Guidance for Contributors

Thank you very much for presenting your papers at the Brooke's Learning and Teaching conference.

Our conference is moving online this year. We know this may be a new experience for some of you. And, some of you may be experienced in online conferences. Most of us will have leapt or been pushed into the sea of online learning. And, we are at a threshold between last academic year and what comes next.

Dialogic sessions

Conference presentations are divided into “Dialogic Sessions” addressing the themes of the conference (see draft schedule).

• Inclusive teaching

• Assessment and Employability

Each session will have approximately four presentations.

The sessions will follow a “flipped” pattern.

Preparing your presentation

Each presenter must prepare their session to be viewed or read in advance.

Presentations must be able to be viewed or read and understood in five minutes or less.

Presentations should clearly state their subject, issue or question, and their conclusion or “lessons learned”.

Formats

Presentations may be in various formats:

• Narrated slides (such as voice-over PowerPoint);

• Short video;

• Poster with audio commentary;

• Audio only “podcast”;

• Poster or slides with no audio;

• Link to another site such as Prezi with or without audio or video;

• A short written paper (1000 words max) on its own;

• Or, other recorded format.

Uploading your presentation

Presentations should be submitted a week before the conference. An upload “dropbox” will open shortly.

Presentations will be posted or linked to the conference website for participants to read, view or otherwise engage with the substance before the session.

Presentations will not be presented live. They will be discussed.

Presentations may be accompanied by a separate more extensive written paper or appendices where data or other substance may be included.

Session structure

Each session will be in two parts.

• The first part of the session (15 minutes) will be a period of time for all participants to review the presentations they have read.

• The second part of the session (25 minutes) will be a live question-and-answer Panel discussion, convened by a member of the conference team.

Presenters will be members of the panel.

• There will be opportunities for participants to post questions in advance of the live question-and-answer session.

• There will be a live text chat stream for questions in the moment.

• There will also be the opportunity to ask questions live online, time allowing.