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Call for Proposals and Reviewers
Innovations in Education Conference 2025
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Evolution or Revolution: Teaching on the Edge
Educators in 2025 are navigating rapidly advancing technologies, shifting political landscapes, evolving student needs, and much more. How do educators understand themselves within their changing professional identities? What transformations in teaching and
learning are being embraced—and which are being resisted? How can institutions support educators as people and as professionals in a changing landscape?
The teaching and learning experience has never been more complex. This conference aims to foster dialogue, create space to explore the tensions and opportunities, and chart
a path forward as we evolve—and aspire to revolutionize—teaching together.
This fully virtual, two-day event aims to facilitate the exchange of ideas, experiences, and best practices among educators, researchers, administrators, students
and other key persons. By utilizing a variety of formats including short papers, poster presentations, panel discussions, and interactive workshops, we will critically explore key considerations for implementing these strategies. This includes addressing diverse
student needs, managing technology integration, adopting new policies, fostering student engagement, and promoting equity and accessibility in education.
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Conference Details
Date: Tuesday, December 9 + Wednesday, December 10
Format: Virtual (Zoom Events)
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Call for Proposals
The Paul R. MacPherson Institute for Leadership, Innovation & Excellence in Teaching is excited to announce it is now accepting submissions for its 2025 Innovations
in Education Conference. The conference will be a two-day event hosted virtually using Zoom Events on December 9 and 10.
We invite proposals for research or scholarly projects from individuals or teams of scholars that explore
one or more of the conference subthemes below:
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How has your teaching evolved in recent years and what does this mean for your professional identity as an educator? Consider:
how has your definition of “learning” changed; how does the evolution of teaching impact your professional career; what steps are you taking to evolve or revolutionize your teaching? What can institutions do to support educators as people and as professionals
in a changing landscape?
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What are the current challenges and opportunities in maintaining efforts towards equity, diversity, inclusion, and accessibility within our classrooms and beyond? Consider:
how these efforts are evolving; how instructors are working with students in new or different ways; what supports are still needed or could be modified?
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How are institutions addressing rapid technological evolution while continuing to support student learning now and into the future? Consider:
institutional policy; access and use of generative AI; rethinking teaching approaches and assessments; reframing the value of learning; what will the students of tomorrow expect in their learning experiences?
Proposals should consider how these issues are interpreted, understood, enacted, and investigated within educational research and/or the scholarship of teaching
and learning. Presenters should be prepared to present virtually on either December 9th
or 10th.
The deadline for submissions is 11:59pm EDT on Sunday, September 14, 2025.
To learn more about the Call for Proposals, please visit the conference website.
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Call for Reviewers
We also invite faculty, instructors, staff, and students to volunteer to review abstracts (350 words) for the Innovations in Education Conference. As a reviewer, you are
also able to submit a proposal for a conference session. The review team will do their best to reduce or eliminate any conflicts of interest for those who volunteer to review and are also submitting a proposal. Abstracts will be available online on or before
Tuesday, September 23, and you will be required to complete your reviews by
Wednesday, October 15, at 5:00pm.
If you are willing to serve as a reviewer, please
complete
the online Call for Reviewers form by Friday, September 5, at 5:00pm. The form will ask for your institutional affiliation. This information will
appear in the conference program and on the website.
If you have questions about the review process, please email:
m...@mcmaster.ca
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Paul R. MacPherson Institute for Leadership, Innovation and Excellence in Teaching
Mills Library L504, McMaster University,
1280 Main Street West, Hamilton,
Ontario, L8S 4K1
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