Designing the Educational Experience for Growth, Innovation, and Renewal
Wednesday, May 4, 2022
CALL FOR PROPOSALS NOW OPEN
Deadline: Friday, March 11, 2022
(See information below for submitting proposals)
Conference Theme
Teaching and learning through a pandemic has presented our campus communities with unprecedented challenges. Many of us are exhausted from the uncertainty, anxiety, and stress we have experienced. The personal and professional hardships faced by students, staff, and faculty are still being experienced in ways no one anticipated. And yet, there is hope as we yearn for a “new normal” and opportunities for growth. Many of us are contemplating how to recover, restore, and grow our campus community through the lessons we have endured these past few years. Over the past three years, we had to become adaptable, resourceful, and resilient in the face of uncertainty. In meeting a myriad of challenges, our collective flexibility has resulted in a variety of innovations that have benefited higher education in unexpected ways. As we look to the future of teaching and learning, flexibility will continue to be foundational as we move toward increasing accessibility and serving the needs of diverse learners.
This conference is a professional development opportunity for faculty from Marshall University and surrounding colleges and universities. This year, we embrace an overarching theme of growth, innovation, and renewal, as embodied in practices that bring reflection, restoration, rejuvenation, and flexibility into our teaching and our students’ learning.
The theme invites faculty, staff, and administrators from Marshall University and all regionally accredited Colleges and Universities to think deeply about renewal, growth, and innovation.
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
- Restorative practices that generate reflection and mindfulness
- Strategies that support faculty in developing mindfulness and flexibility in their work
- Classroom practices, projects, and/or initiatives(face-to-face, virtual, online, and HyFlex) that allow for renewal during times of rapid change
- Classroom structures, projects, and/or initiatives(face-to-face, virtual, online, and HyFlex) that allow for flexibility in teaching and learning
- Ways to grow the campus community that inspire openness and feelings of belonging
- High-impact practices that support reflection, growth mindset, and/or flexibility
- Tools, apps, or other resources that create opportunities to increase access
- Tools, apps, or other resources that support flexibility in learning
- Approaches to identifying and mitigating non-academic barriers that inhibit growth (such as gaps in technology related to access or knowledge)
- Ways to examine and assess the opportunities to increase access through course formats (face-to-face, virtual, HyFlex, and online)
- Impact of curricular and co-curricular community engagement opportunities on openness and flexibility
Session Formats and Proposal Submission Types
Submission Types:
- Interactive Presentation: 75 minutes; one or more facilitators; audience interaction, author selected co-facilitators
- Panel Presentation: 75 minutes; three co-panelists for approximately 20 minutes each with Q&A (panels arranged by conference organizers based on topic)
- Workshop/Tutorial: 2 hours; one or more facilitators; participants work on some element of their own teaching practice (e.g., syllabus development, high-impact practices)
- Teaching Clinic: 30-minute time slots for demonstrations of particularly fruitful teaching practices and brief discussion; single facilitator
- Facilitated Roundtable Discussion: 30-minute time slots for open discussions of initiatives either inside the classroom or at the Institutional level; one or more facilitators; audience participation expected
Session Formats:
- Traditional: Face-to-face with an audience (session may be recorded and posted for viewing after the conference)
- HyFlex: Face-to-face with some audience members, others join virtually via Microsoft Teams; live recording posted after the conference
- Virtual: Live audience on Microsoft Teams (session may be recorded and posted for viewing after the conference)
- Simulive: Pre-recorded presentation posted ahead of the conference; Live Q & A occurs virtually on Microsoft Teams while your recording is being played during a presentation slot
- Recorded: Fully pre-recorded presentation with no live elements
Submit a proposal by using the link below. Please complete the submission form by 5:00 p.m. on March 11, 2022.