Call for Proposals - Fall 2022 Ohio PKAL Regional Network Meeting

 

 

STEM faculty members and administrators from both public and private 2-year and 4-year higher education institutions are invited to submit proposals for the Fall 2022 Ohio PKAL Regional Network Meeting.

 

• Transformative Teaching Practices in Undergraduate STEM Education
• Best Research-Based Practices in the Use of Technology and Online Learning
• Promoting Transferable Workplace/Career Skills in the College Setting
• Creating Learning Environments that Foster Equitable Student Engagement and Success
   

FOR A DETAILED OVERVIEW OF THE PROPOSED THEMES CLICK HERE.

Session Formats
Virtual Poster Presentations (45 minute interactive poster session; digital poster submission). Poster presentations could share models of curricular ideas, preliminary results from work-in-progress and/or the completed results from finished projects.  We encourage poster presentations on courses, programs, curricular/co-curricular designs, assessment rubrics and feedback loops, strategic planning frameworks and high-impact practices. The poster session provides presenters with an opportunity to reach a broad audience and initiate conversations with colleagues with similar interests. 

Oral Presentations (8-minute lightning talks; three talks grouped together on a similar topic with 5 minutes for question/answer to the presenters as a group).  We hope this short oral presentation format will encourage participants to share a wide variety of ideas within the STEM community. Presenters can share data/findings related to scholarly research in teaching related to the conference themes, discuss effective practices, milestones for success, and strategies for change, and new ways to engage participants in STEM education.   

Developing and Submitting a Proposal
Proposals for presentations and posters are accepted through an online form and must include:
Name, title, institution, and email address of each presenter with indication of primary person of contact
The session theme that the poster/presentation is related to
Presentation format (please indicate preferred format- 8-minute lightning talk or virtual poster)
Talk or Poster Title (100 character limit including spaces)
Brief abstract to be used in the conference program 

Proposal Review Criteria

Ohio PKAL strives to offer a balanced, informative and thought-provoking conference that best fits within the framework of increasing STEM student and/or faculty success.  We also hope that the information discussed empowers and emboldens STEM academicians to dramatically impact the quality of STEM education in Ohio and the surrounding region. The conference proposal selection committee includes experienced, diverse academic STEM professionals and we will choose and group selected proposals for lightning talks based on cohesion within the conference theme.  All poster proposals will be accepted as we hope to provide an excellent venue for faculty in all stages of a project to share insights, results & ideas.   Notification of proposal acceptance for lightning talks will be sent to participants by October 15th.