Taking IT to the Next Level: The Team Approach to e-Learning Program Development

Philippine eLearning Society (PeLS) holds a two-day conference titled:

"Taking IT to the Next Level: The Team Approach to e-Learning Program Development".

Date: November 28-29, 2006
Venue: NCC, C P Garcia Avenue, Quezon City

Below is the list of topics that will be discussed in the conference:

• National ICT competency standards for teachers
• Trends in elearning in Philippine schools
• International trends in elearning
• Courseware assessment and other tools for evaluating elearning practice
• Pitfalls in elearning practice (and how to overcome them)
• Best Practices in elearning – (including SCORM)
• Charting school policy directions for eLearning
• Planning for teacher professional development
• Support services for e-learners
• A Philippine eLearning industry?
• Managing eLearning projects
• An overview of learning management systems
• Integrating educational software (courseware) into
• the curriculum
• Cheap PCs
• A roadmap for elearning (workshop and consultations)
• Presentation of plans
• Synthesis and planning

The registration fee is Php 1,500 per participant to non-members and Php 1,200 for the early birds. All PeLS members will be given a discounted rate of Php 1,000 and Php 800.00 for early birds.

For confirmation and other inquiries, you may contact Mr. Nijel Ratonel or Ms. Mary Grace Simplina, at telephone nos: (02) 893-8501 loc 258/ (02) 812-2286.

This seminar is sure to benefit school administrators, subject teachers, and IT educators. We hope to see you
there!


Concept

This conference targets schools and universities which aim to setup or improve their elearning operations and services. Institutions will be encouraged to send a team composed of teachers, administrators and ICT personnel.

A great majority of educational institutions, even in the private sector, have little or no involvement at all in e-Learning. This year's National e-Learning Conference aims to address some basic concerns in increasing awareness of the benefits of e-Learning and most importantly, creating a road map towards its actual implementation.

The goals of the conference are to:

• Validate the need to use accessible, appropriate,responsive and effective educational technologies, and discuss current practices
• Encourage the adoption of a team approach to the development of an elearning system
• Provide a framework for developing action plans for initiating and implementing workable elearning systems
• Enable exchange of experiences among e-Learning practitioners and advocates

Call for Papers

The Philippine eLearning Society invites paper presentations on the topics listed in the program. Paper presentations may be in the form of case studies, project profiles, action research reports,
and critiques/analyses of existing national or institutional policies and programs. The organizers expect presenters to emphasize the need for a team approach in planning for, developing, implementing and evaluating elearning programs and projects.

Abstracts must be 300-400 words in length, in .doc or .rtf format.

Email abstracts to pelsconferencepapers@gmail.com before October 30, 2006. Authors whose papers will be selected for presentation should submit full papers and/or presentation slides by November 10, 2006, for inclusion in the conference CD.


Please visit http://www.elearning.ph

Invitation: http://www.elearning.ph/2006/Invite_5th_eLearningConf.doc

Program: http://www.elearning.ph/2006/5th_eLearningConf_Program.doc

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