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The NMC Online Conference on Social Computing, a special 4-day event to be held November 16-19, 2004 via the Internet, is the fourth in a series of specially focused online gatherings sponsored as part of the NMC Series of Online Conferences.

Click here to see the Complete Conference Program. this is a pdf file
Click here to see the Conference Program-at-a-Glance. this is a pdf file


Keynote Sessions
picture of Judy Rodgers, Case Western Reserve University Judy Rodgers, Professor
Weatherhead School of Business
Case Western Reserve University

"Engaging in a World Inquiry into Business as an Agent of World Benefit: Social Computing in the Service of a Better World"
picture of Diana Oblinger, Educause Diana Oblinger, Vice President
Educause

"Educating the Net Generation"
picture of Soren Kaplan, iCohere
 Soren Kaplan, Co-Founder
iCohere

"Collaboration, Communication, Community: The 3 Cornerstones of Social Computing"
About the Conference


The theme of the Online Conference on Social Computing will be the application of Social Computing constructs, tools, and theory to educational contexts, specifically within higher education.

The conference will feature fifteen 20-30-minute sessions. In addition to the three keynote sessions described above, the conference also includes 7 featured sessions on topics such as hybrid learning, the achieving fairnesss, social computing applied to the sciences, tools and techniques, and four outstanding case studies.

Each will be accompanied by a "live/interactive" component, a "presentation-on-demand" component, and a vibrant threaded discussion that will expand on and illuminate the topic

Click here to see the Complete Conference Program. this is a pdf file
Click here to see the Conference Program-at-a-Glance. this is a pdf file

Plan to join us now for this one-of-a-kind event! For questions or for additional information, please contact the NMC at 512 445-4200 or via email at info@nmc.org.