Conference Tracks and Session Formats

Conference Tracks

• Global Learning through Community, Civic, and Democratic Engagement

  This track focuses on strategies and models that address how global learning and community, civic, and democratic engagement are integrated to advance global learning and the public good in local, global, and international contexts.

• Global Learning in this Moment

  This track explores how institutions are making the case for and advancing global learning in today’s politicized environment, as well as institutional adaptations and program alignment to address changing student and curricular needs.

• Elevating and Integrating COIL and Virtual Exchange

  This track features approaches that elevate and integrate COIL and Virtual Exchange across institutions, model sustainable practices, and integrate COIL and Virtual Exchange with career readiness initiatives.

• Global Learning for Career and Future Readiness

  This track explores how global learning is connected to career and future readiness through course design, connections with career services and the professions, and other innovations.

• Technology, AI, and Innovation to Advance Global Learning

  This track explores how AI, technology, and other innovations are advancing, enhancing, and expanding global learning.

• Global Learning for Sustainability and Global Futures

  This track centers on practices, considerations, and ethical frameworks for sustainability in global learning for the present and the future.

• Professional Development for Global Learning

  This track highlights how institutions are developing and implementing promising practices in program and course design for global learning for current and future faculty and administrators of all types.

Session Types

• Dialogues for Learning

  Dialogues for Learning provide time for an examination of global learning topics through iterative sharing of practices, expertise, and experiences. They provide an opportunity to work through issues, ideas, and challenges from multiple perspectives, engage in problem solving, and explore new ideas. Presenters will dedicate at least 20 minutes to discussion.

  (60 minutes In-Person and Online)

• Innovation Sessions

  Innovation Sessions feature innovative practices that have emerged as global learning has been reframed in response to the disruption of the global pandemic and/or institutional efforts to make higher education practices more equitable. Each session consists of multiple presentations of equal length, with shared time at the end of the presentations for questions and feedback.

  (15 minutes In-Person and Online)

• Ideation Sessions

  Ideation Sessions feature emerging practices, research, concepts, and ideas that advance global learning at different stages of development. These sessions offer space for engagement and feedback on new or refined efforts that have emerged with differing degrees of success. Each session consists of multiple presentations of equal length. Each 15-minute presentation will be followed by 15 minutes of feedback and engagement. 

  (15 minutes In-Person and Online)

• Panel Discussions

  Panel Discussions allow for conversation with up to four panelists on a conference theme. During these discussions, panelists should offer different perspectives on the topic (e.g., cross-institutional, institutional role, programmatic, disciplinary, modality). Priority will be given to proposals with representation from multiple institutions and/or institutional roles.

  (60-minute In-Person and Online)

• Poster, Data Visualization, and Visual Arts Representation Sessions

  Poster, Data Visualization, and Visual Arts Representation Sessions are organized around visual displays of research, models, materials, and/or visual arts. A poster session provides an opportunity for presenters to talk with attendees about how to apply findings to their own work and highlight visual representations of global learning through artistic expression.

  (In-Person)

• Pre-conference Strategy Sessions

  Pre-conference Strategy Sessions are designed to guide participants as they develop plans of action for significant work at the level of the course, program, or institution. Presenters should provide resources and templates to help participants structure their planning. There will be opportunities for discussion and feedback. These sessions will be held as preconference workshops.

  (150 minutes In-Person)

• Roundtable Discussions

  Roundtable Discussions allow for conversation among a small group of colleagues. Presenters are assigned a table for the duration of the session. Participants may move between tables and are prompted to do so every twenty minutes.

  (20 minutes In-Person and Online)

• Workshops

  Workshops provide an interactive environment for conference attendees to bridge theory and practice and to deeply examine, explore, and/or experience relevant theories and implementation strategies in the context of real-world issues.

  (75 minutes In-Person and Online)