Here is a list of some upcoming conferences and trainings related to elearning and distance education:
E-Learning Conferences
These are some of the e-learning conferences I would recommend, although there are many others.
E-Learning 2011
February 19-22, 2011
St. Pete Beach, FL
Digital Media and Learning
March 3-5, 2011
Long Beach, CA
27th Annual Conference on Distance Teaching and Learning
August 3-5, 2011
Madison, WI
Online Trainings
The @One online course trainings are provided to service higher education institutions in California, but they are open to others as well. They offer courses quarterly and have a wide range of topics related to online learning.
Here are a few classes offered winter quarter that would be useful for instructors at NWIC.
- Introduction to Online Teaching and Learning ( 02/28/2011 – 03/25/2011 )
- Introduction to Teaching with Moodle (03/14/2011 – 04/08/2011)
Other Conferences
The Northern Voice conference isn’t focused specifically on education, but there are a large number of educators who attend and quite a few sessions focusing specifically on social media in an education context. This is one of my favorite conferences because a) it is cheap b) it is close by and c) it provides a wider context for how people are thinking about the web (educators, artists, government workers, non-profits, tech-geeks, entrepreneurs) which can be lacking at the purely educational conferences.
The date for this year’s (or I guess it would be 2011) conference hasn’t been posted yet, but I would suspect it will be sometime around April or May. Here’s the web site: