2025 STLHE Annual Conference Call for Proposals

The Society for Teaching and Learning in Higher Education (STLHE) is pleased to partner with the University of Saskatchewan and Saskatchewan Polytechnic to host the 2025 Annual STLHE/SAPES Conference at TCU Place, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan from June 10-13, 2025. (Pre-conference workshops will take place on June 10th.)

We invite you to submit a proposal using the guidelines below. Post-conference all presenters will be invited to submit a paper to our Collected Essays on Teaching and Learning.

New this year, to share conference learnings widely and respond to equity concerns, all oral and poster conference presenters will be invited to independently record themselves giving their presentations and share this recording with STLHE after the conference. Recordings will be accessible online from July 2025 to May 2026. More information about this will be shared in early 2025.

CONFERENCE ELIGIBILITY

Submissions are welcome from anyone interested in presenting to a multidisciplinary audience about teaching and learning in higher education. All presenters must register for the conference.

MULTIPLE PROPOSALS BY THE SAME AUTHOR

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

LANGUAGE OF PROPOSALS

The program committee welcomes submissions written in English, French, or Indigenous languages and presentations to be made in French, English, or Indigenous languages. If proposals are submitted in Indigenous languages, please include a translation in English or French to ensure full understanding by the Submission Selection Committee. We recognize that most conference attendees will speak English and/or French so if presenting in an Indigenous language, please include a slide deck in English and/or French to enhance shared understanding. Submissions must be in the language or languages in which they will be presented.

EQUITY, DIVERSITY, AND INCLUSION

The STLHE Equity Committee is working with the larger organizing group to ensure accessibility and inclusion throughout the conference planning and organizing process, as well as at the conference itself. While this planning is ongoing, we envision this including a variety of online presentation formats (both during and post-conference), as well as attention to the broadest understanding of inclusion throughout the conference’s activities. See our Statement on Accessibility and Inclusion on the website for a statement of the Equity Committee’s commitment: https://www.stlhe.ca/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/Accessibility-and-inclusion-statement.pdf

PROPOSAL SUBMISSION STREAMS

SCHOLARSHIP STREAM

SoTL/SoED (Scholarship of Teaching and Learning and Scholarship of Educational Development) are defined by their description of a systematic inquiry into a SoTL/SoED question related to teaching and learning in higher education. Abstracts will contain a brief background and rationale, research question or questions, methodology, and principal outcomes.

PRACTICE STREAM

Practice sessions foster multidisciplinary collaborative learning and discussion of ideas about scholarship or evidence-based practice related to teaching and learning in higher education. Presenters share an aspect of their knowledge and/or practice related to teaching and learning and encourage dialogue among attendees.

ADDITIONAL STREAM

These sessions are designed as neither Scholarship nor Practice, enabling the presenters to indicate their preferred approach.

PROPOSAL SUBMISSION FORMATS

PRE-CONFERENCE WORKSHOPS

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

We invite proposals for pre-conference workshops covering aspects of teaching and learning and related scholarship in higher education. Workshops are 3 hours long and must provide the participants with an interactive experience (i.e., the majority of the workshop time should be participatory).

PRESENTATION FORMATS

INTERACTIVE WORKSHOPS

Duration = 75 minutes of hands-on learning.

Workshops foster multidisciplinary collaborative learning and discussion of ideas.

ORAL PRESENTATIONS

Duration = 20 minutes + 5 minutes for questions.

POSTER

Posters will be presented during a 90-minute session during the conference. Presenters will engage with attendees during an interactive poster session.

ROUND TABLE

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 various topics. Informal, interactive presentations are encouraged; PowerPoint is discouraged. When the 15 minutes is up, participants move on to another table; this is repeated three times during the session.

PROPOSAL REQUIREMENTS

LANGUAGE OF PRESENTATION

English
French
Indigenous
Other

SUBMISSION STREAM

Scholarship
Practice
Other

SUBMISSION FORMAT

Interactive Workshop
Oral presentation
Poster presentation
Pre-Conference Workshop
Roundtable presentation

AUTHOR(S)

The corresponding author should submit proposals.

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 three keywords.

ABSTRACT (MAX 300 WORDS)

Include the importance of the topic to teaching and learning, appropriate literature, and learning outcomes of the session. Workshop proposals must include a description of the element(s) of engagement. Do not include author names and institutional affiliations in the abstract.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Provide up to three references, not included in the abstract word count.

HOW TO SUBMIT

Submissions will close on February 7, 2025 (midnight PST).

Use this link to submit your proposal. Please note that submissions will be accepted only through the platform.