Conference Overview
The Annual Conference on Distance Teaching & Learning is recognized internationally for the quality and integrity of its program. Each year the conference provides an exchange of current resources, research, and best practices from around the world that are relevant to the design and delivery of distance education/training.
The conference staff and planning committee cordially invite you to attend the 24th Annual Conference to be held August 5-8, 2008 in Madison, Wisconsin. Together, we will address challenges facing practitioners and administrators in order to establish effective teaching/training distance courses and programs.
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Conference Objectives
- Discuss critical success factors and innovative practices in distance education and training.
- Examine the key components of effective applications: needs analysis, course design, teaching methods, active learning, learner support, management, policy, and evaluation.
- Share successful approaches, strategies, and techniques.
- Identify active teaching/learning methods for effective engagement, motivation, and performance outcomes.
- Discuss major issues, new developments, and trends.
- Increase knowledge about teaching/training at a distance.
- Facilitate networking among distance educators, practitioners and administrators.
- Share program resources via technology (e.g., print, audio, video, multimedia, and the Internet).
Conference Audience
This conference is recognized as a premier international gathering of educators, researchers, designers, trainers, and administrators working in distance education. With approximately 1,000 annual participants and more than 150 events, there is much to share and learn as an expert or novice in distance education. Representatives from the following fields have attended past conferences:
- Faculty/Instructors
- Administrators/Managers
- Business/Military Trainers
- Designers/Developers
- Support Personnel
- Researchers/Evaluators
- Technology/Service Providers
Organizations Represented
A wide spectrum of professionals in distance education, experienced as well as newcomers, attend the conference each year. They represent organizations from all regions of the United States and other countries worldwide and work in:
- Higher and continuing education
- Business and industry
- Government and the military
- Vocational and technical education
- K-12 education
- Non-profit organizations
- International or global learning
- Health organizations
- Educational consulting
- Community-based education
