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Entries that do not adhere to all submission guidelines will be disqualified and will not be reviewed. To assure an anonymous review, submissions (abstracts, appendix, files, and file names) must NOT include author(s) name(s), institutional affiliation(s), course number(s), or other forms of identification in the image or file names (including photographs, curriculum vitae, or assignments in the appendix). Entries that do not adhere to this guideline will be disqualified.
All submissions must be made using the online submission portal, which will provide further instructions regarding contact information, how to submit an abstract and other relevant information. Only abstracts submitted through the online process will be accepted for review.
Duplicate submissions to multiple presentation formats (e.g., the same abstract submitted to the poster and presentation category; the same abstract submitted to the Creative Scholarship and SOTL category, etc.), another conference or venue (including IDEC regional conference), and abstracts that have been published or presented previously are not allowed and will not be accepted for review.
Creative Scholarship, Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SOTL), Scholarship of Design Research (SODR), Scholarship of Design Practice (SODP), Teaching and Learning (TL) in the Round, Workshop, Spark Session.
In addition to the general submission form, *Creative Scholarship entry requirements are listed below.
Presentation, Poster, Panel, TL, Workshop, Spark Session
Check multiple boxes
(The content areas will be used to schedule the presentations)
Maximum 75 characters, including spaces.
Use the online submission form to list author(s) and institution(s) in order. All panel, presentation, and poster primary authors and co-authors must be listed to facilitate accuracy in scheduling presentations.
The submission portal will ask the author to verify the following before submitting an abstract for review:
Submission/s requiring payment can be made online through the submission portal. Only payment by credit card is permitted. Submission fees are nonrefundable. Rates are as follows:
The content areas will be used to schedule the presentations. Additionally, every effort will be made to avoid conflict in presentation times when the conference schedule is created. The inclusion of co-author/co-presenter and panelist names is necessary at the time of submission, even if their attendance has not yet been confirmed. Once the schedule is set, changes are not possible due to the pairing of paper topics and the many demands of conference scheduling. We appreciate your understanding.
All submissions accepted and presented at the conference will be published in the Conference Proceedings, which will be published in the summer after the conference. The abstract and appendix submitted for the review process will be published in the proceedings following the conference. If the appendix requirements noted above are not followed, a submission will not be included in the proceedings. There will be no opportunity for additional edits. Those who do not present at the conference will not be included in the conference proceedings.
For SOTL, SODR, and SODP questions, please contact the conference Abstract Review Coordinator and the Scholarship Collaborative Coordinator. Copy both on all correspondence.
Dr. Sarah Alfaro, Associate Professor
Ball State University
smangnealfar@bsu.edu
Jamie Lynn Slenker, Associate Professor
University of New Haven
JSlenker@newhaven.edu
For Creative Scholarship questions, please contact the conference Abstract Review Coordinator and Creative Scholarship Coordinator. Copy both on all correspondence
Dr. Sarah Alfaro, Associate Professor
Ball State University
smangnealfar@bsu.edu
Jiangmei Wu, Associate Professor
Indiana University
jiawu@iu.edu
For Teaching and Learning in the Round questions, please contact the Teaching Collaborative Coordinator.
Collette Cosminski, Assistant Professor
University of Louisiana at Lafayette
collette.cosminski@louisiana.edu
For Workshop and Spark Session questions, please contact the Director of Scholarship.
Tina Patel, Associate Professor
Kent State University
tpatel10@kent.edu