2026-2027 GSOLE Webinar Series

CALL FOR PROPOSALS

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 this year’s series:

“Durable Reading Practices in Online Instruction”

GSOLE webinars are designed to spark conversation, provide professional development, share ideas, and build community. Webinars are recorded and then 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 minutes long (45-minute webinar, followed by 15 minutes of discussion)
• 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 concentrating attention on durable teaching practices that support reading and related skills (meaning-making and thinking, for example). We are especially interested in the sustained, critical, and often private interaction and engagement with texts that online instruction can struggle to surface and engage. Which literacy practices outlast their tools, and how can we teach the critical skills and knowledge that move with readers and learners?

Below are suggestions for potential webinar topics:

• Durable literacy practices for the current moment
• Deep reading strategies: Encouraging meaningful interactions with texts, making reading visible, and offering students the ability to track their reading practices
• Reading as it intersects with and supports writing (and vice versa)
• Teaching reading accessibly; tools that encourage accessibility
• Teaching strategies and engaged assignments for both short- and long-form reading practices
• Assessing reading and student success
• Reading and related practices in writing centers, writing program administration, and writing across the curriculum
• Tools that encourage deep reading and complex writing (Perusall, Hypothesis, etc.); engaging learning management system capabilities
• Tracking reading processes–and considering surveillance effects on students and teachers
• AI integration in digital learning/online instruction
• Using AI to develop and encourage reading & writing skills
• AI literacy and its intersection with conventional literacy practices

By Sunday, August 16, 2026, please submit the following information to our webinar proposal form:

• All presenter names, emails, and institutional affiliation
• 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 and host your webinar. 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.