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Conference Track Details
When submitting your Abstract for Review, you will have the option to have it considered for one of the Conference Tracks listed above. If none of these tracks is appropriate for your proposal, select "no track".
1. Adopting, Adapting, and Authoring Digital Learning Resources
- Using, developing, and revising learning objects
- Evaluating learning objects
- Open source collaborations
- New and emerging authoring technologies
- Technology-enabled distribution of learning resources
- Cross-disciplinary instructional multimedia
- Other learning resources topics
2. Committed and Connected International Communities of Learning through Technology
- National and International initiatives in eLearning
- Collaborations with developing countries
- International MERLOT projects
- International repository partnerships
- Cross cultural collaborations in the disciplines
- Accommodating multi-language audiences
- Faculty and student global partnerships
- Best practices in International collaborations
- Enhancing MERLOT Multi-language learning resources
3. Researching New Learning Paradigms and New Teaching Models
- Research and evaluation methodologies
- Peer-review
- Graduate programs in instructional design
- MERLOT and other Agency sponsored research
- New understandings of how students e-learn
- Case studies on technology in education
4. New Paths: Expanding Teaching and learning Opportunities with Web2.0
- Technology-enabled language exchange via blogs, wikis and VOIP
- 21st Century technology-enabled instruction
- Learning Management Systems: past, present, future
- Large scale ePortfolio implementations
- Mobile computing and MERLOT
- Open source versus Off the shelf projects
- Use of cutting-edge technologies to teach and learn (i.e., iPOD, cellular devices, gaming, social networking)
5. Reinventing Libraries in the Digital Age
- New uses for old spaces
- Consortium licensing
- Copyright and intellectual property
- Open-access publications
- On-line repositories as ‘publisher’
- Open standards and interoperability
6. Engaging and Emerging Faculty Development Processes
- Faculty recognition, promotion and tenure
- Implementation and evaluation of eLearning programs
- Common core curriculum initiatives
- Student-faculty collaborations to enrich teaching
- Technology and program review
- Course redesign projects
- Continuing professional development for adjunct faculty in distributed (distance) education programs
7. Community of Practice: Harvesting the Promise of Technology with Education
For 2008, the MERLOT Conference Committee has selected to highlight Education as the featured Community of Practice. Teacher education, Libraries, and Faculty Development comprise this featured Community of Practice. Committee members hope that many faculty members will share this highlighted track with students involved in Pre-K through 16 classrooms and will propose joint sessions, panels, posters, and under/graduate research related to the conference theme. Proposals for this track may include such topics as:
- Methods and technologies of adult learning
- The pedagogy of eTeaching
- Technology support for pre-service teachers
- Career paths for e-Teachers
- Continuing professional development
- Faculty support in distance education programs
- Student learning experiences using technology
- Experiences of students teaching with technology
- ePortfolios for faculty and students
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