OTESSA Conference 2024

In Person

June 12-15, 2024

(University of Sherbrooke, Longueuil Campus, Montreal)

Online

June 17-21, 2024

(your home or office, part-time)

Survey Invitation

Study on the Ways of Conferencing for OTESSA 2.0

You are invited to complete a survey exploring the future of conferencing. This survey is part of a research project, exploring the evolving landscape of academic conferencing in the context of continuous technological advancements, societal changes, and climate concerns. Conference attendees are invited to review the study overview and consent form.

We also invite you to participate in an online focus group to discuss your preferences, experiences, and expectations. The session will be audio recorded for transcription. Through this structured discussion, we aim to gain a comprehensive understanding of how conferencing can meet the needs of diverse participants in environments that can range from nature-based to digital, online, and open contexts. We look forward to identifying challenges and opportunities that will shape OTESSA 2.0.

Congress 2024 theme: Sustaining shared futures

While alarming images of a warming planet infuse the concept with a critical sense of urgency, ‘sustainability’ transcends even the immense challenges posed by climate change, urging recognition of the interconnectedness of human existence and global action on the overlapping social, economic, environmental, and technological issues that threaten our future.

As members of the global community, we share the responsibility to take on this multi-faceted challenge of a lifetime by way of concerted action across disciplines, bringing into focus its unequal impact, the bounds of our planet, and in turn, our solutions.

For this 2024 edition, enmeshing the knowledges of diverse contexts, and amplifying Black and Indigenous perspectives, Congress invites scholars, students, policymakers and community members to reflect on what remains collectively attainable – and what must be done – in the face of this vast and complex imperative in order to bring forth solutions for today, and sustain systems of tomorrow.

This year’s four subthemes for inviting submissions and discussions include:

The Transitions of Online Learning and Teaching

Online learning and teaching has come to the forefront since the start of the pandemic. What can we learn from our rich history of online, blended, and multi-access learning as we navigate our way forward? In what ways can we build and extend upon existing research and education with technology to increase ethical, inclusive and diverse policies and practices?

Addressing Inequities

Who is advantaged or disadvantaged by the human and technological infrastructures and processes we design? In what ways do we confront issues such as generative AI, surveillance, privacy and security? What innovations and changes in assessment, open educational resources, participatory pedagogies, collective and co-design of knowledge, inform, serve to enhance or limit the democratization of knowledge?

Sustaining Positive Change

In what ways can we take what we have learned about openness and/or technology in education, society, and scholarship and enact change toward a more diverse, sustainable, democratic, and just world.

Wildcard

We also offer a wildcard category for innovative and inventive ideas that go beyond the three broad subthemes, as long as a relevant connection is made to OTESSA.

Call for Proposals

The call for proposals is officially closed, but you are still welcome to submit a proposal for a session only (no proceedings). We will review proposals as they are submitted.

General Call for Proposals

CfP for Ethics in Design Showcase