Call for Proposal

#STLHESAPES2022: RECONNECTING AND RECONSTRUCTING

The Society for Teaching and Learning in Higher Education (STLHE) is pleased to partner with the University of Ottawa, Carleton University, Algonquin College, and Collège La Cité to host the 2022 Annual STLHE/SAPES Conference at the Shaw Convention Centre in beautiful downtown Ottawa from June 7-10, 2022. (Pre-conference workshops will take place June 7 on the four campuses.)

This year’s conference theme is Reconnecting and Reconstructing: Perspectives on Teaching and Learning.

STLHE has much to celebrate and much to reflect upon in 2022, with the 40th anniversary of the annual conference, and two years’ worth of remote and hybrid teaching, learning, and working under our belts! Come celebrate, re-connect, share, and learn with us! We invite you to submit a proposal using the guidelines below. Post-conference, all oral presentation and poster presenters will be invited to submit a paper to Collected Essays on Teaching and Learning.

Visit the conference submission website.

CONFERENCE ELIGIBILITY

Submissions are welcome from anyone interested in presenting to a multidisciplinary audience about teaching and learning in higher education. This includes, but is not limited to, post-secondary instructors, educational developers, students, and administrators. All co-authors must register for the conference. All presentations will be face-to-face and some, such as plenaries and posters, will have a hybrid component.

MULTIPLE PROPOSALS BY THE SAME AUTHOR

Each attendee may propose one pre-conference workshop as either the primary presenter or co-presenter. Additionally, each attendee may submit up to two other proposals as either the primary presenter or co-presenter for main conference sessions.

LANGUAGE OF PROPOSALS

The 2022 conference organizing committee is committed to ensuring that our conference is as bilingual as possible. The program committee welcomes submissions written in English or French; presentations may be made in French, English or bilingual. We encourage bilingual sessions in which all participants will be able to understand and interact in both languages.

Consider, for instance, PPT slides in one language and the presentation in the other language or presenting in both languages. Submissions must be in the language or languages in which they will be presented.

EQUITY, DIVERSITY, AND INCLUSION

Please note that, in keeping with the recommendations of the EDI task force to track submissions vs. acceptances for equity-seeking groups, presenters will be asked, at the time of registration, to provide (optional) identity information including gender, ethnicity, and having a disability.

PROPOSAL SUBMISSION STREAMS

SCHOLARSHIP STREAM

SoTL/SoED presentations may overlap with other affiliated groups and themes within the conference (e.g. TAGSA, educational development), but are defined by their description of a systematic inquiry into a research question related to teaching and learning in higher education.

PRACTICE STREAM

These presentations may overlap with other themes and affiliated groups within the conference (e.g. TAGSA, educational development) and focus on an element of presenters’ knowledge and/or practice related to teaching and learning, which is grounded in evidence either from literature or experience.

WORKSHOPS

Workshops foster multidisciplinary collaborative learning and discussion of ideas about scholarship or evidence-based practice related to teaching and learning in higher education.

PROPOSAL SUBMISSION FORMATS

PRE-CONFERENCE WORKSHOPS

These half-day workshops are an opportunity for in-depth learning and application. More information.

SCHOLARSHIP PRESENTATIONS

Oral Presentation

Duration = 20 minutes + 5 minutes for questions.

Presentations of completed studies i.e. must include results from the study. If results are not available for inclusion in the abstract at the time of submission, authors must include a statement committing to having results by the time of presentation. Abstracts should contain a brief background and rationale, research question or questions, methodology, and principal outcomes.

Poster

Reports of completed studies or works-in-progress e.g. work for which results will not be available by the time of presentation, studies where the results are as yet inconclusive, and studies at an early to intermediate stage for which authors are seeking feedback from the community. Presenters engage with attendees during an interactive, hybrid poster session.

EVIDENCE-BASED PRACTICE PRESENTATIONS

Oral Presentation

Duration = 20 minutes + 5 minutes of questions.

Presenters share an aspect of their knowledge and/or practice related to teaching and learning, and encourage dialogue among attendees.

Poster

Presenters share an aspect of their knowledge and/or practice related to teaching and learning, while engaging with attendees during an interactive, hybrid poster session.

ROUNDTABLE PRESENTATIONS

Duration = 3 x 15 minutes + 5 minutes for questions (15 mins total per presentation)

Interactive discussions in small groups, where attendees rotate between tables to hear presentations on a variety of topics. Informal, interactive presentations are encouraged; powerpoint is discouraged. When the bell rings, participants move on to another table; this is repeated three times during the session.

INTERACTIVE WORKSHOPS

Duration = 75 minutes of hands-on learning.

Workshops foster multidisciplinary collaborative learning and discussion of ideas about scholarship or evidence-based practice related to teaching and learning in higher education.

PROPOSAL REQUIREMENTS

LANGUAGE OF PRESENTATION

English
French
Both

SUBMISSION STREAM

Scholarship
Practice
Workshop

SUBMISSION FORMAT

Oral presentation
Poster presentation
Roundtable presentation

AUTHOR(S)

Proposals should be submitted by the first author.

Organization(s)

List the organization of each author listed in the proposal.

TITLE OF CONTRIBUTION

Provide the title of the proposal.

KEYWORDS

Provide up to five key words.

ABSTRACT (MAX 300 WORDS)

Include importance of topic to teaching and learning, appropriate literature, and learning outcomes of the session. Scholarship stream proposals must also include the research question, methodology, and results, or submit as a poster. Workshop proposals must include a description of element(s) of engagement. Do not include author names and institutional affiliations in the abstract.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Provide up to four references, not included in the abstract word count, following APA referencing and formatting standards.

Please note that submissions (*except Pre-conference workshop proposals) will be accepted using Conftool ONLY. Find the link to ConfTool here.

Submissions will close January 31, 2022.