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We welcome to all dignitaries, faculty and scholars from across the world to the ‘International Education Conference 2014’ organized by the Faculty of Education, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi, India in collaboration with UNESCO, New Delhi, India.
The theme of the conference is
'Education as a right across the levels: Challenges, Opportunities and Strategies'.
IEC 2014 is scheduled between March 10 - 11, 2014. The mission of the Conference is to guide the provision of education for all across all levels (primary, secondary and higher education) so that they are able to pursue knowledge and skills, manifest excellence in performance, defend democratic ideals irrespective of gender, religion, caste, creed, economic status or any other discriminatory characteristic.
Themes/Subthemes
In consonance with the conference theme topics include but are not limited to the following issues at different levels.
Elementary level
Status of elementary education : policy initiatives at national & global levels
Inclusion as a mandatory commitment.
Curriculum, text books, pedagogical practices, school ecology and assessment.
Innovations and success stories - case presentations.
Exploring alternative modes
Technology for leveraging RTE.
RTE : Legal discourses
Literacy as an empowering tool
Issues in implementation, regulation and accreditation
Secondary Level
Policy Initiatives across different countries.
Context sensitivity and Community Orientation in secondary school curriculum
Inclusion : Challenges and Possibilities.
The issue of Vocationalization at secondary level
Liberalization Privatization Globalization: Implications for secondary level
Role for Technology
Issues in universalization of secondary education
Wellness for all
Higher Education
Access and Participation Issues.
Unpacking the notions of ‘merit’, excellence and ‘quality’.
Public Private Partnerships: Concept and issues.
Egalitarian
Distance and open learning paradigm.
Intellectual property rights and open access sources
Teaching - learning considerations
Financial issues
Mechanisms for Quality assurance : Accreditation agencies, credit based semester system etc.
Emerging trends in higher education: Virtual, collaborative ventures etc.
Autonomy and Accountability
Life Long Learning
Building lifelong learning communities
Facilitating Inter cultural dialogues.
NGO initiatives
Technology as a learning tool.
Innovative Initiatives
Teacher Education
RTE as a challenge for Pre & In - service teacher preparation
Policy perspectives
Responsibility and accountability issues
Regional contexts in teacher education
Alternative models
Creative and innovative endeavours
Reality bites : reflections from the field
Technology: Issues of exclusion and inclusion

INTED2014, the 8th International Technology, Education and Development Conference will be held in Valencia (Spain), on the 10th, 11th and 12th of March, 2014. 
INTED2014 provides the ideal opportunity to present your projects and experiences. It is the perfect platform to discuss the latest developments in the field of Teaching and learning methodologies, educational projects and innovations and new technologies applied to Education and Research.

The scope of INTED2014 includes the following topics:

General Issues

• Education and Globalization
• Organizational, legal and financial issues
• Diversity issues and women and minorities in science and technology
• Barriers to Learning (e.g.: age, psychosocial factors, ethnicity…)
• Digital divide and acces to internet
• Impact of Education on Development
• Impact of Crisis on Education
• Ethical issues in Education
• Education in a multicultural society

Experiences in Education

• Enhancing learning and the undergraduate experience
• New projects and innovations
• Transferring disciplines
• Competence Evaluation
• Learning Experiences in Primary and Secondary School
• Pre-service teacher experiences
• Student Support in Education
• Lifelong Learning
• Vocational Training
• Science popularization and public outreach activities
• Inclusive Learning

New Trends in the Higher Education Area

• New challenges for the Higher Education Area
• ECTS experiences
• Erasmus experiences in the universities
• Student and staff mobility programmes
• The Bologna Declaration process
• Experiences in Joint degrees programmes

International Projects

• New experiences for the international cooperation
• Joint Education projects
• Joint Research projects
• Project outcomes and conclusions

Pedagogical & Didactical Innovations

• Learning and Teaching Methodologies
• Language Learning Innovations
• Tutoring and Coaching
• Transferable skills
• Evaluation and Assessment of Student Learning
• Collaborative and Problem-based Learning
• Flipped Learning
• Experiences in STEM Education
• Next Generation Classroom

Research in Education

• Educational Research Experiences
• Research on Technology in Education
• Links between Education and Research
• Research Methodologies
• Engineering Research Centres

Virtual Universities

• The internationalization of Universities
• Experiences in Virtual Universities
• Distance education
• Massively Open Online Courses (MOOC)

Technological Issues in Education

• e-Learning
• Mobile learning: Phones, Tablets…
• Apps for education
• Blended Learning
• Web classroom applications
• Online/Virtual Laboratories
• Classroom and Laboratory: Integration
• Managed Learning Environments (MLEs)
• Learning Management Systems (LMS)
• Technology-Enhanced Learning
• Industry and Business Innovation
• Identity Management
• Augmented Reality
• Cloud Computing
• ICT skills and competencies among teachers
• ICT enhanced language teaching and learning

Computer Supported Collaborative Work

• Collaborative Virtual Environments (CVEs)
• Virtual Learning Environments (VLEs)
• Web 2.0 and Social Networking: Twitter, Blogs, Wikis...
• Social Media in Education
• Experiences in Web Technologies in Education
• Training the e-trainer

Educational Software and Serious Games

• Educational Software experiences
• Experiences in Educational/Serious Games
• 3D Applications and Virtual Reality
• Videos for Learning
• Gamification

Curriculum Design and Innovation

• New Experiences for Curriculum Design
• Strategies, Principles and Challenges
• Forecasting of labour market and skill needs in Europe
• Generic skills and their development
• One to One/Laptop Curriculum
• Personal Learning Environments

Quality assurance in Education

• Academic experiences and best practice contributions
• Accreditation /Assessment processes
• Quality standards at national and international level
• Learning analytics
• Virtual learning assessment
• Online Curses Accreditation

University-Industry Collaboration

• Work Employability
• Continuous Education
• Workplace Learning
• University/Industry Experiences
• Entrepreneurship Education

E-content Management and Development

• Knowledge Management experiences
• ePortfolios
• Intellectual Property Rights and Plagiarism
• User-Generated Content
• Digital Libraries and Repositories
• Open source and open content projects

ACE (American Council on Education) - 96th Annual Meeting - Conference Hotel:  Manchester Grand Hyatt San Diego 1 Market Place San Diego, CA 92101.  
The ACE Annual Meeting is where presidents, chancellors, and other senior-level leaders meet to discuss trends and promising practices with colleagues across all sectors of higher education. Leaders have access to experts and workshops that provide practical resources and tools to aid day-to-day decision making, as well as long-term strategic planning. ACE’s 2014 Annual Meeting will be held in San Diego, California, at the Manchester Grand Hyatt Hotel.

ACE welcomes:

• Presidents, chancellors, and all campus/system chief executive officers
• Chief academic officers
• Members of the senior executive team, including:
  • Vice presidents/vice chancellors
  • Government relations officers
  • General Counsels
  • Chief diversity officers
  • Presidential assistants/chiefs of staff
• Deans
• Directors
• Current full-time graduate students

ACE welcomes international participants to join the conversation
ACE welcomes university presidents, vice presidents, rectors, and directors, as well as education ministry officials and embassy staff, to attend the 96th Annual Meeting and special events developed to advance global dialogue regarding postsecondary education.

Discounts for those attending NAPAHE and NADOHE
ACE partners with two higher education organizations during the Annual Meeting and offers discounts to those who attend the ACE meeting and one of the partnering associations’ meetings:

• National Association of Presidential Assistants in Higher Education (NAPAHE)
• National Association of Diversity Officers in Higher Education (NADOHE)

The 2nd Global Summit on Education (GSE 2014) is an interdisciplinary international conference that invites academicians, scholars and researchers, with broad and diverse research interests, from around the world to meet and exchange the latest ideas and views in a forum encouraging respectful dialogue. The GSE 2014 that composed research presentations in the various disciplines, themes and areas of education field, will afford the opportunity for renewing old acquaintances, making new contacts, networking across higher education and facilitating partnerships across borders.

Venue: Radius International Hotel, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Dates: 4 & 5 March 2014

The main objective of this conference is to provide a forum and effective medium for academicians, scientists, scholars and researchers;

• To present the result of their research activities in the various disciplines, themes and areas of education field.
• To discuss research that contributes to the sharing of new ideas, innovations theoretical, methodological, empirical knowledge and problem solving techniques for better understanding in the various disciplines, themes and areas of education field.

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2014 AEIA Annual Conference - Universalizing Global Learning in the 21st-Century Academy. February 16-19, 2014, JW Marriott, Washington, DC, USA.  
The rapid pace of innovation and the increasingly complex nature of the systems that manage and direct human experience has led to the gradual realization that not bullion or oil, but rather intellectual capital will become the most important commodity of the 21st century. This global recalibration of what is necessary to fuel human progress, push the boundaries of knowledge and even extend profits requires, as a fundamental enabler, international higher education. Nurturing and affording access to this increasingly desirable commodity therefore demands a robust and responsive international higher education sector. The most salient aspect of intellectual capital and the most consequential feature of its value is that it performs within a global context. And yet, notwithstanding this dynamic, there is a frightening disconnect between the demands of the world into which we are evolving and the commitments of colleges and universities to prepare their students, particularly undergraduates, to succeed in this new world.
There are certainly pockets of awareness here and there. For example, accrediting bodies are increasingly calling for global learning experiences as part of the standards of education required in various disciplines. Despite various initiatives to address global learning at institutions around the world, the majority of institutions still accord global learning a marginal place in the curriculum (a single course or a single co-curricular workshop), if it is there at all. In short, there continues to be a conspicuous absence of a consensus for global learning in the curriculum as part of an intentional effort to align student learning with the demands of a global information age. Let us not forget that education is at the core of international higher education. Moreover, the character of such an education in the context of globalization must be global, where students have multiple, intentional and substantive encounters with global learning experiences throughout their respective programs of study.
There is therefore an urgency to universalize global learning in the 21st century academy, meaning that all colleges and universities come to understand that part of what defines their mission in this historical moment is the need to prepare students for global realities. This commitment must be expressed, not merely in a menu of education abroad opportunities, but more importantly, throughout their specific fields of study, the curriculum in general, and the co-curriculum. In addition to the demands of government and industry, and taking into account what is needed to push the boundaries of knowledge, the fact remains that the greatest challenges facing humankind are global in nature. These challenges can only be resolved by graduates/citizens who are themselves globally competent. The case for global learning in the academy is overwhelming. Action is expected and required of all institutions, regardless of size, mission, history, wealth or location. In the end, each institution must commit to making global learning a central feature of a curriculum that will impart the skills, knowledge and dispositions necessary for life in a global information age.

Welcome to the official website of the 2014 2nd International Conference on Information and Education Technology (ICIET 2014). The conference will be held in Melbourne, Australia during January 2-3, 2014.
The aim objective of ICIET is to present the latest research and results of scientists related to Information and Education Technology  topics. This conference provides opportunities for the different areas delegates to exchange new ideas and application experiences face to face, to establish business or research relations and to find global partners for future collaboration. We hope that the conference results constituted significant contribution to the knowledge in these up to date scientific field.
ICIET 2014 is supposed to be the largest technical event on Information and Education Technology in Melbourne, Australia in 2014. The focus of the conference is to establish an effective platform for institutions and industries to share ideas and to present the works of scientists, engineers, educators and students from all over the world. The organizing committee of conference is pleased to invite prospective authors to submit their original manuscripts to ICIET 2014.
All papers, both invited and contributed, will be reviewed by two or three experts from the TC. After a careful reviewing process, all accepted paper will be published in international journal “International Journal of Information and Education Technology” [ISSN:2010-3689, IACSIT Press] “International Journal of Information and Education Technology” is indexed by Engineering & Technology Digital Library, Google Scholar, Crossref and ProQuest.
The full text is online available via platform http://www.etlibrary.org/ . IACSIT Press will provide online camera-ready paper submission system.

5th International Conference on E-Education, E-Business, E-Management and E-Learning- IC4E 2014, January 13-14, 2014, Strathcona Hotel, Toronto, Canada (Venue).
2014 5th International Conference on E-Education, E-Business, E-Management and E-Learning - IC4E 2014 is the premier forum for the presentation of new advances and research results in the fields of theoretical, experimental, and applied E-Education, E-Business, E-Management and E-Learning. The conference will bring together leading researchers, engineers and scientists in the domain of interest from around the world. Topics of interest for submission include, but are not limited to:

About the Conference  
Open education has become more than a global trend. Open education approaches and practices are adopted in virtually all areas of education. Besides open universities that have been offering open education courses, a fast growing number of conventional institutions have become involved in open education in an increasing number of aspects. Modes of learning and teaching are becoming more flexible in terms of time, space, curriculum contents and organisation, pedagogical methods, infrastructure, and requirements. This conference aims to:
1.     provide a platform for sharing research, practices and views relevant to open and flexible education using the latest technologies and innovations;
2.     facilitate networking and cross-institutional collaboration among researchers and educators in the field; and
3.     promote open and flexible education to enhance educational access and quality.
Conference theme
The theme for the Inaugural International Conference on Open and Flexible Education is ‘Making Learning Open and Flexible: Emerging Modes and Approaches’. It will focus primarily on exploring which of the latest technologies and innovations can facilitate the further development of open learning towards a more flexible and personalized mode of education catering for the diverse needs of different learning communities and how these technologies can do so. More...

How Educational Innovations Will Make—or Break— America’s Global Future, AAC&U Annual Meeting, January 22-25, 2014, Grand Hyatt Hotel / Washington, DC. Register Online.

A great democracy cannot be content to provide a horizon-expanding education for some and work skills, taught in isolation from the larger societal context, for everyone else. Yet this is what the postsecondary system, viewed as a whole, provides now. And this is what we must work together to change. . . . It should not be liberal education for some and narrow or illiberal education for others.

AAC&U Board of Directors 2010

Wednesday, January 22: Pre-Meeting Symposium
NEW DESIGNS FOR INTEGRATIVE LEARNING:
Curricular Pathways, Departments, and the Future of Arts and Sciences

Saturday, January 25: Fifth Annual E-Portfolio Forum
DEFINING PRACTICE AND A RESEARCH AGENDA

ABOUT THE ANNUAL MEETING

Quality and the Big Questions
In an era marked by interdependence, economic uncertainty, and disruptive innovation, the future is global and the challenges urgent. To flourish in such a future, students must acquire both broad knowledge and high level skills—essential capacities—to deal successfully with complex opportunities and unscripted problems.

These goals determine quality standards for higher education. How can we be sure that what we expect students to learn in college matches the essential capacities graduates will need to tackle the “big questions” of this generation and of a turbulent world? Are college degrees designed to provide students with many opportunities to practice and build these essential capacities? Students, parents, employers, faculty members and other stakeholders should reject as insufficient any claims of quality education that do not centrally include students’ active and deep effort on research, projects, creative work, collaborative assignments, and other practices that foster deep learning and high level skills. How do we ensure that, whatever their pathways through college, all students have continuous opportunities to apply their learning—with guidance from mentors—to significant problems and real-world challenges?

E-Quality and Innovation
Technology continues to transform all aspects of higher education. But in our fascination with the promise of technology, are we paying sufficient attention to the connection between innovation and educational quality? Are we prepared to ensure that technological innovations should expand rather than further limit student engagement in practices—such as research, field-based learning and creative projects--that build high level 21st century capacities? New evidence is published daily on “high impact practices” that help students both persist in college and achieve at higher levels. As a community how are we using this evidence to draw educationally productive innovations from the digital revolution?

Inequality and the Opportunity Gap
As employers are the first to attest, the outcomes basic to an excellent liberal education are urgently needed in the economy and the workplace. And liberal education is—literally—foundational to democratic vitality. Policy calls to move away from liberal education therefore represent a disinvestment in expanded opportunity, and a locking in of what is already a two-tiered higher education system. In the current climate, how do we resist overemphasis on educational initiatives that are designed primarily to prepare students for their first-job? Can we instead judge the value of innovations by how well they create long-term opportunity, strengthen students’ capacities, and reverse the most inequitable features of U.S. higher education? Can we work with employers, rather than around them, to strengthen the rigor, relevance and inclusiveness of a 21st century liberal education?

For More Information about the Annual Meeting

Please contact meetings@aacu.org or call AAC&U at (202) 387-3760.

CHEA International Quality Group Annual Meeting. January 29 (evening) - January 30. Capital Hilton Hotel - Washington, DC. Click Here for a Registration Form and Hotel Reservation Information
CIQG Annual Meeting - Imperatives For Quality Assurance, International Standards and Innovation
OPENING DIALOGUE - DO WE WANT OR NEED A SINGLE SET OF INTERNATIONAL QUALITY STANDARDS?
As quality assurance becomes increasingly international, is a single set of international standards becoming an imperative? Alternatively, should quality assurance remain country- based or regional as well, continuing to respect cultural diversity and national sovereignty?
1. What are the arguments in favor of a single set of international quality standards?
2. What are the arguments against?
3. If we have international standards, what would they look like? Aspirational standards such as those in regional frameworks (e.g., ESG)? Outcomes-based or competency- based standards? Expectations of quality framed in quantitative terms, e.g., numbers of graduates, retention, employment? A mixture?
4. Right now, quality assurance processes vary. We have countries that have their own standards, and countries that have their own standards and also use regional standards. We have countries with and without qualifications frameworks. We have countries that do and do not rely on rankings (either formally or informally). Is current international quality assurance “working”? If so, what is the added value of a single set of international standards?
5. What makes quality assurance “international” – as compared to regional or country- based?
ARE RANKINGS BECOMING A FORM OF INTERNATIONAL QUALITY STANDARDS?
Global, regional and country-based rankings continue to grow in influence and numbers. Will rankings ultimately become de facto international standards to judge quality?
REGIONAL AND COUNTRY-BASED QUALITY STANDARDS: RECENT DEVELOPMENTS
Regional and country-based quality standards have each played a significant role in the organization of the work of assuring and improving quality. What are recent developments? What do we learn when examining various approaches?
POST-TRADITIONAL PROVIDERS OF HIGHER EDUCATION: WHAT ARE THE IMPLICATIONS FOR QUALITY ASSURANCE?
Higher education may be entering a “post-traditional” era in which the work of institutions (credentialing, teaching and learning, curriculum development, evaluation) is no longer confined to colleges and universities. Alternative providers are emerging, including MOOCs, low-cost providers of course offerings as well as competency-based offerings and assessment of prior learning. This “unbundling” or “disaggregation” of the key elements of higher education raises questions and challenges for quality assurance: How will traditional quality assurance address the emergence of post-traditional providers of educational offerings?
HOW MIGHT QUALITY ASSURANCE RESPOND?
Does the unbundling of higher education call for the unbundling of quality assurance? What might this mean? A Quality Platform: an international standard for post-traditional education?
CLOSING DISCUSSION HIGHER EDUCATION OUT OF THE BOX RESPONDING TO INNOVATIONS
What are key issues and insights that have emerged from today’s discussion? What type of quality assurance do we want to create going forward?
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