Call for Proposals:

What fuels you as a college educator? Are you energized by new learning technologies―are you exploring the successes and the challenges? Odds are your colleagues want to know your findings.

Here’s your chance to build your professional network and present your research, experiences and breakthrough ideas on how new learning technologies, like AI, could impact student outcomes.

Submitting Your Proposal

Our 2024 Empowered Educator Online Conference theme is:

DISCOVER THE POSSIBILITIES:
Exploring AI & Learning Technologies in Higher Ed

All proposed sessions should inspire and equip higher education faculty with ways they could use progressive learning technologies (like AI) and innovative teaching strategies to achieve student outcomes. Proposals should include supporting research and provide practical applications and resources for attendees to use post-event. Submit your session proposal by completing the online form.

You will be asked to provide:

Session Title (55-character limit including spaces)

Brief description (1000-character limit including spaces)

Create a brief description of the session that compels your peers to attend and includes the following:

• Rationale: Explain the application of this topic to the conference theme -- as well as to your current experience and this pivotal moment in higher education. Note how your background enables you to speak to it.

• Learning Outcomes: Identify the specific competencies participants will gain by attending your session.
• Takeaways: What could an attendee feel empowered to do tomorrow? Next month? Across the next term/semester?
• Resources: What resources will you provide before or during the session? What resources will you provide after your session?

Proposal Deadline & Selection Criteria

Proposals are due by 11:59 p.m. ET on WEDNESDAY, October 11, 2023. Proposals will be blind reviewed and selected by a committee according to the following criteria:

• Interest: Will there be a high level of interest in this topic?
• Application: How adaptable are these ideas to various course models?
• Clarity: Are the proposed session description, rationale and learning objectives applicable and clearly stated?
• Relevance: How well does session align with and support conference theme?
• Creativity: Is this session introducing new ideas, approaches and applications?
• Research: Will this session be supported by relative and recent research?
• Takeaways: Will the session provide practical ideas, strategies or resources for attendees to use post-event?

NOTE: Empowered Educator reserves the right to edit presentation titles and/or edit the session abstract for final conference agenda.

Selection Notification

If session is accepted for the conference, you will be alerted by Friday, October 27, 2023.