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This page contains information about APEC and non-APEC Events concerning matters of Human Resource Development that will take place within the upcoming months. For information on APEC and non-APEC events that have occurred recently, please click Here.
Official APEC HRDWG Events
31st APEC Human Resources Development Working Group Meeting
Date: 22-25 June 2009
Location: Chicago, United States
Website: TBA
Description: Annual Business Meeting of the APEC Human Resources Development Working Group
Non-APEC Events in the Pacific Rim
Education Events
22nd International Congress for School Effectiveness and Improvement
Date: 4-5 January 2009
Location: Canada
Description: The congress theme “New Departures for a Learning World of Quality and Equality” is designed to provide opportunities for us to build on our strong traditions of school effectiveness and improvement as we consider innovative and imaginative practices to create new forms of quality and greater equity across schools, districts, and countries.
7th Annual Hawaii International Conference on Education
Date: 4-7 January 2009
Location: United States
Description: The 2009 Hawaii International Conference on Education will once again be the gathering place for academicians and professionals from Education and related fields from all over the world.
International Congress for School Effectiveness and Improvement: New Departures for a Learning World of Quality and Equality
Date: 4-7 January 2009
Location: Canada
Description: The congress provides opportunities to build on strong traditions of school effectiveness and improvement while considering innovative practices to create new forms of quality and greater equity across schools, districts, and countries.
Third Annual Educational Technology Research Symposium
Date: 3 February 2009
Location: United States
Description: A venue for educational technology researchers to present papers in a wide variety of educational technology areas. Accepted papers will be published in the Conference Proceedings book.
New Learning Technologies
Date: 18-20 February 2009
Location: United States
Description: This conference continues SALT’s practice of bringing together professionals from government, industry, academia and the military to present the latest developments in the field of e-learning, m-learning and web-based training technologies. Organized by the Society for Applied Learning Technology
International Conference on Management Education and Practice
Date: 20-22 February 2009
Location: Philippines
Description: The International Conference on Management Education and Practice (ICMEP 2009) on February 20-22, 2009 at Saint Mary’s University, Bayombong, Nueva Vizcaya, Philippines intends to feature global business education, research and practices.
SITE 2009--Society for Information Technology and Teacher Education International Conference
Date: 2-6 March 2009
Location: United States
Description: SITE represents individual teacher educators and affiliated organizations of teacher educators in all disciplines, who are interested in creation and dissemination of knowledge about the use of information technology in teacher education.
Conference on Language Learning and Teaching: Confronting Realities in Diverging Horizons
Date: 6-7 March 2009
Location: Malaysia
Description: This conference is one of the department’s programmes that will benefit the university and society, in terms of sharing views on contemporary issues and challenges of second and foreign language teaching and learning.
Education and Development Conference 2009
Date: 5-7 March 2009
Location: Thailand
Description: It aims to bring together both scholars and students as well as experienced professionals willing to learn more and share their ideas and achievements about the importance of education and it correlation with development.
The SoTL Commons: An International Conference for the Scholarship of Teaching & Learning
Date: 11-13 March 2009
Location: United States
Description: The Center for Excellence in Teaching (CET) will host the 2nd annual “The SoTL Commons” conference on the campus of Georgia Southern University. The conference brings together people engaging in SoTL and anyone wanting to improve student learning outcomes in higher education today. The conference epitomizes that college teaching is intellectual work that is enhanced both by disciplinary scholarship and the scholarship on teaching the disciplines (SoTL).
eConcordia Summit 2009
Date: 12 March 2009
Location: Canada
Description: eLeaders Address the Business of Technology in Education and Learning A unique event designed to offer academics, professionals and key decision makers a better understanding of the cultural paradigm of technology and learning.
The 2nd International Conference on Educational Reform 2009 (ICER 2009): Cultural Diversity and Sustainable Education in a Changing World Conference
Date: 25-27 March 2009
Location: Thailand
Description: The forum will be a venue where both international and Thai participants exchange views, ideas as well as lessons learned. Moreover, for sustainability strategies of education reform will be explored and adapted to serve ongoing programs being implemented. It would indeed be a success if this forum provides concrete measures for cooperation for education reform to benefit participating individuals, organizations, or even countries.
2009 CIBER Business Language Conference
Date: 2-4 April 2009
Location: United States
Description: This conference aims to identify the skills necessary to teach adult learners how to conduct business deals in the global economy. These skills include the ability to speak different languages, as well as being able to identify basic cultural norms. The Conference hopes to learn what the best methods are to teach an adult student.
Women in Higher Education: Is Equity Still an Issue?
Date: 8 April 2009
Location: Online Webinar
Description: This panel will address the challenges that face women administrators and discuss how to erase the gender labeling that unfortunately still occurs in many institutions across the country.
English Language Teaching Conference (ELT-Con) 2009
Date: 22-24 April 2009
Location: Malaysia
Description: ELT-Con 2009 is the 4th biennial international English language teaching conference organised by PELLTA. The theme is "Language Matters: New Ways of Looking at English Language Teaching & Learning."
Engaged Teachers, Engaged Learners
Date: 29 April - 2 May 2009
Location: Canada
Description: The third in a series of CEA’s ground-breaking symposia exploring teaching and learning in a changing world. What do we know about teaching and what will we do with what we know? Organized by the Canadian Education Association.
National Chinese Language Conference 2008
Date: 30 April - 2 May 2009
Location: United States
Description: With growing interest in fostering students' global competence, Chinese language and culture programs are expanding quickly across the U.S., and indeed the world. This conference is dedicated to building high-quality programs, strengthen teacher development, and to ensure widescale success. Join leaders from across K-16 education to share best practices, build partnerships, and advance the field of Chinese language education.
2009 International International Conference on English Learning and Teaching
Date: 2 May 2009
Location: Chinese Taipei
Description: Perspectives and issues embedded in the course content of language, literature, and culture provide contexts for language learning and make excellent subjects for research, the results of which provide a fertile ground for English learning.
EDUCAUSE Australasia 2009
Date: 3-6 May 2009
Location: Australia
Description: This event is for professionals working in higher education who manage technologies to advance scholarship, learning and teaching. With the theme Innovate, Collaborate & Sustain, this conference will explore the challenges in areas such as how to innovate in the knowledge economy, collaboration with virtual teams and the ever present green agenda and action.
DreamCatching 2009: Hands-on Workshops in Math and Science for Teachers of Aboriginal Students
Date: 3-6 May 2009
Location: Canada
Description: DreamCatching 2009 is the sixth in a series of biannual workshops where teachers of Native students explore hands-on methods and strategies for engaging K-12 students in math, science and IT in a culturally relevant manner.
4th International conference of Languages, Linguistics, and Literature
Date: 4-5 May 2009
Location: Malaysia
Description: Language and Culture: Creating and Fostering Global Communitites
2009 International Conference on Multi Development and Application of Language and Linguistics
Date: 15-16 May 2009
Location: Chinese Taipei
Description: Dedicated to the mission to provide a forum for linguists around the world to gather together to share the knowledge and vision. The theme of the 2009 conference is "Research and Practice of Corpora."
14th International Conference on Education
Date: 21-24 May 2009
Location: Brunei Darussalam
Description: The aim of the conference is to provide an opportunity for networking by educators; and to enable them to share and reflect on issues related to preparing learners for the global challenges of diversity and interdependence.
Japanese Association for Language Teaching 8th Annual Conference
Date: 23-24 May 2009
Location: Japan
UPALS ICL (INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON LANGUAGES)
Date: 27-28 May 2009
Location: Malaysia
Description: The core concern of UPALS is rejuvenating the passion for teaching and learning of languages. Academicians, researchers, administrators and language policy-makers can reflect on and share pertinent ideas, experiences and research findings.
2nd International Problem Based Learning Symposium 2009
Date: 10-12 June 2009
Location: Singapore
Description: This conference is an opportunity for PBL practitioners to communicate and share their ideas for organizing and managing problem-based courses, assessing student learning, conducting classroom research, among many others.
International Society for Language Studies 2009 Conference
Date: 11-13 June 2009
Location: United States
Description: “Critical Language Studies: Focusing on Power.”
18th MELTA International Conference 2009
Date: 11-13 June 2009
Location: Malaysia
Description: "Aligning Teaching and Learning: Effective Methodologies in English Language Education." Organized by the Malaysian English Language Teaching Association (MELTA).
Teaching in Higher Education - Between the Tides
Date: 17-20 June 2009
Location: Canada
Description: The University of New Brunswick hosts the 29th Annual STLHE conference in June 2009. This year's theme is Teaching in Higher Education: Between the Tides.
MathFest 2009
Date: 6-8 August 2009
Location: United States
Description: This year's MathFest will be a can't-miss celebration of mathematics and mathematicians, a program rich with varied events and activities for mathematicians, professors, undergraduate students, graduate students, high school teachers and everyone who loves math!
International Conference on Teaching and Learning (ICTL 2009)
Date: 16-18 November 2009
Location: Malaysia
Description: It is an international conference that aims to provide a forum for educators, researchers, technologists and students to share their knowledge and expertise in teaching and learning; to stimulate high quality research work in teaching and learning so as to develop state-of-the-art educational technologies; and to promote intellectual discourse among the conference participants from around the world.
Teaching English as a Second Language or Other Language Events
Summer Institute on Language Teaching
Date: 19-23 January 2009
Location: Australia
Description: The Inaugural Summer Institute on Language Teaching aims to provide short courses for students, teachers and researchers who are keen on updating their skills or learning new ones. Headed by Prof. David Nunan, the Institute provides intensive weeklong sessions lead by experts in the field of language acquisition and education.
Hawaii TESOL Conference
Date: 14 February 2009
Location: United States
TALGS 6th Annual Conference
Date: 21 February 2009
Location: United States
Description: The purpose of this small, student-run conference is to provide a serious but relaxed environment where graduate students and professionals working in TESL/TEFL and a variety of Applied Linguistics fields to present their work and receive feedback. The TALGS Conference provides graduate students and TESOL professionals (including ESOL, TESL, EFL, ESL, TEFL, etc.) a forum to showcase their research and practices.
Tennessee TESOL
Date: 5-7 March 2009
Location: United States
Description: "Meeting in the Middle - Teaching Side by Side"
West Virginia TESOL 12th Annual Spring Conference
Date: 6-7 March 2009
Location: United States
Description: "Weaving Threads of Integration"
Eighth IASTED International Conference on Web-based Education
Date: 16-18 March 2009
Location: Thailand
Description: WBE 2009 is aimed to provide scholars, faculty, researchers, and administrators in all web-based educational areas with an excellent opportunity to convene with colleagues from approximately 50 countries to discuss innovative ideas, results, and outcomes of research in this new and exciting field.
43rd Annual TESOL Convention and Exhibit
Date: 26-28 March 2009
Location: United States
Description: Join us to immerse yourself in the theme of "Uncharted Mountains, Forging New Pathways." Meet us in the great west for all that the annual convention and Denver have to offer.
International English Language Teaching Conference by PELLTA
Date: 22-24 April 2009
Location: Malaysia
Description: This biennial ELT conference offers a professional platform for teachers, teacher trainers, lecturers, researchers and all others involved in the field of English language teaching to exchange knowledge, expertise and experience, form networks and forge friendships among professionals.
4th ELT HORIZONS International Conference
Date: 28-30 May 2009
Location: Peru
Description: "Crossing the Bridge to a World of English"
Malaysian English Language Teaching Association (MELTA) 18th International Conference
Date: 11-13 June 2009
Location: Malaysia
Description: Teachers, teacher educators, researchers, administrators, materials and curriculum developers, and professionals from the corporate sector who are involved in English Language education will be there, discussing the theme Aligning Teaching And Learning Effective Methodologies.
Peru TESOL, Seventeenth Annual Convention
Date: 31 July - 2 August 2009
Location: Peru
2009 Southwest TESOL Regional Conference
Date: 17-19 September 2009
Location: United States
Description: "A Passion for Language and Teaching"
The 14th Conference of the International Association for World Englishes
Date: 1-5 December 2009
Location:
Description: IAWE is an international scholarly association which aims to establish links among those who are involved with any aspect of World Englishes in research and/or teaching. The conference theme is "World Englishes and World's Languages: Convergence, Enrichment, or Death?"
Labour Events
International Conference on Human Capital Development
Date: 25-27 May 2009
Location: Malaysia
Description: This conference provides a platform for experts from different fields of specialisation to present and exchange ideas on the holistic human capital development, and the enhancement of human capital development through their own roles.
International Conference on E-Learning in the Workplace
Date: 10-12 June 2009
Location: United States
Description: The ICELW program will explore a broad spectrum of topics relating to e-learning in the workplace. Our aim is to present the most relevant and promising ideas in research and practice, then build on them to bring about excellence and innovation in workplace e-learning.
2009 International Conference Industrial Globalization and Technology Innovation
Date: 19-21 August 2009
Location: China
Description: The Conference encourages experts and scholars all over the world to publish and share their research outcomes and learn from each other by exchanging views. It is hoped that the exchanges in the Conference helps individuals and corporations. Organized by the International Association of Organizational Innovation.
