LearningTimes Library Online Conference: Innovations by Information Professionals

LearningTimes designs online learning communities and produces online conferences, programs and events for libraries, educational and cultural institutions, non-profit organizations, associations and membership groups. LearningTimes also provides the platforms, applications and promotional expertise that ensure success. LearningTimes is also the founding sponsor of LearningTimes.org, the fastest growing community of education professionals on the Web.

The growing LearningTimes Network now consists of 30 custom built sites that provide online conferences, workshops, interactive webcasts, and communication within educational organizations. The communities in the network represent a wide variety of organizations within the world of education, including libraries, K-12, higher education, educational and web publishing, government bodies, technology providers, corporate training, nonprofit learning consortia and associations, tutoring, continuing and professional education, and public television.

To accomplish its goals, LearningTimes seeks out or develops “best-of-breed” tools to enhance the online experience of participants, presenters and exhibitors. LearningTimes online conferences feature capability for live webcasts for up to 1000 people; webcast archives, voice and text based discussion boards; 2-way VOIP based live collaboration areas with application sharing, virtual whiteboards, and image import tools; integrated instant messaging, archives of the webcasts; and voice e-mail.

Other LearningTimes Network communities use LT-enhanced chat tools, integrated virtual classrooms or telephone based web conferencing solutions, depending on the purpose of the Community. LearningTimes offers training, support, and live webcast production services for community events. We also provide marketing, outreach, and community-building services.

Philosophy

LearningTimes' focus is on designing and producing learning communities that connect people with other people, online. We believe in utilizing the Web to enable rich collaboration, vibrant community activity, and meaningful interaction between humans, especially across distances. While the foundation of good learning relies on access to the right content, we believe that access to the right people, in ways in which humans are comfortable interacting, is fundamental.

Partners

Among LearningTimes' partner organizations are: Columbia Teachers College, St. John's University, the New York Transit Museum, Eduventures, League for Innovation in the Community College, The World Education Market, Reed Exhibitions, Elluminate, Wimba, Illinois Online Conference, New Visions for Public Schools, the Academy of American Poets, the TLT Group, and the Campus Computing Project.

For more information on creating your own online community or producing an online conference, visit LearningTimes at http://www.learningtimes.net, or write to info@learningtimes.net. Please join our online community of education professionals at http://www.learningtimes.org.