a/pages/index.cfm?pageid=1

September 16-18, 2011 Australia Library and Information Association New Librarians Symposium: Metamorphosis – What will you become today?, 5th, Perth, Australia. http://conferences.alia.org.au/nls5/index.html

September 16-18, 2011 International Conference on Distance Learning and Education (ICDLE), 5th, sponsored by the International Association of Computer Science and Information Technology, Singapore, Singapore. http://www.icdle.org/index.htm

September 16-18, 2011 International Conference on Future Information Technology, 2nd, sponsored by the International Association of Computer Science and Information Technology, Singapore, Singapore. http://www.icfit.org/

September 17-20, 2011 Community College Business Officers (CCBO) Conference, Louisville, Kentucky, USA. http://www.ccbo.org/conference/index.html

September 17-21, 2011 International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing, 13th, Beijing, China. http://www.ubicomp.org/ubicomp2011/index.html

September 18-21, 2011 Presentation Summit (formerly PowerPoint Live): Roaring into 2011, Austin, Texas, USA. http://www.betterppt.com/summit/

September 18-21, 2011 International Telecommunications Society European Regional Conference, Budapest, Hungary. http://www.itsworld.org/ or http://www.hte.hu/its2011/

September 19-23, 2011 International Conference on Digital Audio Effects, 14th, Paris, France. http://www.dafx.de/

September 19-23, 2011MobiCom/MobiHoc’11: International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking, 17th annual, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA. http://www.sigmobile.org/mobicom/2010/

September 19-23, 2011 Asian Technology Conference in Mathematics, 16th, Abant İzzet Baysal University, Bolu, Turkey. http://atcm.mathandtech.org/

September 20-21, 2011 Designing the 21st Century Classroom, New Delhi, India. http://www.21stcenturyschools.com/Workshop_Schedule_Date.htm

September 20-21, 2011 Management World Africa, Johannesburg, South Africa. http://www.tmforum.org/ManagementWorldAfrica/8617/home.html

September 20-22, 2011 Professional Learning Europe (PLE), Cologne, Germany. http://www.professional-learning.de/content/index_eng.html

September 20-23, 2011 European Conference on Technology Enhanced Learning (EC-TEL): Towards Ubiquitous Learning, 6th, Palermo, Italy. http://www.ec-tel.eu/

September 21-23, 2011 International Conference on Interactive Collaborative Learning (ICL), 14th, organized by the Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava Piešťany, Slovakia. http://virtuni.eas.sk/ or http://www.icl-conference.org/

September 21-23, 2011 World Summit on the Knowledge Society, 4th, Mykonos, Greece. http://wsks.org/

September 21-23, 2011 Conference on Open Access Scholarly Publishing, 3rd, sponsored by the Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association (OASPA) Swissotel, Tallinn, Estonia. http://www.oaspa.org/coasp/index.php

September 22-25, 2011 Lilly Conference on College and University Teaching, Traverse City, Michigan, USA. http://lillyconferences.com/tc/default.shtml

September 23-24, 2011 European Information Architecture Summit (EuroIA), 7th, Prague, Czech Republic. http://www.euroia.org/

September 23-27, 2011 Design, Development and Research Conference, organized by the Cape Peninsula University of Technology, Cape Town, South Africa. http://www.design-development-research.co.za/index.php/DDRC/2011

September 25-27, 2011 The Society for Editors and Proofreaders Annual Conference: Skills, Freelancing, Education, Practice, 22nd, St. Catherine’s College, Oxford, The United Kingdom. http://www.sfep.org.uk/pub/confs/conferences.asp

September 25-27, 2011 Educational Networking Conference (EdNET 2011): Rethink. Transform. Deliver., 23rd, Denver, Colorado, USA. http://www.schooldata.com/ednetconference.asp

September 25-28, 2011 The Cambridge International Conference on Open, Distance and e-Learning, presented with the Open University and the Commonwealth of Learning, St. Edmund’s College, Cambridge, The United Kingdom. http://www2.open.ac.uk/r06/conference/

September 25-28, 2011 Council for Opportunity in Education (COE): America’s Future – The Role of Education in Our National Security, Washington, DC, USA. http://www.coenet.us/

September 26-27, 2011 Action Learning and Action Research Association (ALARA) World Congress, Brisbane, Australia. http://www.alara.net.au/public/home

September 26-28, 2011 Network 2011: Learning, Technology, Innovation: Learning-Technology-Innovation, organized by the National University Technology Network (NUTN), Fort Worth Texas, USA. http://www.nutn.org/

September 26-28, 2011 Teaching and Learning Conference, 5th annual, University of Kwazulu-Natal, Westville Campus, Durban, South Africa. http://www.tnlconference.co.za/directions-to-conference-venu.html

September 26-28, 2011 International Conference on Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries, Berlin, Germany. http://www.tpdl2011.org/

September 26-28, 2011 Asia Pacific Conference on Educational Integrity, 5th, Perth, Western Australia, Australia. http://www.apcei.catl.uwa.edu.au/

September 26-30, 2011 Designs on E-Learning International Conference, Aalto University, Helsinki, Finland. http://www.designsonelearning.net/conferences/face_to_face/sept2011/del_sept2011.htm

September 27-28, 2011 World of Learning Conference and Exhibition, Birmingham, The United Kingdom. http://www.learnevents.com/

September 28-29, 2011 Designing the 21st Century Classroom, Beijing, China. http://www.21stcenturyschools.com/Workshop_Schedule_Date.htm

September 28-29, 2011 National Learning and Teaching Forum, Sydney, Australia. http://www.informa.com.au/conferences/education

September 28-30, 2011 Asian Association of Open Universities Annual Conference, 25th, hosted by Wawasan Open University, Penang, Malaysia. http://www.aaou.net/aaou2011/index.php?option=com_content&view=frontpage&Itemid=1

September 28-30, 2011 World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology (WASET) Summer Congress, Singapore, Singapore. http://www.waset.org/

September 28-30, 2011 Worlddidac, international exhibition for educational material and training resources, Pragati Maidan, New Delhi, India. http://www.worlddidacindia.com/

September 28-30, 2011 International Council for Educational Media (ICEM): Old Meets New – Media in Education, University of Aveiro, Aveiro, Portugal. http://www.icem-cime.org/

September 28-30, 2011 Best Practices and Innovations Conference, sponsored by the Association for Career and Technical Education (ACTE), Hot Springs National Park, Arkansas, USA. http://www.acteonline.org/bestpractices11.aspx

September 29-30, 2011 ACM Multimedia and Security Workshop, 14th, Buffalo/Niagara Falls, New York, USA. http://www.mmsec11.com/

October 2011

October 1-2, 2011 International Conference on Education and Educational Technology (EET 2011), 2nd, Chengdu, China. http://www.isec-edu.hk/eet2011/

October 2-4, 2011 National Outreach Scholarship Conference: Engaged Scholarship and Evidence-Based Practice, 12th annual, Kellogg Center, Michigan State University, USA. http://www.outreachscholarship.org/Conference/NOSC2011Meeting/ConferenceHome.aspx

October 2-5, 2011 International Council for Distance Education (ICDE) World Conference: Expanding Horizons – New Approaches to ODL, 24th, hosted by Universitas Terbuka, Bali, Indonesia. http://icde.org/

October 2-5, 2011 League for Innovation in the Community College STEMtech (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) Conference 2011, Indianapolis, Indiana, USA. http://www.league.org/2011stemtech/

October 3-4, 2011 Websearch University, Washington, D.C., USA. http://www.websearchu.com/

October 3-5, 2011 Ireland International Conference on Education, Dublin, Ireland. http://www.iicedu.org/

October 3-5, 2011 First International Forum on Academic Teaching: Social Inclusion and Information and Communication Technology, Federal University of Uberlândia, Uberlandia, Minas Gerais, Brazil. http://www.forumdocente.prograd.ufu.br/forum_internacional_ingles/

October 3-5, 2011 International Symposium on Wikis and Open Collaboration (WikiSym 2011), 7th, Mountain View, California, USA. http://wikisym.org/ws2011/tiki-index.php

October 3-5, 2011 International Conference on Education and Educational Technology: The current and approaching issues of education and educational technology, 10th, organized by the World Scientific and Engineering Academy and Society, Penang, Malaysia. http://www.wseas.us/conferences/2011/penang/edu/

October 3-7, 2011 International Symposium on Wireless Personal Multimedia Communications, 14th, Brest, France. http://www.wpmc2011.org/

October 4-7, 2011 Workshop on Enterprise Systems in Higher Education, 3rd, Berlin, Germany. http://vlba.wi-ol.de/en/52197.html

October 5-6, 2011 AITEC Mozambique ICT Congress, Maputo, Mozambique. http://www.aitecafrica.com/

October 5-8, 2011 International Conference on Entertainment Computing, 10th, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. http://www.icec2011.org/

October 5-9, 2011 Consortium of College and University Media Centers (CCUMC) Annual, hosted by South Texas College, South Padre Island, Texas, USA. http://www.ccumc.org/ or http://ccumc.southtexascollege.edu/

October 6-7, 2011 UNESCO Chair in E-Learning: Teacher Training: Reconsidering the Teachers’ Role, 8th, Barcelona, Spain. http://unescochair-elearning.uoc.edu/event/VIIIseminar/

October 6-7, 2011 Web 2.0 and Web 3.0: Best Practices, offered by the eLearning Guild, online. http://www.elearningguild.com/online-forums/content/1854/2011-olf---oct-6--7

October 6-7, 2011 European Conference on Management, Leadership and Governance, 7th, Nice, France. http://www.academic-conferences.org/ecmlg/ecmlg2011/ecmlg11-home.htm

October 7-12, 2011 The Information Society for the Information Age, sponsored by the American Society for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T), Marriott New Orleans, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA. http://www.asis.org/conferences.html

October 8-10, 2011 National Conference on Students in Transition, 18th, St. Louis, Missouri, USA. http://www.sc.edu/fye/sit/index.html

October 9-10, 2011 Arabic Language Technology International Conference (ALTIC), Alexandria, Egypt. http://www.altec-center.org/conference/?p=1

October 9-11, 2011 O’Reilly Android Open Conference, San Francisco, California, USA. http://conferences.oreillynet.com/

October 9-12, 2011 Association for Information Communications Technology Professionals in Higher Education (ACUTA), Boston Park Plaza Hotel, Boston, Massachusetts, USA. http://www.acuta.org/

October 9-12, 2011 International Conference on Measurement and Evaluation in Education, 4th, Universiti Sains Malaysia, Penang, Malaysia. http://www.icmee.com/home

October 9-13, 2011 The Information Society for the Information Age, sponsored by the American Society for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T), New Orleans, Louisiana, USA. http://www.asis.org/conferences.html

October 10-12, 2011 Visual Communications Industry Group (VCIG, formerly Polycom User Group) Annual Conference: It’s All About the Experience, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA. http://www.vci-group.org/Events/Default.aspx

October 10-12, 2011 College Teaching and Learning Conference, sponsored by the Clute Institute for Academic Research, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA. http://www.cluteinstitute.com

October 10-13, 2011 Internet Research 12.0: Performance and Participation, 12th annual conference of the Association of Internet Researchers (AoIR), Seattle, Washington. http://conferences.aoir.org/

October 10-13, 2011 Wireless Health 2011, sponsored by the Wireless-Life Sciences Alliance, La Jolla, California, USA. http://www.wirelesslifesciences.org/events/

October 10-13, 2011 Web 2.0 Expo, New York, New York, USA. http://conferences.oreillynet.com/

October 11-14, 2011 Australian International Education Conference (AIEC), Adelaide, South Australia, Australia. http://www.aiec.idp.com/home.aspx

October 11-14, 2011 MODSIM World Conference and Expo: Overcoming Critical Global Challenges with Modeling and Simulation, USA. http://www.modsimworldconference.com/

October 12-15, 2011 Frontiers in Education Conference, 41st, Rapid City, South Dakota, USA. http://fie-conference.org/fie2011/

October 13-14, 2011 College and University Science Facilities, Scottsdale, Arizona, USA. http://www.tradelineinc.com/conferences/

October 13-15, 2011 International Society for Exploring Teaching and Learning (ISETL), 41st annual, San Diego, California, USA. http://www.isetl.org/conference/index.cfm

October 13-15, 2011 Educating for Personal and Social Responsibility: A Twenty-First Century Imperative, sponsored by the Association of American Colleges and Universities (AACU), Long Beach, California, USA. http://www.aacu.org/meetings/NetworkforAcademicRenewal.cfm

October 13-15, 2011 Association for Continuing Higher Education (ACHE) Annual Conference: Sustainable Leadership – Bold Thinking about Who We Are, Orlando, Florida USA. http://www.acheinc.org/

October 14-19, 2011 All-Africa Educators’ Conference, sponsored by the Association of International Schools in Africa, Nairobi, Kenya. http://www.aisa.or.ke/

October 16-19, 2011 All-Africa Business Managers’ Institute, sponsored by the Association of International Schools in Africa, International School of Kenya, Nairobi, Kenya. http://www.aisa.or.ke

October 15-18, 2011 Association of Science-Technology Centers (ASTC) Conference, Baltimore, Maryland, USA. http://conference.astc.org/

October 16-19, 2011 International Malaysian Educational Technology Convention, 5th, sponsored by the Malaysian Educational Technology Association, Kuantan, Pahang, Malaysia. http://imetc2011.yolasite.com/

October 16-19, 2011 International Conference on Virtual Systems and Multimedia (VSMM), 18th, Alexandria, Egypt. http://www.vsmmsociety.org/

October 16-20, 2011 Gartner Symposium ITXPO 2011, Orlando, Florida, USA. http://www.gartner.com/technology/symposium/orlando/index.jsp

October 17-18, 2011 Distance Education and Training Council’s Fall Workshop, Loew’s Vanderbilt Hotel, Nashville, Tennessee, USA. http://www.detc.org/meetingsReports.html

October 17-18, 2011 Advancing to the Presidency Workshop, sponsored by the American Council on Education (ACE), Washington, DC, USA. http://www.acenet.edu/Content/NavigationMenu/ProgramsServices/CEL/Advancing/atp.htm

October 17-19, 2011 International Professional Communication Conference: Communicating Sustainability, sponsored by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Professional Communication Society, University of Cincinnati, Ohio, USA. http://ewh.ieee.org/soc/pcs/

October 17-19, 2011 Internet Librarian Monterey, California, USA. http://www.infotoday.com/il2011/

October 17-19, 2011 Web 2.0 Summit, San Francisco, California, USA. http://conferences.oreillynet.com/

October 17-19, 2011 International Malaysian Educational Technology (IMETC), Kuantan, Pahang, Malaysia. http://imetc2011.yolasite.com/

October 17-21, 2011 E-Learn 2011: World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare and Higher Education, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA. http://www.aace.org/conf/elearn/

October 18-19, 2011 Streaming Media Europe, Olympia Conference Centre, London, The United Kingdom. http://www.streamingmediaglobal.com/conference/2011/

October 18-20, 2011 Jossey-Bass Online Teaching and Learning Conference, offered online, http://2011.onlineteachingandlearning.com/

October 18-21, 2011 EDUCAUSE, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. http://net.educause.edu/content.asp?PAGE_ID=1352&bhcp=1

October 18-21, 2011 mLearn: World Conference on Mobile and Contextual Learning, 10th, Beijing, China. http://www.mlearn.org/mlearn2011 or http://mlearn.bnu.edu.cn/

October 19-20, 2011 Austrian eLearning Conference, Messe Wien (exhibition center), Vienna, Austria. http://aelc.at/content/index_ger.html

October 19-21, 2011 World Conference on Mobile Learning (MLearn 2011), 10th, Tokyo, Japan. http://www.mlearn2011.org/

October 19-21, 2011 National Society for Experiential Education (NSEE) Conference, 40th annual, Intercontinental Hotel Dallas, Dallas, Texas, USA. http://www.nsee.org/

October 19-21, 2011 Ulearn11, Christchurch, Canterbury, New Zealand. http://core-ed.org/ulearn/

October 19-21, 2011 Serious Games: The Challenge (designing games for educational settings), Kortrijk, Belgium. https://ppw.kuleuven.be/o_en_o/CIPenT/seriousgames/seriousgameshome/

October 19-22, 2011 All-Russian Research Conference, Voronezh, Russia. http://rcdl2011.vsu.ru/

October 19-22, 2011 Access Conference: The Library Is Open, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. http://access2011.library.ubc.ca/2011/01/24/access-2011-the-library-is-open/

October 20-21, 2011 Educational Computing Organization of Ontario (ECOO) Annual Conference Inspire, Connect, Learn! Richmond Hill, Ontario, Canada. http://ecoo.org/

October 20-21, 2011 European Conference on Game Based Learning, 5th, Athens, Greece. http://academic-conferences.org/ecgbl/ecgbl2011/ecgbl11-home.htm

October 20-21, 2011 ICT for Language Learning, 4th, Florence, Italy. http://www.pixel-online.net/ICT4LL2011/

October 20-23, 2011 International Society for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (ISSOTL): Transforming the Academy through the Theory and Practice of SOTL, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA. http://www.issotl.org/conferences.html

October 21, 2011 Horizons, sponsored by the Computer Using Educators of British Columbia, Port Coquitlam, British Columbia, Canada. http://cuebcconference.ca/

October 22, 2011 One Voice New York International Conference and Forum for Educators sponsored by the One Voice Institute of Elemental Ethics and Education, New York, New York, USA. http://www.elementalethics.com/

October 23, 2011 One Voice Boston International Conference and Forum for Educators sponsored by the One Voice Institute of Elemental Ethics and Education, Boston, Massachusetts, USA. http://www.elementalethics.com/

October 23-26, 2011 HighEdWeb 2011, Austin, Texas, USA. http://2011.highedweb.org/

October 23-28, 2011 Mobile Services, Resources and Users, 1st, sponsored by the International Academy, Research and Industry Association (IARIA), Barcelona, Spain. http://www.iaria.org/conferences2011/MOBILITY11.html

October 24-25, 2011 International Conference on Education and e-Learning (EeL), Singapore, Singapore. http://www.e-learningedu.org/

October 24-26, 2011 Technology for Education and Learning, sponsored by the International Association of Science and Technology for Development (IASTED), Beijing, China. http://www.iasted.org/conferences/

October 24-26, 2011 ASSETS 2011, the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) and the Special Interest Group on Computers and Accessibility Conference, 13th, Dundee, Scotland, The United Kingdom. http://www.sigaccess.org/assets11/

October 24-26, 2011 Global Conference on Privacy and Ethics, St. Louis, Missouri, USA. http://www.globalresearchstudies.com/research_studies/2011_conference_on_privacy_and_ethics

October 24-27, 2011 International Conference on Asia-Pacific Digital Libraries (ICADL 2011), Beijing, China. http://www.icadl2011.org/

October 24-27, 2011 4G World 2011, McCormick Place, Chicago, Illinois, USA. http://www.4gworld.com/

October 24-28, 2011 International Telecommunication Union (ITU) Telecom Americas, Geneva, Switzerland. http://www.itu.int/ITUTELECOM/events.html

October 25-27, 2011 Open Education: Be “Open” Minded, 8th annual, The Canyons Resort, Park City, Utah, USA. http://openedconference.org/2011/

October 26-28, 2011 North American Council for Staff, Program and Organizational Development (NCSPOD): Grounded in Community, Pursuing Strategic Solutions, Charlotte, North Carolina, USA. http://www.ncspod.org/

October 26-28, 2011 Worlddidac Asia for Educational Materials and Professional Training, 4th, Bangkok, Thailand. http://www.worlddidacasia.com/

October 26-28, 2011 World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology (WASET) Summer Conference, Bali, Indonesia. http://www.waset.org/

October 26-28, 2011 International Conference on Mobile, Ubiquitous and Pervasive Computing (ICMUPC 201i), sponsored by the World Academy of Science Engineering and Technology, Bali, Indonesia. http://www.waset.org/conferences/2011/bali/icmupc/

October 26-29, 2011 WCET (Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education Cooperative for Educational Technologies), 23rd, annual, Denver, Colorado, USA. http://conference.wcet.info/index.php

October 26-30, 2011Professional and Organizational Development (POD) Network in Higher Education Conference, Hilton Atlanta, Atlanta, Georgia, USA. http://www.podnetwork.org/conferences/futureconferences.htm

October 27-28, 2011 Internet Librarian International, Copthorne Tara Hotel, London, The United Kingdom. http://www.internet-librarian.com/index.php

October 27-28, 2011 Blended Learning Conference, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario, Canada. http://cohere.ca/

October 27-28, 2011 International Conference on Intellectual Capital, Knowledge Management and Organisational Learning, 8th, Bangkok, Thailand. http://academic-conferences.org/icickm/icickm2011/icickm11-home.htm

October 27-28, 2011 Internet Show Sydney, Sydney, Australia. http://www.terrapinn.com/exhibition/internet-show-sydney/

October 27-30, 2011 Asian Conference on Education: Learning and Teaching in a Globalised World, 3rd annual, Osaka, Japan. http://www.ace.iafor.org/

October 27-30, 2011 New York State School Boards Association Convention and Educational Trade Show, 92nd annual, Buffalo, New York, USA. http://www.nyssba.org/clientuploads/Convention10/ConventionMain/Home.html

October 28-29, 2011, International Conference on Virtual Learning, 6th, Cluj-Napoca, Romania. http://c3.icvl.eu/

October 28-30, 2011 Conference on Teaching and Learning: Enhancing Teacher Effectiveness = Improving Student Learning, sponsored by ASCD (formerly the Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development), Rio All-Suites Hotel, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA. http://www.ascd.org/conferences.aspx

October 28-30, 2011 National Rural Education Association Convention, 103rd, Hilton Head Island, South California, USA. http://www.nrea.net/

October 28-30, 2011 ExploLingua: International Fair for Languages and Cultures, 24th, Berlin, Germany. http://www.expolingua.com/expolingua_berlin/de/

October 30-November 2, 2011 American Association of Collegiate Registrars and Admissions Officers Strategic Enrollment Management Conference, 21st annual, Sheraton San Diego Hotel, San Diego, California, USA. http://www.aacrao.org/

October 30-November 2, 2011 Library and Information Society of New Zealand (LIANZA), Wellington, New Zealand. http://lianza.org.nz/node/2025

October 30-November 4, 2011 Emerging Technologies 2012, Renaissance Orlando Hotel at SeaWorld, Orlando, Florida, USA. http://tdwi.org/pages/events/world-conferences/tdwi-world-conference-orlando-fl-october-2011.aspx

October 30-November 4, 2011 American Association for Adult and Continuing Education (AAACE) International Conference and Exposition, 60th, in conjunction with the Adult Higher Education Alliance, Indianapolis, Indiana, USA. http://www.aaace.org/mc/page.do?sitePageId=124681

October 31-November 1, 2011 Assessment Institute (focuses on outcomes assessment in higher education), sponsored by Indiana University, Indianapolis, Indiana, USA. http://www.planning.iupui.edu/institute

October 31, 2011November 3, 2011 Multidisciplinary Studies, Rome, Italy. http://www.internationaljournal.org/rome.html

October ? 2011 New Exploratory Technologies (NEXT), 8th annual, Turku, Finland. http://next.utu.fi/2010/

November 2011

November 1-4, 2011 World CIO Forum, 1st, sponsored by the International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP), Shenzhen, China. http://www.worldcioforum.com/

November 1-6, 2011 Association for the Advancement of Educational Research (AAER), 14th, Hutchinson Island Marriott, Stuart, Florida, USA. http://www.aaer.org/

November 2-4, 2011 DevLearn 2011 Conference and Expo, Aria Resort and Casino, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA. http://www.elearningguild.com/content.cfm?selection=doc.24#DL11

November 2-4, 2011 International Conference on Computer-Aided Blended Learning, 4th, Antigua Guatemala, Guatemala. http://ges.galileo.edu/icbl/ or http://www.icbl-conference.org/

November 2-4, 2011 International Association for Research on Service-leaning and Community Engagement: Research for Impact – Scholarship Advancing Social Change, Chicago, Illinois, USA. http://www.researchslce.org/conferences-awards/

November 2-5, 2011 National Association for Multicultural Education (NAME): Reworking Intersections, Reframing Debates, Restoring Hope, Chicago, Illinois, USA. http://nameorg.org/name%E2%80%99s-2010-annual-conference/

November 3-4, 2011 European Association of Distance Teaching Universities (EADTU), Anadolu University, Eskisehir, Turkey. http://www.eadtu.eu/

November 3-5, 2011 Assistive Technology Industry Association (ATIA) Conference, Chicago, Illinois, USA. http://www.atia.org/

November 3-5, 2011 BlogWorld and New Media Expo 2011, Los Angeles, California, USA. http://www.blogworldexpo.com/

November 3-5, 2011 Arts and Humanities: Towards a Flourishing State, sponsored by the Association of American Colleges and Universities (AACU), Providence, Rhode Island, USA. http://www.aacu.org/meetings/NetworkforAcademicRenewal.cfm

November 3-6, 2011 International Association for Experiential Education Conference, 39th, Jacksonville, Florida, USA. http://www.aee.org/conferences/intl

November 4-6, 2011 International Conference on Open and Distance Learning: Open and Distance Education for Global Collaboration and Educational Development, 6th, Loutraki, Greece. http://icodl2011.eap.gr/icodl2011en/index.htm

November 5-8, 2011 Chief Academic Officers Institute, sponsored by the Council of Independent Colleges, St. Petersburg Beach, Florida, USA. http://www.cic.edu/conferences_events/index.asp

November 5-8, 2011 International Conference WWW/Internet 2011, sponsored by the International Association for the Information Society (IADIS), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. http://www.internet-conf.org/

November 6-8, 2011 National Quality Education Conference, 19th, Hyatt Regency Indianapolis, Indianapolis, Indiana, USA. http://nqec.asq.org/

November 6-8, 2011 K12 Technology Summit, Hyatt Regency Bonaventure, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA. http://www.k12techsummit.com or http://www.craigmichaelsinc.com/events/k-12-technology-summit/default.html

November 6-8, 2011 International Association for Development of the Information Society (IADIS) International Conference Applied Computing, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. http://www.iadis.org or http://www.computing-conf.org/

November 6-8, 2011 Cognition and Exploratory Learning in Digital Age (CELDA 2011), sponsored by the International Association for Development of the Information Society (IADIS), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. http://www.celda-conf.org/

November 6-9, 2011 National Council of University Research Administrators (NCURA): At the Confluence of Creation and Collaboration, 53rd annual, Washington, D.C., USA. http://www.ncura.edu/content/

November 6-9, 2011 Elliot Masie’s Learning, Orlando, Florida, USA. http://masieweb.com/

November 6-9, 2011 AnDevCon II: The Android Developer Conference, San Francisco, California, USA. http://www.andevcon.com/AnDevCon_II/index.html

November 6-10, 2011 eResearch Australasia: eXtreme eResearch, Melbourne, Australia. http://conference.eresearch.edu.au/

November 6-10, 2011 International Conference on Computer-Aided Design (ICCAD), San Jose, California, USA. http://www.iccad.com

November 7-8, 2011 International Conference on Education and e-Learning, Hotel Fort Canning, Singapore. http://www.e-learningedu.org/

November 7-9, 2011 Quality Matters Annual Conference, 3rd, Baltimore, Maryland, USA. http://www.qmprogram.org/3rd-annual-conference-2011

November 7-9, 2011 Educational Technology Leadership Conference, 17th annual, Roanoke, Virginia, USA. http://www.etlc10.org/ or http://www.etlc11.org/

November 7-10, 2011 London International Conference on Education, London, The United Kingdom. http://www.liceducation.org/

November 7-10, 2011 World Congress on Sustainable Technologies, London, The United Kingdom. http://www.wcst.org/

November 8-9, 2011 Streaming Media West: The Business and Technology of Online Video, Hyatt Regency Century Plaza, Los Angeles, California, USA. http://www.streamingmedia.com/west/

November 8-11, 2011 California Educational Technology Professionals Association: Serve, Lead, Innovate, Long Beach, California, USA. http://www.cetpa-k12.org/

November 8-11, 2011 International Conference on Advances in Computer Entertainment Technology, Lisbon, Portugal. http://www.ace2011.org/

November 8-12, 2011 Association for Educational Communications and Technology (AECT) International Convention: Celebrate 3.0 – Design.Learn.Community, Jacksonville, Florida, USA. http://www.aect.org/events/

November 9-10, 2011 Open Access Conference: The Impact of Open Access in Research and Scholarship, Washington, DC, USA. http://www.berlin9.org/

November 9-11, 2011 Sloan Consortium International Conference on Online Learning: Online Learning, Teaching, and Research in the New Media Ecology, 17th annual, Walt Disney World Swan and Dolphin Resort, Lake Buena Vista, Florida, USA. http://sloanconsortium.org/aln

November 9-11, 2011 Virtual School Symposium (VSS) sponsored by the International Association for K-12 Online Learning (iNACOL), Indianapolis, Indiana, USA. http://www.inacol.org/

November 9-11, 2011 The Council for Adult and Experiential Learning (CAEL) International Conference: Adult Learning in a Changing Landscape, 37th, InterContinental O’Hare, Chicago, Illinois, USA. http://www.cael.org/conference_2011.html

November 10-11, 2011 International Conference on ICT for Language Learning, 4th, Florence, Italy. http://www.pixel-online.net/ICT4LL2011/

November 10-11, 2011 European Conference on e-Learning, 10th, Brighton, The United Kingdom. http://academic-conferences.org/ecel/ecel2011/ecel11-home.htm

November 10-12, 2011 National Middle School Association Annual Conference and Exhibit: Taking the Lead, 38th, Louisville, Kentucky, USA. http://www.nmsa.org/annual/

November 10-12, 2011 Biennial International Conference on the Teaching and Learning of English in Asia, 4th, hosted by Universiti Utara Malaysia, Penang, Malaysia. http://tleia4.uum.edu.my/

November 10-12, 2011Centennial Symposium on Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, sponsored by Mount Royal University, Banff, Alberta, Canada. http://isotlsymposium.mtroyal.ca/

November 10-13, 2011 American Musicological Society, Hyatt Regency Hotel, San Francisco, California, USA. http://www.ams-net.org/sanfrancisco/

November 11-12, 2011 Ubiquitous Learning Conference, Berkeley, California, USA. http://ubi-learn.com/conference-2011/

November 12-17, 2011 Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Special Interest Group on University and College Computing Services (SIGUCCS) Fall Conference, San Diego, California, USA. http://www.siguccs.org/

November 12-18, 2011 International Association of Universities, InterAmerican University, San Juan, Puerto Rico. http://www.iau-aiu.net/conferences/upcoming.html

November 13-15, 2011 National Conference on Students in Transition, Houston, Texas, USA. http://www.sc.edu/fye/events/

November 13-15, 2011 World Federation of Colleges and Polytechnics, Birmingham, the United Kingdom. http://www.wfcp.org/cms/wfcp-congress-2010-coming

November 13-16, 2011 International Telecommunications Society Africa-Asia-Australasia Regional Conference, 5th, hosted by Curtin University, Perth, Australia. http://www.itsworld.org/ or http://www.business.curtin.edu.au/business/research/conferences/international-telecommunications-society-perth-2011

November 14-15, 2011 World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology (WASET) Autumn Conference, Guangzhou. http://www.waset.org/

November 14-15, 2011 International Lifelong Learning Conference, Seri Pacific Hotel, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. http://iclll2011.oum.edu.my/

November 14-16, 2011 International Conference on Teaching and Learning (iCTL 2011): Towards 21st Century Education – Student to Student Collaboration, 3rd biennial conference, Park Royal, Penang, Malaysia. http://ictl.intimal.edu.my/

November 14-18, 2011 Global Education Conference, held online. http://www.globaleducationconference.com/

November 14-18, 2011 Accessing Higher Ground: Accessible Media, Web and Technology Conference, 14th annual, University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, Colorado, USA. http://www.colorado.edu/ATconference/

November 15-17, 2011 Gartner Symposium/ITxpo, Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia. http://blogs.gartner.com/symposium-live/2010/11/17/gartner-symposiumitxpo-goes-to-the-gold-coast-in-2011/

November 15-17, 2011 GLOBELICS International Conference: Creativity, Innovation and Economic Development, 9th, sponsored by the Global Network for the Economics of Learning, Innovation and Competence Building Systems (GLOBELICS) Buenos Aires, Argentina. http://www.globelics.org/

November 15-17, 2011 International Conference of Quality Management in Education and Training Systems: What Education Systems and Training for 2030, 8th, Rabat, Morocco. http://cimqusef.amaquen.org/index.php/cimqusef11/cimqusef or http://www.unevoc.unesco.org/archev.php?type=Events

November 16, 2011 International Vocational Education and Training Association (IVETA) Annual Conference: Technical Vocational Education and Training Staff Development – Meeting the Needs of the Knowledge Economy, in conjunction with the Association for Career and Technical Education (ACTE) Conference, St. Louis, Missouri, USA. http://www.iveta.org

November 16-18, 2011 Canadian Society for Training and Development (CSTD), Toronto, Ontario, Canada. http://www.cstd.ca/

November 16-18, 2011 International Conference of the International Association of Universities: Strategies for Securing Equity and Success in Higher Education, Kenyatta University, Nairobi, Kenya. http://www.iau-aiu.net/civicrm/event/info?reset=1&id=16

November 16-19, 2011 Association for the Study of Higher Education (ASHE): Higher Education, Meeting the Challenge of a Changing Future, USA. http://www.ashe.ws

November 16-19, 2011 Vietnam International Communications Summit and Expo, Hanoi, Vietnam. http://www.vietnam-comm.com/VNC11/Main/lang-eng/Information.aspx

November 16-20, 2011 University Council for Educational Administration (UCEA), Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, USA. http://www.ucea.org/future-conventions/

November 17-18, 2011 Strategies for Securing Equity in Access and Success in Higher Education sponsored by the International Associations of Universities, Kenyatta University, Nairobi, Kenya. http://www.iau-aiu.net/conferences/upcoming.html

November 17-18, 2011 Using Technology to Enhance Learning, 16th annual, hosted by the Staff and Educational Development Association (SEDA), Birmingham, The United Kingdom. http://seda.ac.uk/

November 17-19, 2011 Association for Career and Technical Education (ACTE) Annual Convention, St. Louis, Missouri, USA. http://www.acteonline.org/convention.aspx

November 17-20, 2011 International Lilly Conference on College Teaching: Brain-Based Learning and Teaching, 31st, hosted by Miami University Oxford, Ohio, USA. http://www.units.muohio.edu/lillycon/ or http://lillyconferences.com/

November 18-19, 2011 E-Learning Innovative Models for the Integration of Education, Technology and Research, 5th, organized by Guide International, Rome, Italy. http://www.guideassociation.org/guide_2011/en/?page_id=29

November 18-20, 2011 American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL) Annual Conference, Denver, Colorado, USA. http://www.actfl.org/i4a/pages/index.cfm?pageid=1

November 18-21, 2011 International Conference on Language Teaching and Learning and Educational Materials Exhibition, sponsored by the Japanese Association for Language Teaching, 37th, Tokyo, Japan. http://jalt.org/main/conferences

November 20-23, 2011 Canadian International Education Conference: Great Expectations – Achieving Our Ambitions in International Education, 45th, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. http://www.cbie.ca/english/aboutus/events.htm

November 20-25, 2011 International Conference on Mobile Ubiquitous Computing, Systems, Services and Technologies, sponsored by International Academy, Research and Industry Association (IARIA), Lisbon, Portugal. http://www.iaria.org/conferences2011/UBICOMM11.html

November 21-23, 2011 International ICST Conference on Electronic Healthcare for the 21st Century (eHealth 2011): eHealth Web Intelligence, 4th, Málaga, Spain. http://www.electronic-health.org/

November 23-24, 2011 International Conference on Future of Higher Education: Development and Technology, hosted by the Kingdom University, Manama, Bahrain. http://ku.edu.bh/

November 23-25, 2011 European Association for Practitioner Research on Improving Learning Conference: Balancing Workplace Learning and Practitioner Research across Professional Fields. Nijmegen, The Netherlands. http://www.eapril.org/

November 23-25, 2011 EDUCATEC (Conference focused on educators and vocational training). Paris Expo Porte de Versailles, Paris, France. http://www.educatec-educatice.com/

November 23-25, 2011 World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology (WASET) Autumn Conference, Venice, Italy. http://www.waset.org/

November 24-25, 2011 Scottish Educational Research Association: Educational Research in an Age of Austerity, Stirling, Scotland. http://www.sera.ac.uk/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=5&Itemid=54

November 26-27, 2011 International Conference on International Comparison of Teacher Quality, Kaohsiung, Taiwan. http://www.ed.ntnu.edu.tw/~rujer/2011teaq/

November 27-December 1, 2011 Learning in Higher Education: Transforming University Teaching into Learning via Simulations and Games, 6th international symposium, sponsored by sponsored by the International Academic Association for the Enhancement of Learning in Higher Education Sydney, Australia. http://lihe.wordpress.com/future-events/lihe11-australia/

November 27-December 1, 2011 Australian Association for Research in Education (AARE): Reaching Across Boundaries, Hobart Tasmania, Australia. http://www.aare.edu.au/live/

November 28-30, 2011 eIndia: Steering E-Inclusive Economy, 7th, Ahmedabad, India. http://www.eindia.net.in/2011/

November 28-December 1, 2011 Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Multimedia Conference, Scottsdale, Arizona, USA. http://www.acmmm11.org/

November 28-December 2, 2011 International Conference on Computers in Education: Classroom, Ubiquitous and Mobile Technologies Enhanced Learning, 19th, Chiang Mai, Thailand. http://www.nectec.or.th/icce2011/callForPapers/cfp_c4.html

November 29-December 1, 2011 IEEE International Conference on Cloud Computing Technology and Science, Athens, Greece. http://2010.cloudcom.org/

November 29-December 2, 2011 New Zealand Association for Research in Education, Tauranga, New Zealand. http://www.nzare.org.nz/

November 30, 2011 Security and Defence Learning – international forum on technology assisted learning and training for defence, security and emergency services, 6th, Berlin, Germany. http://www.security-defence-learning.com/

November 30-December 1, 2011 AfriHealth, Nairobi, Kenya. http://www.aitecafrica.com/event/view/74

November 30-December 2, 2011 Online Educa Berlin: International Conference on Technology Supported Learning and Training for corporate, education and public service sectors, 16th, Hotel InterContinental, Berlin, Germany. http://www.online-educa.com/

November 30-December 2, 2011 Crossing Borders for Change in Southern African Higher Education, sponsored by the Higher Education Learning and Teaching Association of Southern Africa (HELTASA), hosted by the Nelson Mandel Metropolitan University, Port Elizabeth, South Africa. http://www.nmmu.ac.za/default.asp?id=11610&bhcp=1

November 30-December 2, 2011 Worldwide Forum on Education and Culture: The Effects of Global Learning – Teaching the World about the World, Rome, Italy. http://www.theworldwideforum.org/1.html

November 30-December 2, 2011 International Conference on eLearning Futures 2011, Auckland, New Zealand. http://www.icelf.org/welcome.php

November 30-December 3, 2011 Learning Resources Network (LERN) Annual Conference, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA. http://www.lern.org/conference/

As of May 17/11 information for the 2011 versions of the 2010 events below was NOT available.

November 1-3, 2010 Canadian Information Processing Society The ICE Tech Conference, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. http://www.iceconference.com

November 3-6, 2010 American Association of University Administrators Assembly: Defining Quality in Higher Education, Washington, D.C., USA. http://www.aaua.org/

November 4, 2010 British Columbia Educational Technology Users’ Group

(ETUG): Stop Tugging and Start Bridging, New Westminster, British Columbia, Canada. http://etug.ca/

November 23-26, 2010 International Barcelona Conference on Higher Education: Higher Education’s Commitment to Sustainability – From Understanding to Action, 5th, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain. http://www.guni-rmies.net/conference2010/

(UPC)

December 2011

December 1-3, 2011 E-Activities (e-Learning, e-Communities, e-Commerce, e-Management, e-Marketing, e-Governance and Tele-working), 10th, sponsored by World Scientific and Engineering Academy and Society (WSEAS), Bina Nusantara University, Island of Java, Indonesia. http://www.wseas.us/conferences/2011/jakarta/e-activities/

December 3, 2011 One Voice Atlanta International Conference and Forum for Educators sponsored by the One Voice Institute of Elemental Ethics and Education, Atlanta, Georgia, USA. http://www.elementalethics.com/

December 3-7, 2011 National Staff Development Council: Capture the Magic, Anaheim, California, USA. http://www.nsdc.org

December 4, 2011 One Voice Miami International Conference and Forum for Educators sponsored by the One Voice Institute of Elemental Ethics and Education, Miami, Florida, USA. http://www.elementalethics.com/

December 4-7, 2011 International Australasian Conference on Enabling Access to Higher Education, 1st, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia. http://www.plevin.com.au/ncee2011/

December 4-7, 2011 Australian Society for Computers in Learning in Tertiary Education (ASCILITE 2011): Changing Demands, Changing Directions, University of Tasmania, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia. http://www.ascilite.org.au/conferences/hobart11/index.htm

December 4-7, 2011 International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS): East Meets West – Connectivity and Collaboration through Effective Information, Shanghai, China. http://icis2011.aisnet.org/

December 4-7, 2011 Big Ideas Fest, 3rd, conference focused on innovation in education, Half Moon Bay, California, USA. http://www.bigideasfest.org/

December 4-9, 2011 Executive Leadership Institute, sponsored by the League for Innovation in the Community College, Phoenix, Arizona, USA. http://www.league.org/eli/

December 5-6, 2011 Academic Medical and Health Science Centers, San Diego, California, USA. http://www.tradelineinc.com/conferences/

December 5-6, 2011 Computer Science Education: Innovation and Technology, 2nd annual, Singapore, Singapore. http://cseducation.org/

December 5-7, 2011 International Digital Curation Conference: Public? Private? Personal? – Navigating the Open Data Landscape, Bristol, The United Kingdom. http://www.dcc.ac.uk/events/idcc11/call-papers

December 5-7, 2011 International Conference on Advances in Mobile Computing and Multimedia (MoMM2010), 9th, Hue City, Vietnam. http://www.iiwas.org/conferences/momm2011/

December 5-7, 2011 International Workshop on Multimedia Technologies for E-Learning (MTEL), 6th, sponsored by IEEE, Dana Point, California, USA. http://www.virtuos.uni-osnabrueck.de/pub/conferences/mtel-2011/cfp.html

December 5-7, 2011 Workshop on Multimedia for Cooking and Eating Activities (CEA), 3rd, Laguna Cliffs Marriott, Dana Point, California, USA. http://www.ccm.media.kyoto-u.ac.jp/CEA2011/cfp.html

December 5-8, 2011 Australasian Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 24th, Murdoch University, Melbourne, Western Australia, Australia. http://www.it.murdoch.edu.au/AI2011/

December 5-9, 2011 Computer Security Applications Conference, 27th, Orlando, Florida, USA. http://www.acsac.org

December 6-8, 2011 UNESCO-APEID International Conference: Inspiring EducationCreativity and Entrepreneurship, 15th, Jakarta, Indonesia. http://www.unescobkk.org/education/apeid/apeid-international-conference/apeidconf11/

December 6-8, 2011 Mobile and Ubiquitous Systems: Computing, Networking and Services (MOBIQUITOUS), 8th annual, Copenhagen, Denmark. http://www.mobiquitous.org/

December 6-9, 2011 International Conference on Teaching and Learning in Higher Education, Sustaining Student-Centric Higher Education – Embracing Diversity and Empowering GEN Y Learners, organized by the National University of Singapore, Singapore. http://www.cdtl.nus.edu.sg/tlhe/

December 7-9, 2011 Society for Research into Higher Education (SRHE) Annual Conference, Celtic Manor, Newport, South Wales, The United Kingdom. http://www.srhe.ac.uk/conference2011/index.asp

December 8-9, 2011 Lessons and Insights from Ten eLearning Masters, offered by the eLearning Guild, online. http://www.elearningguild.com/online-forums/content/1855/2011-olf---dec-8--9

December 8-10, 2011 International Conference on Web-based Learning (ICWL), 10th, Hong Kong, China. http://www.hkws.org/conference/icwl2011/index.html

December 10-13, 2011 Technology Information Education Services (TIES) Educational Technology Conference, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA. http://www.ties.k12.mn.us/Conferences.html

December 11-14, 2011 International Conference for Internet Technology and Secured Transactions (ICITST-2011), 6th, hosted by Khalifa University, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. http://www.icitst.org/

December 12-15, 2011 ACM Special Interest Group on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques, SIGGRAPH Asia 2011, 4th, Hong Kong, China. http://www.siggraph.org/asia2011/

December 14-16, 2011 Technology for Education, sponsored by the International Association of Science and Technology for Development (IASTED), Dallas, Texas, USA. http://www.iasted.org/conferences/

December 15-16, 2011 Hong Kong Educational Research Association (HKERA) Annual Conference, Hong Kong, China. http://www.hkera.edu.hk/eng/index.html

December 21-23, 2011 World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology (WASET) Winter Congress, Phuket, Thailand. http://www.waset.org/

December 25-27, 2011 World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology (WASET) Winter Conference, Bangkok, Thailand. http://www.waset.org/

As of May 17/11, information for the 2011 versions of the 2010 events below was NOT available.

December 7-11, 2010 Blueprint for Excellence National Conference, Walt Disney World, Orlando, Florida, USA. http://www.blueribbonschools.com

December 10-11, 2010 Ubiquitous Learning Conference, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. http://ubi-learn.com/conference-2010/

December 14, 2010 International Workshop on Knowledge Discovery Using Cloud and Distributed Computing Platforms, Sydney, Australia. http://www.ornl.gov/sci/knowledgediscovery/CloudComputing/KDCloud-10/

December 16-18, 2010 International Conference on Ubiquitous Information Technologies and Applications (CUTE 2010), 5th, Sanya, China. http://grid.hust.edu.cn/CUTE2010/

December 28-30, 2010 International Conference on Information and Multimedia Technology (ICIMT), 2nd, Hong Kong, China. http://www.icimt.org/

January 2012

January 2- 4, 2012 College Teaching and Learning Conference, sponsored by the Clute Institute for Academic Research, Orlando, California, USA. http://www.cluteinstitute.com

January 3-6, 2012 National Institute on the Teaching of Psychology (NIToP), 34th, annual, The TradeWinds Island Grand Hotel, St. Petersburg Beach, Florida, USA. http://nitop.org

January 3-6, 2012 International Conference on Distributed Computing and Networking (ICDCN), 13th, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, China. http://icdcn2012.comp.polyu.edu.hk/

January 4-6, 2012 International Conference on Multimedia Modeling, 18th, Klagenfurt, Austria, Taiwan. http://mmm2011.org/

January 4-7, 2012 Presidents Institute, sponsored by the Council of Independent Colleges, Marco Island, Florida, USA. http://www.cic.edu/conferences_events/index.asp

January 4-7, 2012 Association for Science Teacher Education (ASTE) International Conference, Clearwater Beach, Florida, USA. http://theaste.org/meetings/2012conference/

January 5-7, 2012 International Conference on e-Education, e-Business, e-Management and e-Learning (IC4E), Mumbai, India. http://www.iacsit.org/ic4e/

January 5-8, 2012 International Congress for School Effectiveness and Improvement Conference (ICSEI 2012), 25th, Malmö, Sweden. http://www.icsei.net/

January 5-8, 2012 Hawaii International Conference on Education, 10th, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA. http://www.hiceducation.org/

January 8-10, 2012 World Universities Forum, 5th, University of the Aegean, Rhodes, Greece. http://www.universitiesforum.com or http://ontheuniversity.com/conference-2012/

January 10-13, 2012 International Consumer Electronics Show (CES), Las Vegas, Nevada, USA. http://www.cesweb.org/

January 10-13, 2012 Higher Ed Tech Summit, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA. http://higheredtechsummit.com/

January 10-13, 2012 Hawaii International Conference on Arts and Humanities, 10th annual, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA. http://www.hichumanities.org/

January 11-12, 2012 Committee on College Teaching and Learning Conference on Teaching and Learning, 10th annual, Niagara University, Niagara, New York, USA. http://www.niagara.edu/conference-information/

January 12-13, 2012 Institute for New Chief Academic Officers, sponsored by the American Council on Education (ACE), Florida, USA. http://www.acenet.edu/AM/Template.cfm?Section=CAOS1

January 15-17, 2012 International Conference on Computer and Information Technology (ICCIT), Zurich, Switzerland. http://www.waset.org/conferences/2012/zurich/iccit/

January 15-17, 2012 International Conference on Innovation, Management and Technology, Zurich, Switzerland. http://www.waset.org/conferences/2012/zurich/icimt/

January 15-18, 2012 Pacific Telecommunications Council (PC’12): Harnessing Disruption – Global, Mobile, Social, Local, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA. http://www.ptc.org/

January 16-20, 2012 Learning and Intelligent OptimizatioN (LION 5), Paris, France. http://www.intelligent-optimization.org/LION6/

January 20-24, 2012 American Library Association Midwinter Meeting, Dallas, Texas , USA. http://www.ala.org/

January 21-27, 2012 International Conference on Current Trends in Theory and Practice of Computer Science, 38th, Špindlerův Mlýn, Czech Republic. http://www.sofsem.cz/sofsem12/index.php

January 22-25, 2012 Association for Communications Technology Professionals in Higher Education (ACUTA) Winter Seminar, Renaissance Esmeralda Resort, Palm Springs, California, USA. http://www.acuta.org/

January 23-26, 2012 Florida Educational Technology (FETC) Conference, Orlando, Florida, USA. http://www.fetc.org/

January 24-27, 2012 International Conference on Information Technology and Travel Tourism (ENTER): eTourism Present and Future Services and Applications organized by the International Federation for Information Technology and Travel and Tourism (IFITT), 18th, Helsingborg, Sweden. http://www.ifitt.org/congresses/website/enter2012/

January 25-26, 2012 Learning Technologies 2012, Olympia 2, London, The United Kingdom. http://www.learningtechnologies.co.uk/

January 25-27, 2012 American Society for Training and Development (ASTD) TechKnowledge, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA. http://www.astd.org/content/conferences/

January 25-28, 2012 Association of American Colleges and Universities (AAC&U) Annual Meeting: Shared Futures/Difficult Choices – Reclaiming a Democratic Vision for College Learning, Global Engagement and Success, 68th, Washington, DC, USA. http://www.aacu.org/meetings/annualmeeting/index.cfm

January 26-28, 2012 Macworld Conference and Expo, Moscone Center, San Francisco, California, USA. http://www.macworldexpo.com/

January 26-28, 2012 Assistive Technology Industry Association (ATIA) Conference, Orlando, California, USA. http://www.atia.org/

January 29-February 1, 2012 National Association of Independent Colleges and Universities (NAICU) Annual Conference, Hyatt Regency on Capitol Hill, Washington, D.C., USA. http://www.naicu.edu/events/

January 30-February 2, 2012 Conference on e-Learning Excellence in the Middle East: Sustainable Innovation in Education – Capacity-building, blended learning and beyond, 5th, Dubai, United Arab Emirates. http://congress.hbmeu.ac.ae/learning/call-paper-2012

January 30-February 2, 2012 Quality Conference in the Middle East: Innovation Based Competitiveness and Business Excellence, 6th, United Arab Emirates. http://congress.hbmeu.ac.ae/qc/call-paper-2012

January 30-February 2, 2012 e-Health and Environment Conference in the Middle East: Building an Innovative and Competitive Vision for e-Health and Environment in the 21st Century, http://congress.hbmeu.ac.ae/ehealth/conference-overview

January 31-February 1, 2012 iLearning Paris Forum 2011, 7th, Espace Champerret, Paris, France. http://www.ilearningforum.org/

January ?, 2012 The 6th Technology for Innovation and Education in Developing Countries (TEDC 2010) Workshop, was held January 21-23, 2010 in Maputo, Mozambique. http://cs.joensuu.fi/tedc2010/index.html

February 2012

February 3-5, 2012 Good Teaching Conference North, sponsored by the California Teachers’ Association, Marriott Hotel, San Jose, California, USA. http://www.cta.org/Professional-Development/Events/Conferences/index.aspx

February 5-7, 2012 CASE-NAIS Independent Schools Conference, 42nd annual, sponsored by the Council for Advancement and Support of Education (CASE), San Francisco, California, USA. http://www.case.org/Conferences_and_Training/CASE-NAIS12.html

February 6-8, 2012 International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence (ICAART), 4th, Vilamoura, Algarve, Portugal. http://www.icaart.org

February 7-8, 2012 Management World 2012, Pan Pacific Hotel, Singapore, Singapore. http://www.tmforum.org/Conferences/734/Home.html

February 8-11, 2012 International Self-Directed Learning Symposium, 26th, sponsored by the International Society for Self-Directed Learning, Courtyard by Marriott, Cocoa Beach, Florida, USA. http://www.oltraining.com/SDLwebsite/indexSDL.php

February 9-11, 2012 Association of Mathematics Teacher Education (AMTE), 16th, Fort Worth, Texas, USA. http://www.amte.net/conferences

February 11-15, 2012 Association of Teacher Educators Annual Meeting, San Antonio, Texas, USA. http://www.ate1.org/pubs/home.cfm

February 12-15, 2012 Winter Senior Executive Management Seminar, sponsored by the Association of Private Sector Colleges and Universities, Ritz Carlton, Lake Tahoe, Truckee, California, USA. http://www.career.org/iMISPublic/AM/Template.cfm?Section=Upcoming_Events&Template=/TaggedPage/TaggedPageDisplay.cfm&TPLID=43&ContentID=17332

February 13-15, 2012 EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative (ELI) 2012, Austin, Texas, USA. http://www.educause.edu/ELIEventsCalendar

February 15-17, 2012 New Learning Technologies, hosted by the Society for Applied Learning Technology (SALT), Caribe Royale Hotel, Orlando, Florida, USA. http://www.salt.org/

February 15-17, 2012 Telehealth, sponsored by the International Association of Science and Technology for Development (IASTED), Innsbruck, Austria. http://www.iasted.org/conferences/

February 15-17, 2012 Assistive Technologies, sponsored by the International Association of Science and Technology for Development (IASTED), Innsbruck, Austria. http://www.iasted.org/conferences/

February 17-19, 2012 American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education (AACTE), 64th, Chicago, Illinois, USA. http://aacte.org/

February 22-24, 2012 World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology (WASET) Winter Conference, Penang, Malaysia. http://www.waset.org/

February 23-25, 2012 General Education and Assessment: New Contexts, New Cultures, sponsored by the Association of American Colleges and Universities (AACU), New Orleans, Louisiana, USA., http://www.aacu.org/meetings/NetworkforAcademicRenewal.cfm

February 28-29, 2012 International Conference on Mobile Communication for Development (M4D), 3rd, New Delhi, India. http://www.m4d2012.com/

February 29-March 2, 2012 Information Communication Technology 2012, Kiev, Ukraine. http://www.ictexpo.info/en/

March 2012

March 2-4, 2012 T3 – Teachers Teaching with Technology International Conference, Hyatt Regency Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA. http://www.t3ww.org/ or http://education.ti.com/educationportal/sites/US/nonProductSingle/pd_internationalconferences.html

March 4-7, 2012 Innovations Conference, sponsored by the League for Innovation in the Community College, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. http://www.league.org/2/conferences/innovations/2012/cfp/cfp_page1.cfm

March 5-9, 2012 Society for Information Technology and Teacher Education (SITE), 23rd, Austin, Texas, USA. http://site.aace.org/conf/

March 7-9, 2012 International Problem-based Learning Symposium: PBL and the Problematization of Teaching and Learning, 3rd, Singapore, Singapore. http://www.rp.sg/symposium/2012/

March 10-13, 2012 American Council on Education Annual Meeting: Reaching Higher, 94th, Los Angeles, California, USA. http://www.acenet.edu//AM/Template.cfm?Section=Events2

March 15-17, 2012 International Technology and Engineering Educators Association (ITEEA) Annual Conference, 74th, Long Beach, California, USA. http://www.iteaconnect.org/Conference/conferenceguide.htm

March 12-16, 2012 International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies and Development, 5th, Atlanta, Georgia, USA. http://ictd2012.org/

March 16-18, 2012 Good Teaching Conference South, sponsored by the California Teachers’ Association, Hyatt Regency Orange County, Garden Grove, California, USA. http://www.cta.org/Professional-Development/Events/Conferences/index.aspx

March 21-22, 2012 The e-Assessment Question 2012: Impact of e-Assessment on Qualifications, Awarding and Certification, 10th annual, America Square Conference Centre, London, United Kingdom. http://www.e-assess.co.uk/

March 21-22, 2012 The E-Learning Foundations Intensive sponsored by the Learning Solutions Magazine, Orlando, California, USA. http://www.learningsolutionsmag.com/content/1777/ls11---foundations-intensive

March 21-25, 2012 The Information Architecture Summit, sponsored by the American Society for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T), New Orleans, Louisiana, USA. http://www.asis.org/conferences.html

March 22-24, 2012 Student Success: Pushing Boundaries, Raising Bars, sponsored by the Association of American Colleges and Universities (AACU), Seattle, Washington, USA., http://www.aacu.org/meetings/NetworkforAcademicRenewal.cfm

March 23-25, 2012 Learning Solutions Conference and Expo sponsored by Learning Solutions Magazine, Orlando, Florida, USA. http://www.learningsolutionsmag.com/content/1408/

March 24-26, 2012 ASCD Annual Conference: A Collective Call to Action, sponsored by ASCD formerly known as the Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. http://www.ascd.org/conferences.aspx

March 26-27, 2012 Pacific Rim International Conference on Disabilities, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA. http://www.pacrim.hawaii.edu/

March 26-30, 2012 International Conference on Wireless, Mobile and Ubiquitous Technologies in Education (WMUTE2012), 7th, Takamatsu, Japan. The 2010 website was http://celstec.org/content/ieee-wmute-international-conference-wireless-mobile-and-ubiquitous-technologies-education or http://celstec.org/content/cfp-wmute2010. The 2012 website to be announced.

March 27-29, 2012 World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology (WASET) Spring Congress, Dubai, United Arab Emirates. http://www.waset.org/

March 29-April 1, 2012 National Science Teachers Association, Indianapolis, Indiana, USA. http://www.nsta.org/conferences/future.aspx?lid=tnav

April 2012

April 1-4, 2012 American Association of Collegiate Registrars and Admissions Officers, (AACRAO) Transfer Conference, 98th, Pennsylvania Convention Centre, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. http://www.aacrao.org/meetings/

April 12-16, 2012 IEEE International Conference on Digital Game and Intelligent Toy Enhanced Learning (DIGITEL 2010), 4th, Kagawa, Japan. 2010 conference site: http://digitel2010.cl.ncu.edu.tw/, 2012 conference site to be announced.

April 13-17, 2012 American Educational Research Association Annual Meeting: Non Satis Scire – To Know Is Not Enough, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. http://www.aera.net/

April 15-17, 2012 Distance Education and Training Council’s (DETC) Annual Conference, 86th, Wailea Beach Marriott Resort, Wailea, Maui, Hawaii, USA. http://www.detc.org/meetingsReports.html#calendar

April 16-18, 2012 International Conference on Information Technology: New Generations (ITNG), 9th, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA. http://www.itng.info/

April 22-25, 2012 National Association of Campus Card Users (NACCU), 19th annual, Seattle, Washington, USA. http://www.naccu.org/

April 22-26, 2012 Canada International Conference on Education (CICE), Toronto, Ontario, Canada. http://www.ciceducation.org/

April 23-24, 2012 European Conference on Intellectual Capital, 4th, Helsinki, Finland. http://academic-conferences.org/ecic/ecic2012/ecic12-home.htm

April 25-27, 2012 World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology (WASET) Spring Congress, Venice, Italy. http://www.waset.org/

April 25-27, 2012 International Conference on e-Democracy, e-Government and e-Society, Venice Italy. http://www.waset.org/conferences/2012/italy/icdgs/

April 25-28, 2012 Conference of the Americas on International Education (CAIE), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. http://caie-caei.org/?lang=en_us

April 25-28, 2012 National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM), Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. http://www.nctm.org/conferences/default.aspx?id=52

April 29-May 2, 2012 Association for Information Communications Technology Professionals in Higher Education (ACUTA), Annual Conference and Exhibition, 41st, Indianapolis, Indiana, USA. http://www.acuta.org/

April ?, 2012 Off-Campus Library Services Conference, 15th, held every second year, ?, ?, USA. http://ocls.cmich.edu/conf2010/index.html

April ?, 2012 Australian Council for Computers in Education Conference, biennial, was held April 6-9, 2010 in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. http://www.acce.edu.au/

April ?, 2012 New Zealand Association of Distance Education (DEANZ) Conference, held every two years. The 2010 conference was held at Te Papa Tongarewa, National Museum of New Zealand, Wellington, New Zealand, http://www.deanz.org.nz/

May 2012

May 6-9, 2012 American Society for Training and Development (ASTD) Conference and Exposition, Denver, Colorado, USA. http://www.astd.org/content/conferences/

May 13-15, 2012 International Conference on e-Education and e-Learning, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. http://www.waset.org/conferences/2012/netherlands/iceeel/

May 13-15, 2012 International Conference on Open Learning and Distance Education, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. http://www.waset.org/conferences/2012/netherlands/icolde/

May 13-15, 2012 International Conference on Educational Sciences and Technology, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. http://www.waset.org/conferences/2012/netherlands/icest/

May 18-23, 2012 Medical Library Association (MLA), Seattle, Washington, USA. http://www.mlanet.org/am/meetings.html

May 21-24, 2012 World Congress on Information Technology (WCIT 2012), 18th, organized by the World information Technology and Services Alliance, Montreal, Quebec, Canada. http://www.wcit2012.org/

May 22-25, 2012 Inclusive Learning Technologies Conference, hosted by Spectronics, Jupiters Gold Coast Hotel, Queensland, Australia, www.spectronicsinoz.com/conference/2012

May 27-30, 2012 Canadian Association for University Continuing Education (CAUCE) Conference: Leadership and Advocacy, 59th, University of Saskatchewan, Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada. http://cauce-aepuc.ca/news-events/conference.aspx

May 29-31, 2012 International Conference on Human Computer Interaction, Tokyo, Japan. http://www.waset.org/conferences/2012/tokyo/ichci/

May 30-June 2, 2012 Canadian Library Association, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. http://www.cla.ca/AM/Template.cfm?Section=Future_Conferences&Template=/CM/HTMLDisplay.cfm&ContentID=7958

June 2012

June 1-3, 2012 The Teaching Professor Conference, 9th, Washington, DC, USA. http://www.teachingprofessor.com/

June 4-8, 2012 Global Learn Asia Pacific: Global Conference on Learning and Technology, Singapore, Singapore. http://www.aace.org/conf/glearn/

June 10-15, 2012 IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence (WCCI), Brisbane, Australia. http://www.ieee-wcci2012.org/

June 13-15, 2012 International Symposium on Electronic Theses and Dissertations (ETD), 14th, organized by the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations (NDTD), Lima, Peru. http://www.ndltd.org/

June 14-16, 2012 Institute for New Chief Academic Officers, sponsored by American Council on Education (ACE), Washington, DC, USA. http://www.acenet.edu/AM/Template.cfm?Section=CAOS1

June 20-22, 2012 Association for Private Sector Colleges and Universities (APSCU) Convention and Exposition, Mandalay Bay Resort, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA. http://www.career.org/iMISPublic/AM/Template.cfm?Section=Upcoming_Events&Template=/TaggedPage/TaggedPageDisplay.cfm&TPLID=43&ContentID=17332

June 25-29, 2012 ED-MEDIA 2012: World Conference on Educational Multimedia, Hypermedia and Telecommunications, sponsored by the Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE), Denver, Colorado, USA. http://aace.org/conf/

June 25-29, 2012 Microsoft Tech Ed Europe, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. http://europe.msteched.com/

June 27-29, 2012 International Conference on Higher Education, Paris, France. http://www.waset.org/conferences/2012/paris/iche/

June 27-29, 2012 International Conference on Education and Information Technology, Paris, France. http://www.waset.org/conferences/2012/paris/iceit/

June ?, 2012 International Consortium for Educational Development, biennial, Barcelona, Spain. http://www.osds.uwa.edu.au/iced

June ?, 2012 International Conference in University Learning and Teaching (InCULT), biennial conference, Hatfield, Hertfordshire, The United Kingdom. http://www.herts.ac.uk/more/incult-conference/

June ?, 2012 Science Learning and Teaching Conference: Towards Excellent Science Teaching in University Based Education”, biennial conference, location to be announced, http://www.sltc.info/ or http://www.bioscience.heacademy.ac.uk/hosted/sltc/

June ?, 2012 Teaching with Technology Idea Exchange 2010, location to be announced USA. http://www.ttix.org/

June ?, 2012 International Conference on Cultural Attitudes towards Technology and Communication, biennial conference, was held June 15-18, 2010 in Vancouver, British Columbia, USA. http://www.catacconference.org/

June ?, 2012 Psychology Learning and Teaching (PLAT0) Conference. The 5th biennial conference was held June 30-July 2, 2010. It was organized by the Psychology Network, Edinburgh Napier University, Edinburgh, Scotland, The United Kingdom. http://www.psychology.heacademy.ac.uk/plat2010/

July 2012

July 1-3, 2012 American Association of Collegiate Registrars and Admissions Officers Technology Conference, Palmer House Hilton, Chicago, Illinois, USA. http://www.aacrao.org/

July 1-3, 2012 July 1-3, 2012 American Association of Collegiate Registrars and Admissions Officers Transfer Conference, Palmer House Hilton, Chicago, Illinois, USA. http://www.aacrao.org/

July 9-14, 2012 International Association for the Scientific Study of Intellectual Disabilities (IASSID) World Congress, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. https://www.iassid.org/

July 10-13, 2012 Australia Library and Information Association Biennial Conference: Discovery, Hilton Hotel, Sydney, Australia. http://conferences.alia.org.au/alia2012/

July 11-13, 2012 International Conference on Computers Helping People (ICCHP) with Special Needs, 13th, Linz, Austria. http://www.icchp.org/

July 17-21, 2012 Association on Higher Education and Disability (AHEAD) Conference, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA. http://www.ahead.org/

July 22-27, 2012 International Conference on Psychology Education (ICOPE), 5th, in affiliation with the International Congress of Psychology (ICP) Cape Town, South Africa. http://web.mac.com/rvelayo/Div52Announcements/Upcoming_Events.html or http://www.icp2012.com/index.php?bodyhtml=home.html

July 28-31, 2012 National Association of College and University Business Officers (NACUBO), Washington, DC, USA. http://www.nacuboannualmeeting.org/ or nacubo.org

July ? 2012 Association for Educational Communications and Technology (AECT), Summer Research Symposium, USA. http://www.aect.org/events/

July ? 2012 Languages in Higher Education was held July 1-2, 2010 in London, The United Kingdom. http://www.llas.ac.uk/

July ?, 2012, International Workshop-Conference on Teaching Philosophy (IWCTP), 19th biennial, sponsored by the American Association of Philosophy Teachers (AAPT), USA. http://philosophyteachers.org/

August 2012

August 29-31, 2012 Improving Student Learning for the 21st Century Learner Symposium, Lund University, Lund, Sweden. http://www.brookes.ac.uk/services/ocsld/isl/index.html

September 2012

September 5-7, 2012 Health Informatics, sponsored by the International Association of Science and Technology for Development (IASTED), Gaborone, Botswana. http://www.iasted.org/conferences/

September 9-10, 2012 The Science and Art of Language Teaching (SALT), Beyond 2012 – Building the Future with What We Have, Arau, Perlis, Malaysia http://icon.saltofworld.org/index.php/SALT/2012SALT

September 12-14, 2012 International Conference on Health and Medical Informatics, Singapore, Singapore. http://www.waset.org/conferences/2012/singapore/ichmi/

September 17-21, 2012 European Conference on Educational Research, University of Cadiz, Cadiz Spain. http://www.eera-ecer.eu/

September 23-26, 2012 Library and Information Society of New Zealand (LIANZA), Palmerston North, New Zealand. http://lianza.org.nz/node/2995

September ?, 2012 Fun and Games, ?. http://www.fng2010.org/

October 2012

October 2-5, 2012 Australian Computers in Education Conference, sponsored by the Australian Council for Computers in Education and the Educational Computing Association of Western Australia, Perth, Australia. http://acec2012.info/

October 8-12, 2012 E-Learn 2012: World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare and Higher Education, Montreal, Quebec, Canada. http://www.aace.org/conf/elearn/

October 15-16, 2012 Distance Education and Training Council (DETC) Distance Education Workshop, El Dorado Hotel and Spa, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA. http://www.detc.org/meetingsReports.html#calendar

October 20-25, 2012 World Congress on Information Technology (WCIT), Montreal, Quebec, Canada. http://www.wcit2012.org/

October 24-26, 2012 International Conference on Computer, Information and Network Security, Bali, Indonesia. http://www.waset.org/conferences/2012/bali/iccins/

October 24-26, 2012 Worlddidac Basel: International Exhibition for Education and Training, Basel, Switzerland. http://www.worlddidacbasel.com/go/id/ss/lang/eng/

October 24-28, 2012 Professional and Organizational Development (POD) Network in Higher Education Conference, Seattle, Washington, USA. http://www.podnetwork.org/conferences/futureconferences.htm

October 26-31, 2012 The Information Society for the Information Age, 75th annual, sponsored by the American Society for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T), Hyatt Regency New Orleans, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA. http://www.asis.org/conferences.html

October 29-31, 2012 Association of Research Libraries Library Assessment Conference: Building Effective, Sustainable, Practical Assessment, Charlottesville, Virginia, USA. http://www.libraryassessment.org/

November 2012

November 4-7, 2012 American Association of Collegiate Registrars and Admissions Officers Strategic Enrollment Management Conference, 22nd annual, Hilton Orlando Bonnet Creek, Orlando, Florida, USA. http://www.aacrao.org/

November 6-9, 2012 EDUCAUSE, Denver, Colorado, USA. http://net.educause.edu/EDUCAUSEAnnualConference/1352

November 12-16, 2012 International Association of Universities General Conference, 14th, InterAmerican University of Puerto Rico, San Juan, Puerto Rico. http://www.iau-aiu.net/civicrm/event/info?reset=1&id=45

November 15-18, 2012 University Council for Educational Administration (UCEA), Denver, Colorado, USA. http://www.ucea.org/future-conventions/

November 18-21, 2012 International Telecommunications Society Asian Symposium, 19th biennial conference, Thammasat University, Phuket, Thailand. http://www.itsworld.org/

November ?, 2012 IEEE International Conference on Digital Games and Intelligent Toys Enhanced Learning (DIGITEL 2012), 4th will be held in Japan. http://digitel2010.cl.ncu.edu.tw/

December 2012

December ?, 2012 Worlddidac, international exhibition about educational materials and professional training, 3rd, Hanoi, Vietnam. http://www.worlddidacvietnam.com/