All proposals must address in which way the session will be interactive!!
In all sessions, presenters can make use of a beamer, a PC and a flipchart. Presenters, who want to provide additional information, are requested to bring their own copies of handouts. Other materials needed must also be brought by the workshop presenter. If hands-on computer training is provided, participants who anticipate attending these sessions should bring along their own laptop.
Paper sessions
This is an oral session, based on a written paper or other medium. The participant presents the highlights of the inquiry in no more than 15-20 minutes, which is followed by a 20-25 minutes discussion. This can also be a presentation of a critique on current educational practice and/or research.
Symposium
A symposium exists of 2 to 3 papers that address the same issue from different perspectives. The duration of a symposium is 80 minutes including at least 25 minutes for discussion. This discussion will be chaired by a member of the conference committee.
Workshop
This format provides 90 minutes for a highly interactive, collaborative session that shows the application of the outcomes of a research project. It can, for instance, demonstrate a tool that has been developed through the research, a new teaching method that emerged as a result of the project, an illustration of collaborative inquiry strategies used in the research that proved effective – such as a demonstration of an innovative way to collect information or to analyze information. Workshops should provide a hands-on experience that involves the conference participants in in-depth active learning.
Poster Presentation and round table discussion
Posters will be hung up during the first day of the conference so as to be exhibited during the first two days of the conference. During the time it is displayed, spectators are invited to post questions or comments in a ‘poster box’. During the last day of the conference, Friday 28 November, you are invited to chair a roundtable on your poster.
The poster communicates your research and synthesizes your main ideas and research directions. The posters are displayed on poster boards, usually with brief pieces of text, intermixed with tables, graphs, pictures, etc.
The slot foreseen for the round tables on Friday will be divided up accordingly:
40 minutes to give the participants the chance to go around and take another look at the posters. Poster presenters can answer questions from the public.
10 minutes for the presenters to explain their poster to the interested participants in the round-table discussion.
40 minutes as discussion period to discuss the 3 propositions which were included in the conference submission proposal. The presenter may bring a hand-out for the participants of the round-table discussion. About 10 participants may take place at the round table, which makes this a very interactive format, for in-depth discussions.
