What's New?

• Speaker Information and Presentation Guidelines now available online!
• Have you booked accommodation? Rooms selling fast!
• Updated Delegate List now available for download!
• Are you a presenter? Please see updated speaker info!
• Preliminary draft program now available for download!
• Times Higher Education confirmed as AIEC 2013 media partner!

Theme: Global Imperatives - Local Realities
This year’s AIEC will focus on the key global, regional and local drivers that influence and shape international education. What impact do these drivers have and how can we respond to them most effectively?Conversely, what impact does international education have on the world around us globally and locally? How do local realities affect our ability to respond to global imperatives and opportunities? How do we achieve balance between global imperatives and local realities? How will international education influence and shape the future of the nation and the world?

The 5th annual Summit will convene in October 29 – 31, 2013, in Doha, Qatar.
Since 2009, the annual World Innovation Summit for Education (WISE) in Doha, Qatar, brings together the world’s most influential experts, decision makers and practitioners to find bold ways of improving education, exploring groundbreaking new trends and tackling the critical challenges of the 21st century through concrete action. The strength of WISE is its broad multi-sectoral base for collaboration, fostering innovation and sharing sustainable and replicable best practices.
The three-day Summit offers a convivial environment for interactive discussions with speakers, experts and members from the WISE Community. Attendees are given an opportunity to collaborate, share best practices and challenge their thinking during interactive Plenary Sessions and Debates. Focus Sessions highlight innovative Best Practices or projects, along with Workshops to facilitate collaboration on specific issues. Guests connected with members of the WISE Community, including the holders of  WISE Awards winning projects and Learners’ Voice student delegates. Also, the WISE Prize for Education, now is awarded during the Summit to an individual or a team in recognition of an outstanding contribution to education.
The Summit offers a unique opportunity for all the participants to find out more about the most cutting-edge practices in education, network with high-level people from all sectors and from all countries, and to actively participate in building the future of education.
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mLearn extends the theory and practice of learning and mobility in converging technological environments. This includes applications of innovative mobile and ubiquitous technologies for learning. It covers new educational and technological methods and concepts for supporting formal and informal learning, as well as seamless learning across contexts, and transitions between different types of learning.
mLearn was the first conference on Mobile Learning. After more than 11 years mLearn is widely recognized as one of the most prestigious international conferences in the field. The past mLearn conferences were held in the UK, Italy, Australia, South Africa, Canada, the USA, Malta, China, and Finland.
Main conference will be October 22-24, 2013! Pre-conference workshops will be October 21, 2013!
Latest News:
mLearn 2013 will take place in Doha, Qatar, from October 22-24, 2013 (with pre-conference workshops on October 21, 2013).
Conference Registration:
Registration is NOW OPEN for mLearn 2013! Click HERE for more details!
Contributing to mLearn 2013:
Second Call for Proposals Issued:
A second CFP has now been issued for the Mobile Learning Practices: Lessons Learned, Doctoral Consortium and Workshops & Tutorials categories. Deadline for submissions is July 15, 2013!
New Submission Categories: Late Breaking Researh and Poster Presentations:
Submissions are now being accepted for Late Breaking Research Papers and for Poster Presentations during the main conference dates at mLearn 2013!

• Deadline for Late Breaking Research Papers is August 31, 2013.
• Deadline for Poster Presentaton submissions is July 15, 2013.

View the Call for Proposals page for further details!
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Main Theme
“Leveraging the Power of Open and Distance Education for Building a Divergent Asia –Today's Solutions and Tomorrow's Vision”
To meet the needs of education for both developed and developing countries is a concurrent great challenge. In this direction Open Distance Learning System can play a vital role due to its cost effectiveness, flexibility and with no restriction of age or the workplace. Open Distance Learning mode of education can further be strengthened by integrating the innovative technologies and all varities of the available media to reach its students in an effective manner in the outreach/remote areas. The main theme of the conference is to improve the power of ODL to address the divergent Asia's problems and solutions.
The conference will be a platform for the ODL experts and others to use the power of ODL system to address the developed and developing countries problems of literacy, education for all, quality education, use of teaching-learning technologies and also to plan for the future divergent Asia. The ODL colleges, universities and institutions are the major stakeholders with virtual and formal system of education which introduced the online/e-learning to attract a large number of learners. The research, experience and practices of ODL institutions will be shared, collaborations will be made , new projects will be initiatives, new technologies will be outlined or perceived through this conference, therefore all the stakeholders are cordially invited to avail this opportunity by their participation and attendance.
AAOU2013 Conference Website

Event Overview
The Higher Education Leadership Asia 2013 is Asia’s premier leadership forum  of academic leaders, managers and policy makers responsible for the continual development and advancement of Higher Education in Asia
What’s New for 2013?

• The event will be co-located with EduBuild and Education Technology
• Gain practical information from leading case studies from regional and international world class universities
• Collaborations and partnerships driving higher education in Asia
• Review the impact global online partnerships have had on bringing world class teaching and curriculum to Asia
• Find out how to harness technology to recruit international students and drive your brand globally
• Discover key tools for measuring university brand equity and effectively utilizing measurement outcomes
• Building and embedding academic governance frameworks in higher education.

By Inge Ignatia de Waard. And adding to the call for papers I send out earlier today, a call send out by a MOOC conference.
Name of the conference: European MOOCs Stakeholder Summit (eMOOC) 2014
Date of conference: 10, 11 and 12 February 2014
Location: Lausanne, Switzerland.
Deadline for submission of papers: 20 September 2013
More information: http://www.emoocs2014.eu/
Description of the conference:
Organised by the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) and P.A.U. Education the event aims to be an opportunity to gatherEuropean actors involved in the Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) phenomenon, from policy makers to practitioners andresearchers. This conference is the follow-up of the MOOC Summit 2013. More...

By Matthew Wood. The EAIR Forum 2013 Rotterdam Forum Programme Committee and the EAIR Executive Board is delighted to hereby inform all colleagues and friends of EAIR and everyone that is interested in EAIR, that the official registration for the 35th Annual EAIR Forum “The Impact of Higher Education: Addressing the Challenges of the 21st Century” is open.
The 2013 EAIR Rotterdam Forum will take place from Wednesday 28 August till Saturday 31 August 2013 at the Erasmus University Rotterdam, the Netherlands.
Please note: The early bird registration deadline is closing on 1 July 2013 so make sure your Forum registration is done in time! For the 2013 EAIR Rotterdam Forum registration form, please go to: EAIR Registration.
For more information regarding the Forum registration, please go to the Conference website. Information about the preliminary timetable, hotels, travel, academic events, social events, tracks and keynote speakers can be found on the 2013 EAIR Rotterdam Forum website.
The Erasmus University is centrally located near the river in one of the most vibrant cities of the Netherlands. Being the main port of Europe, Rotterdam is a multicultural experience with outstanding museums and restaurants and well known for its modern architecture. The Erasmus University itself has a world wide reputation in the areas of economics, business administration and health, strengthened by law, social sciences, history and arts, and philosophy. Students from all over the world follow Dutch and English language bachelor’s programmes as the basis for leading international master’s specialisations at the interface of economics, health and society.
Please visit http://www.eair.nl/forum/rotterdam regularly for the updated news about the 2013 EAIR Rotterdam Forum.

1st World Congress on Access to Post-Secondary Education - 7th - 10th October 2013, Montreal, Canada   
Online registration now open - click here to go to the registration site!  (Simultaneous translation in French and Spanish available for plenary sessions).
Introducing the World Congress Series on Access to Post-secondary Education    
"Connecting the Unconnected"
We aim to make a tangible impact on rates of participation and success in post-secondary pathways wherever youth and adults are held back by poverty, birth and other economic and social circumstances.
The number of people participating in post-secondary education has risen globally over recent decades, but participating successfully still remains beyond the reach of many. New efforts are needed to tackle the factors that continue to hinder successful participation. The World Congress Series aims to spark a new global movement to advance opportunities in post-secondary education for all people, wherever they live or whatever their background. Our goal is to 'connect the unconnected' for collective impact. This also means addressing inadequate primary and secondary education and opportunities for adult learning.    
The first of three World Congresses will take place in Montreal, Canada in October 2013 (with two more occurring in 2015 and 2017 in different countries). The Congress will give a strong voice for students and young people and will be informed and shaped by a series of virtual and live International Student Forums (ISF) in different regions of the world. It will end with an Agenda for Action and a series of experimental projects that will be the fulcrum for work by the movement across all continents. With other global, national and local activities in between the three major events, the World Congress series will progressively build and enact an agenda for change.    
The Congress is an initiatve of the European Access Network. More information can be found on the World Congress website: www.eanworldcongress.org.

23rd Annual Conference, University of Edinburgh, Scotland  2-5 June 2014
The EAN annual conference represents a unique international experience of diversity in action. Hosted each year by a different member institution or organisation in Europe, the conference brings together policy-makers, academics, practitioners, researchers, and administrators from around the world to address key issues in access and widening participation, diversity and inclusion. It also engages the participation of students, student support services, student organisations and employers.
Our annual conference provides a platform and opportunity for those committed to equity, diversity and inclusion to discuss and debate topical issues, learn from one another, develop initiatives and make new European and international contacts. In particular it aims:

• To stimulate European and international collaboration to widen access and participation
• To share experiences and promote good practice in creating an inclusive higher education
• To disseminate research findings to a wider audience
• To contribute to the development of equitable tertiary education systems in Europe and beyond

The Access Evolution: Adapt to Survive?
June 2013, 22nd Annual Conference at the Council of Europe, Strasbourg, France
Access to Higher Education: Is It a Right, a Privilege, or a Necessity
June 2012, 21st Annual Conference at University of Zagreb, Croatia
Student Diversity in Higher Education: Conflicting Realities
June 2011, 20th Anniversary Conference at VU University in Amsterdam, The Netherlands
From Access to Success: Closing the Knowledge Divide
June 2010, 19th Annual Conference at Södertörn University in Stockholm, Sweden
Past Conferences.

The latest edition of the IAU Horizons (Vol. 19 No.2) is now available online.
16-18 October 2013: Third Conference of the Americas on International Education (CAIE 2013), Monterrey, Mexico.
For the third time, the IAU has been invited to partner with the organizers of the Conference of the Americas on International Education that is planned for 16-18 October, 2013 in Monterrey, Mexico. The third edition of the CAIE has, as its focus, Knowledge Mobility: Responsibility and Resources. The conference is being coordinated by the Inter-American Organization of Universities (IOHE) which holds the secretariat for CAIE until 2013 in collaboration with more than 20 organizations from Canada, the USA and Latin America. It is hosted by Universidad Autonoma de Nuevo Leon and AMPEI, the Mexican association for international education. IAU has agreed to join once again the Advisory Committee for the Conference and to take part in the event which will examine the role of various actors in the processes of internationalization and discuss how best to mobilize and engage them in the interests of strengthening the quality of higher education. A large number of sessions, workshops and networking sessions are being planned. For more information and to get involved in diverse ways in the conference, please visit the new CAIE website: www.caie-caei.org.