Topics

Assessment And Research

• Alternative and innovative assessment methods

Educational Policy, Reform, and Innovation

• Contextualized innovation (accessibility, scalability, usability, & sustainability)
• Education reform with technology
• Government initiatives and programs
• Policy issues and trends
• Quality assurance and accreditation
• Teacher education and technology integration

Evaluation and Quality Improvement Advances

• Best practices in evaluation
• Course, program, project, and other forms of evaluation
• Data analytics
• E-learning benchmarks and standards
• Evaluating for quality improvement

Global Networks, Partnerships, and Exchanges

• Global learning barriers, challenges, and concerns
• Global learning communities
• Global studies and education

Innovative Approaches to Learning and Learning Environments

• Augmented reality
• Authentic, contextualized, and real-world learning
• Case, Scenario, Problem, Project -based learning
• Collaborative learning
• Communities of practice
• Game-based learning
• Learner-centered, and self-directed learning
• Learning communities
• Learning management and support systems
• Lifelong, informal, and nontraditional learning
• Personalized learning environments
• Simulations for learning
• Virtual reality learning environments

Open Education

• Global learning barriers, challenges, and concerns
• Global learning communities
• Global studies and education

Innovative Approaches to Learning and Learning Environments

• Augmented reality
• Authentic, contextualized, and real-world learning
• Case, Scenario, Problem, Project -based learning
• Collaborative learning
• Communities of practice
• Game-based learning
• Learner-centered, and self-directed learning
• Learning communities
• Learning management and support systems
• Lifelong, informal, and nontraditional learning
• Personalized learning environments
• Simulations for learning
• Virtual reality learning environments

Open Education

• Free and open source software
• Localization of content and knowledge
• Online language learning
• Open access publishing
• Open courses, open learning, open learning materials and open educational resources
• Open education copyright and other legal issues
• Open educational projects, partnerships, and consortia

Technologies for Socially Responsive Learning

• Digital divide issues, initiatives, and cases
• Digital and social media for engaging youth about cultures
• Diversity
• Education for sustainable development
• Environmental education
• Ethical, cultural, historical, and social issues in technology use
• Learning technologies for transformational change
• Rural community learning and technology
• Technology solutions for marginalized populations
• Technology uses in cross-cultural and multicultural contexts

Virtual and Distance Education1=

• Blended learning
• E-learning/E-training
• Innovative online learning and educational programming
• Mobile and ubiquitous learning
• Online learning environments

COVID Pandemic Related

• Strategies for Educators During COVID 19 Pandemic
• Timely, special topic relating to COVID-19 and the unique educator challenges/solutions arising during the pandemic

Advanced Technologies for Learning and Teaching

• Collaborative technologies
• Learning management systems and environments
• Mobile teaching and learning technologies
• Social networks & Social Software (podcasting, wikis, blogs, etc.)
• Learning portfolios
• E-publishing/digital libraries

Assessment And Research

• Best practices in assessment
• Performance and outcome assessment