TLI 2025 Call for Proposals
Call for Proposals
We invite all faculty, sessionals, instructors, staff, and students (graduate and undergraduate) from the University of Guelph and beyond to submit a proposal for the 2025 Teaching and Learning Innovations Conference. Proposal submissions will include a session title, author(s) information, an abstract (200 words), the intended learning outcomes of your session, a description of how you plan to engage or interact with participants (for interactive, Welcome to my Classroom, and design-your-own sessions only), and technical requirements.
Under the theme of Cultivating Spaces of Possibility, we invite proposals in the following streams, which are detailed on our 2025 TLI Conference Homepage:
- How are we “making space” for everyone to participate, co-create, and co-exist?
- Where do we locate/identify/create spaces of possibility?
- What strategies can be used to create learning environments that actively challenge preconceived notions and biases?
- What roles do physical, digital, and community spaces play in expanding possibilities for teaching and learning?
- How are we designing curricular spaces to integrate culturally responsive teaching, accessibility, diversity and inclusion, Indigenous pedagogies, decolonization, anti-oppressive pedagogies, and anti-racist pedagogies?
- How and where are we creating and using space for teaching and learning, in and outside the classroom?
- How are different teaching modes (in-person, blended, synchronous or asynchronous, land-based) and approaches shaping the ways in which we teach and learn?
- What emerging technologies are enhancing or changing the ways in which we make or use space in pedagogical practice?
- How are our pedagogical practices and student experiences localized or globalized?
- How can we cultivate pedagogical engagement through debate, difficult conversations, and critical reflection?
- How are we actively engaging learners and instructors in reflecting on their own experiences?
- What opportunities do we provide learners to acquire the knowledge and resources they need to move forward in their learning and make change?
- How do we support learners to engage in ways that align with their newly acquired understandings?
- How can technology support interaction, community, learning, and instruction, fostering deeper understanding and self-awareness?
- How does scholarly teaching, the scholarship of teaching and learning (SoTL), and discipline-based educational research (DBER) create, capture, and disseminate possibilities in pedagogy?
- How can we as researchers create space for discourse, creativity, and interdisciplinary or transdisciplinary collaboration?
- What innovations and practices in research present themselves with rich potential for cultivating spaces of possibility?
- What possibilities are arising from our current and emerging landscapes?
- What are the internal and external spaces of possibility? How do social, cultural, and economic spaces affect and impact pedagogy?
- How do we include our instructors’ and learners’ whole selves in the learning environment?
- How are we engaging in authentic wholistic relationship building?
- How do we negotiate power differentials and boundaries in relationships?
Session Formats:
When submitting your proposal, you will be asked to specify your preferred presentation format: in-person only, online only, or open to either format. Please note that, depending on the number of submissions received for each format, we may contact you to consider presenting in a different format.
Select one of following session formats for your proposal:
- Presentation, in-person or online (20-min presentation + 5 min questions)
- A presentation could be individuals sharing their research on teaching and learning, for example Scholarship of Teaching & Learning (SoTL), Educational Research, Discipline-Based Educational Research (DBER).
- A presentation could also be individuals sharing evidence-based or promising teaching practices, strategies, and examples from their own teaching experiences.
- Interactive session, in-person or online (50- or 75-min session)
- These sessions combine brief presentations with meaningful, interactive activities that engage all participants. Facilitators should include time for questions within the 50- or 75-min time slot (e.g., 10 minutes).
- Design your own session, in-person or online (75-min sessions)
- If your idea does not fit into one of the other session types, let us know what you are interested in doing! The TLI Conference Co-chairs may reach out to discuss your proposed ideas prior to reviewing your proposal. Examples from prior conferences include instructor or student panels, land-based sessions, and technology demonstrations.
- Poster, in-person
- Share a research project, program, activity, strategy, or approach. Posters may be projects that are completed, in progress, or in their beginning stages. All posters will be pinned to a flat 5’ x 4’ board that we will provide. The poster session will be held in-person only on Wednesday, May 14th. Note that we cannot provide power for the Poster Session.
TLI Conference Proposal Submission Form
A Word template is available to draft your proposal.
Proposals Due: Friday, January 24, 2025 (end of day, 5:00 PM)
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