Eye on Learning

If you're interested in learning about how conferences can be more engaging, here's a message from Curtis Bonk: "You might be interested in an open/free online event organized and hosted by AACE: Spaces of Interaction: An online conversation on improving traditional conferences. George Siemens is leading the effort. Tom Reynolds, Mimi Lee, Erik Duval, Ellen Wagner, Margaret Driscoll, Jon Dron, Gary Marks, myself, and various others are on the planning committee as well. You can sign up here: http://www.aace.org/conf/spaces/ and join the ning site here: http://aacecommunity.ning.com/ The event will run from Feb 18-20. We will be announcing speakers and panels shortly. Discussions will be held both synchronously and asynchronously. The main goal of the conversation is to share opinions, insights, ideas, and practical suggestions on how we can create more engaging conferences. The event is open, so anyone currently involved in organizing a conference is welcome to attend. F...

One can imagine as well as not imagine Las Vegas as a location for serious conferences. The fact is, Las Vegas is not only an entertainment capital of the world but also host to some of the more serious conferences. Remember COMDEX? Why Las Vegas? Anyway, I've not attended anything better than what we had at eLearning Asia Day held before the main eLearn conference. Twelve presenters from 12 Asian countries! We learnt a lot from each country's efforts in eLearning and some of us will soon be collaborating with each other on interesting research projects! Learn more about what took place from Tom Reynolds' blog at http://blogs.aace.org/elearn/author/thomasreynolds/

One of the best international conferences I've attended in terms of content and interaction was eLearn2008! The keynotes and invited speakers were excellent and several papers in the parallel sessions were noteworthy. I think Stella Lee from Athabasca University did a good summary of the keynote and invited speakers. Please view Stella's blog at: http://me2u.athabascau.ca/elgg/stellal/weblog/762.html Many of us enjoyed the conference. Thanks to the conference organisation committee: Curt Bonk, Tom Reynolds and Mimi Lee! Actually, he needs no introduction but just in case you're new to eLearning, Curt Bonk, chair of the organisation committee is in the photo above.