Conferences and workshops are another helpful way to learn about promising practices and connect with others involved in online learning. Be sure to do a Google search to keep up-to-date with activities that would suit your needs. While this information will get quickly dated, just to show you what types of conferences are offered, here is a sampling of some of interesting event that were available as of March 2009. Many of these organizations hold annual conferences, so be sure to check for conferences they may be offering in subsequent years.
- Bridges to Learning: National Technology in Education Conference (Toronto, Ontario, May 2009): www.bridges-canada.com/ProfessionalDev/Conference.aspx
- Canadian eLearning Conference 2009 (Vancouver, British Columbia, June 2009): http://adeta.org/conference/node/282
- Canadian Higher Education Information Technology Conference (June 2009, Montreal, Quebec): www.canheit-umontreal.ca/
- Canadian Moodle Moot 2009: Open Spaces; Open Mind (Edmonton, Alberta, April 2009): http://moodlemoot.ca/moodle/
- Canadian Network for Innovation in Education's Learning and Learning and Technology Conference. (Ottawa, Ontario, May 2009): www.learningconference.ca/
- E-LEARN 2009 - World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare and Higher Education (Vancouver, British Columbia, October 2009): www.aace.org/conf/elearn/
- International Conference on e-Learning (Toronto, Ontario, July 2009): www.academic-conferences.org/icel/icel2009/icel09-home.htm
- Manitoba Association for Distributed Learning and Training's Annual Conference (Winnipeg, Manitoba, May 2009): http://www.madlat.ca/
- MESH: Canada's Web Conference (Toronto, Ontario, April 2009): www.meshconference.com/
