The 2026 Teaching, Colleges & Community Worldwide Online Conference (TCC) is scheduled for April 21-23, 2026 and a call for presentations is now open.
The theme this year is “Human by Design: AI, Creativity and Purpose in Education”
The 2026 Teaching, Colleges & Community Worldwide Online Conference (TCC) invites proposals for presentations, papers, and interactive sessions.
As AI reshapes how we teach, learn, and connect, the most important question is not just what technology can do, but why and how we use it. This year’s TCC conference explores the intentional integration of technology into education—emphasizing human creativity, ethical responsibility, and purposeful practice.
Join faculty, students, researchers, and education professionals from around the world as we reimagine learning environments designed with both innovation and humanity in mind. Together, we’ll ask: How do we cultivate creativity in an AI-driven world? How can purposeful design empower students and educators? And how do we ensure technology serves learning—without losing sight of what makes us human?
Conference Date: April 21-23, 2026
Participate: Call for Proposals (submissions due December 12, 2025)
Participate: Online via zoom and conference platform
Info: https://tcchawaii.io/
As a personal note, I have to say it is rather amazing that the TCC conference has been online every year since 1996, as I understood then it was all done via an email listserv, and since has been hosted in a series of technology platforms that come along since then (learn more about the history of TCC).
I met TCC co-founder Bert Kimura at a community college technology conference in the late 1990s when I was with the Maricopa Community Colleges. We collaborated to develop partnership for anyone in the Maricopa system to “virtually go to a conference from Hawaii” and was part of the conference for many years. I was fortunate to be invited to the 20th TCC in 2015 done in a hybrid format (I got to finally go to Hawaii) where I took the audience on a time travel back to the 1996 conference.
I have been part of the TCC advisory committee for many years and am very excited to witness an infusion of energy into the planning with new leadership as the original conference planners are retiring.
If you are looking for a great online global conference to participate in, keep your eyes for when registration opens for the April conference.
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