43rd Annual ASCUE Conference

Last Updated on Thursday, 12 August 2010 Written by Jen Gednalske Thursday, 22 April 2010

ASCUE logoThe Association of Small Computer Users in Education (ASCUE) is holding the 43rd Annual ASCUE Conference in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. The conference will be held from June 13 through June 17, 2010.

The conference is geared toward anyone interested in the use of technology in higher education. It offers a family-friendly environment and special evening events will include a trip to the Carolina Opry and the Myrtle Beach Pelicans baseball game.

Prices vary depending on the type of attendance and special event tickets desired. Early bird Registration is available until May 7, 2010.

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Myrtle Beach Resort, South Carolina

ASCUE was founded in July 1968 during a meeting at the now closed Tarkio College in Tarkio, Missouri. IBM had distributed the IBM 1130 computers to several schools to help them automate their business functions and teach students how to use computers. Representatives from the schools met and decided to form a continuing organization College and University Eleven-Thirty Users Group (CUETUG).

The IBM 1130 had mostly fell out of use by 1975, and member schools were requesting to be dropped from CUETUG. The name was changed from CUETUG to ASCUE at the 1975 business meeting and membership was opened to all institutions.

The purpose of ASCUE is now a forum of exchange and international association for people using technology in Education. <>

For more information on ASCUE please visit the website at http://www.ascue.org/.

For more information about the ASCUE conference, please visit: http://www.ascue.org/ascue2010.

Jen Gednalske is a CCC Technology Center and California Virtual Campus Project Manager
and a TechEDge Editor.


 

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