ISSOTL is an excellent place to learn about teaching and research issues in the scholarship of teaching and learning. When you read the call, pay particular attention to "The Synthesizer Role," sounds like blogging to me. *S*

Call for Proposals

The objective of the meetings of the International Society for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning is to bring together researchers, developers, and practitioners to discuss research issues and experience in the scholarship of teaching and learning. The conference will feature invited talks, panel discussions, poster presentations, and working sessions.

Theme: "Making a Greater Difference: Connecting to Transformational Agendas"

Increasing the vitality of the scholarship of teaching and learning depends on the strength of its linkages with larger systems of change. These linkages matter in reciprocal ways: the influence of systems on individual choices of inquiries into teaching and learning and the ways in which those inquiries can have impact beyond individual practice.

The ISSOTL 2006 Conference theme emphasizes how the scholarship of teaching and learning connects with broader currents of transformation. Possibilities include current research in the learning sciences, dialogue around issues of social justice and student ethical development, growing imperatives for globally-conscious education, current approaches to disciplines and interdisciplinary thinking, new modes of teaching and learning through digital technologies, and governmental interests in accountability. These broader currents in turn help shape the role of the scholarship of teaching and learning within the multiple contexts in which we work: classrooms, institutions, disciplines and professions, communities, and local and national educational policy spheres.

The conference solicits papers, posters, and sessions that address these connections in two directions: How do broader currents of change in education influence how the scholarship of teaching and learning gets practiced, developed, and promoted? And conversely, how does the scholarship of teaching and learning make a difference in multiple educational contexts and explicitly contribute to broader agendas? Proposals that deal directly with the idea of making a difference--on learning, on teaching practice, on colleagues, on policy at various levels--will be given priority.

Within the conference theme, we invite proposals for presentations and workshops within one of these three tracks.

Tracks

1. Theory and Practice: Engaging in the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning

Proposals that address approaches to teaching and learning in the disciplines, learning issues that cross disciplines, linkages between theory and practice, approaches to preparing for and developing the scholarship of teaching and learning.

2. Tools and Processes: Understanding Methods of Inquiry and Dissemination

Proposals that investigate, critique, and model methodologies, data analysis, interpretation of findings, ethical issues, dissemination practices, and methods of sharing findings.

3. Broader Impact: Influencing Multiple Contexts

Proposals that explore strategies for making rigorous work on teaching and learning visible and useful for different audiences and for connecting the scholarship of teaching and learning to emerging policy directions, disciplines and professions, collaborative networks, and modes of institutional commitment to the scholarship of teaching and learning (e.g. strategic research plans or leadership action plans).

Presentation Formats

Presentation and Dialogue: Single presentations will employ work in the scholarship of teaching and learning as a way of opening up dialogue with conferees. Each presentation will have a MAXIMUM of 20 minutes. The program committee will group single presentations into panels of two with a total presentation time, including questions and dialogue, of 60 minutes, or three with a total time of 75 minutes. One of the presenters will be designated as a facilitator. Sessions will also have a synthesizer, assigned by the program committee.

Poster: A designated session will enable poster presenters to share their intellectual work in person. The presenter must be present during the period assigned for discussion. Posters may have up to two presenting authors to be listed in the program (although multiple authors may be listed on the poster itself).

Panel and Dialogue: Organized panel sessions of 75 minutes will consist of two or three presenters. Another person may be designated to serve as facilitator and synthesizer. Proposals for organized panels should be submitted by the panel organizer and must include an abstract describing the rationale for the panel as a whole AND an individual summary and abstract for each presentation. Panel abstracts will be evaluated for each individual and for the panel as a whole.

Working Sessions: A Working Session of 75 minutes long focuses on interactive development and discussion of ideas (rather than on presentations) and results in a product consisting of a written record or distillation of the discussion useful for others. This written product will be posted on the ISSOTL website as part of the conference proceedings. The proposal should identify the Working Session "leader" and "featured discussants." A synthesizer may be designated in the proposal or can be assigned by the program committee. The program committee is especially interested in proposals around the following topics: organizing campuses or curricular programs to support the scholarship of teaching and learning, linking the learning sciences to SoTL, going public with SoTL through writing for different publishing venues, integrating SoTL professional development into graduate programs, establishing collaborative structures for advancing SoTL, and making SoTL understandable and useful for policy makers.

The Synthesizer Role

A new feature of ISSOTL2006 is the role of synthesizer as a formal part of the program. A synthesizer participates in a session and produces a compact written analysis of the session for posting on the Conference site as part of the proceedings. Individuals may apply to be a synthesizer and will be assigned to a session by the program committee. Panels and Working Sessions may name a synthesizer in their proposal, and should clearly designate the synthesizer role when doing so. An individual serving as a synthesizer may also serve in another presenting role. Computers and uploading capabilities will be available onsite in the Commons at ISSOTL 2006 for synthesizers who wish to post their syntheses during the conference.

May 1, 2006 Proposal submission deadline
July 1, 2006 Notification (email) sent to the submission's primary contact informing them of acceptance or rejection
August 15, 2006 Deadline for submitter to confirm acceptance of invitation to present
October 1, 2006 Early registration ends
November 9, 2006 Conference begins
November 12, 2006 Conference concludes

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