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The Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE) is an international, non-profit educational organization. The Association's purpose is to advance the knowledge, theory, and quality of teaching and learning at all levels with information technology. "EdMedia + Innovate Learning: World Conference on Educational Media and Technology" took place in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, June 25-29, 2018. These proceedings contain 308 papers, including 14 award papers. The award papers cover topics such as Open Education Resources (OER) certification for higher education; a cooperative approach to the challenges of implementing e-assessments; developing an e-learning system for English conversation practice using speech recognition and artificial intelligence; the Learning Experience Technology Usability Design Framework; developing strategies for digital transformation in higher education; pre-service teachers' readiness to use Information and Communication Technology (ICT) in education; teacher development through technology in a short-term study abroad program; Austria's higher education e-learning landscape; a digitised educational application focused on the water cycle in nature carried out in a secondary school in Ireland; evaluative research on virtual and augmented reality for children; how children use computational thinking skills when they solve a problem using the Ozobot; a strategy to connect curricula with the digital world; the learning portfolio in higher education; and adult playfulness in simulation-based healthcare education. [For the 2017 proceedings, see ED605571.]

The Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE) is an international, non-profit educational organization. The Association's purpose is to advance the knowledge, theory, and quality of teaching and learning at all levels with information technology. "E-Learn 2015: World Conference on E-Learning" took place in Kona, Hawaii, October 19-22, 2015. This year's E-Learn conference again covered many different topics from the ever-present MOOCs to learner analytics to more rare topics such as personal innovativeness and semantic text theme generation. There are over 300 papers covering these topics in the proceedings. The following are the award papers presented at the conference: (1) Implementation of the Inverted Classroom Model for Theoretical Computer Science (Karsten Morisse); (2) Students' Conceptual Understanding of Leadership in a Global World: Learning via a Web-based Simulation of Political and Economic Development (Seungoh Paek and Daniel L. Hoffman); (3) Ready to Practice? Learning Skills Using Digital Simulated Patients (Nataly Martini, Ashwini Datt, Anuj Bhargava, and Craig Webster); (4) Mobile Learning for Students with and without Disabilities in K-12 Educational Setting (Jingrong Xie and James Basham); and (5) Using ADDIE to Design Online Courses via Hybrid Faculty Development (Michelle Read, Gwendolyn Morel, and Danyelle Hennington). [For the E-Learn 2014 proceedings, see ED602926.]