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AECT: Association for Educational Communications and Technology

AECT: Association for Educational Communications and Technology

The Association of Pacific Rim Universities: Education and Research Technology Forum - an annual conference encouraging collaboration amongst Pacific Rim universities.

Northern Rocky Mountain Educational Research Association

iNACOL: International Association for K-12 Online Learning

The Association for Authentic, Experiential, and Evidence-Based Learning (Trent Batson's eportfolios group)

Ed Leadership. Dec 2009. When students track their progress. by Robert Marzano; "Fuchs and Fuchs1 found that providing teachers with graphic displays of students' scores on formative assessments was associated with a 26 percentile point gain in achievement."

The International Journal of Virtual and Personal Learning Environments (IJVPLE) provides readers with comprehensive coverage of developments in learning technologies for an international readership of educators, technologists and trainers. The journal is a primary source for academics, professionals, corporate trainers and policy makers in information and communication technologies. The journal publishes high quality contributions (papers, book reviews) on a range of fields associated with Course Management Systems (CMS), Learning Management Systems (LMS), Virtual Learning Environments (VLE), Social Networking Sites (SNS), Personalized Learning Environments (PLE), and 3D virtual worlds, including for example Second Life (SL). Articles published in the journal cover education and training, concentrating on the theory, application, and development of learning technologies. There is a particular interest in the application of new and emerging information and communication technologies in education and training.

With the WildLab iPhone application and associated inquiry-based curriculum, students learn the basics of scientific fieldwork, while using other STEM-related skills. Through observations, questions, and analysis, students come to know the important role they can play in gathering data about birds and their habitat, using mobile technology as a scientific tool. Most importantly, they experience the thrill of scientific discovery!

the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition, is an international alliance of academic and research libraries working to correct imbalances in the scholarly publishing system. Developed by the Association of Research Libraries, SPARC has become a catalyst for change. Its pragmatic focus is to stimulate the emergence of new scholarly communication models that expand the dissemination of scholarly research and reduce financial pressures on libraries. Action by SPARC in collaboration with stakeholders - including authors, publishers, and libraries - builds on the unprecedented opportunities created by the networked digital environment to advance the conduct of scholarship. Leading academic organizations have endorsed SPARC.

The CLIVE presentation at this year's Sloan-C/MERLOT/Moodle-moot Emerging Technologies conference: The MERLOT Virtual Worlds Taskforce has been collaborating for the last year to develop the Center for Learning in Virtual Environments MERLOT presence in Second Life, Project Wonderland, and other 3D Virtual Worlds. Join members of the taskforce in unveiling the virtual worlds- and web-based-tools and infrastructure for content and virtual worlds education professionals to identify, share, and showcase high quality 3D learning assets. Jonathon Richter Research Associate University of Oregon Session Information Pre-Conference Workshop Pre-Conference Workshop (1/2 day) July 20, 2010 - 9:00am Garden Room

NSF worked with NBC and the National Science Teachers Association to celebrate the "National Year of Chemistry" be creating this "Chemistry Now" series: a weekly, online video series of chemistry awesomeness!

iNACOL: international Association for k-12 Online Learning

associate professor of media studies at George Mason university

Reshaping Schools toward evidence-based cultures: Learning through design (opening & closing remarks) AERA symposium 2007

ASCD edge: A professional networking community for educators

Intel announces "mind-reading" brain-scan software, augmented reality innovation, "dispute finder" tech that monitors conversations & warns them when they find contested info, holographic shopping displays, & a TV set-top box that indexes your Internet video

Innovations in Education Wiki: CATE associates join! great resource (the print version has been ordered over 10,000 times)...

Innovations in Education Wiki

National Technology Leadership Coalition: teacher techn education

National Technology Leadership Coalition: teacher techn education