Mount Royal University Annual Symposium on Scholarship of Teaching and Learning
Connecting People, Practices, and Pedagogies
Nov 12-14, 2015
Banff, Alberta, Canada

Proposal Deadline: April 24, 2015
Call for Proposals: http://isotlsymposium.mtroyal.ca/call-for-proposals.html

The Symposium on Scholarship of Teaching and Learning is a practitioners’ conference dedicated to developing teaching and learning research, sharing initial findings, going public with results of completed projects, and building an extended scholarly community. This year’s conference opens with a reception and keynote presentation by Dr. Peter Felten, and will provide a wide variety of plenary and concurrent presentations, and a dedicated poster session. In its 6th year, the conference draws together faculty, students, and administrators interested in the systematic inquiry of teaching and learning.

We invite proposals that match one of the conference tracks (see below) from individuals or teams of scholars for the following formats:

Oral presentations (40 minutes including time for questions)
Workshops (3-hour pre-conference workshops);
Poster presentations

The conference tracks are:

• Research on teaching and learning – presentations on active or completed SoTL projects
• Involving undergraduate students in SoTL – presentations on best practices or example projects where undergraduate students are acting as co-researchers
• Teaching and learning with technology – presentations on the utility and impact of technology for teaching and learning
• Collaborating beyond the single classroom – presentations on multi-class, interdisciplinary, or cross-institutional projects
• Methodologies and innovative approaches to data gathering and analysis – presentations providing a ‘how to’ introduction to specific research methods and theoretical frameworks
• Calls for collaboration, triangulation, and development (poster session only) – poster presentations that share early-stage research questions with the objective of establishing connections with like-minded researchers

Proposals are encouraged from students, faculty, administrators, or community members committed to the systematic scholarly inquiry into aspects of teaching and learning in a higher education setting.