The Global Education Conference is a collaborative, inclusive, world-wide community and online conference involving students, educators, and organizations at all levels. It is designed to significantly increase opportunities for connecting classrooms while supporting cultural awareness and recognition of diversity and educational access for all.

The conference seeks to present ideas, examples, and projects related to connecting educators and classrooms with a strong emphasis on promoting global awareness, fostering global competency, and inspiring action towards solving real–world problems. Through this event, it is our hope that attendees will challenge themselves and others to become more active citizens of the world. Let us learn, question, create, and engage in meaningful, authentic opportunities within a global context!

During International Education Week (November 17-22), the 2014 Global Education Conference will take place entirely online and around the clock using the Blackboard Collaborate platform.

Both pedagogy and technology play significant supporting roles in this event, but this is neither an ICT conference nor a general education conference. Individual tools and content–area subjects should be addressed within the context of 21st century skills–based projects and initiatives that present global opportunities for connecting, collaborating, and taking action. Our audience is primarily K-20 educators, students, organizations, and other stakeholders interested in global education. The primary language of the conference will be English, but presenters are strongly encouraged to present in their native languages. Translations are not a possibility at this point, but we hope to explore this in the future.

The Global Education Conference is co-chaired by Lucy Gray and Steve Hargadon and supported by an amazing leadership team that includes Amy Brinkley, Julie Lindsay, Julene Reed, Tonya Muro, Adina Popa, Noble Kelly, Toni Oliveri-Barton, Alen Delic, Dimitris Tzouris, David Potter, Lisa Jobson, Ed Gragert, Linda Martin, Anne Mirtschin, Nicki Ugalde, Thomas Chaskel, and Lisa Durff.

Email: steve@hargadon.com
Website: http://globaleducationconference.com
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/globaledcon
Twitter: @GlobalEdCon