Call for Presentations

The Call for Presentations is now Closed

Thank you to all who submitted proposals. Cutting Edge Session notifications will be emailed on June 8. If you have any questions, feel free to email conference@sloanconsortium.org

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Please review this information before submitting your proposal.

Register at the submission site. Please include as much information as possible, including your biography and most current contact information. All corresponding authors need to also be registered, however, this can be completed at a later stage. Sloan-C and MERLOT elected to use a robust, third-party call for paper and abstract management service. Please keep in mind that once you have registered or submitted a paper, all conference-related information can be found here at the Emerging Technologies For Online Learning Symposium website.

Once registered, return to this site to complete your submission.

Begin the submission process by selecting your track below.

Track:	Description
Pedagogy	This track is specifically for sharing proven effective practices and strategies, including pilots of pedagogical applications in teaching and learning. Examples include: How do new technologies improve teaching and learning? How do emerging technologies affect instructional design? How do emerging technologies support assessment including explicit (acquisition, display, understanding) to the implicit (built-in, hidden, or ubiquitous)? What is the instructional value of new technologies and how do we analyze the value of these tools? How do faculty engage and motivate students with new technologies?
Instructional Design and Support of Online Classes	The focus of this track is to describe practices, policies, cases, etc. that can be used to cultivate tech-savvy faculty. Presentations should explore ways in which to encourage, promote, and educate faculty in the best practices for improving teaching. Suggestions include: How do we help faculty share content in new and meaningful ways? Do we need to address all types of faculty: early adopters, late adopters and those in the middle? What are the best practices that can be incorporated for various faculty populations and various discipline areas? What is the best type of training we can provide to encourage faculty to adopt the new technologies. How do we help faculty and students understand the advantages of online learning? How do emerging technologies help faculty with time management and work load problems? How do we design and present effective training programs for faculty?
The New Learning Communities	This track welcomes submissions that provide evidence of the effectiveness of the new learning communities (including virtual environments) that succeed in experiential and service learning, collaboration, and practice for critical skills/training. Suggestions include: What new learning communities are forming to bridge disciplines, institutions, regions, and nations? What are replicable or shareable examples of new teaching and learning environments that improve outcomes in learning, accessibility, affordability, faculty satisfaction, or student satisfaction? How are new social networking applications transforming online and hybrid educational environments? How are these new tools and communities supporting the learning experience? How do these affect: student learning and satisfaction; the roles of faculty, administration, and staff; access to educational opportunities; or the formation of non-traditional networking? What new learning communities are forming to bridge disciplines, institutions, regions, and nations? What evidence measures the effectiveness of these communities? What principles guide their development? What models support investment in the researching and developing immersive learning tools which sometime have higher costs in development, faculty training, or staff time?
Inventive uses of Media and Tools	This track is especially for practitioners to share information about using media and tools for specific learning objectives, to explain results of media studies, or to describe inventive approaches. Suggestions include: Which emerging technologies make sense for use in everyday instruction? What is the evidence that inventive uses of media and tools really improve outcomes in learning, accessibility, affordability, faculty satisfaction, or student satisfaction? How can we use mobile learning to reinforce what we teach? How can social networking tools be used in your classes? What types of tools do we have for valid student assessment?
Administration, Infrastructure, and Support Services	This track focuses on new paradigms for learning and information technology infrastructure, emphasizing infrastructure support for online and hybrid environments, including open educational resources and academic continuity. Suggestions include: How have the myriad new applications and technologies affected student, faculty and staff support systems and models? What are creative and cost effective applications of technology for staff and faculty development and training, library, academic and student support services? What can we learn from for-profit institutions about scalability? What are effective approaches to technology selection, open source utilization and partnerships, peer learning, or self-learning paradigms? How do institutions use technologies to scale for capacity enrollment while improving quality? How do we increase student retention in both face-to-face and online classes? How do we maintain quality in the online class? How do we gain institutional/faculty/administrative support for online classes?
The Cutting Edge	The Cutting Edge track will be replaced with concurrent Cutting Edge sessions. The call for these sessions will be a separate invited call, and handled by the Cutting Edge track chairs. The coordinator will be responsible for identifying all sessions and contacting and coordinating the speaker acceptance with the program committee manager and Sloan-C and MERLOT staff. Cutting Edge sessions will highlight developments in applied teaching and learning technologies or approaches to online teaching and learning which challenge current practices.

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