Presentation Formats
In all sessions, presenters can make use of a beamer, a PC and a flipchart. Presenters, who want to provide additional information, are requested to bring their own copies of handouts. Other materials needed must also be brought by the workshop presenter. If hands-on computer training is provided, participants who anticipate attending these sessions should bring along their own laptop.
All sessions will be chaired by a colleague. Instructions for the chairs are given here.
Presentation formats
Paper session
This is an oral session, based on a written paper or other medium. The participant presents the highlights of the inquiry in no more than 15-20 minutes, which is followed by a 20-25 minutes discussion. This can also be a presentation of a critique on current educational practice and/or research. Try to make the session interactive and make sure that participants are involved in the discussion.
Symposium
A symposium exists of 2 to 3 papers that address the same issue or theme from different perspectives. The duration of a symposium is 80 minutes including at least 25 minutes for discussion. Also for symposia, it is important that the session is highly interactive and that participants are involved in the discussion
Workshop
This format provides 90 minutes for a highly interactive, collaborative session that shows the application of the outcomes of a research project. It can, for instance, demonstrate a tool that has been developed through the research, a new teaching method that emerged as a result of the project, an illustration of collaborative inquiry strategies used in the research that proved effective – such as a demonstration of an innovative way to collect information or to analyze information. Workshops should provide a hands-on experience that involves the conference participants in in-depth active learning.
Poster Presentation and round table discussion
Poster presenters are asked to hang up their poster on a display wall during the first day of the conference. During this day, the posters are exhibited at a location where they are well visible to all participants. During the time it is displayed, spectators are invited to post questions or comments in a ‘poster box’. During the second day of the the conference, all participants are invited to the roundtable session. Posters are moved to a plenary rooms and displayed next to a table for 10 to 12 persons. During the first 30 minutes, all participants can walk around and visit the different posters. The following 10 minutes, the poster presenter gives an oral presentation of the poster to the interested public. After that, there are 40 minutes for discussing the three propositions that were included in the conference submissino proposal and published in the conference book.
Instructions for posters
The poster communicates your research and synthesizes your main ideas and research directions. The posters are displayed on poster boards, usually with brief pieces of text, intermixed with tables, graphs, pictures, etc.
The slot foreseen for the round tables on Thurday 19 November will be divided up accordingly:
30 minutes to give the participants the chance to go around and take another look at the posters. Poster presenters can answer questions from the public.
10 minutes for the presenters to explain their poster to the interested participants in the round-table discussion.
40 minutes as discussion period to discuss the 3 propositions which were included in the conference submission proposal. The presenter may bring a hand-out for the participants of the round-table discussion. About 10 tot 12 participants may take place at the round table, which makes this a very interactive format, for in-depth discussions.