The main goal of the 2016 Hawaii International Conference on Education is to provide an opportunity for academicians and professionals from various education related fields from all over the world to come together and learn from each other. An additional goal of the conference is to provide a place for academicians and professionals with cross-disciplinary interests related to education to meet and interact with members inside and outside their own particular disciplines.

Now in its 49th year, the Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS) is one of the longest-standing continuously running scientific conferences. This conference brings together researchers in an aloha-friendly atmosphere conducive to free exchange of scientific ideas.

The opening plenary will focus on ways scientific research is informing human rights practice. Examples include findings from behavioral psychology about what motivates action for human rights, innovative ways to monitor impacts of interventions for social change, and new research on activist burnout. Workshops will provide training in leading volunteer teams and opportunities to develop communications plans for sharing human rights resources within STEM associations. The meeting also will include facilitated sessions for Coalition members to share their experiences and, working together, to strengthen and advance the Coalition’s goals

Cyberlearning 2016 will be held Monday and Tuesday January 25-26, 2016 in Arlington, Virginia. CL16 will begin a shift from the very broad, community building focus of earlier meetings to more focus on external issues and problems where cyberlearning research could make an impact.

This training will provide participants with information to increasee success for stuents included within mainstream classrooms. This workshop will sensitize faculty to challenges faced by deaf/hard-of-hearing students in a mainstream environment, explain and examine visual classroom techniques, present effective use of support service personnel (sign language interpreters, notetakers, tutors, captionists), and assist in mastering strategies to meet the goals of Universal Design for Learning in education

The target audience for this workshop includes STEM high school general education teachers, inclusion specialists, local assistive technology specialists, and staff within the Deaf Education program.

This training will provide participants with information to increase success for students included within mainstream classrooms. This workshop will provide information on designing writing assignments that address “writing to learn", provide information on responding to writing errors/skills development within the context of the STEM classroom.

The target audience for this workshop includes STEM high school general education teachers, inclusion specialists, local assistive technology specialists, and staff within the Deaf Education program.