- The Monday Workshop submission type is for any presentation
that can be about a wide range of timely issues related to the First Year Experience. The
workshop sessions provide extended time to explore a selected issue in depth and simultaneously
provide multiple perspectives. Audiences should leave the sessions with new ways of thinking
about pressing issues.
- The author must submit: author's name, Proposed workshop title, author's affiliation, phone
number, fax number, and e-mail address.
- Each proposal should be between 800 and 1500 words in length.
- All workshop facilitators must register for and attend the conference.
- Final workshop description is not limited to any page restriction.
See the paper guidelines for font and spacing requirements.
- Workshop proposals will be peer-reviewed by the program committee.
- Proposals are due by April 10, 2015.
- Authors will be notified of acceptance or rejection of their workshop by April 24,
2015.
- Final workshop descriptions are due by May 22, 2015 so they can be posted on the web site.
Basic Workshop Descriptions
A presentation
that is about a timely issue related to the First Year Experience
To help authors prepare their final submissions, the conference suggests the following
guidelines for preparing a workshop proposal.
- What is the breadth of the audience that will be interested in the subject of the
Workshop?
- To what extent are the practices described in the workshop innovative, leading-edge,
cutting-edge?
- How does the workshop help attendees develop ideas for future research or projects that can
be included into their First Year program?
- To what degree have questions about purpose, potential hypotheses, and possible
methodologies been addressed?
- Purpose of the workshop
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Workshops should share information about how a faculty member or or group of faculty members
are developing
and/or implementing, new or novel practices across the breadth of topics of interest to
conference participants. The work should be based on research on
engineering education and/or education, however, it does not have to be completed but should be at
a phase where meaningful information can be presented.
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- Content - Suggestions not Requirements
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Presentations may be made in various forms, but they should answer and/or propose
questions such as the following: What is unique about the innovative practice to be presented?
How does this innovative practice differ from and build on previous practice as documented in
the literature, including previous conferences? Has this approach ever been attempted before?
What new ideas would conference participants take away from this presentation?
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The workshop facilators might consider questions such as: What
situation is being addressed? What are the goals of the practice being implemented?
What research provides the foundations for the inventive practice?
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It is suggested that the workshop should describe the setting for the proposed practice
discussed in the workshop, motivations for the practice, what has been accomplished, what
remains to be done, issues involved with making the discussed practice functional on a
given campus setting, or some similar content. It is assumed that the practices described
in the workshop or an implementation of the research has been tested at some level.
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The workshop could also describe some similar research that
has supported the practice, or how does the research incorporate any relevant topic.
A brief synopsis of the methodology, and/or describe the research question(s) should
be included.
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Finally, it is suggested that the workshop should describe what results the authors
anticipate will be obtained, and what remains to be done before the study will be
completed, or some similar content.
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