Description

Conference Objectives

     Teach

• Discuss critical success factors and innovative practices in online/distance education and training.
• Examine the key components of effective applications: needs analysis, course design, teaching methods, active learning, learner support, management, policy, and evaluation.
• Share successful approaches, strategies, and techniques.
• Identify active teaching/learning methods for effective engagement, motivation, and performance outcomes.
• Discuss major issues, new developments, and trends.

     Learn

• Reflect on progress made in online/distance education.
• Consider future possibilities for online/distance education.
• Increase knowledge about teaching/training related to online/distance education.

     Connect

• Facilitate networking among online/distance educators, practitioners and administrators.
• Share program resources via technology (e.g., print, audio, video, multimedia, and the Internet).

TOPICS

Abstracts of research papers in 150-200 words are invited from faculty, teachers, instructors, researchers, evaluators, support personnel, designers and developers, administrators, managers, directors,  technology and services providers, business trainers  and Ph.D. scholars/Post Graduate students on contemporary issues in online/distance education befitting any of the conference tracks mentioned as under. Topics of interest for submissions include, but are not limited to:

Open Education
Management Approaches
Economic Problems
Theoretical Perspective
Providing Quality
Legal Arrangements
Online/ Distance Education
Interaction Strategies
Virtual Communities/Cultures
Virtual University
Intelligent Tutorial Systems
Evaluation Approaches
Learning and Teaching
Constructivist Approaches
Learnings Styles
Collaboration Based Teams
Instructional Designs and Improvements of Teaching Systems
Learning Needs
Feedbacks Systems
Innovative Learning/Teaching Strategies
Assessment-Evaluation
Teaching Environments
Authoring Systems
Visual Literacy
Multimedia Environment Application
Interface-learner Interaction
Integrated Learning Perspective
Tendencies in the Field of Education Communication and its Technology
Job Possibilities
Technological Equipment
Changing Qualification
New roles for learners and teachers