NAWEB '97: North America Web Conference: Shortening the Distance to Education University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, Canada 4 - 7 October 1997 Official conference language: English More information: http://www.unb.ca/web/wwwdev/naweb97/naweb97.htm General Information: Rik Hall Continuing Education University of New Brunswick Fredericton, NB Canada EMail: hall@uvm.edu Call for Proposals for the third NAWEB 97, a conference for educators who are integrating the web into their courses. From web syllabi to complete web-based distance education courses, if you use the web in teaching this conference is for you. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- The impact of the World Wide Web has been felt throughout the educational world. This conference will focus on practical ways in which the Web is changing education. Topics for the conference include, but are not limited to: Courseware Development for the WWW Evaluating Web-based Education Building Knowledge Bases on the Web Beyond HTML The Web and Distance Education Changing Academia through the Web You are invited to share your expertise and ideas by presenting a paper or organizing a panel. Submissions should be sent in the form of an abstract of 300-500 words. This abstract will appear in the online conference program if the submission is accepted. Normally, papers will be presented in 30 minutes. The committee particularly welcomes proposals that involve active participation by the conference attendees. Online proceedings will be published for this conference. Full papers should be submitted in text or HTML markup to the addresses below. Please use the template for the paper provided at: http://www.uvm.edu/~hag/naweb97/template.html The following information must be included: * title of paper or poster as it should appear in the program * full name, address, telephone and fax numbers of presenter(s) * e-mail address (and Web address, if available) * exact requirements for computing-audio-visual equipment Abstracts may be submitted via electronic mail to: Hope.Greenberg@uvm.edu Submission Deadline: July 4, 1997 Notification of acceptance will be sent by July 25, 1997 Submission Deadline for Online Full Paper for Proceedings: August 22, 1997 Come be a part of a conference specifically devoted to WWW development for education!