The first three registrants from an AAEEBL member institution will each receive a $100 discount on registration! To join AAEEBL now during the special discount period, 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, Kellongg 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
  

OUTLINE OF CONFERENCE

Day	Keynote	Sessions	Workshops	Exhibits	Evening
Mon, July 19			Workshops and Meetings All Day
Tues, July 20	Welcome and Morning Keynote	Concurrent; Featured Speakers; BOF		Open	Reception
Wed, July 21	In the Morning	Concurrent; Featured Speakers; Posters		All Day	Explore Boston & Cambridge
Thur, July 22	At the Conference Closing	Concurrent; Featured Speakers		Half Day	Explore

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. 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 $50 USD. Pre-Conference workshops require a separate registration and fee.

Accommodations: The Seaport World Trade Center is in the Boston Convention and Exposition Center (BCEC) hub. Hotels and restaurants are a few steps away. A block of rooms has been set aside for AAEEBL 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. 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 (direct link from T. F. Green) 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 Flyer at bottom of page in files.