ALISE 2012 in Dallas, TX!

Find information here about ALISE 2012, taking place from January 17-20, 2012 in Dallas, TX! Submissions for doctoral research posters and Works in Progress posters are due Oct 3, 2011.

Webinar July 20, 2011 on E-Learning

ALISE Distance Education SIG is co-sponsoring a free webinar session on online distance education with ASIS&T SIG-ED - Dr. Michelle Kazmer of the Florida State University speaks about "Transforming Our e-Learning 'Worst Practices' into Excellent Teaching" on Wednesday, July 20, 2011, 2:00pm-3:00pm (EDT). Pre-register here: http://www.asis.org/Conferences/webinars/2011/transforming-register.html

SIG DE at ALISE 2011

ALISE Distance Education SIG welcomes you to join us for two sessions at the ALISE Annual Conference exploring LIS distance education research and online advising:

Thursday, January 6, 10:30 a.m. - 12 noon: "The Competition is Virtual: the Coming of Age of LIS Online Distance Education"

Lorri Mon, Florida State University (Organizer)

Presenters: Cherri Shelnutt, (Texas Woman's University), "Experiences of LIS Online Graduate Students in the 1990s: Preliminary Results."

Jennifer Branch and Joanne de Groot, (University of Alberta), "Modeling Personal Learning Networks and Constructivist and Connectivist Pedagogies in an Innovative Online Class Exploring Web 2.0 Tools for Teaching and Learning."

Jingfeng Xia and Lydia C. Spotts, (Indiana University), "Open Courses for LIS Distance Education."

Friday, January 7, 8:30 a.m. - 10:00 a.m.: "Advising for LIS Master's Students Online"

Michelle M. Kazmer, Florida State University (Organizer)

Panelists: Rae-Anne Montague (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)

Alison Miller(Syracuse)

Laura Stanik (Rutgers)

Online advising for master's students in LIS has been a little-examined activity of LIS graduate education, but innovation in this area has the potential to be a key component of our graduates' competitiveness (and cooperation) in the information professions.

Interested in getting involved with ALISE Distance Education SIG? Join the SIG DE business meeting session at ALISE on Wednesday, January 5 at 7:30-8:30 a.m. See you at ALISE!