CoTL Proposals

These 50-minute interactive sessions are designed to give the audience an opportunity to try out a technique, engage in group work around some interesting teaching and learning topic, or learn about and practice or technology.

Best Practices:

• Please design your workshop so that there is time for participants to ask questions and answers at the end.
• Include at least two engagement activities. These might include small group discussions, audience polling questions, think-pair-share activities, or other techniques that allow the audience to engage with your content.
• Be intentional about welcoming and including all participants. Design and facilitate activities in which all participants can participate. 

Logistics: Each interactive workshop will have a moderator who will keep track of time. You will also have access to a computer and a projector.

The Research Talk is designed to allow for a 20-minute presentation of a research study that is completed or in progress. We welcome studies that investigate a “teaching question,” a particular teaching practice that you have tried in your class, or another theme related to the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning. We also welcome studies related to student academic success, documented uses of a new tech tool, or an exploration of the student, faculty, or staff experience on an institutional or classroom level.

Best Practices:

• Please design your talk so that there is time for participants to ask questions and answers at the end. We recommend aiming for 5 to 10 minutes of questions.
• While this is a research talk, including one or two audience questions will increase engagement.
• Be intentional about welcoming and including all participants. Design questions in which all participants can participate. 

Logistics: Each research talk will have a moderator who will keep track of time. You will also have access to a computer and a projector.

50-minute panel discussions allow for multiple presenters to engage with each other and the audience. Panel discussions should include at least one moderator who poses questions following a main theme that each of the panel speakers have experienced.

Best Practices:

• Please make sure the audience has time to ask questions and interact with the panel members.
• Be intentional about welcoming and including all participants. Design questions in which all participants can participate.

Logistics: Each panel will have a room moderator who will keep track of time. Panels should identify a separate panel moderator. You will also have access to a computer and a projector.

The aim of a 45-minute roundtable discussion is to explore a particular issue, event, question, program, or other topics related to the conference theme. Facilitators will provide discussion prompts that may seek advice, feedback, or ask participants to share their experiences. 

Best Practices:

• Please aim for a brief 5-10 minute overview of the target topics and 40 to 35 minutes of group discussion.
• Be intentional about welcoming and including all participants. Design questions in which all participants can participate.
• Consider sharing community discussion norms

Our Virtual Exhibit Hall (VEH) is a 3D digital environment that visually replicates the experience of walking through an exhibit hall to view individual presentations. Attendees will enter the VEH in a virtual lobby in which they will find several clearly labeled, clickable doors, leading to a virtual poster hall. Next to each poster will be a clickable icon that plays a brief (1-2 minute) video recording explaining the project.

Logistics: Attendees will be able to view the VEH and all presentations at their leisure.

Guidelines:

• Required: Please submit your poster as a 48x36 inches pdf and a brief MP4 video file to CoTL@southalabama.edu by Thursday, April 27. Please use this poster template to ensure accurate dimensions.
• Avoid very small text or images on your poster, as doing so will make the poster hard to read.
• Do not make the poster interactive. Participants will only be able to view the poster, not to click, play, or otherwise interact with any additional features included thereon.
• Speak clearly in your video file so that viewers can understand you easily. Try not to rush or mumble.

Please propose a presentation type that you would like for either the in-person or virtual space. For instance, you might have a workshop that works better in the virtual space. You can include the presentation description in your uploaded proposal or session narrative.