Special Interest Groups (SIGs)

EdMedia SIGs | E-Learn SIGs | SITE SIGs | Community SIGs

EdMedia SIGs

• Emerging Technologies for Learning and Teaching

  Started on June 22, 2015, 1:59 a.m. | Members: 292 | Chairs:

• First Test

  Started on Oct. 16, 2017, 11:40 p.m. | Members: 9 | Chairs:

• Learning Design

  Started on June 22, 2015, 1:59 a.m. | Members: 232 | Chairs: Gayle Davidson-Shivers , Wilfred W.F. Lau and Ellen Taricani

E-Learn SIGs

• ADD: Assessing, Designing, and Developing E-Learning

  The SIG will promote activities for future E-Learn conferences, including suggestions for invited speakers and symposia. It provides a marketplace for joint research projects and offers publications opportunities in form of special issues and edited volumes.

  Started on Oct. 22, 2013, 9:38 p.m. | Members: 84 | Chairs: Curtis Ho and Stefanie Panke

• Designing, Developing, and Assessing E-Learning

  Started on | Members: 56 | Chairs:

• E-Learning in Developing Countries (Opportunities, Trends, Challenges, and Success Stories)

  Started on Oct. 22, 2013, 9:41 p.m. | Members: 43 | Chairs: Jaime Sanchez and Ke Zhang

• E-Learning Trends and Innovations (social learning, mobile, augmented etc.)

  Started on Oct. 22, 2013, 9:45 p.m. | Members: 91 | Chairs: Curt Bonk and Charlie Miller

• Sustainable Learning Technologies

  SLT solutions for the use of technologies and tools linked to educational applications. The technologies include developing SMART generic thinking tools for identifying, planning, organizing, and implementing projects, and evaluating their overall sustainable impact.

  Started on Dec. 6, 2017, 7:35 p.m. | Members: 6 | Chairs: Madhumita Bhattacharya and Steven Coombs

SITE SIGs

• African Perspective

  Started on Feb. 5, 2015, 12:23 a.m. | Members: 95 | Chairs: Agnes Chigona and Abdulsalami Ibrahim

• Assessment/E-Folios

  Started on Feb. 5, 2015, 12:23 a.m. | Members: 349 | Chairs: Chris Dann and Natalie Johnson-Leslie

• Assistive Technologies & Special Education

  Assistive Technology SIG is very motivated to increase the knowledge and use of assistive technology for special populations.

  Started on March 20, 2014, 9:02 a.m. | Members: 198 | Chairs: Katherine Cooper and Cory McKnight

• Computational Thinking

  Started on March 28, 2013, 10:14 p.m. | Members: 292 | Chairs: Gerald Ardito , Geralc Arelio and Jongpil Cheon
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  Creativity

  Started on Feb. 4, 2015, 9:25 p.m. | Members: 360 | Chairs: William Cain and Danah Henriksen

• Digital Games & Simulations

  Started on Feb. 5, 2015, 7:01 p.m. | Members: 476 | Chairs: Donald L. Becker and Sam von Gillern

• Digital Storytelling/Video

  Started on Feb. 5, 2015, 10 p.m. | Members: 395 | Chairs: Susan Elwood, Susan Elwood and Larry Ferguson

• Distance/Flexible Education

  Join our Distance/Flexible Education professional community.

  Started on April 2, 2014, 1:47 a.m. | Members: 685 | Chairs: Laura Gray and Haihong Hu

• Early Childhood Education

  Special Interest Group for those interested in the intersection of technology with Early Childhood Education. Concerns include technology integration from a developmental perspective, as well as ways to better use technology to improve and enhance teacher education.

  Started on March 25, 2014, 5:17 a.m. | Members: 219 | Chairs: Kellie Alston and Dina Rosen
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  English Education

  What happens when technology and the English Language Arts meet?

  Started on Nov. 30, 2012, 2 a.m. | Members: 228 | Chairs: Nino Chikvashvili and Shannon Prince

• Equity & Social Justice

  Equity and social justice SIG enables educators, researchers, educational reform leaders, and learning technology innovators to share information about promising and proven digital equity strategies and resources.

  Started on March 27, 2013, 6:27 p.m. | Members: 264 | Chairs: Margaret Lehman and Xeturah Woodley

• Faculty Development

  Started on March 3, 2015, 9:41 p.m. | Members: 470 | Chairs: Antonio Calderon, Lara Kassab and Tami Seifert
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  Geospatial Education

  The Why's of Where....

  Started on Feb. 7, 2013, 1:55 p.m. | Members: 92 | Chairs: Thomas Hammond , Melda Yildiz and Melda N. Yildiz

• Information Literacy Education, Library & Media Science

  Started on Feb. 5, 2015, 8:01 p.m. | Members: 208 | Chairs: Lesley Farmer and Jillian Powers

• International Education

  The global perspective

  Started on March 21, 2012, 6:10 p.m. | Members: 305 | Chairs: Stephen Adams and Alison Egan

• K-12 Online Learning

  Focused on research pertaining to K-12 online and blended education in all of its various formats.

  Started on March 30, 2013, 3:22 p.m. | Members: 349 | Chairs: Cecil R. Short and Jacqueline Zweig

• Maker

  Started on Feb. 5, 2015, 10 p.m. | Members: 148 | Chairs: Monty Jones and Janice Newsum

• Mathematics Education

  Are you a philomath?

  Started on Nov. 30, 2012, 1:58 a.m. | Members: 281 | Chairs: Anthony Dove and Lorraine Jacques

• Mobile Learning

  Started on Feb. 6, 2015, 1:01 a.m. | Members: 516 | Chairs: Kristine Heyjung-Hwang and Kristine Hwang

• New Possibilities with Information Technologies

  Started on Feb. 5, 2015, 10:01 p.m. | Members: 406 | Chairs: Linda Michelle Giles , Pankaj Khazanchi and Pankaj Khazanchi

• Research & Evaluation

  Started on Sept. 18, 2014, 5:48 p.m. | Members: 431 | Chairs: Anuradha Gungadeen and Chia-Jung Yeh

• Science Education

  Science Education SIG

  Started on April 18, 2014, 12:21 p.m. | Members: 280 | Chairs: Joshua Ellis and Jennifer Kreps Frisch

• SITE Information Technology Council

  The SITE Information Technology Council is made up of 15 different SIGs related to information technology in teacher education.

  Started on Nov. 13, 2014, 3:19 p.m. | Members: 12 | Chairs: Leanna Archambault , Jered Borup and David Rutledge

• SITE Teacher Education Council

  Started on Oct. 10, 2012, 7:27 p.m. | Members: 49 | Chairs: Jonathan Cohen and Lee Langub

• Social Media

  Started on April 25, 2017, 3:19 p.m. | Members: 76 | Chairs: Tonia A. Dousay and Bret Staudt Willet

• Social Studies Education

  Taking the long view...

  Started on April 7, 2014, 4:37 p.m. | Members: 184 | Chairs: Kevin Krachenbuel and Lesia Lennex

• Special Education

  Started on Oct. 25, 2017, 4:55 p.m. | Members: 51 | Chairs: Ajay Singh

• STEM Innovation

  Started on April 30, 2019, 5:32 p.m. | Members: 0 | Chairs: Rhonda Christensen and Troy Cline
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  Teaching & Learning with Emerging Technologies

  TLET is THE SIG for discussion and research on how people teach and learn using new and innovative technologies.

  Started on Feb. 5, 2015, 6:01 p.m. | Members: 946 | Chairs: Amanda Barany and Hamideh Talafian
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  Technological, Pedagogical And Content Knowledge

  Discussions about the theory and promotion of TPACK (Technological Pedagogical and Content Knowledge)

  Started on March 8, 2014, 2:17 p.m. | Members: 800 | Chairs: Yi Jin , Yi Jin and Daniel Mourlam

• Technology Leadership

  Started on Feb. 5, 2015, 10:02 p.m. | Members: 502 | Chairs: Yao Fu and Mark Viner

• Universal Design for Learning

  UDL helps educators design productive and accessible learning environments for ALL students. Come and share your ideas on UDL.

  Started on Aug. 13, 2014, 12:17 p.m. | Members: 192 | Chairs: Elizabeth Dalton and Susie Gronseth

• Wearable Technologies

  Started on Feb. 5, 2015, 10:02 p.m. | Members: 181 | Chairs: Doug Darby and Fatih Demir

• Workforce Education

  Started on Feb. 5, 2015, 10:02 p.m. | Members: 158 | Chairs: Carrol Warren

Community SIGs

• Emerging Scholar Stream

  Emerging Scholar Stream at EDMEDIA

  Started on Feb. 15, 2012, 1:53 a.m. | Members: 17 | Chairs: Tel Amiel , Heather Hughes and Mai Neo

• Information Literacy Education

  We encourage librarians and other teachers in both K-12 and higher education to join our SIG and share ideas on how information literacy is being used in your institutions with your students.

  Started on Dec. 5, 2012, 2:49 p.m. | Members: 17 | Chairs: Marilyn Ochoa

• Literacy and Technology

  We are mostly literacy educators who use technology!

  Started on Jan. 22, 2015, 11:41 p.m. | Members: 10 | Chairs: Glenn DeVoogd

• Microformats

  Putting data right in the web

  Started on Dec. 1, 2011, 6:14 p.m. | Members: 4 | Chairs:

• MOOCs

  This is a SIG to discuss MOOCs (Massively Open Online Courses). If you are interested in this new trend in education, feel free to join in.

  Started on June 21, 2013, 5:20 p.m. | Members: 12 | Chairs: Rebecca J. Hogue

• Simon M. Yalams

  DVD

  Started on June 22, 2013, 9:11 a.m. | Members: 1 | Chairs: Simon M. Yalams
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  The random high-five group

  Join today and start spreading high-fives!

  Started on June 25, 2013, 6:49 p.m. | Members: 6 | Chairs: David Krismer