Collected lists

The U of M ID&T web presence has a core list of professional organizations, maintained by the department. Unfortunately, at this time it is somewhat buried in the site.

• Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE)
• American Communication Association (ACA)
• Association for Computing Machinery (ACT)
• American Educational Research Association (AERA)
• Association for Educational Communications & Technology (AECT)
• Association for Progressive Communications (APC)
• American Society for Training and Development (ASTD)
• Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development (ASCD) General education leadership audience
• IEEE Computer Society Learning Technology Task Force
• International Society for Performance Improvement (ISPI)

Partial credit for the following is due Klein, J. D., & Rushby, N. (2007). Professional organizations and publications in instructional design and technology. In R. A. Reiser & J. V. Dempsey (Eds.). Trends and issues in instructional design and technology (2nd ed), (pp.262-265). Upper Saddle River, NY: Pearson Education, Inc.

Performance

• International Board of Standards for Training, Performance and Instruction (ibstpi) Competencies for instructors, instructional designers, training managers, evaluators
• International Society for Performance Improvement (ISPI) Publishes Performance Improvement Journal and Performance Improvement Quarterly. Also holds conferences.
• Academy of Human Resource Development (Journal: Human Resource Development Quarterly)
• The American Communication Association (ACA), collaborates with The Performance Institute.
• The Performance Institute focuses on performance in government and holds various forums/summits (conferences)
• American Society for Training & Development (ASTD) holds annual conference (international in scope). See 2009 conference; URL for past conferences replace ‘2009’ from astd2009.org with the appropriate year.

Research

• American Educational Research Association is “the” organization for research in education; Division C: Learning and Instruction and the SIG for Instructional Technology are of special interest. Annual Meetings (e.g., conferences)

Focus: Education

• Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education is associated with these conferencesand groups
  • SITE: Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education
  • Ed-Media World Conference on Educational Media, Hypermedia & Telecommunications
  • E-Learn: World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare & Higher Education
  • Global Learn: new conference coming in April 2010
• International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE) sponsors annual National Educational Computing Conference (NECC). Prior year references available by changing ‘2009’ in the URL to appropriate year.
• International Technology Education Association (ITEA) focus on technology education (vs. education with technology). Holds conference

Visual Literacy

• International Visual Literacy Association (IVLA)

Beyond our geographic borders, but not our electronic ones

IT in Education

• Korean Society for Educational Technology (KSET); conference and journal
• Asia Pacific Society for Computers in Education (ASPCE)
• Australasian Society for Computers in Learning in Tertiary Education (ASCILITE) Note: AJET journal articles are available entirely online.
• Australian Council for Computers in Education Conferences (similar audience to NECC in the US)
  • ACCE conferences
• National Association of Distance Educations in South Africa
• Society and Network for Technology in Education through Collaboration (SANTEC) (South Africa)

Performance

• British Institute for Learning & Development (BILD) has an annual conference.
• Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD), British
• Institute of IT Training (IITT). British; strong proponent of certification for trainers following set standards

Research

• Educational Research Association of Singapore includes conference links
• European Association for Research on Learning and Instruction (Earli) developed as an offshoot of AERA

Special Interest Distance Education

• Distance Education Association of New Zealand. (DEANZ) 2008 conference was in August.
• National Association of Distance Education in South Africa
• Open and Distance Learning Association of Australia (ODLAA)

Conference Archives from organizations no longer in operation

• Australian Society for Educational Technology ASET was dissolved in 2005, but its work carries on in the ASCLITE group.