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Conference dates: July 11-14, 2011. Conference organizer Gary Stager. This annual convening is somewhat like an "unconference" and invites teachers to take on the role of learners for the duration. The focus is on personal project development, with lots of good resources in the form of guest speakers and "mentors." On this News page, you can see blog posts describing the conference. 2012 conference (5th annual) to be held July 9-12, 2012 in Manchester, NH.

This is the conference site for the Learning Forum London 2010 conference, held July 2010. This page provides links to the Program and Conference Tracks. As of Sept 2010, the 2010 conference proceedings were not yet available from this page.

Conference listings, including links to topic summaries and a PDF of presentation slides. Conference was held in the summer of 2008; page last updated in June 2009.

Also, "The Official Social Network of the Global Education Conference." This social network, on ning, has over 9,000 members and 104 distinct groups. The Network offers the Global Education Conference, a collaborative, world-wide community initiative for students, educators and organizations at all levels. It takes place online (free) using the Blackboard Collaborate platform.

Information about the upcoming conference on networked learning in higher education and lifelong learning

Presented by Dean Shareski and posted by Wesley Fryer on October 11 2010, this is the 2010 pre-conference keynote to the K12 Online 2010 conference. Shareski discusses how the advent of the internet has facilitated sharing about educators and their colleagues.

This blog, part of The Broker, an online magazine published by the Foundation for International Development Publications, appears to have been created around the 'Innovation Dialogue on Being Strategic in the Face of Complexity' conference, organized by Wageningen University and Research Centre, Nov 30 and Dec 1, 2009. All posts pertain to the conference. There are also user comments.

"Unlike most traditional academic conferences, sessions at an unconference don't consist of one or three or five people delivering papers to an audience. Instead, they might feature project demonstrations, discussions, creative work sessions, or other formats that build on the knowledge and expertise of whoever attends. For the Texas THATCamp (and I think this is fairly typical at others), participants posted session ideas beforehand on the website, followed by a 45-minute scheduling process as THATCamp began. Topic headings generated by those initial session ideas were posted on the walls of a large meeting room, and participants circulated through the space to meet up with others interested in similar topics. After some productive chaos (which admittedly tested my structure- and schedule-loving personality a bit) the group developed a schedule of sessions that represented not only a variety of interests but also the desire to cluster certain topics into tracks. Like any conference, I frequently wanted to be in two places at once - which I see as one marker of the event's success."

According to the site, EduCon, an annual meeting, "iis both a conversation and a conference," with a focus on education innovation. Participants can attend virtually or in person.

Hosted by The New York Times September 22, 2011, a panel of distinguished speakers (see Speakers on left navigation) on how technology can transform how students learn. A live stream of the conference will be available here on September 22.

Links on this page for the Proceedings, abstracts, and conference guide.

As per the About Us page, this resource library, part of the Society of Teachers of Family Medicine (STFM), offers a searchable database of conference presentations/handouts, PowerPoint lectures, learning modules, digital images, audio and video files, sample patient cases, etc. The library began with a 3-year, $400,000 grant from the National Library of Medicine, and is supported by a small editorial team.

Resources for "makers," DIY folks who innovate, create and share projects & ideas. These resources include a subscription based magazine, a blog, videos & podcasts, shared project ideas, a forum/community and a store. Additionally, Maker Faire is an annual conference for the Make audience. Make Magazine, published quarterly by O'Reilly is a hybrid magazine/book "(known as a mook in Japan)".

By Michael Feldstein on the blog e-Literate, May 13 2012. In the context of last year's NERCOMP LMS Unconference, Feldstein first explains the concept of an unconference and then describes his own (successful) strategy to giving the keynote. Along the way, he defines a third way of teaching (or conducting a conference), in opposition to "guide on the side" or "sage on the stage," he suggests "guide on the stage," while acknowledging that each of these methods is correct and has its proper place/time/audience.

Many of Feldstein's ideas about "priming the pump," unconferences, and "guide on the stage" might be useful in Jams as well.

By M. Ginsburg and S. Weisband, Proceedings of the 37th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences - 2004. Written in 2004, this article is somewhat dated (e.g. before the notion of the "social network" really took hold). That said, the article looks at a subscription-based virtual community, the Internet Chess Club, and finds that the real key to success is a carefully structured 3-tier approach to volunteering. Some volunteers help/coach new users; others are available to handle administrative tasks and volunteer managers run on-demand tournaments. Volunteers gain status and recognition, as well as the benefit of a private sub-community in which they can communicate with each other. NOTE: As of Jan 2012, the club is still in existence.

Librarian notes: While much here does not apply to the current manifestation of our e-communities, the structure and function of the various volunteer roles is very interesting, as is the "communication segmentation strategies" to filter out information overload. An impressive database of the community's work (in this case chess matches) is discussed as well.

MDEC serves post-secondary education in Michigan with a network for educators to research and share best practices, refine strategies for quality programs, and to advocate for developmental education. This is not an online network - most meetings "held using a conference call format."

By Andy Lapham, Faculty of the Arts, Thames Valley University, London, UK. This paper from the Proceedings of the 6th European Conference on e-Learning includes literature review and presents a cognitive analysis of tagging.

Opening and closing remarks by Anthony S. Bryk, Stanford University and Louis M. Gomez, Northwestern University for symposium at American Educational Research Association Conference, April, 2007, Chicago, IL.

This blog provides current news on open innovation conferences, presentations, etc. Most months, there are 1-2 new posts.