Presenter Proposal Form

OPID | 2025 Spring Conference for Wisconsin Educators

We invite you to join us in reflecting on your scholarly practice of teaching and learning. What approaches have you adopted and adapted into your teaching practices? What insights can you share with your systemwide colleagues to spark new conversations and understanding? What research informs your work? What new questions are you seeking to answer?

 

Please submit a proposal that shares emerging, evolving, or sustained teaching & learning practices in areas such as, but not limited to:

  • Active and Experiential Learning
  • Alternative Grading and Un-Grading Approaches
  • Civic Learning & Democratic Engagement
  • Discussions – Intentional & Structured
  • Equity-Minded Pedagogy – Belonging, Inclusion, Relationships
  • Feminist Pedagogy; Women’s & Gender Studies
  • Generative Artificial Intelligence
  • High-Impact Practices
    • Capstone courses
    • Collaborative projects
    • Common intellectual experiences
    • Community-based and service-learning
    • Diversity and global learning
    • e-Portfolios
    • First-year Experiences
    • Intensive writing
    • Internships
    • Learning communities
    • Undergraduate research
  • Mental Health & Wellness
  • Online Learning – asynchronous & synchronous
  • Open Educational Resources
  • Prison Education
  • SoTL / Scholarship of Teaching & Learning
  • Sustainability
  • Universal Design for Learning
  • Work-Life Balance

Proposals are welcome in the following formats.

Available formats:

  • 15- or 20-minute presentations
  • 1-hour workshop, panel, or round-table discussions
  • Posters

Proposal review and acceptance:

Proposals will be anonymously reviewed by faculty and instructors on OPID’s Advisory Council, comprised of faculty, instructors, and teaching & learning center directors. Colleagues in the Women’s & Gender Studies Consortium and the Office of Online & Professional Learning Resources will join us in reviewing Feminist Pedagogy and Women’s & Gender Studies, and Online Learning proposals.

Notification of proposal acceptance will be provided in early February, 2025.

Accepted presenters are expected to register for the conference.

Criteria for review:

  • alignment with conference theme and aims,
  • opportunities to spur participant engagement and learning,
  • feasibility to accomplish goals given session format,
  • grounding in relevant scholarship as evidenced by appropriate citations.

 

You may be asked to modify your proposal depending on anonymous peer review recommendations, number of proposals received or to ensure a vibrant and robust conference.

Proposals Due Online

Submissions will be accepted for review through Monday, January 6, 2025

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Questions?

Contact us regarding your proposal or to brainstorm ideas:

Center for Teaching & Learning Directors

Fay Akindes, Director of Systemwide Professional and Instructional Development, fay.akindes@wisconsin.edu, (608) 263-2684.

For technical support, contact:

Erin McGroarty, Program Associate, Academic Affairs, OPID@lists.wisconsin.edu, (608) 262-8778.