AADES is the peak professional organisation in Australasia representing school level distance education.
AADES was formed in 1993 and currently has in excess of 1200 members across all Australian states and New Zealand.

AADES is proud to announce that Nancy Frey will be joining Doug Fisher to present the keynote The Courage to Learn on the first day of our conference. Nancy Frey, Ph.D., is Professor of Educational Leadership at San Diego State University and teacher leader at Health Sciences High. She is a credentialed special educator, reading specialist, and administrator in California. Current books include The Teaching Reading Playbook, Teaching Students to Drive Their Learning, Welcome to Teaching, and The PLC+ suite of books. We are excited to hear from these passionate educators who have a life long commitment to making learning accessible for every student including the online context.

Are you coming to our Biennial AADES Conference in Sydney? Please join us to acknowledge exceptional teaching and leadership at the AADES Awards Dinner. The dinner is included in your registration. You're invited to add a touch of sparkle to your outfit as we celebrate and share the achievements of our distance education community.

Artificial Intelligence and the challenges and opportunities it presents for our online teaching and learning environments has emerged as a prominent theme for our conference. AADES is excited to announce that it has added an additional keynote to the program to address this theme, Natasha Banks, Program Director for Day of AI Australia.