OER23: Call for Proposals
OER23 Conference: Advancing Open Education Practices, 4 - 6 April 2023, Inverness, Scotland is organised by the Association for Learning Technology in partnership with GO-GN and hosted by UHI, we invite you to take part in the 14th Annual Conference for open education research, practice and policy.
OER23 takes place in person, and also offers opportunities to present online.
OER23 Conference Themes
The conference will put the spotlight on Advancing Open Education Practices through five themes:
- Theme 1: Celebrating the impact of Open Education and OER;
- Theme 2: Open Education research and policy around the globe;
- Theme 3: Open Education in Scotland - celebrating 10 years of the Scottish Open Education Declaration;
- Theme 4: Embedding and supporting Open Education through curriculum design;
- Theme 5: Wildcard. Creative practice in relation to openness.
How to submit
All submissions are made via EasyChair:
https://easychair.org/cfp/OER23
Deadline for submissions is 10 January 2023 - 23:59 Anywhere on Earth time.
Important information for authors
We now invite proposals for:
30 min Reflective practice or Research presentations | Reflective practice presentations offer a contribution towards the practice of open education, e.g. case studies, descriptive accounts, etc., but with a reflective and critical component. Research presentations offer a theoretical and/or empirical contribution towards open education; located clearly in the field through, for example, a literature review. |
60 min Workshops | Workshops may follow a variety of formats, but all are hands-on, engaging and interactive. Priority will be given to workshops that clearly demonstrate how participants will engage and what the outcomes of the workshop are. |
15 min | Short sessions are designed to share work in progress, to have an informal get together and to explore recent work. This is an ideal format if you are a first time speaker. |
30 min | The majority of conference sessions will take place on site. Choose this format if you wish to present wholly online. |
Submission, reviewing, and acceptance process
All submitted proposals will be peer-reviewed by members of the Conference Committee. After review and one cycle of revision and resubmission, the Conference Committee will select proposals for inclusion in the conference.
Submission criteria
- The maximum word count is 500 words and you need to state the word count. Submissions under 350 words or over 525 words will not be accepted or reviewed.
- Your submission should include two or three references, and six at most. References should follow the Harvard System (parenthetical referencing – see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parenthetical_referencing).
- Submissions should not include the names or affiliations of the authors within the text.
- Contributions should not have appeared elsewhere in their entirety, although it is understood that earlier versions or portions of the contributions may have been openly published prior to the conference.
- To ensure a suitably diverse programme, no individual can be named as the main author or presenter of more than one proposal, though they may be named as co-authors.
Note for proposals with a commercial focus
We do not accept proposals with a primary focus on demonstrating services or products offered by a commercial provider and which do not explicitly address the conference theme(s) in a learning context. If you are unsure of how best to submit your proposal, we encourage you to attend our author webinars or contact us directly.
Review criteria
Proposals will be reviewed according to the following criteria:
- Relevance to one or more of the conference key themes
- Usefulness to conference participants globally, and from across all sectors of education
- Contribution to the provision of reliable evidence for scholarship and research into Open Education
- Demonstrated evidence of reflection, evaluation, and criticality
- Engagement of participants
- Creativity and innovation
- Openness
- Clarity, coherence and conformance to guidelines.
Education is considered broadly, incl. formal and informal learning settings in schools, colleges, universities, the workplace, homes and communities, at any stage in learners’ lives.
Acceptance and registering to attend
Accepted authors will be expected to register to attend the conference. The conference will be a paid for event and we offer a discounted rate for accepted speakers. Speakers in need will be able to apply for a limited number of free scholarship places.
Registration and application for scholarships will open in January 2023.
Increasing impact and widening dissemination
Resources and recordings from the event will be made available openly to all post-conference. If you are seeking to increase the impact of your work or looking to disseminate research beyond the conference, we encourage you to make a submission to the Research in Learning Technology journal. The journal is a Gold Open Access journal and we do not levy any charges to ensure researchers can disseminate new work in learning technology as widely as possible.
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
