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“All this technology is making us antisocial”

Dr. Tim Green at Cal State Fullerton interviewed me about social presence:

From my inbox,

Upcoming Educational-Technology-and-Education-Conferences (January to June 2014 and beyond)–including instructional design and technology and online learning conferences.

The original list was prepared by Clayton R. Wright, November 13, 2013. I shortened it listing conferences that interest me (either due to the content and/or location).

• December 6-7, 2013: eLearning Strategies Symposium, Costa Mesa, California, USA. http://elearns.org/
• December 12-13, 2013: Graphics and Animations for eLearning: Best Practices, Tips and Techniques, organized by the eLearning Guild, offered online. http://www.elearningguild.com/online-forums/content/1562/schedule-at-a-glance/
• December 12-13, 2013: Media and Learning: Equipping Learners for Open, Creative Learning Futures, Brussels, Belgium. http://www.media-and-learning.eu/

2014

• January 23-24, 2014: e-Learning Symposium, 9th, annual, University of Southampton, Southampton, United Kingdom. https://www.llas.ac.uk/events
• January 29-30, 2014: Learning Technologies, 15th, Olympia 2, London, United Kingdom. http://www.learningtechnologies.co.uk/
• February 3-7, 2014: Texas Computer Education Association (TCEA) Convention and Exposition: Get Inspired, 34th, annual, Austin, Texas, USA. http://www.tceaconvention.org/?
• February 6-7, 2014: Technology, Knowledge and Society, 10th, Madrid, Spain. http://techandsoc.com/the-conference
• February 11-13, 2014: Australian eLearning Congress, Rydges Melbourne Hotel, Melbourne, Australia. http://www.arkgroupaustralia.com.au/Events-E086eLearnCongress2014.htm
• February 15-18, 2014: eLearning, organized by the Instructional Technology Council (ITC), hosted by Valencia College, Hilton Orlando, Lake Buena Vista, Florida, USA. http://www.itcnetwork.org/
• February 4-7, 2013: e-Learning and Distance Learning: From Practice to Performance, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. http://eli.elc.edu.sa/2013/en
• February 6-8, 2013: Open Research, Auckland, New Zealand. https://sites.google.com/site/nzauopenresearch/
• February 24-25, 2013: Journal Conference on e-Education, e-Business, e-Management and e-Learning (JC4E), Rome, Italy. http://www.ijeeee.org/conf.htm
• March 4-7, 2014: New Learning Technologies Conference, organized by the Society for Applied Learning Technology (SALT), Caribe Royale Hotel, Orlando, Florida, USA. http://www.salt.org/
• March 5-6, 2014: Expo eLearning 2014, Madrid, Spain. http://www.expoelearning.com/ or http://www.expoelearning.com/madrid-2014
• March 27-28, 2014: Scholarship of Teaching and Engagement (SoTE) Conference, 6th, annual, Sorensen Student Center, Utah Valley University, Orem, Utah, USA. http://www.uvu.edu/sote/6.html
• April 1-4, 2014: Texas Distance Learning Association (TXDLA) Conference, 17th, annual, Corpus Christi, Texas, USA. http://www.txdla.org/
• April 3-7, 2014: American Educational Research Association (AERA) Annual Meeting: The Power of Education Research for Innovation in Practice and Policy, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. http://www.aera.net/
• April 8-9, 2014: Swiss eLearning Conference (SeLC), Holiday Inn, Zurich, Switzerland. http://selc.ch/content/index_ger.html
• April 9-11, 2014: Sloan Consortium Emerging Technologies for Online Learning International Symposium, 7th, annual, Sheraton Dallas Hotel, Dallas, Texas, USA. http://sloanconsortium.org/conference/2014/et4online/call-for-presentations?org=477&lvl=100&ite=2080&lea=122451&ctr=0&par=1
• April 27-29, 2014: Eastern Evaluation Research Society (EERS) Annual Conference: Managing the Tension between Rigor and Resources, 37th, Absecon, New Jersey, USA. http://www.eers.org/
• April 30-May 2, 2014: Distance Education Association of New Zealand (DEANZ) Conference: Open, Flexible and Distance Learning – Where is the “E” in Engagement?, biennial, Christchurch, New Zealand. http://www.deanz.org.nz
• April 10-12, 2013: Plymouth e-Learning Conference (PELeCON), 8th, University of Plymouth, Plymouth, UK. http://pelecon.net or http://www.pelecon.co.uk/
• May 4-7, 2014: United States Distance Learning Association (USDLA) National Conference, 7th, St. Louis, Missouri, USA. http://www.usdla.org/
• May 12-14, 2014:  Third Annual International Universities Networking Conference  in St. Petersburg, Russia. http://iunc.net/conference/view/3
• May 14-15, 2014: E-Learning Symposium, hosted by the E-Learning Council, Austin, Texas, USA. http://www.elearningcouncil.com/
• May 14-15, 2014: Expo eLearning 2014, Hotel Intercontinental de Santiago, Santiago, Chile. http://www.expoelearning.com/
• May 14-16, 2014: European Association for Distance Learning (EADL): Change. No Excuses!, 30th, Carlton Hotel Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland. http://www.eadl.org/
• May 19-20, 2014: Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SOTL) Academy, 6th, annual, Kellogg Hotel and Conference Center, East Lansing, Michigan, USA. http://www.gvsu.edu/stla/
• May 28-30, 2014: Innovative Pedagogy and Course Redesign, 13th, annual, Fairfield University, Fairfield, Connecticut, USA. http://www.fairfield.edu/cae/teachingconference/
• May 31-June 2, 2014: International Higher Education Teaching and Learning Association (HETL) Conference: Innovative Learning-Scapes – e-Scapes, play-Scapes & More, Anchorage, Alaska, USA. https://www.hetl.org/events/2014-anchorage-conference/
• May 17-18, 2013: International Online Language Conference (IOLC), 6th, offered online, http://www.iolc.ioksp.com/
• May 22-24, 2013: Innovations in Online Learning, 9th, Hyatt Regency Hotel, San Antonio, Texas, USA. http://iolconference.org/
• May 30-31, 2013: EdTech 2013: Educational Technology Conference of the Irish Learning Technology Association (ILTA) – Opening Up Education – Content, Learning and Collaboration, 14th, annual, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland. http://ilta.ie/edtech/edtech-2013/
• June 8-11, 2014: Distance Learning Administration, Jekyll Island, Georgia, USA. http://www.westga.edu/~distance/dla/
• June 10-13, 2014: European Distance and e-Learning Network (EDEN) Annual Conference: From Education to Employment and Meaningful Work with ICTS – E-learning at work and the workplace, 23rd, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia. http://www.eden-online.org/
• June 11-13, 2014: International Conference on E-Learning in the Workplace (ICELW), 7th, annual, Columbia University, New York City, New York, USA. http://www.icelw.org/
• June 12-13, 2014: Using Media to Engage and Teach: Tips, Techniques, and Best Practices, organized by the eLearning Guild, offered online. http://www.elearningguild.com/online-forums/content/1562/schedule-at-a-glance/
• June 17-19, 2014: Innovate Education Colorado, (formerly Technology in Education), Copper Mountain Resort, Copper Mountain, Colorado, USA. http://tiecolorado.org/
• June 17-20, 2014: Society for Teaching and Learning in Higher Education (STLHE), Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada. http://www.stlhe.ca/ or http://www.queensu.ca/stlhe2014/
• June 17-20, 2014: New Media Consortium (NMC) Summer Conference, Portland, Oregon, USA. http://www.nmc.org/events/2014-summer-conference-portland
• June 18-19, 2014: Expo eLearning 2014, Hotel Sheraton, Bogotá, Columbia.
• Approaches: (ClipFlair = Foreign Language Learning through Interactive Captioning and Re-voicing of Clips, http://clipflair.net), Barcelona, Spain. http://clipflair.net/conference2014
• June 18-20, 2014: International Conference on Open and Distance e-Learning (ICODEL), 2nd, Universities in an Era of Open Education, Crowne Plaza Manila Galleria, Manila, Philippines. http://icodel.upou.edu.ph/
• June 20-21, 2014: Online Teaching Conference (OTC): Sail into Online Student Success, San Diego, California, USA. http://www.onlineteachingconference.org/
• June 22-27, 2014: International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), 16th, Heraklion, Crete, Greece. http://www.hci-international.org/ or http://www.hcii2014.org/
• June 23-27, 2014: ED-MEDIA 2014: World Conference on Educational Multimedia, Hypermedia and Telecommunications, sponsored by the Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE), Tampere, Finland. http://aace.org/conf/
• June 23-27, 2014: International Conference of the Learning Sciences, 11th, sponsored by the International Society of the Learning Sciences, Boulder, Colorado, USA. http://www.isls.org/
• June 5-6, 2013: Supported Online Learning for Students Using Technology for Information and Communication in Their Education (SOLSTICE) eLearning and Centre for Learning and Teaching Research (CLTR) Teaching and Learning Conference: Effective Practices, Edge Hill University, Lancashire, United Kingdom. http://www.edgehill.ac.uk/solstice/2013/
• July 2-4, 2014: Interactive Environments and Emerging Technologies for eLearning (IEETeL) Workshop, 5th, https://sites.google.com/site/ieetel2014/about will be part of the International Conference on Complex, Intelligent, and Software Intensive Systems (CSIS), 8th, Birmingham, United Kingdom. http://voyager.ce.fit.ac.jp/conf/cisis/2014/index.html
• July 7-10, 2014: International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies (ICALT): Advanced Technologies for Supporting Open Access to Formal and Informal Learning, 14th, organized by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Computer Society and IEEE Technical Committee on Learning Technology, Athens, Greece. http://www.ask4research.info/icalt/2014/
• July 9-13, 2014: European Conference on Technology in the Classroom (ECTC), Thistle Brighton Hotel, Brighton, United Kingdom.  http://www.ectc.iafor.org/
• July 29-31, 2014: Instructional Technology Council Distance Education Leadership Academy, Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, Canada. http://www.itcnetwork.org/
• August 12-14, 2014: Distance Teaching and Learning, 30th, annual, Monona Terrace Convention Center, Madison, Wisconsin, USA. http://www.uwex.edu/disted/conference/
• August 18-19, 2014 International Conference on Education and e-Learning (EeL), 4th, annual, Bangkok, Thailand. http://www.e-learningedu.org
• September 1-5, 2014: European Conference on Educational Research (ECER): The Past, the Future and Present of Educational Research in Europe, organized by the European Educational Research Association, University of Porto, Porto, Portugal. http://www.eera-ecer.de/ecer2014/
• September 3-5, 2014: International Educational Technology Conference (IETC), 13th, Chicago, Illinois, USA. http://www.iet-c.net/
• September 10-12, 2014: International Conference on Collaboration Technologies, 7th, Santiago, Chile. http://www.collabtech.org/
• September 18-19, 2014: mLearning: Best Practices for Supporting Learning in Motion, organized by the eLearning Guild, offered online. http://www.elearningguild.com/online-forums/content/1562/schedule-at-a-glance/
• September 22-24, 2014: Online Learning Conference (formerly Learning 3.0), sponsored by Training Magazine, McCormick Place, Chicago, Illinois, USA. http://trainingmagevents.com/
• September 23-25, 2014: British Educational Research Association Conference, Institute of Education, University of London, United Kingdom. http://www.bera.ac.uk/
• September ? 2014: Digital Memories, 6th, organized by Inter-Disciplinary.Net, Oxford, United Kingdom. http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/critical-issues/cyber/digital-memories/call-for-papers/
• October 3-4, 2014: International Conference on e-Learning and Innovative Pedagogies, 7th, Pacific University, Forest Grove, Oregon, USA. http://ubi-learn.com/the-conference-2014
• October 27-30, 2014: E-Learn: World Conference on e-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education, organized by the Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE), New Orleans, Louisiana, USA. http://www.aace.org/conf/
• October 30-31, 2014: European Conference on e-Learning (ECEL), 13th. Aalborg University, Copenhagen, Denmark. http://academic-conferences.org/ecel/ecel2014/ecel14-home.htm
• November 4-7, 2014: International Association for K-12 Online Learning (iNACOL) Blended and Online Learning Symposium, Palm Springs Convention Center, Palm Springs, California. USA. http://www.inacol.org/events/symposium2014/
• November 13-14, 2014: Making Learning Memorable with Graphics and Visual Design, organized by the eLearning Guild, offered online. http://www.elearningguild.com/online-forums/content/1562/schedule-at-a-glance/
• November 20-22, 2014: Association for the Study of Higher Education (ASHE). Washington Hilton Hotel, Washington, D.C., USA. http://www.ashe.ws
• November 23-27, 2014: Learning in Higher Education (LiHE), organized by the International Academic Association for the Advancement of Learning-centred Higher Education. Adelaide, Australia. http://www.lihe.info/future-events/lihe14-adelaide-nov-23-27-2014/
• December 11-12, 2014: Essential Skills and Expertise for Learning Professionals, organized by the eLearning Guild, offered online. http://www.elearningguild.com/online-forums/content/1562/schedule-at-a-glance/
• December ?, 2014: Technology Education Research Conference, biennial. The 7th conference was held December 5-8, 2012 at the Crown Plaza Hotel, Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia. http://www.griffith.edu.au/conference/technology-education-research-conference-2012

2015

• June 22-25, 2015: ED-MEDIA: World Conference on Educational Multimedia, Hypermedia and Telecommunications, sponsored by the Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE), Montreal, Quebec, Canada. http://aace.org/conf/
• August 25-29, 2015: European Association for Research on Learning and Instruction (EARLI) Conference for Research on Learning and Instruction, 16th, biennial, Limassol, Cyprus. http://www.earli.org/conferences/EARLI_Biennial_Conferences/Future_Biennial_Conferences
• October 20-23, 2015: E-Learn: World Conference on e-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education, organized by the Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE), Kona, Hawaii, USA. http://www.aace.org/conf/
• November 9-11, 2015: International Association for K-12 Online Learning (iNACOL) Blended and Online Learning Symposium, Swan and Dolphin Hotels, Orlando, Florida, USA. http://www.inacol.org/events/future-conferences/
• November 12-14, 2015: Association for the Study of Higher Education (ASHE), 40th, Hyatt Regency Denver, Denver, Colorado, USA. http://www.ashe.ws