Please see the ELI Events Calendar for links to the websites of past, present, and future events. The proceedings of past activities are available through their event websites. You will find the proceedings link in the menu to the left of the event home page except for events prior to 2005. For those events, look for proceedings links on the event home pages themselves.
ELI Annual Meeting
Each year in late January, the ELI community comes together to explore, network, and grow. A combination of plenary presentations, interactive sessions, and workshops—plus plenty of time to visit with colleagues—ensures that the ELI Annual Meeting brings lasting value to participants. ELI also encourages institutions to maximize the value they receive from the conference by sending institutional teams. Team participation facilitates shared learning and enhances the potential for collaborative initiatives back on campus based on ideas gained at the meeting.
As a membership benefit, representatives from ELI institutions enjoy members-only registration rates for the annual meeting —$410 before the early registration deadline and $440 after it. These rates represent a significant discount from the non-member rates of $865 before the early registration deadline and $895 after it.
We limit the size of the meeting to ensure a high-quality experience for all participants, and it usually fills quickly. Don't forget to register early to ensure your participation.
[Proceedings]—ELI 2009 Annual Meeting Participation and Collaboration: Social Learning for the 21st Century January 20–22, 2009 Caribe Royale Hotel and Conference Center, Orlando, Florida
[Proceedings]—ELI 2008 Annual Meeting Connecting and Reflecting: Preparing Learners for Life 2.0 January 28–30, 2008 Hyatt Regency San Antonio–Riverwalk, San Antonio, Texas
[Proceedings]—ELI 2007 Annual Meeting Creating a Successful Learning Culture: Connecting Learners, Communities, and Information January 22–24, 2007 Omni Hotel–CNN Center, Atlanta, Georgia
[Proceedings]—ELI 2006 Annual Meeting Advancing Learning: Insights and Innovations January 29–31, 2006 Westin Horton Plaza Hotel, San Diego, California
Focus Sessions
ELI conducts in-depth workshops on two topics each year. Focus sessions help participants develop a deeper understanding of a topic and gain practical knowledge that can be applied on campus. As with the annual meeting, institutions are encouraged to facilitate this process through team participation.
Representatives from ELI member institutions have access to discounted, members-only registration rates for ELI focus sessions—$375 before the early registration deadline and $400 after it. Non-member focus session rates are $500 before the early registration deadline and $525 after it.
We limit the size of these events to ensure a high-quality experience for all who participate. This means that the focus sessions often fill quickly, so register early.
The next ELI Focus Session will be offered September 23–24, 2009 online in Adobe Connect. You may want to view proceedings from our recent focus sessions:
[Proceedings]—ELI 2008 Fall Focus Session Revisting Learning Space Design September 17-18, 2008 Coffman Memorial Union Building, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota
[Proceedings]—ELI 2007 Fall Focus Session Being Net Savvy: Developing Skills for a Rapidly Changing World August 15–16, 2007 The ATLAS Center, University of Colorado-Boulder, Boulder, Colorado
[Proceedings]—ELI 2007 Spring Focus Session Immersive Learning Environments: New Paths to Interaction and Engagement March 27–28, 2007 The Friday Institute for Educational Innovation, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina
[Proceedings]—ELI 2006 Fall Focus Session Supporting Learning with Technology: Assessment's Role September 11–12, 2006 Omni Interlocken Resort, Broomfield, CO (near Boulder)
[Proceedings]—ELI 2006 Spring Focus Session Mobility and Mobile Learning: The Next Phase of Anytime, Anywhere Learning March 29–30, 2006 University of Maryland University Inn and Conference Center, Adelphi, Maryland
ELI Web Seminars
ELI hosts Web Seminars, which are Webconferencing events that focus on topics of interest to the ELI community. Participants can join ELI Web Seminars live and ask questions of the presenters or chat with other participants. They can also access archived seminars to view at their convenience. Only ELI members are able to participate in the live Web Seminars; access to the seminar archive is also restricted to members for 6 months from the seminar date, after which time ELI will make the archive publicly available.
ELI Web Seminars offer another venue for professional development. Even if you are a regular annual meeting or focus session attendee, ELI Web Seminars allow you to expand on the learning that takes place at our face-to-face events. In 2008-, ELI is hosting the following Web Seminars:
The Role of Play in Teaching with Technology Presenters: Barbara Draude, Assistant Vice President for Academic and Instructional Technologies, Middle Tennessee State University and Gail Matthews-DeNatale, Associate Director, Academic Technology, Simmons College
The ELI Web Seminars series began in the fall of 2005. Archives of past seminars, which include integrated audio and visuals, are accessible via the seminar archive. Please note that archived seminars are available only to ELI members for 6 months from the event date, after which they become publicly available.
The following table lists the archived 2008 Web seminars.
Community-Generated Media – David Vogt, Executive Director of the Mobile MUSE Network and Director of Digital Learning Projects, Faculty of Education, University of British Columbia; CEO, CrowdTrust Technologies Inc.
ELI has been in the forefront of podcasting, beginning with podcasts from our 2005 Annual Meeting. Whenever possible, ELI podcasts reports, participant interviews, and entire sessions to expand member access to its events. You can access podcasts from specific ELI events via the ELI Resources page.
Unless otherwise noted, EDUCAUSE holds the copyright on all materials published by the association, whether in print or electronic form. In certain cases the work remains the intellectual property of the individual author(s) (see Special Circumstances). Content from conference speeches, presentations, blogs, wikis and feeds reflect the opinions of the author, and not necessarily those of EDUCAUSE or its members.
