You are invited to submit abstracts for short talks and poster presentations at the Open Science in Undergraduate Education Symposium. Please follow the guidelines below when preparing & submitting your abstract.

Our program will feature both 20-minute talks (including time for questions) and posters selected from abstracts. We expect that the talks will be about work that is a complete story, while posters will be about in-progress work, including work early in development. We invite talk and poster submissions from scholars at all career stages and paths (e.g., discipline-based education researchers, other education researchers, science researchers engaging in education research, students).

If your abstract is accepted, we will publish your abstract on our website as part of the symposium program (see Lake Conference website for an example). For additional information about how we handle your data please refer to our Privacy Policy.

Guidelines for all abstracts:

• Abstracts should be anonymized before submission. Please do not include identifying information on your abstract (e.g., name of the institution where the work was done). This reduces bias during abstract review.
• The body of your abstract should be no more than 300 words
• Do not include figures in your abstract
• Upload your abstract as a *.pdf – include ONLY the title and body of the abstract in the upload
• Use the separate author text block to provide co-authors & their institutions, and do NOT include author information in the pdf. Please include the order in which the authors should be listed, including the submitting author. 
• The submitting author is automatically the presenting author unless otherwise noted in the separate author text block
• Only the submitting author will be contacted with the review decision
• The work presented in the abstract is your own original work and complies with all relevant ethics requirements, including IRB approval if applicable

Your abstract should describe work related to open science in undergraduate biology education, broadly defined. Abstracts may feature practitioner experience, original research, new resources, something else related to the theme of open science in undergraduate biology education, or a combination.

This includes descriptions of experiences, resources, and tools that:

• Use open data or other open science tools in undergraduate biology education contexts
• Describe the development and/or application of open science tools/data for use in undergraduate biology education
• Describe the development of tools or other resources that support others to use open science in undergraduate biology education (this may include, but is not limited to faculty development efforts)

Or biology education research: 

• Studies on how using open science in undergraduate biology education has impacted student outcomes
• Other types of biology education research questions

Open science data and tools align with FAIR guiding principles (Wilkinson, et al. 2016): Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable. Therefore, descriptions of limited-use software or private datasets are not appropriate and abstracts that include this will not be accepted. Additionally, abstracts endorsing a specific commercial product will not be accepted. If a commercial product is used, that product should be able to be used in a classroom setting with free instructor/student licenses.

• The abstract must be submitted by March 3, 2025
• “Talk” or “no preference” must be selected within the abstract submission form
• All abstracts not selected for a talk will be considered for a poster presentation.
• Talks do not have to present research. Abstracts that address practitioner experience, new teaching resources, or other non-research projects will be considered for talks as long as they present a complete story as described in the rubric below.

This rubric defines how abstracts for talks will be reviewed (adapted from SIGCSE, ASMCUE, and SABER):