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 * Proposal submission #000 (sample)**

Online Conferences and Workshops ~ Affordable Ubiquitous Learning Opportunities for Faculty Development ~
 * Title**

Bert Kimura, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI, USA, bert@hawaii.edu WI Burt, Osaka Gakuin University, Suita, Osaka, JAPAN, wi.burt@gmail.com
 * Presenter(s)** [NOTE: names will be added AFTER review is finished]

In today's rapidly changing world of educational technology, faculty and staff struggle to keep up with new developments and the application of these technologies into the teaching and learning environment. Online conferences, workshops, and other events, held on the Internet since 1996, provide ample and affordable opportunities for faculty development to reduce this ambiguity.
 * Description**

Today's online events are held primarily in a synchronous or in an asynchronous mode. They serve as ubiquitous learning opportunities for all participants. They provide content that is generally reflective of current developments in the application of technology for teaching and learning. These high quality events also feature peer-reviewed presentation proposals and paper proceedings.

The number of online conferences and workshops, such as the Teaching, Colleges & Communities (TCC) Worldwide Online Conference, is gradually increasing. They provide numerous tangible as well as other intangible benefits for faculty and staff. Such benefits include 24/7 ubiquitous access to conference materials over a period of time, no travel costs, greater opportunity to interact directly with presenters, an opportunity to network with other colleagues worldwide, the ability to review all sessions, including those that a participant has missed, in the convenience of the workplace or home. Often, the cost to participants are minimal and generally, much less expensive than traditional face-to-face conferences. Data gathered from evaluation surveys for the TCC Worldwide Online Conference over the past five years clearly substantiate these premises.

This session will be a live, interactive forum, where participants will be engaged in a discussion about how faculty can be encouraged to participate in such events, what other events might be helpful in this regard, and what features of such events would be most useful and attractive to faculty for professional development purposes.

Visuals will be also presesnted for discusson compiled from past conference evaluation surveys.

The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog. Bert has put this sample together for testing purposes.
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