MIC08 Proposal Review Process and Acceptance

Proposal Review Process

Proposals will be reviewed by a committee of MERLOT members who will use the rubric below to evaluate and select proposals. The proposal review process matches proposals with reviewers with appropriate expertise. Notification of accepted proposals will be provided by late Spring. 

Proposal Review Criteria

The following rubric will be used to evaluate all proposals in our refereed proposal review process.

• Do the title and abstract clearly describe the session?
• Is the proposed topic timely and/or appropriate?
• What are the session outcomes?
• Will this session positively contribute to the conference and to the field?
• Are the format and session type selected for the presentation the most appropriate to the topic and format of the presentation?
• Is the session designed to be interactive and engage the audience?

If your proposal is accepted, you will be asked to:

• Register for the conference and pay the published fees
• Edit all materials used in your session
• Transmit your Power Point Slides, Handout (PDF files), data charts, and other presentation materials to MERLOT two weeks ahead of the conference for inclusion on the conference website. Please make sure your documents are a reasonable size. Remember that graphics and pictures take a lot of space. MERLOT requests that your document be no more than 5MB and be saved as a ppt file.
• Register your ownership of your presentation materials with a Creative Commons designation.