{"id":93,"date":"2026-10-29T20:17:12","date_gmt":"2026-10-30T03:17:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/otessa.org\/2027\/?page_id=93"},"modified":"2026-10-29T20:17:12","modified_gmt":"2026-10-30T03:17:12","slug":"toronto","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/otessa.org\/2027\/toronto\/","title":{"rendered":"Toronto"},"content":{"rendered":"<!--themify_builder_content-->\n<div id=\"themify_builder_content-93\" data-postid=\"93\" class=\"themify_builder_content themify_builder_content-93 themify_builder tf_clear\">\n                    <div  data-css_id=\"ncbp050\" data-lazy=\"1\" class=\"module_row themify_builder_row fullwidth tb_ncbp050 tb_first tf_w\">\n                        <div class=\"row_inner col_align_top tb_col_count_1 tf_box tf_rel\">\n                        <div  data-lazy=\"1\" class=\"module_column tb-column col-full tb_jpa5494 first\">\n                            <div  data-lazy=\"1\" class=\"module_subrow themify_builder_sub_row tf_w col_align_middle 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Your session proposal and short paper will be reviewed independently. This option remains open to you indefinitely, even after the conference has completed.<\/p>\n<p>During the review process, reviewers have the option of recommending that your proposal be expanded into a short paper for the Conference Proceedings or a full paper for the OTESSA Journal.<\/p>\n<p>If you choose to submit a short paper after your session proposal has been reviewed, we will request that you upload your paper to the same submission as your proposal where we will initiate a second round of reviews. If you expand your proposal or short paper into a full paper, you will submit that paper to the OTESSA Journal as a new submission.<\/p>    <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<!-- \/module text -->        <\/div>\n                    <\/div>\n                <\/div>\n                        <\/div>\n        <\/div>\n                        <div  data-lazy=\"1\" class=\"module_row themify_builder_row tb_cjsb460 tf_w\">\n                        <div class=\"row_inner col_align_top tb_col_count_1 tf_box tf_rel\">\n                        <div  data-lazy=\"1\" class=\"module_column tb-column col-full tb_qado460 first\">\n                    <!-- module text -->\n<div  class=\"module module-text tb_h8co680   \" data-lazy=\"1\">\n        <div  class=\"tb_text_wrap\">\n        <h3><b>Ways to Participate<\/b><\/h3>\n<p>We invite participation from anyone interested in the intersection of openness and technology in education, scholarship, and society in the following ways.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><b>Present your work.<\/b> If you work as a researcher or practitioner in openness and technology in education, scholarship, and society at any level, including K12, higher education, and corporate learning, we invite you to submit a proposal about your work. We welcome works-in-progress, workshops, demos, panel discussions, completed research projects, and others. If you have an idea that you would like to share, please submit a 300 word proposal through the submission portal linked at the bottom of this page.<\/p>\n<p><b>Present at OTESSA and attend CSSE.<\/b> We have a reciprocal registration agreement with the Canadian Society for the Study of Education (CSSE), who will be holding their in-person conference from June 5\u20139 also at the University of Saskatchewan. If you present at either conference and pay the registration fee, you are welcome to attend sessions and events at both conferences. If you would like to present at both conferences, you will be required to register as a presenter at both conferences.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Present in-person at Toronto or Saskatoon and attend OTESSA27 online for $50. <\/strong>Presenters at each of the Canadian or online sites are invited to attend other sites for only $50. 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