Call for Proposals Now Open for the 2024 Summer Institute!

Instructional Technology and Design Services invites faculty to submit a proposal to present at our 19th Annual Summer Institute conference, held June 4 & 5. This year’s theme, Forward Together, embraces our teaching community and will create a space to discuss the shared experiences, opportunities, and challenges we face together as educators.  Together, we will discuss what the future of education might look like and ways to strive for teaching excellence.

Share your amazing teaching ideas and learn from others at our Annual Summer Institute! More details about the conference and proposal submission guidelines can be found below. We hope you will join us!

Key Highlights:

• Conference Theme: Forward Together
• Deadline for Proposal Submissions: May 1, 2024
• Conference Dates:
  • Tuesday, June 4 – In-Person, University Hall
  • Wednesday, June 5 – Fully Online

Submission Tracks:

• Learning Design
  Showcase the finest learning experiences you’ve created in your online or physical classroom. What technologies or learning strategies helped create a memorable experience for your students? This track includes shifting course modalities, innovative design and facilitation strategies; flipping the classroom; adaptive learning; social annotation; collaboration; problem-based learning; project-based learning, teamwork, peer-learning, content creation, and more.
  
• Innovation and Emerging Technology
  Integrating innovative and emerging technologies effectively into learning environments often requires patience and perseverance to achieve successful implementation of those tools. This track provides an opportunity for you to showcase the challenges you overcame, while also focusing on how you were able to successfully forge innovative learning experiences for your students. Examples might include the application of artificial intelligence, the incorporation of gamification, the use of extended reality (AR/VR), simulations, fostering self-directed and situational learning, providing real-world experiences, devising creative feedback mechanisms, and other novel applications of trending technologies or platforms.
• Student Belonging and Inclusion
  Building a classroom community requires thoughtful, intentional steps to create a supportive learning environment. How are you creating community in your classroom? Explain the actions, big or small, which have brought your students together and fostered a sense of belonging. This track includes mindfulness strategies, creative ways to provide accommodations; differentiation; intentional community building; impactful strategies for diverse classrooms; culturally responsive teaching, universal design for learning and more.