The Division of Organizational Training and Performance of AECT is sponsoring a special issue of Tech Trends related to trends, issues, best practices and current research in organizational training and performance.

Special Issue Co-Editors

Nancy B. Hastings
University of West Florida
nhastings@uwf.edu

Jennifer A. Bauman
GP Strategies
jbauman@gpstrategies.com

Submissions should align with the Division Mission to bridge the gap between research and practice, facilitating communication, collaboration and sharing between academics, students, and practitioners across multiple disciplines interested in applying current theory and research to training and performance improvement initiatives.  The following is a non-exhaustive list of possible topic ideas:

• Applications of performance improvement processes in organizational settings
• Performance, gap and cause analysis in organizational settings
• Design, development, implementation and evaluation of models related to organizational training and performance
• Change management
• Informal learning
• Mentorship
• Coaching
• Motivation
• Employee development (leadership, faculty, etc.)
• Technology’s role/impact on organizational training and performance
• The relationship between theory and practice in organizational training and performance

Expected publication date: January 2020

Submission Information

Articles should follow the writing style guidelines for Tech Trends.  Submissions should be 4000-5000 words in length (10-15 pages) and abstracts should not exceed 150 words.  Use APA formatting throughout.

Please submit a brief abstract (approx. 500 words) of proposed articles to Nancy Hastings at nhastings@uwf.edu for initial review.  If accepted, you will be directed to a Tech Trends portal for this special issue where you will submit your full article per the schedule below.

We kindly ask authors to also serve as reviewers for other submissions.  Given your expertise in organizational training and performance, your peer review feedback is extremely valuable.  If you are willing to serve in this capacity please contact Nancy Hastings (nhastings@uwf.edu) or Jenny Bauman (jbauman@gpstrategies.com) to volunteer.  Thank you.

Important Dates

• February 25-Email submission of abstracts due
• April 8 – Full submissions due
• May 20 – Decisions made; feedback sent
• July 1 – Revisions due
• August 12 – Feedback on revised manuscripts
• September 9 – Revisions due

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The following list was adapted from Clayton R. Wright’s Educational Technology and Education Conferences List #37. Please refer to Wright’s complete list for other conferences as well as each conference website for more details. Each year I attend AECT, AERA, and 1-2 other conferences. I use this list to identify what other conferences I might attend. Thus, this list is focused on my research interests and/or convenient or interesting locations.

JUNE 2017

• June 10-14, 2017 Designing Interactive Systems (DIS) Conference: Space Place and Interface – Bridging and Connecting across Disciplines, Practices, Places and Understandings, annual. Sponsored by ACM Special Interest Group on Computer-Human Interaction (SIGCHI). Edinburgh, United Kingdom. http://dis2017.org/
• June 11-14, 2017 Australasian Council for Open, Distance and E-Learning (ACODE) and the Open University Technology Enhanced Learning (TEL) Benchmarking De Vere Horwood Estate, Milton Keynes, United Kingdom. http://www.acode.edu.au/course/view.php?id=23&section=1
• June 12-15, 2017 Innovate Education Colorado, (InnEdCo, formerly Technology in Education), biennial. Keystone, Colorado, USA. http://tiecolorado.org/
• June 13-15, 2017 New Media Consortium (NMC) Summer Conference: The Global EdTech Forum for Higher Ed, Museums, Libraries, and Schools, 24^th, annual. Boston, Massachusetts, USA. http://www.nmc.org/events/2017-nmc-summer-conference/
• June 13-16, 2017 European Distance and e-Learning Network (EDEN) Annual Conference: Diversity Matters, 26^th. Jönköping University, Jönköping, Sweden. http://www.eden-online.org/ or http://www.eden-online.org/2017_jonkoping/#9489ae5d9f936e649
• June 14-15, 2017 WCET (Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education [WICHE] Cooperative for Educational Technologies) Leadership Summit. Salt Lake City, Utah, USA. https://www.eiseverywhere.com/ehome/index.php?eventid=161705& or http://www.wiche.edu/events
• June 14-16, 2017 International Conference on E-Learning in the Workplace (ICELW), 10^th, annual. Columbia University, New York City, New York, USA. http://www.icelw.org/
• June 15-16, 2017 European University Association Council for Doctoral Education (EUA-CDE): Doctoral Education and Harnessing Digital Possibilities, 10^th. Hosted by Tallinn University, Tallinn, Estonia. http://www.eua.be/activities-services/events/event/2017/06/15/default-calendar/10th-eua-cde-annual-meeting
• June 18-21, 2017 Distance Learning Administration. Jekyll Island, Georgia, USA. http://www.westga.edu/~distance/dla/
• June 18-22, 2017 Pacific Northwest Great Teaching Seminar, 38^th, annual. Organized by Umpqua Community College. Menucha Retreat and Conference Center, Corbett, Oregon, USA. http://www.umpqua.edu/great-teaching-seminar
• June 19-20, 2017 Australian Council for Educational Leaders Disability Summit. Sydney Masonic Centre, Sydney, Australia. https://www.acel.org.au/acel/ACELWEB/Active/Event_Display.aspx?EventKey=17DS&WebsiteKey=20e11af7-b4d0-4ed8-b16e-21ea248da601
• June 19-21, 2017 Online Teaching Conference (OTC). Anaheim, California, USA. http://www.onlineteachingconference.org/
• June 19-August 11, 2017 Facilitating Online Organized by e/merge Africa. Offered online. http://emergeafrica.net/facilitating-online-2017/
• June 20-23, 2017 EdMedia World Conference on Educational Media and Technology. Organized by the Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE). Washington, D.C., USA. http://www.aace.org/conf/
• June 24-28, 2017 Design Research Society (DRS) Conference, biennial. University of Limerick, Limerick, Ireland. http://www.drs2018limerick.org/ or http://www.designresearchsociety.org/index.php/events/drs-biennial-conference
• June 25-28, 2017 International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE) Conference. San Antonio, Texas, USA. https://conference.iste.org/2017/
• June 26-30, 2017 International Conference on Communities and Technologies, 8^th, biennial. Université de Technologie de Troyes, Troyes, France. http://comtech.community/
• June 28-30, 2017 University of the West of Scotland (UWS) and Higher Education Teaching and Learning Association (HETL) Conference: Creating Inclusion and Diversity in Higher Education. University of the West of Scotland, Paisley, Scotland. http://uwshetl2017.uws.ac.uk/  https://www.hetl.org/events-calendar/#
• June 29-30, 2017 National Association of Disability Practitioners (NADP-UK) International Conference: DSA and Non-DSA – A Year of Adaption. Hinckley Island Hotel, Hinckley, Leicestershire, United Kingdom. https://nadp-uk.org/conferences/annual-conference-2017/
• June 30-July 2, 2017 ASCD Conference on Teaching Excellence. (ASCD, formerly the Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development). Denver, Colorado, USA. http://www.ascd.org/conferences/past-and-future-conferences.aspx
• June 30-July 5, 2017 National Education Association (NEA) Annual Meeting and Representative Assembly. Washington, D.C., USA. http://ra.nea.org/about/future-meeting-locations/

JULY 2017

• July 9-14, 2017 International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, 19^th. Vancouver Convention Centre, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. http://2017.hci.international/
• July 10-13, 2017 Annual National Summer Institute on Learning Communities, 19^th. National Resource Center for Learning Communities, Washington Center, Evergreen State College, Olympia, Washington, USA. http://wacenter.evergreen.edu/institute/
  July 17-19, 2017 Instructional Technology Council Distance Education Leadership Portland, Oregon, USA. http://www.itcleadershipacademy.org/
• July 19-20, 2017 Desire2Learn Fusion Global Education Conference, 13^th Bellagio, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA. http://www.brightspace.com/conferences/global/ or www.D2L.com/Fusion
• July 20-22, 2017 International Conference on e-Learning, 11^th. Lisbon, Portugal. http://elearning-conf.org/
• July 22-24, 2017 International Conference on Internet Studies (NETs). Osaka, Japan. http://www.internet-studies.org/
• July 25-27, 2017 Blackboard BbWorld. New Orleans, Louisiana, USA. http://bbworld.com/ or http://www.blackboard.com/about-us/eventscalendar.aspx
• July 25-27, 2017 INSTCON: Infrastructure Keystone, Colorado, USA. https://www.canvaslms.com/news/instructurecon/
• July 26-27, 2017 Annual Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) Education Conference, 4^th. InterContinental Sydney, Sydney, Australia. https://www.informa.com.au/event/stem-education-conference/ or https://www.informa.com.au/conferences/education/all/

AUGUST 2017

• August 1-2, 2017 eLearnz Conference and eLab. Auckland, New Zealand. http://www.elearnz.co.nz/
• August 8-10, 2017 International Conference on Collaboration Technologies (CollabTech), 9^th, biennial. University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada. http://www.collabtech.org/
• August 23-25, 2017 International Symposium on Open Collaboration (OpenSym), 13^th. National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland. http://www.opensym.org/
• August 27-30, 2017 TED (Technology, Entertainment, Design) Global: Builders, Truth-tellers, Catalysts. Arusha, Tanzania. https://www.ted.com/attend/conferences

SEPTEMBER 2017

• September 4-7, 2017 International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services (MobileHCI), 19th. Vienna, Austria. http://mobilehci.acm.org/2017/
• September 5-7, 2017 British Educational Research Association (BERA) Annual Conference. University of Sussex, Brighton, United Kingdom. https://www.bera.ac.uk/beraconference-2017
• September 5-7, 2017 International Conference of the Association for Learning Technology (ALT): Beyond Islands of Innovation – How Learning Technology Became the New Norm(al), 24^th, annual. University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom. https://www.alt.ac.uk/altc or https://altc.alt.ac.uk/2017/
• September 8-9, 2017 World Congress on Learning Disabilities, 25^th Caribe Royal Hotel, Orlando, Florida, USA. http://www.ldworldwide.org/
• September 18-20, 2017 International Conference on e-Learning and e-Technologies in Education (ICEEE), 6^th. Lodz University of Technology, Lodz, Poland. http://sdiwc.net/conferences/6th-international-conference-on-e-learning-and-e-technologies-in-education/
• September 20-22, 2017 e-Learning Innovations Conference and Expo (ELICE), 5^th. Nairobi, Kenya. http://elice.co/
• September 24-27, 2017 Quality Matters Connect Conference on Quality Assurance in Online Learning, 9^th Fort Worth, Texas, USA. https://www.qualitymatters.org/events
• September 25-26, 2017 International Conference on Education and e-Learning, (EeL) 7^th Singapore. http://e-learningedu.org/
• September 25-27, 2017 Online Learning Conference: Get Mobile, Use Games, Be Social, Drive Engagement. Organized by Training Hilton New Orleans Riverside, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA. http://www.trainingmag.com/training-magazine-events
• September 25-29, 2017 Interact Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, 15^th, biennial. Organized by the International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP). Mumbai, India. http://www.interact2017.org/
• September 28-29, 2017 eLearning, 8^th. Belgrade Metropolitan University, Begrade, Serbia. http://econference.metropolitan.ac.rs/

OCTOBER 2017

• October 2-November 24, 2017 Facilitating Online Organized by e/merge Africa. Offered online. http://emergeafrica.net/facilitating-online-2017/
• October 6-8, 2017 International Conference on Communication, Media, Technology and Design, 6^th. Famagusta, Cyprus. http://www.cmdconf.net/
• October 11-12, 2017 National University Technology Network (NUTN) Conference, 35^th. San Antonio, Texas, USA. http://www.nutn.org/
• October 11-14, 2017 International Society for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (ISSOTL): Reaching New Heights. Calgary, Alberta, Canada. http://www.issotl.com/issotl15/node/28
• October 15-17, 2017 Distance Education and Training Council’s (DETC) Fall Workshop. The Umstead Hotel and Spa, Cary, North Carolina, USA. http://www.deac.org/Media-and-Events/Upcoming-Events.aspx
• October 15-18, 2017 International Association for K-12 Online Learning (iNACOL) Blended and Online Learning Charlotte, North Carolina, USA. http://www.inacol.org/events/future-conferences/ or http://www.inacol.org/events/future-conferences/
• October 16-19, 2017World Conference on Online Learning: Teaching in a Digital Age – Re-thinking Teaching and Learning, the 27^thInternational Council for Open and Distance Education (ICDE) World Conference. Organized and hosted by Contact North. Sheraton Centre, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. http://onlinelearning2017.ca/en/ or http://www.icde.org/
• October 16-20, 2017 Adobe MAX: The Creative Conference. The Venetian, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA. http://max.adobe.com/?trackingid=KSCMT&chrome=false&autoplay=true
• October 17-20, 2017 World Conference on E-Learn. Organized by the Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE). Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. http://www.aace.org/conf/
• October 19-20, 2017 Annual Conference on Learning Disabilities, 39^th. Organized by the Council for Learning Disabilities. Lord Baltimore Hotel, Baltimore, Maryland, USA. http://www.council-for-learning-disabilities.org/
• October 19-21, 2017 Association of Internet Researchers (AoIR) Conference, 18^th, annual. Hosted by the University of Tartu and Tallinn University. Tartu and Tallinn, Estonia. http://aoir.org/aoir2017/
• October 25-27, 2017 DevLearnConference and Expo (focuses on the use of learning technologies). Organized by the eLearning Guild. The Mirage Hotel and Casino, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA. https://www.elearningguild.com/content.cfm?selection=doc.4655
• October 25-27, 2017 WCET (Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education [WICHE] Cooperative for Educational Technologies), 29^th, annual. Denver, Colorado, USA. https://www.eiseverywhere.com/ehome/index.php?eventid=161705& or http://www.wiche.edu/events
• October 26-27, 2017 European Conference on e-Learning (ECEL), 16^th. Porto, Portugal. http://www.academic-conferences.org/conferences/ecel/
• October 30-November 1, 2017 mLearn: World Conference on Mobile and Contextual Learning – To stimulate critical debate and research into theories, approaches, principles and application of various aspects of mLearning, 16^th. Sponsored by the International Association for Mobile Learning (IAmLearn). Organized by the University of Cyprus and Cyprus University of Technology. Larnaca, Cyprus. http://iamlearn.org/mlearn/
• October 31-November 3, 2017 EDUCAUSE (higher education information technology) Annual Conference. Offered online and in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. http://www.educause.edu/annual-conference/upcoming-annual-conference-dates-and-locations or https://events.educause.edu/event-finder
• October 31-November 3, 2017 American Association for Adult and Continuing Education (AAACE) International Conference and Exposition: Adult Education – One Chorus of Many Voices, 66^th. Sheraton Memphis Downtown Hotel, Memphis Tennessee, USA. http://www.aaace.org/page/2017ConferenceTimeli

NOVEMBER 2017

• November 2-4, 2017 International Conference on Education and E-Learning (ICEEL), 7^th. Bangkok, Thailand. http://www.iceel.org/
• November 6-9, 2017 International Society for Design and Development in Education (ISDDE) Conference, 13^th. University of California, Berkeley, California, USA. http://www.isdde.org/isdde/index.htm
• November 6-9, 2017 National Symposium on Student Retention, 13^th, annual. Sandestin Golf and Beach Resort, Destin, Florida, USA. http://csrde.ou.edu/web/symposium/
• November 6-11, 2017 American Evaluation Association Annual Conference: From Learning to Action, 31^st. Washington, D.C., USA. http://www.eval.org/p/cm/ld/fid=540
• November 6-11, 2017 Association for Educational Communications and Technology (AECT) International Convention. Hyatt Regency Jacksonville Riverfront, Jacksonville, Florida, USA. http://aect.site-ym.com/?futureevents
• November 7-9, 2017 National Symposium on Student Retention (NSSR). Sandestin Golf and Beach Resort, Destin, Florida, USA. https://csrde.ou.edu/symposium/
• November 8-11, 2017 Association for the Study of Higher Education (ASHE) Annual Conference: Power to the People, 42^nd. Houston, Texas, USA. http://www.ashe.ws/?page=107
• November 14-17, 2017 International Conference on Interactive Digital Storytelling (ICIDS), 10^th. Funchal, Madeira, Portugal. http://www.icids.org/ or http://icids2017.m-iti.org/
• November 15-17, 2017 Online Learning (previously, Sloan) Consortium (OLC) International Conference, 23^rd Offered online and at the Walt Disney World Swan and Dolphin Resort, Orlando, Florida, USA. http://onlinelearningconsortium.org/olc-accelerate/ or http://onlinelearningconsortium.org/annualconferences
• November 15-17, 2017 The Council for Adult and Experiential Learning (CAEL) International Conference: Oceans of Opportunity, 43^rd. San Diego, California, USA. http://www.cael.org/events
• November 15-18, 2017 Learning Resources Network (LERN) Annual Conference. Portland, Oregon, USA. https://lern.org/
• November 16-18, 2017 Association for the Study of Higher Education (ASHE) Annual Conference. Marriott Marquis Houston, Houston, Texas, USA. http://www.ashe.ws/?page=107
• November 17-December 6, 2017 From Courses to Colleges to Campus: How to Evaluated Online Teaching for Your Whole Campus. Offered online by EDUCAUSE. https://events.educause.edu/eli/courses/webinar/2017/from-courses-to-colleges-to-campus-how-to-evaluate-online-teaching-for-your-whole-campus-1 or https://events.educause.edu/event-finder
• November 23-25, 2017 European Quality Assurance Forum (EQAF): Responsible Quality Assurance – Committing to Impact, 12^th. Sponsored by the European University Association. Hosted by the University of Latvia, Riga, Latvia. http://www.eua.be/activities-services/events/event/2017/11/23/default-calendar/12th-european-quality-assurance-forum
• November 24-25, 2017 International Congress on Distance Education and Educational Technology (ICDET), 3^rd. Antalya, Istanbul, Turkey. http://www.icdet.net/
• November 10-12, 2016 Symposium on Scholarship of Teaching and Learning: Learning In and Across Disciplines, 7^th, annual. Organized by the Institute for Scholarship of Teaching and Learning at Mount Royal University. Banff, Alberta, Canada. http://isotlsymposium.mtroyal.ca/
• November 30-December 2, 2016 International Forum for Women in E-learning. Organized by the United States Distance Learning Association (USDLA). Hotel Contessa on the Riverwalk, San Antonio, Texas, USA. https://www.usdla.org/events/ifwe/

DECEMBER 2017

• December 11-14, 2017 World Congress on Special Needs Education (WCSNE) University of Cambridge, United Kingdom. http://wcsne.org/
• December 20-22, 2017 International Conference on Distance Learning and Education (ICDLE), 8^th. Barcelona, Spain. http://www.icdle.org/

JANUARY 2018

• January 4-7, 2018 Hawaii International Conference on Education, 16^th Co-sponsored by California State University East Bay, Drexel University, Pepperdine University, and the University of Louisville. Hilton Hawaiian Village, Waikiki Beach, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA. http://www.hiceducation.org/
• January 26-27, 2018 International Conference on e-Learning, e-Education and Online Training (eLEOT), 4^th. Sponsored by the European Alliance for Innovation. Switzerland. http://eleot.org/2018/show/home
• January 30-February 1, 2018 Learning Technologies. Olympia, London, United Kingdom. http://www.learningtechnologies.co.uk/

FEBRUARY 2018

• February 11-14, 2018 eLearning Organized by the Instructional Technology Council (ITC). Tucson, Arizona, USA. http://www.itcnetwork.org/
• February 14-16, 2018 Northwest Council for Computer Education (NCCE). Washington State Convention Center, Seattle, Washington, USA. http://www.ncce.org/
• February 21-24, 2018 Learning Disabilities Association of America (IDA) International Conference, 55^th Atlanta, Georgia, USA. http://ldaamerica.org/events/annual-conference/ 

MARCH 2018

• March 1-2, 2018 Expo eLearning, 17^th. Madrid, Spain. http://www.expoelearning.com/
• March 2-3, 2018 International Conference on e-Learning and Innovative Pedagogies, 11^th. St John’s University, Manhattan Campus, New York City, New York, USA. http://ubi-learn.com/2018-conference/call-for-papers?utm_source=Q18FES1
• March 5-8, 2018 SXSWedu (South by Southwest Education – Music, Film, Interactive). Austin, Texas, USA. http://sxswedu.com/
• March 20-22, 2018 eLearning Paris Porte de Versailles, Paris, France. http://www.e-learning-expo.com/
• March 22-24, 2018 Diversity, Learning, and Student Success. Organized by the Association of American Colleges and Universities (AAC&U). The Westin Gaslamp, San Diego, California, USA. http://www.aacu.org/events
• March 24-26, 2018 ASCD Empower: The Conference for Every Educator, 73^rd. (ASCD, formerly the Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development) Boston, Massachusetts, USA. http://www.ascd.org/conferences/past-and-future-conferences.aspx

APRIL 2018

• April 10-14, 2018 TED (Technology, Entertainment, Design). Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. https://www.ted.com/attend/conferences

JUNE 2018

• June ? 2018 International Conference of the Learning Sciences (ICLS), 13^th Organized by the International Society of the Learning Sciences. The 12^th was held June 20-24, 2016 in Singapore. https://www.isls.org/ or https://www.isls.org/icls/2016/

JULY 2018

• July 11-13, 2018 International Conference on Computers Helping People (ICCHP) with Special Needs, 16^th. University of Linz, Linz, Austria. http://www.icchp.org/

OCTOBER 2018

• October 23-27, 2018 Association for Educational Communications and Technology (AECT) International Convention. Kansas City Marriott, Kansas, Missouri, USA. http://aect.site-ym.com/?futureevents
• October 30-November 2, 2018 EDUCAUSE (higher education information technology) Annual Conference. Offered online and in Denver, Colorado, USA. http://www.educause.edu/annual-conference/upcoming-annual-conference-dates-and-locations or https://events.educause.edu/event-finder
• October ? 2018 Open and Distance Learning Association of Australia (ODLAA) Education Summit: Open, Flexible, Distance Education and eLearning, Previously held October 31-November 3, 2016 in Perth, Western Australia, Australia. https://odlaa.org/summit-2015/

NOVEMBER 2018

• November 15-17, 2018 Association for the Study of Higher Education (ASHE) Annual Conference. Tampa Marriott Waterside, Tampa, Florida, USA. http://www.ashe.ws/?page=107
• November 15-17, 2018 European Quality Assurance Forum (EQAF), 13^th. Hosted by the Vienna University of Economics and Business and AQ Austria, Vienna, Austria. http://www.eua.be/activities-services/events/event/2018/11/15/default-calendar/13th-european-quality-assurance-forum

DECEMBER 2018

• December ? 2018 Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE) International Conference on MOOCs, Innovation and Technology in Education, 5^th The 4^th was held December 9-10, 2016 at Thiagarajar College of Engineering, Madurai, India. http://www.mite2016.com/