How to Submit:

How to submit your proposal:

1. Become a Knowledge Building International (KBI) member, if you are not a member already.
2. Visit the “Submissions” View in a the KBSI2023 Community (you should already be a member in see in the list of your KB Communities in Knowledge Forum. If not, contact us.
3. Three step process:
   1. Manifest intent to submit: post a note in the “Intend to submit” section, very briefly describing the submission in which you are working.
   2. Post your submission before April 1: submit both the text and video
   3. Check in on the comments, discussions and feedback around your submission, both from your assigned consultants and others and build-onto them
4. Submit your updated version

Templates: All papers should follow this template, and should be saved as a .pdf document:

• Paper template: KBSI2023-Paper-template (1)
• Poster template: KBSI2023-Poster-template (1)

Contribution process

We have aimed to support active dialogue around contributions, transforming the review process itself into an interactive knowledge building experience, with the conference then providing additional time for sustained work with your ideas to advance collective goals. Accordingly, rather than proposals entered separately into a conference system, they are entered into Knowledge Forum’s community space. There, team members interact to facilitate design, implementation, and feedback. Conference proceedings are published, with authorship as you propose originally—or expanded as you might prefer—based on ideas developed through this process.

Submitters must be KBI members and submissions include two elements: 

1. Written submission. A paper (long, short) or a poster, with KB ideas clearly stated and related to the call for contributions. Of course, in the spirit of knowledge creation, we encourage you to build-on with new issues and themes related to our collective goals.
2. Video submission. A two-minute (maximum) narrated video that provides an overview of the submission conveying KB ideas & connections to themes to be raised to the attention of the viewer.

Submitters must enter both their written and video submission into Knowledge Forum. There you will find a conference scaffold with supports for entering your submission; if necessary, you may also use your own structure.

We will provide three types of feedback for each submission:

1. A primary consultant will provide the initial set of comments. 
2. Then one other designated community member, also engaged in initial consultations, will build onto the primary consultant’s comments.
3. Then, authors of submissions interested in other submissions will be able to engage in written discussion of submissions to create thematic groupings and position their own work thematically. 

We understand time is limited so we plan an efficient process to advance and position your ideas in best context for ongoing discussion and to encourage unique and engaging sessions that advance design challenges related to your work and conference themes.

As our account suggests, we go beyond the traditional model in which papers are rejected or accepted. Adhering to the KB principle of “Improvable Ideas”, submissions will receive constructive feedback from reviewers and from the community at large, which the authors may incorporate into their submissions to improve the work. Therefore, note that proposals will show authors’ names, and reviewer feedback for contributions will NOT be blind. As we are all working as part of a KB community, we are taking collective responsibility for advancing knowledge for public good. 

During the Knowledge Building Institute each session will be hosted by a KB community member. The goal of each session will be to continue to advance work initiated in the KBSI2023 community space through lively KB discourse exploring how each contribution, or set of contributions, can help to lead our community forward on these and other themes.

We look forward to your submission and your participation in this year’s KB Institute where our focus will be on building knowledge for the public good while meeting new ideas and new people in Knowledge Building’s Metaspace!

Types of contributions

1. Papers (long or short)

Papers can be either long (3000 to 4000 words, without references) or short (2000 to 3000 words, without references) and should focus on conceptual or empirical contributions at an advanced stage of development. The long paper is for work requiring lengthy explanations of the conceptual background, methodology, data, analysis, and implications. We also welcome shorter papers reporting significant work in progress.

2. Posters

Posters allow colleagues to gather around visual displays for extended dialogue regarding novel and promising ideas. The work may be at advanced or early stages of development and might focus on Knowledge Building high points, discourse analysis, case studies, pilot initiatives featuring new knowledge practices, technology developments, exemplary work from teachers, students, administrators, engineers, researchers, and so forth. Template: Poster submissions should follow this template, and should be saved as a .pdf document:

3. Collaboratory Artifacts / Designs

At the simplest level Collaboratory artifacts are designs at any stage that seek to implement knowledge building through tools, research designs, classroom practices, analytics that are submitted for discussion in agile sessions. Anyone interested in increasing the knowledge building potential of any idea or plan simply needs to enter it in specially designed Knowledge Forum spaces where team members add reflections, suggest design changes, and become engaged as codesigners. (Use paper template)

4. Innovative Formats

Demonstrations, workshops, hackathons, symposia and other formats that do not fit the above are also welcome. Please submit a draft of your idea as soon as possible to the program committee for review and discussion.

Along with your paper or poster submissions you must include a short video:

A two-minute (maximum) video that provides an overview of the submission with similar points (KB ideas & theme connections) raised to the attention of the viewer. The presentation at the Summer Institute will assume your audience has watched this video.