The first three registrants from an AAEEBL member institution will each receive a $100 discount on registration! To join AAEEBL, go to the membership page.

Conference Keynote and Tentative Featured Speakers will include:

Welcome address by President Jack Wilson, University of Massachusetts system and founder of Studio Physics.

• Randy Bass, Georgetown University, Assistant Provost and Director, Visible Knowledge Project and the Center for New Designs in Learning and Scholarship.
  
• Helen Barrett, International ePortfolio Consultant and Speaker, electronicportfolios.org
• Helen Chen, Research Scientist, Stanford University and EPAC
• Darren Cambridge, George Mason University, Chair of the AAEEBL Board and Co-Director, Inter/National Center on Electronic Portfolio Research.
  
• Bret Eynon, LaGuardia Community College, Making Connections National Resource Center
  
• Allison Miller, TAFESA, Australia
• Trent Batson, Executive Director, AAEEBL
• Gary Brown, Co-Director, AAEEBL
• Kathleen Yancey, Kellogg W. Hunt Professor of English and Director of the Graduate Program in Rhetoric and Composition,Florida State University. Past president of the Natioinal Council of Teachers of English (NCTE).
  
• Terrel Rhodes, Vice President, AAC&U
• Rob Ward, Director, Centre for Recording Achievement, U.K.
• Serge Ravet, Founder and Director, EIfEL, European Institute for E-Learning
  
• Peggy Maki, ePortfolio researcher and author of Assessing for Learning
• Marij Veugelers, Community Manager, SURF NL Portfolio Expert Group, Netherland
• Phil Long, Professor and Director, Center for Educational Innovation and Technology, University of Queensland; Research Scientist, MIT.
  

Conference Schedule

Monday, July 19
8:30 am - 12:00	Workshops (8)	Hotel
12:00 - 1:30	Lunch	WTC
1:30 - 5 pm	Workshops (4)	Hotel
1:30 - 5 pm	AAEEBL meetings (4)	Hotel
Tuesday, July 20
8:30 - 9:20	Concurrent Sessions (8)	Hotel
9:30 - 10:20	Concurrent Sessions (8)	Hotel
10:30 - 11:20	Opening Keynote	WTC
11:30 - 12:15	Concurrent Sessions (8)	Hotel
12:00 - 3:30	Exhibit Hall Open; Lunch 12:15	WTC
1:00 - 3:25	Technnology Classroom Demos in Exhibit Hall	WTC
2:00 - 3:00	Poster Sessions in Exhibit Hall	WTC
3:45 - 4:45	Concurrent Sessions (8)	Hotel
4:45 - 7:00	Exhibit Hall Reception	WTC
5:00 - 6:55	Technnology Classroom Demos in Exhibit Hall	WTC
Wed, July 21
8:30 - 9:20	Concurrent Sessions (8)	Hotel
9:30 - 10:20	Plenary Keynote	WTC
10:30 - 11:20	Concurrent Sessions (8)	Hotel
11:30 - 12:15	Concurrent Sessions (8)	Hotel
12:00 - 3:30	Exhibit Hall Open	WTC
12:15 - 1:15	Lunch in Exhibit Hall	WTC
1:00 - 2:55	Technology Classroom Demos in Exhibit Hall	WTC
2:00 - 3:00	Poster Sessions in Exhibit Hall	WTC
3:30 - 4:30	Concurrent Sessions (8)	Hotel
Thursday, July 22
8:30 - 9:20	Concurrent Sessions (8)	Hotel
9:30 - 10:20	Plenary Keynote	WTC
10:30 - 11:45	AAEEBL Planning Meetings	Hotel

Submit a Proposal: We invite you to submit a proposal for a presentation, panel, a pre-conference full or half-day workshop, a workshop session, a poster session or a 5-minute Carousel “pitch.” Go to our proposal site -- https://eventbrainz.com/event/aaeebl2010 – and submit your proposal online. At the online site, you will be asked to write a short abstract and title for your proposal and a longer summary, and to identify co-presenters along with their contact information. We are accepting proposals from higher education around the world, from K-12 (primary and secondary), as well as proposals for sessions about workplace portfolios, technical and further education, and workforce development, including partnerships between companies and educational institutions.

The submissions will be reviewed by a program committee of your peers. Deadline for submitting a proposal is May 1, 2010, but we will begin reviewing proposals on April 1: for your best chance of being on the program, submit by April 1. You will be notified by May 25 if your proposal has been accepted. We may ask for a revision and we may ask to combine your sessions with others to form a panel. Consider the themes below for your proposal.

Conference Registration fees: The base registration fee is $699 USD. The first three registrants from an AAEEBL member institution receive a $100 USD discount; early bird discount is $100 USD. Pre-Conference workshops require a separate registration and fee. The registration site for AAEEBL will be open before the end of February at the Campus Technology conference site.

Accommodations: The Seaport Hotel is in the Boston Convention and Exposition Center (BCEC) hub. Hotels and restaurants are a few steps away. A block of rooms in four hotels has been set aside for AAEEBL and CT attendees. Hotel registration will be open soon.

Vendors and their academic partners will lead a number of sessions.

Conference location is within walking distance of downtown Boston and the new Greenway (made possible by “The Big Dig”).

Travel: Boston’s Logan Airport is a 5-minute cab ride away (but expensive; take the Silver line instead). Or, to take advantage of lower airfares to Providence, RI, book a flight into T. F. Green Airport, and travel to Boston via rental car (60 miles) or MBTA Commuter Rail from the Providence RR station to South Station, just a few blocks from the Seaport World Trade Center.

Boston is one of the most walkable cities in the world. The Patriot Trail starts in the North End, a mile from the convention site. A Boardwalk along Boston Harbor will lead you there. The Science Museum is just over on the Charles River. MIT is right on the Charles.

See Conference Call for Proposals at bottom of page in files.