Call for Proposals

This year your work takes center stage. The call for proposals invites you to share what works for you, your students, your department, your school, and your professional world. We welcome proposals on tried-and-true strategies, innovations, new questions, and glimmers of hope.

For your convenience, you can present in-person at the Annual Meeting in Indianapolis, June 10-12, 2026  -or- at the AAEEBL Symposium online, June 16-17, 2026.

Some ideas you might consider:

• Connect ePortfolios to career competencies

• Explore innovative reflective activities tailored to a variety of learning contexts

• Discuss the integration of folio thinking into curriculum design and assessment

• Present case studies or research on the impact ePortfolio practice

• Identify important frameworks, categories, or contexts for ePortfolio development and expansion

• Share data on student ePortfolios in conversational with successes and/or institutional change

• Engage generative AI and ePortfolios

• Identify the ways that ePortfolios and refection can foster awareness of personal skills and growth, conversations across communities, dialogue across disciplines/professions, and spark intellectual curiosity

• Share successes/challenges with professional development and faculty/student buy-in

• Present ePortfolio initiatives relate to curricular, co-curricular and professional programming, e.g. Honors programming, trends in professional ePortfolios, ePortfolios for Study Abroad, ePortfolios in academic advising

Annual Meeting Session Formats

• Digital poster of proposed or evolving work from the last 12 months

• 20-minute presentation as part of a panel

• 55-minute session with interactive, workshop-like components

• 55-minute conversation that fosters structured engagement and open-dialogue

• 110-minute workshop that provides content, workshop, and peer engagement

We encourage you to think beyond traditional conference formats and to imagine ways to engage the community. Pitch it. We're game.

Application for Consultation Session

This year, we offer consultation sessions for AAEEBL members. If you register to attend this year's events, your membership is included in the fees.

The in-person consultation sessions will be hosted Wednesday morning, June 10 from 9:00-Noon. The consultations are 90-minute sessions; you will be paired with an AAEEBL affiliate who has expertise related to your question or challenge. If you are interested in having a one-on-one ePortfolio consultation, make sure to select it in the Call for Proposals.

Symposium Session Formats

• 3-minute Shark Tank pitch - pitch a portfolio idea and get feedback from friendly sharks

• 25-minute braindate - match with another attendee to discuss a portfolio question

• 6.5-minute lightning talk - short and snappy idea in a Talk or a 20x20 presentation (20 slides in 20 seconds each)

• 15-minute presentation - plus 10 minutes discussion

• 55-minute conversation - 10 minutes input for the ensuing conversation

• 55-minute workshop that fosters structured engagement and open-dialogue

Submission Deadline

We look forward to reviewing your session ideas. The deadline for proposal submissions is April 30, 2026, for both the Annual Meeting and the Symposium.