Workshop Format Requirements
Workshops should provide a hands-on experience that involves the conference participants in in-depth active learning. Time and space limits the number of workshops slots available during the conference and as part of pre-conference activities. Workshops of 3 hours will be held on Tuesday, July 29, 2008; before the opening dinner. All other workshops should be 90 or 40 minutes in duration to fit within regular conference scheduling.
To facilitate processing, reviewing, and publishing all submissions, PLEASE adhere to the following:
- Use 12-point Times New Roman font in your proposal.
- On cover page, identify maximum number of participants, list any special equipment or space requirements, and specify preferred time: 40, 90, 180 minutes (pre-conference).
- Adopt single-spacing throughout the document.
- Double space (instead of indent) to designate a new paragraph or section.
- Place page numbers at the bottom center of each page.
- Top, bottom, and side margins should be no less than 7/8 of an inch or 2.2 cm.
- Draft a cover page that includes title, authors, their affiliations, their contact information, and the topic of the submission.
- Repeat title, authors and affiliations at head of body of proposal.
- Titles should not exceed ten words.
- Include a two sentence summary that will go into the program if your abstract is selected.
- Describe your workshop activity in 500 or fewer words.
- List up to three learning outcomes you hope to accomplish.
Deadline for submission is December 17, 2007.
The Improving University Teaching Conference is a self-supporting, non- profit organization under U.S. law. We would like to express our deep appreciation to University of Strathclyde for their support in hosting IUT 2008 in Glasgow, Scotland and The University of West Florida. For additional information or questions about the conference, kindly contact iut@uwf.edu