eLearning Strategies Symposium Call for Speakers

This was posted to the iNACOL forums a couple of days ago.

The Call for Presenters for our inaugural eLearning Strategies Symposium has been posted, and we hope you’ll consider sharing your expertise with California’s educators, administrators, advocates, and policymakers. The Symposium, a partnership between the California Learning Resource Network (CLRN) and Computer-Using Educators, will be held December 7th and 8th, 2012 at the Hilton Orange County/Costa Mesa. Our blog post about the conference and our call for speakers is copied below. You may also visit our conference web site <http://elearns.org> for more information. We hope you’ll share this with your networks.

eLearning Strategies Symposium

Call for Speakers

Computer-Using Educators (CUE) and the California Learning Resource Network (CLRN) are pleased to announce our call for speakers for the inaugural, 2012 eLearning Strategies Symposium (eSS). The symposium will be held at the Hilton Orange County/Costa Mesa on December 7th and 8th, 2012. Three-hour workshops will be offered on Thursday, December 6th. We invite you to share your eLearning expertise with K12 educators, administrators, policy makers, and industry representatives.

Two session proposal windows are offered. During this Early Bird window, which closes April 27th, we’ll be filling two-thirds of the concurrent sessions. A shorter, Just in Time, proposal window opens mid-August and closes in mid-September for the final third. Speaker acceptances for the first round will be emailed May 9-11, 2012. All speakers will receive a complementary registration to the symposium. Industry-sponsored sessions must include a Corporate Partnership Application.

Symposium presentations should focus on one of eSS’ five strands:

Big Picture, which includes administration, management, evaluation, research, policy or advocacy;
Content (curriculum and online course development, best practices, accessibility, or instructional design);
Capacity Building (professional development);
Gear (tools, technologies, learning management systems, or application development); or
Pedagogy (engaging students, teaching and learning pedagogies, blended learning models, learning communities, or assessment).
Symposium presentations are one-hour in duration with one session each hour being live-streamed and recorded for future distribution. Speakers may opt-out of live-streaming.

With online and blended learning growing 20-25% each year and with more than 20,000 California students participating in virtual or blended learning, now is the time for a California conference focused on teaching and learning online. Please join us in Costa Mesa next December.

eLearning Strategies Symposium Call for Speakers
www.cue.tc/elearns

eSS Web Site
http://elearns.org
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