Hands-on Workshops, Best Practices and Tools Tracks

We welcome submissions for hands-on workshops, best practices and tools demo tracks. The accepted submissions in these tracks of T4E2025 will appear in the proceedings published by EdTech Society.

Hands-on workshops

Hands-on workshops can be proposed on any topic related to the conference themes. They are intended to provide an introduction to a topic of immediate interest and usefulness to the community, and should be designed as interactive sessions on a focused topic that is of current interest to the community. Significant time in the workshop should be devoted to hands-on activities such as structured group work, collaborative design or editing, programming or data analysis activities. The exact workshop duration will be decided later, but they should be designed to range from 1½ - 2 hours.

Workshop proposals should be two - four pages in length, adhering to the Springer format, and must include the following information:

1. What are the objectives of the workshop?

2. Who is the intended audience for the workshop?

3. What will be the take-away from the workshop for participants?

4. What is the motivation and rationale for including the workshop in T4E 2025? How will it address the overall themes of the conference?

5. What is the outline of the content of the workshop? Please include the topics to be addressed and approximate times required for each topic.

6. What is the format of the workshop? Since the workshop should encourage interaction among participants, please specifically include - what types of hands-on activities or interactive strategies will be used during the workshop?

7. What is the prior experience of proposers relevant to the workshop? Have the proposers conducted similar workshops before?

8. What equipment is required?

9. What, if any, is the preferred number of participants?

10. References relevant to the proposal.

The proposals will be evaluated based on relevance, anticipated interest, utility and quality, and subject to the availability of appropriate facilities. Abstracts of accepted workshops will appear in the proceedings published by EdTech Society.

Best Practices / Teaching Demos

This track focuses on the dissemination of innovative teaching and learning strategies, with or without the use of edtech tools, in different contexts such as classrooms, online & blended settings, and for various domains and learning objectives such as conceptual understanding, skill development and so on. The proposed strategies must be demonstrated during the conferences so participants can experience them.

Submissions should be in the form of a two to four page extended abstract (adhering to the Springer format) and must include:

1. The objective(s) of the strategy for teaching and learning

2. The description of the strategy, providing as many details as possible so that others may adopt it independently, such as the time taken for each phase, resources and preparation required, and so on. 

   1. If you are using edtech tools, explain the working and use of the tool itself, and include necessary pictures and figures. 

   2. Please submit practices or strategies that you have tried and used (i.e. not just an idea).

3. Recommendations of how others can use it, such as which contexts it is best suited for, which topics and/or skills, which level of education and so on. 

4. References relevant to the proposal, if any.

Submissions will be reviewed based on relevance and innovativeness. Abstracts of accepted demos will appear in the proceedings published by EdTech Society.  

To whom might this track be of interest? 

We encourage submissions from (but not limited to)

• Teachers at school level  

• Instructors at higher education levels in a variety of disciplines

• Trainers in organizations

• Pedagogy & technology advisors/consultants 

• Implementation partners for educational solutions (such as those from NGOs)

Tools / Product Demo

This track focuses on demos related to interactive tools, new software, apps or technology-enhanced environments that are of potential use for learning, teaching or educational research. 

Submissions must be in the form of an extended abstract of 1-2 pages,  adhering to the Springer format, with the following content included:

1. The educational problem being addressed or objectives of the tool. Please mention the details such as

   • Context- learning, attractiveness etc

   • Stakeholder - learner, teacher, etc

   • Level of learning - school, college, informal, etc

2. A description of the design of the tool including

• Structure - technology, pedagogy and the working/ details of how it can be applied in a practical scenario

• how the tool operates or how you intend to demonstrate it

• include 1 or 2 pictures, if available

3. References relevant to the proposal, if any

Submissions will be reviewed based on the novelty/innovativeness, relevance and readiness of the tool / product. Abstracts of accepted submissions will appear in the proceedings published by EdTech Society.  

To whom might this track be of interest?

This track may be of particular interest to designers and developers of tools/products from industry, NGOs and foundations, and academic institutions.