- TECHLEARN 2001, scheduled for October 28-31 in Orlando, FL, will offer a special
pre-conference workshop on Sunday morning October 28, "Rethinking Learning in
Difficult Times." This session will be an interactive, three-hour planning briefing for
organizations developing strategies to cope with the current difficult times that we all face.
Benchmarking based procedures that will be presented/discussed include: 1) Learning and
Training During Staff Reductions; 2) eLearning When Investments are Difficult; 3) Digital
Collaboration as an Imperative; 4) Blended Learning Models for Difficult Times and
5) Budgeting for Tighter Times. These issues will be discussed frankly by Elliott Masie
and participants will have an opportunity to assess how their organizations are responding
to the current difficulties compared with similar groups. Each participant will complete a
planning grid to reflect current and ideal strategies for addressing these hard issues.
For information about TechLearn and the various pre-conference workshops go to:
http://www.techlearn.com

- GWETC 2001 - Online registration is now available for the 9th Governor's Wisconsin
Educational Technology Conference (GWETC 2001). The conference is scheduled for Oct
29-31 at the KI Center and Embassy Suites. Green Bay, WI The program includes: keynote
and spotlight speakers, workshops, concurrent presentations, poster sessions, "birds of a
feather" dinner discussions, vendor exhibits and more. For complete information and to
register go to: http://www.gwetc.org

- WCET - the Western Cooperative for Educational Telecommunications 13th Annual
Conference (WCET) will take place at the Coeur d'Alene Resort in Idaho on Oct 31-Nov 3,
2001. The conference focuses on policy, practices and services for eLearners in higher
education. Registration materials and the entire program can be found online at:
http://www.wiche.edu/wcet.

- The SLOAN-C International Conference on Online Learning will be held Nov 16-18, 2001
in Orlando, FL at the Rosen Centre Hotel. Tracks include: Emerging Standards of Excellence
for: Faculty Development, Online Technology, Learning and Pedagogy and Assessment and
Evaluation. For complete information go to: http://www.dce.ucf.edu/aln

- The SYLLABUS fall 2001 conference, "Next Steps: Moving Forward with Campus IT,"
is set for Nov 29-Dec 2, 2001 in Danvers, MA. Online registration is available at:
http://www.syllabus.com

- ED-MEDIA 2002, a World Conference on Educational Multimedia, Hypermedia and
Telecommunications will be held: June 24-29, 2002 in Denver, CO The submission deadline
for presentation is Oct 29, 2001 The conference is organized by the Association for the
Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE). For more information see:
http://www.aace.org