• Register Now for GWETC 2000 at CLICK: http://www.gwetc.org (see related article in UW NEWS above.)

• The Center for Academic Transformation is pleased to announce the following upcoming two seminars:

'The Learning Marketplace: New Resources for Teaching and Learning' October 25-26, 2000, Westin Atlanta Airport Hotel, Atlanta, GA. This workshop explores the learning marketplace, its current status and its future direction and features mediated discussions with Blackboard Inc., Convene.com, eCollege.com, Eduprise and WebCT. For more details CLICK: http://www.center.rpi.edu/LForum/LMchic.html.

'State-of-the-art Learning Environments: Pew Grant Program In Course Redesign Round I Results' (cosponsored by the Executive Forum in Information Technology at Virginia Tech) will be November 13, 2000 at the Orlando Airport Marriott, Orlando, FL, and February 26, 2001, DFW Airport Marriott South, Dallas, TX. Featuring the results of the first of three rounds of the Pew Grant Program in Course Redesign, faculty project leaders show how to increase quality and reduce costs using information technology. Faculty from four institutions talk about their models of course redesign, including their decisions regarding student learning objectives, course content, learning resources, course staffing, task analysis and student and project evaluation. For further information and registration materials CLICK: http://www.center.rpi.edu/LForum/learnenv.html

Proposals for Round III of the Pew Grant Program in Course Redesign are due November 15, 2000. For information about this program CLICK: http://www.center.rpi.edu/PewGrant.html

• Proposals for presentations, lab workshops, poster sessions and panels are now being accepted for Connections 2001, the annual conference of the Centre for Curriculum, Transfer and Technology (C2T2). The proposal deadline for next May's event in Whistler is November 1, 2000. For details CLICK: http://www.ctt.bc.ca/c2001/

• November 3-5, 2000 the 6th International Conference on Asynchronous Learning Networks will be held at University of Maryland University College Inn and Conference Center, Adelphi, MD. The conference is sponsored by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation in conjunction with University of Maryland, University College, the ALN Center at Vanderbilt University and the Goethe Institut at Washington. For details and registration CLICK: http://www.aln.org/alnconf2000/

• Designing Online Instruction,' an in-depth one-week online course with Dr. Rita-Marie Conrad, Florida State University professor and co-author of Faculty Guide for Moving Teaching and Learning to the Web, will be November 6-10, 2000. Register today! Limit is 250. Special guests are: Rena M. Palloff & and Keith Pratt, authors of "Building Learning Communities in Cyberspace." For complete information CLICK: http://www.lern.org/edctr/upcoming_online/DesigningOnlineInstruction/default.htm

• TechLearn 2000 and the World eLearning Congress will be held November 12- 15, 2000 at Walt Disney World, Orlando, FL. The conference focus is: Learning in the Digital Age. The theme is eLearning: Is It Real? Is It Hype? For details on this event CLICK: http://www.techlearn.com

• The Society for Information Technology and Teacher Education International conference (SITE 2001), will be held March 5-10, 2001 in Orlando, FL at the Holiday Inn International Drive Resort. The conference is cosponsored by the University of Central Florida and the University of Florida and organized by SITE and AACE. For more information CLICK: http://www.aace.org/conf/site

• The Education Technology 2001 Conference is scheduled for July 24-26, 2001 in Arlington, VA. For more information, eMail the conference organizer at: confinfo@lti.org or CLICK: http://www.salt.org