DEANZ Award 2008

The biennial DEANZ Award recognises excellence in e-learning, distance, open and flexible learning. The DEANZ Award is open to individuals or groups in New Zealand, or New Zealand citizens living overseas, who have completed a project that meets the criteria of the Award.

Awards are given for projects that
• advance understanding of best practice in e-learning, distance, open and flexible learning in New Zealand;
• are original or innovative in concept or application;
• are relevant to and whose outcomes are useful to the e-learning, distance, open and flexible-learning community.

In 2008, The DEANZ Award will be made at the DEANZ conference in Wellington from 18-20 August, 2008. All applicants should show how projects submitted relate to the conference theme. The deadline for submission of projects in 2008 is 30 June, 2008.

Applications for the DEANZ Award should be made using the official form which is available both from the DEANZ administrator office and the DEANZ website.

Announcing The eLearning Guild Annual Gathering 2008

Super-early Registration is now open!

The eLearning Guild Annual Gathering is where everyone interested in maximizing organizational e-Learning gets together each year to expand their knowledge, build their expertise, and connect with the largest community of e-Learning professionals in the world.

This event grows by leaps and bounds every year because the programs are always stellar, the people you meet are the best in the business, the knowledge you will gain is unmatched, and the fun you will have is unlimited. AG|08 addresses every aspect of putting e-Learning to work in your organization — from the foundations to the cutting-edge. The depth and breadth of the program is simply unequaled.

So your are encouraged to REGISTER now, before December 31st, so you can take advantage of the $200 Super-early Registration Discount – AND – enter to win an Apple iPhone!

Register NOW

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The new issue of International Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching & Learning (IJ-SoTL) is now online

The new issue of International Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching & Learning (IJ-SoTL) is now online at http://www.georgiasouthern.edu/ijsotl/current.htm.

IJ-SoTL’s goal is to serve as a vehicle for international contacts, conversations, contemplation, and collaborations in connection with SoTL. Please support IJ-SoTL (and SoTL as an attitude, a process of inquiry, research, application, dissemination, way of transforming higher education) by informing colleagues in your departments, institutions, professional organizations and conferences, professional listservs, etc. about IJ-SoTL.

To receive an email notification when new issues of IJ-SoTL are published, go to http://www.georgiasouthern.edu/ijsotl/email_notification.htm.

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The submission deadline for the January 2008 issue of IJ-SoTL is November 15, 2007.