Conference on Postsecondary Learning and Teaching

Exploring Experiential Learning | April 30 - May 1, 2019

1. Download the guide

We have created a Call for Proposals Guide to help interested presenters successfully develop a proposal and navigate the Open Conference System (OCS). Carefully reviewing this guide will help you ensure that your proposal meets our requirements and passes the peer-review adjudication process.

Download the guide

2. Review the rubrics

Peer adjudicators will look at a number of criteria when reviewing your proposal. Be sure to consider to ask yourself the following questions: Is the topic of interest to the teaching and learning community? Is it relevant and applicable to a broad audience across disciplines? Is it related to the conference theme?

By answering these questions and others found on the rubric, your proposal will have a better chance of being selected by the adjudication committee.

Review the rubric

3. Submit your proposal

We accept proposals through the Open Conference System (OCS). New users will need to create an account. Make sure you specify the session type you are interested in. Upload your submission and include all of the required author information.

Go to the OCS

Mental Health

Rich communities of colleagues, mentors, teachers and students are essential for creating learning cultures. This thread explores what learning communities are and how they can impact student engagement.

Student inquiry

Scholarship driven by curiosity and passion in students can lead to transformative, life-long learning. This thread explores the possibilities, challenges and outcomes of student-directed inquiry and research.

Digital pedagogies

The interaction between technology, instructors, students, our digital communities and spaces, forms the foundation of digital pedagogies. This thread explores how the relationship between learning and technology can create deeper experiential learning opportunities.

Interdisciplinary collaborations

Instructors and students view learning through their own unique lenses. This thread examines what this learning looks like across disciplines, and in the diverse spaces where they meet.

Learning partnerships

Learning is a reciprocal process at the course, program and curriculum levels — for both the instructor and the student. This thread examines what partnerships can look like in the context of experiential learning.

Are you ready for the next step? Head over to submit your proposal and start the process.

I always make time to come to the conference at the Taylor Institute, mostly because of the way it makes me feel part of a community. I get a chance to go out of my disciplinary walls and talk to people from other areas and they give you so many ways of sharing your ideas and presenting your ideas.

Dr. Wendy Benoit, PhD.
Associate Dean (Teaching and Learning), Faculty of Science, University of Calgary

89% of postsecondary undergraduates and recent graduates support more work-integrated learning in their programs.

75+ Sessions and 4 session formats

Early bird fees of only $175 to $250 (student and staff rates)

1 Full-day preconference training session

2019 Conference Theme: Exploring Experiential Learning

How do we transform education to spark curiosity, drive innovation and prepare students to thrive in their chosen careers? What does learning look like in a postsecondary institution that emphasizes entrepreneurial, creative and critical thinking? How do we design teaching and scholarship that are informed by and contribute to our local, national and international communities? Increasingly, experiential learning is prioritized in higher education. Students demand relevant and meaningful learning experiences and employers expect them to be equipped with the skills required by a changing workforce.

Under the umbrella of experiential learning, students are encouraged to participate in field experiences, cooperative education or internships, alternative break programs, and applied research projects, among other opportunities. While different in their delivery, programs under this broad umbrella treat learning as a process whereby students engage with new challenges and reflect on them, leading to deep learning and meaningful growth.

See the full theme here

I would like to thank you for putting together one of the most sophisticated, intelligent, inspiring and grounded conferences I've ever attended. It was a fruitful and amazing time for me and my colleagues.

Anonymous delegate feedback
2018 Conference on Postsecondary Learning and Teaching

The conference allows presenters to demonstrate their educational leadership. Every presenter here has taken the time to synthesize and present an issue in teaching and learning that has resonance to them. More importantly, I think people do learn new things here that they later implement into practice. It's not only about developing skills but also their sense of confidence and self-efficacy as an educator.

Dr. Natasha Kenny, PhD.
Director, Educational Development Unit, Taylor Institute

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