The GSOLE Webinar Committee is pleased to announce its call for next year’s series: "The Shifting Sands of Online AI Literacy Instruction: New Debates, Perspectives, and Educational Landscapes.”Please see the call below or view the attached PDF. We’re also happy to answer questions; please email the committee co-chairs Cydney Alexis and Mary Lourdes Silva at webinars.
2025-2026 Webinars Call for Presenters
Proposals Due July 14, 2025
The Global Society of Online Literacy Educators (GSOLE), an organization dedicated to supporting hybrid and online teacher-scholars and tutors, invites both GSOLE Members and non-members to submit proposals for our upcoming series: “The Shifting Sands of Online AI Literacy Instruction: New Debates, Perspectives, and Educational Landscapes.”
GSOLE’s webinars are designed to spark conversation, provide professional development, share ideas, and build community. Webinar recordings are made available to GSOLE members in an online archive, and webinar leaders are encouraged to transform their webinar topics into Research in Online Literacy Education (ROLE) or OLOR Effective Practices publications.
Webinars are:
- Led by 1-3 presenters
- 60–90 minutes long
- Combinations of theory and practice about online, hybrid, and digitally enhanced learning spaces, systems, or technologies with actionable plans for instructors, tutors, and others
- Interactive presentations that engage attendees
In this series, we’re asking presenters to consider some of the following points as they design and propose their webinar:
- Changing perspectives on AI literacy and online instruction from November, 2022 (introduction of ChatGPT) to now
- The intersection of Writing Studies principles/”threshold concepts” (Adler-Kassner/Wardle) and AI instruction and use
- Developing AI literacy frameworks and AI policies alongside students
- New language emergence around AI literacy
- AI integration in online instruction
- How we envision the writing process alongside AI
- Tool introduction: best practices, innovations, and privacy/copyright considerations
- Writing centers, writing program administration, and writing across the curriculum: trends and techniques
- Future visions: what’s coming up in the AI landscape? (Voice, identity, tools, practices)
By Monday, July 14, 2025, please submit the following information to our webinars CFP Google form:
- All presenter names and emails
- A tentative webinar title
- Your preferred webinar months
- A 500-word proposal that includes details on what the webinar will cover, how this proposal relates to the theme, a description of the webinar’s interactive components, and 4-5 intended participant outcomes
Upon acceptance, you will work with the co-chairs to schedule your webinar. You will meet (virtually) with the committee/co-chairs one month in advance of your webinar, and then again a few days prior, to coordinate logistics. The committee will provide technical support and are happy to help you prepare. Presenters are also encouraged to transform webinars into publications for GSOLE’s OLOR Effective Practices or ROLE.
Cydney Alexis, J.D./Ph.D.
Associate Professor of English
Kansas State University