DISTANCE LEARNING 2000 - Register now for the 16th Annual Conference on Distance Teaching and Learning August 2-5 at the Marriott Madison West, Madison, WI. Join more than 1,000 colleagues from around the world at this leading forum on distance education and training. Choose from more than 125 presentations featuring keynotes, workshops, panel discussions, and more than 100 breakout sessions that examine a wide range of critical success factors, practical applications, teaching methods, course designs, innovative solutions and future developments in distance learning. Speakers include Dr. Linda Harasim of Canada's TeleLearning Network of Centers of Excellence and Dr. Frank Mayadas, Program Director of Sloan Foundation's Asynchronous Learning Networks. For the complete program CLICK: http://www.uwex.edu/disted/conference/. To receive a printed brochure, e-mail: distel@education.wisc.edu or call 608-265-4159. Include your postal address.

GWETC 2000 -The 8th Annual Governor's Wisconsin Educational Technology Conference is scheduled for October 10-12, 2000 at the Dane County Expo Center & Sheraton Hotel, Madison, WI. GWETC supports teaching and learning via technology and brings you vital current information and "best practices" from all levels of education and training across the state. You can choose from 18 labs and workshops, 20 poster sessions and more than 160 one hour sessions. Session tracks are: 1) Curriculum Integration, 2) Distance Learning, 3) Emerging and Future Tools/Trends, 4) Policy/Administration, 5) Professional Development and 6) Technology Infrastructure. Keynote speakers include: Edward D. Barlow-Creating the Future, Inc.; James E. Schnitz-IBM Education Strategy Executive and Mary Moen-Media Consultant with The Discovery Channel. Make plans to register and attend. For complete information CLICK: http://www.gwetc.org. To receive a printed brochure, email: gwetc@ecb.state.wi.us or call: 608/264-9730. Include postal address.

NEW ONLINE GROUP AND SCHOLARSHIPS - A Fall 2000 online group is now forming to participate in the Distance Education Certificate Program offered by the University of Wisconsin-Madison. The group will start the program together on October 2 (enrollment deadline is September 8), working as a cohort in completing online core modules. Four half-tuition scholarships are available to group participants. The scholarship application deadline is August 18. In addition to the group Collaborative Online Track starting in October, the Certificate Program also has an individualized Self-Paced Track for those who want to enroll at any time and work at their own pace. Offered since 1993, the Certificate Program builds knowledge, skills and leadership in distance education through a curriculum of core modules and electives that use Internet, print, tape and audioconferencing formats. For more information, see the "DECP Online Catalog" and CLICK: http://www.uwex.edu/disted/depd/certpro.html.

UW BACHELORS IN NURSING THROUGH NURSING CENTRAL Ð The University of Wisconsin Madison and Green Bay campuses have partnered with the professional nurse's Web site, NursingCentral.com, to offer an online Bachelor's of Nursing that will allow any RN who is licensed in any state to take online courses to complete her/his bachelor's degree. The 60-credit degree completion program costs $18,000. The online program is an outgrowth of the University of Wisconsin's 1996 program that allowed nurses in the state to complete nonresidential degrees at one of the university's 30 sites around the state. The program is accredited by the National League for Nursing Accrediting Commission and has the preliminary approval of the Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education. For more information CLICK: http://www.nursingcentral.com. (Michael Kaplan and Jo Ann Oravec of the UW)

TTT - This month's issue of Teaching with Technology Today includes: 1) Broadening the Dialogue: UW-Stout's Diversity Connections Program uses Technology to Expand Students' Experiences - by Jennifer Smith; 2) Melding Dance and Technology with Exciting Results: Faculty Profile of Prof. Joan Karlen - by Jennifer Smith. Read about how her technological experimentation began and her interactive CD-ROM; 3) Technology and Dance Bring New Avenues for Artistic Discovery - by Joan Karlen Department of Theatre and Dance, UW-Stevens Point. Prof. Karlen discusses her work from an aesthetic standpoint and 4) Lessons from Corporations Past: Madison History Professor Develops Database of 19th-C. Corporate Charters - by Jennifer Smith. Learn about a new website created by UW-Madison history professor Colleen Dunlavy that includes a database of nineteenth century corporate charters. For more information CLICK: http://www.uwsa.edu/olit/ttt/new.htm