RECONNECT: The CSU Symposium on Teaching and Learning

RECONNECT: The CSU Symposium on Teaching and Learning

California State University, San Bernardino
February 23-24, 2024 (in-person)
March 1, 2024 (virtual)

California State University, San Bernardino (CSUSB) is excited to RECONNECT faculty and staff across the CSU and surrounding community colleges by hosting the 22nd Annual Symposium on Teaching and Learning (SoTL) this winter!

To be held on two consecutive weekends with both in person and virtual opportunities to RECONNECT, the symposium is an opportunity to join your colleagues in learning and sharing with each other some of the exciting work we have done across the system and state in the past five years.

The in-person portion of the symposium (the first since 2019) will be held on the beautiful CSUSB main campus nestled against the San Bernardino Mountains on Friday, Feb. 23 & Saturday, Feb. 24. The virtual portion will be held the following week on Friday, March 1.

We encourage participants to submit proposals for presentations on the following themes by 11:59 pm on Monday, November 13, 2023:

• Culturally responsive pedagogies
• Student engagement and belonging
• (Emerging) technologies as tools for learning
• Inclusive learning assessment and outcomes
• CSU-community colleges partnerships

Presentations can be submitted as posters, interactive sessions, symposium sessions, mini sessions, and virtual sessions (Friday, 3/1 only). Descriptions of each type of presentation are shown below.

All proposals must be submitted by 11:59 pm on Monday, November 13, 2023 through the EventsAir submission portal by clicking on the Apply Now button below. New submitters will need to create an account and then be ready with the proposal title, presentation type, theme, author(s) and affiliation(s), abstract of up to 200 words, and presentation AV requirements. Also, please be ready to answer these additional questions:

• How does your session address one or more of the symposium strands?
• Who is your intended audience and why? (50 words maximum)
• How will you engage your audience throughout the session?
• If your first choice presentation type is oversubscribed, what would be your second choice and why? How might you change your presentation to fit this presentation type?
• (Interactive Session only) Please outline the interactive facilitation plan for the 90 minute session
• (Interactive Session only) What outcome/s do you intend for your participants and how will you know if they have been achieved?

Your submission can be saved as a draft and completed later.