Activities
CADE'S Wise & Witty Wednesdays!
Join us for a series of dynamic professional development workshops:
Entrepreneurship in Distance Education: Mindsets and Strategies
Learn how a large and successful European vocational school handles issues of customer focus, financing, and marketing issues. Workshop leader will be Bernd Schachtsiek, President of the Association of European Correspondence Schools and the Managing Director of Studiengemeinschaft Darmstadt, Germany.
Date: Wednesday February 19, 1997
Time: Noon to 1 pm - Eastern Time
Teaching for Technology-Mediated Classrooms: How Much Change in Style?
This workshop is designed for community college faculty and will focus on issues in
making the shift from lecturing to non-lecturing models of teaching. Patrick O'Brien,
Manager of UCFV-Online, the online campus of the University College of the Fraser
Valley in Abbotsford B.C., will lead discussion in this workshop. Mr. O'Brien has taught
several online courses and has a particular interest in social presence theory and learning
styles.
Date: Wednesday February 26, 1997
Time: Noon to 1 pm - Eastern Time
Partnership Dynamics: Criteria for Effectiveness
An exploration of the critical success factors that are involved in partnering for
technology-based learning products. The workshop will be led by Lyndsay Green, author
of the recently produced study for the Office of Learning Technologies, Partnering for
Learnware. Lyndsay Green is also the co-publisher of the Training Technology Monitor.
Date: Wednesday March 19, 1997
Time: Noon to 1 pm - Eastern Time
Learning Technologies: What are Their Effectiveness Criteria?
Learn how corporate trainers watch the bottom line of costs and the top lines of learning.
Date: Wednesday March 26, 1997
Time: Noon to 1 pm - Eastern Time
Costing Distance Education
Learn why costing is such a challenging task and how others' figures have to be
analyzed. Workshop leader is Mark Schofield, Director, Audio-Visual Department,
Concordia University.
Date: Wednesday April 16, 1997
Time: Noon to 1 pm - Eastern Time
Convergence of Educational Delivery Modes: How Do We Manage for Greater
Efficiency?
Learn how to break the boundaries and blur conventional and distance education modes.
Date: Wednesday April 30, 1997
Time: Noon to 1 pm - Eastern Time
For more information:
Jeff Zabudsky, Chair
CADE Professional Development Committee
Phone: (902) 893-6666
Email: jzabudsky@cox.nsac.ns.ca
Canadian Congress for Learning Opportunities for Women (CCLOW)
The Janus Project: New Learning Technologies and Women
March 21-22, 1997, Montreal, Quebec
Hear keynote speaker: Heather Menzies, well-known Canadian researcher and writer on women and technology, author of Whose Brave New World? The Information Highway and the New Economy (1996). Heather Menzies was the keynote speaker for CADE `94 Annual Conference, and her speech entitled Learning Community and the Information Highway is available in CADE's Journal of Distance Education, 9(1), 1994, 1-16. Space is limited to 100 participants
Deadline for registration: Feb 28, 1997. Please contact CCLOW for an application form. Tel: (416)699-1909; Fax: (416) 699-2145; email: cclow@web.net.
1997 CADE Annual Conference
Join your colleagues across Canada for a three- in-one conference -- a computer conference, an audio-conference and a local discussion make up the 1997 CADE/ACED (Virtual) Conference. Practitioners and researchers at over 20 sites across 6 time zones will "be there" to discuss issues around the theme of "The Virtual Educator".1. Computer-Conference
Between May 19 - June 2, 1997, two weeks prior to the national audio-conference, a discussion will take place on the CADE Listserv based on a set of bilingual case studies. Paid registrants will receive a conference package including instructions and the case studies by early May.
2. Audio-Conference
On June 4, 1997, there will be two simultaneous audio-conferences, one Francophone, and the other Anglo-phone. A multi-sectoral panel will kick-start discussions with analyses and responses to the case studies.
3. Local Discussions (2:00-3:00 p.m. ET)
Discussions continue with local colleagues to share information, and raise questions for further research and professional development.
The conference is coordinated by the University of Saskatchewan (at Saskatoon), where two other national conferences will also be held during the same week -- CAUCE (Canadian Association for Uni-versity Continuing Education) and AMTEC (Associa-tion for Media and Technology in Education in Canada). To register, contact: http://www.cade-aced.ca or: CADE Conference Office
Extension Division
125 Kirk Hall, 117 Science Place
University of Saskatchewan
Saskatoon SK S7N 5C8
Phone: (306) 966-5539
Fax: (306) 966-5567
1998 CADE Annual Conference
Partners for Learning
May 21-24, 1998, Banff Centre, Banff, Alberta
Hosted by Athabasca University, in collaboration with the Alberta Distance Education
and Training Associa-tion, the actual (not virtual) CADE conference, held every two
years, promises to be attractive, exciting, and informative.
Plan to be with us in 1998! Check the CADE website for updates. http://www.cade-aced.ca
The 1997 EDEN Conference
June 23-25, Budapest
Open and Distance Learning: a bridge from the 90s to the year 2000 and beyond
Budapest will be the venue of EDEN's sixth annual conference, and will provide an
opportunity to summarise the considerable achievements of ODL in this decade, identify
the main changes and trends, and look forward to future developments and objectives.
Further information can be found on EDEN's homepage.
Leading Edge Training Technologies Conference
LETT '97 Conference, March 18-19, 1997
Victoria Conference Centre
Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
This conference offers four keynote speakers, and over 20 practical presentations. Check out the website. http://www.uvcs.uvic.ca/tecweb/letthome.htm
Professional Development in Distance Education
REFAD workshops, from March to May 1997.REFAD (Réseau d'enseignement francophone à distance du Canada) has set up the following four professional developement workshops in distance education, starting at the beginning of 1997:
1. Learning Support: Audioconference lead by Céline Lebel, coaching expert at Télé-université. Tuesday March 11, 1997.
2. Integrating Education on the Web: Audio and videoconference by André Toussel, training officer for Projet Stella at Moncton University. Wednesday March 26, 1997. For more information or to register, please contact Alain Langlois at REFAD: telephone (514) 523-3143, fax (514) 525-7763 or email: refad@ sympatico.ca .
