For those interested in ID + SCORM, BYU is hosting another conference this year. The venue is lovely, and the participants last year were high achievers in computer science and ID. (If you go, drop me a line and let me know how it goes. I'll be at a different conference at that time.)

The ID+SCORM Symposium targets:

• Instructional designers
• Instructional design theorists
• Educational researchers
• Content developers
• Software engineers
• E-Learning/E-Commerce specialists
• Metadata experts
• Managers from academic, corporate, research, and notfor-profit venues

Sample Symposium Topics

• Specifications and the design and reuse of learning objects
• Potential incompatibilities for learning objects between the principles of design and reusability
• The ideal granularity of a learning object
• Implementing principles of instructional design and design research with SCORM conformant learning management systems

How to Submit Proposals

Abstracts must be submitted via e-mail to idplusscorm@byu.edu (preferrably as a MS Word document or an RTF file) on or before December 14, 2007, and include the following information:

• Name
• Address, email, phone number
• Full title/position
• Organization
• Paper title
• Abstract (350 word maximum)
• APA format
• Brief bio (100 words)

Symposium Sponsors at BYU include:

• Department of Instructional Psychology and Technology
• Center for Teaching and Learning
• The Center for Language Studies
• The Division of Continuing Education

Retrieved from http://arclite.byu.edu/id+scorm/index.php?title=Call_for_Papers_2008