ELTWeekly Issue#28, Worldwide ELT events

13th UNESCO-APEID International Conference on Education and World Bank-KERIS High Level Seminar on ICT in Education

ICT Transforming Education, 15-17 November 2009 – Hangzhou, People’s Republic of China

Co-organized by

  • UNESCO Asia-Pacific Regional Bureau for Education
  • National Commission of the People’s Republic of China for UNESCO
  • The World Bank
  • Korea Educational Research and Information Service (KERIS)

Hosted by Hangzhou Department of Education and Xiacheng People’s Government, Hangzhou

The 13th UNESCO-APEID International Conference, in conjunction with the World Bank-KERIS High Level Seminar on ICT in Education, emphasizes the powerful role ICT can play in changing the way we teach and learn. The conference will provide a forum to explore, identify and synergize innovative approaches for harnessing the potential of ICT to increase the reach and quality of education.

Call for Papers

The organizers – the Asia-Pacific Programme of Educational Innovation for Development (APEID) of UNESCO in Bangkok, the National Commission of the People’s Republic of China for UNESCO, the World Bank and the Korea Education and Research Information Service (KERIS) – invite papers on the following topics:

  • Developing ICT in Education Policies and National Master Plans
  • Promoting Effective Management and Applications of ICT in Schools
  • Improving Quality and Efficiency of Higher Education through ICT
  • Enhancing Innovations in Open and Distance Learning
  • Preparing the Next Generation of Teachers
  • Using ICT to Promote Literacy and Life-long Learning
  • Monitoring and Measuring Impact of ICT in Education.

AAAL 2010 Annual Conference, March 6 – 9  – Atlanta, GA

The 2010 conference of the American Association for Applied Linguistics (AAAL) will be heldMarch 6 – 9 at the Sheraton Atlanta Hotel, Atlanta, GA. The 2010 AAAL conference will serve as a meeting place for applied linguists to generate ideas, cross disciplinary boundaries, and disseminate research about issues and concerns in language policy, second language acquisition, language pedagogy and assessment, discourse analysis and other areas of applied linguistics.

Nationally and internationally, the AAAL conference has a reputation as a comprehensive and stimulating conference that offers in-depth colloquia and paper sessions, topical and thought-provoking plenary presentations, excellent book exhibits, and plentiful opportunities for networking with applied linguists from North America and other countries. We hope you will consider sharing your work at AAAL in Atlanta, Georgia.

The submission of abstracts and the refereeing process will be carried out through the AAAL web submission system.

For further details and pre-registration, please visit: http://www.aaal.org/aaal2010/

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