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Submit your proposals by 11:59 pm EDT February 10, 2016 for the American Accounting Association's Ninth Annual Conference on Teaching and Learning in Accounting (CTLA) to be held August 6- 7 as part of the AAA Annual Meeting (August 8-10) in New York, New York. Your proposals will be peer-reviewed and you will be notified by April 1, 2016 if you are selected to be one the presenters.

Questions about CTLA submissions? Please contact Stephanie Glaser at stephanie@aaahq.org.

Note: For tracking purposes, you will need to create a user ID and password during the submission process. You will need this information to update and/or access the status of your submission. This user ID and password does not need to match your AAA login, and will not grant access to AAA member services (i.e., registration, dues renewal, etc.).

The CTLA is designed for experienced faculty, new faculty, and PhD students looking for opportunities to refine their teaching talents and perfect their craft in teaching accounting. The conference precedes the AAA Annual Meeting and offers teaching-oriented CPE. While submissions are welcome in all teaching and learning related areas, submissions are particularly encouraged for:

• Integration of Cutting-edge Technology Practices into Existing Accounting Courses
• Tips and Techniques for Online Teaching
• Flipped Classroom Techniques
• Ethics in the Classroom and Profession
• Incorporating  big data and data analytics in accounting courses
• Strategies to Increase Student Retention
• Assessment/Student Learning Outcomes
• Team-based Learning
• Improving Critical Thinking Skills
• Increasing Student Engagement
• Course Design
• How to prevent academic dishonesty and promote academic integrity
• Resources and teaching strategies for New Faculty
• Experiential Learning
• Getting Classes off to a Good Start
• Effective pedagogical strategies as well as course-specific topics
• Emerging topics in accounting
• Teaching and Learning strategies based on academic research
• Excel-based learning activities
• Course-specific approaches   (e.g., introductory classes; graduate-level classes)

Call for Submissions are being solicited for the following sessions (you are encouraged to submit for more than one session):

Craft of Teaching Accounting Sessions
Description: Multiple 50 minute concurrent breakout sessions held on Saturday, featuring topics such as those listed above.  Most of these sessions will consist of 2-3 separate presentations, grouped by topic area.   A limited number of single-presentation 50 minute time slots will be available.  A/V equipment and internet will be provided.

Proposal should include: A short description of the proposed session topic and learning outcome. In addition, please explicitly note the general topic area of your proposed session and the course(s) your presentation is geared towards. Also, please estimate the approximate amount of time desired for the presentation (15 min, 25 min, or 50 min).

Teaching Roundtables
Description: Share your favorite teaching tip in ten minutes at roundtables. During a 50 minute session on Saturday, participants will switch tables every 15 minutes such that you will present your teaching tip three times. This session is high energy and lots of fun!

Proposal should include: A short description of the proposed teaching tip, the course or courses it is used in, and why it is effective.

Technology Roundtables
Description: Share your favorite technology tip in ten minutes at roundtables. During a 50 minute session on Saturday, participants will switch tables every 15 minutes to learn about how you use technology to create efficiencies and/or improve teaching and learning. Your tip may involve novel approaches to using existing technology  or may demonstrate cutting edge devices or software applications.  If possible, bring the technology (hardware or software) to demonstrate.   You may also want to consider bringing a handout with FAQs about the technology to help participants migrate towards implementation.
Proposal should include: A short description of the proposed technology tip, the course or courses it is used in, and why it is effective.

Hands-on Technology
Description: Based on the overwhelming success of the 2014 and 2015 hands-on technology sessions, we will once again be offering individuals a chance to provide hands-on demonstrations of educational technology applications.  In this Sunday morning session, conference participants will freely roam through the venue to learn about and try out different technology applications up close and personal.  
Proposal should include: The name of the technology application (e.g., LiveScribe Pen) and a short description of how instructors would benefit from using it in their courses.

Effective Teaching Practices Forum
Description: Participants will share a teaching idea in a poster session. The poster will display a novel teaching tip or assignment for a course currently taught. Faculty should also be ready to discuss how to use this tip or assignment one-on-one with conference participants at the ETP sessions held on Saturday, August 6th.
Proposal should include: Course name, topic area, teaching tip or assignment idea, and a brief statement about why you believe this is a novel  and effective approach.

Decision notices will be released by May 6 for the following Annual Meeting Submissions:
Concurrent Paper and Research Interaction Forum
Effective Learning Strategies
Emerging and Innovative Research

Call for Submissions - All submission opportunities are now closed!

The theme of the 2016 Annual Meeting in New York is “Celebration of the Century” as we celebrate our centennial year.  Our organization has come a long way since 1916 – and the meeting will provide a forum for discussions around our future as global thought leaders in accounting, as well as building bridges between the AAA and our numerous key global partners.  Accounting is critical to a prosperous society and as the leading academic organization in accounting in the world, we must respond as an organization to the changes in our global environment.  Please join us in New York August 6 through August 10, 2016 for the Annual Meeting and Conference on Teaching and Learning (CTLA) and become a participant in beginning our journey into the next 100 years.  Help us to become an even stronger and more impactful organization.

The Annual Meeting is sure to be a large, dynamic meeting that encourages participation through a wide range of session types designed to support members with different interests.  You can learn more about the session types below, and you can submit to each through the links provided for each type. To track your submission, you will need to create a user ID and password during the submission process. You will need this information to update and/or access the status of your submission. This user ID and password does not need to match your AAA login, and will not grant access to AAA member services (i.e., registration, dues renewal, etc.). If your submission is accepted, all participants and presenters must register for the meeting which includes both meeting registration and membership fees.

Designed for new and experienced faculty looking for opportunities to share best practices, refine teaching talents, and perfect their craft in teaching Accounting, submissions are invited for this annual pre-meeting conference.  Submissions are welcome from the wide range of approaches and content in Accounting education. This conference will be held all day Saturday, August 6 and during the morning on Sunday, August 7, 2016.

Volunteer Information
The Program Advisory Committee strongly encourages all AAA members to consider volunteering to serve as reviewers, paper discussants, and session moderators. If you are submitting a paper or proposal for the 2016 Annual Meeting, please consider "giving back" to the community by volunteering to serve in one or more of these roles.

These sessions will be held on Wednesday, August 10, 2016.

Click here to volunteer

Section-Sponsored Concurrent Panel Sessions —CLOSED Submission Deadline: January 6, 2016
Submissions are made by section/topic area. Submitters of panels are responsible for populating the panel, extending invitations to panelists, and hosting participants, as appropriate.

Pre-Conference Workshops (CPE Sessions) —CLOSED Submission Deadline: January 6, 2016
Opening the engaging pre-meeting format, these full- and half-day workshops, provide opportunities for in-depth attention and study of more complex issues and topics across a wide range of areas of interest in Accounting education, research, and practice. These sessions will be held on Saturday, August 6 and Sunday, August 7, 2016.

The Conference on Teaching and Learning in Accounting (CTLA) —CLOSED Submission Deadline: February 10, 2016

Effective Learning Strategies Sessions (ELS) —CLOSED Submission Deadline: April 4, 2016
These sessions offer presenters an interactive forum for exchange of ideas and resources that support learning in accounting.

Emerging and Innovative Research Session —CLOSED Submission Deadline: April  4, 2016
Intended to highlight promising emerging and innovative research ideas, authors will submit a short abstract of three to four pages that describes their work in progress or a planned session that will bring ideas currently outside Accounting to the attention of Accounting scholars. This session is an interactive format; see suggestions on how presentation materials are prepared for an interactive session click here.

Faculty-Student Collaborations in Accounting – FASTCA-16 — CLOSED Submission Deadline: April  4, 2016
Encouraging exploration and discussion of collaborations between Accounting faculty and undergraduate and Master’s students, this all-day conference recognizes the importance of these collaborations to creating important learning experiences for students, attracting students to the Accounting profession, and the Accounting academy – as well as connecting the community of faculty conducting collaborative research and teaching. The following are some examples of faculty-student collaborations:

21st Annual Ethics Research Symposium —CLOSED March 30, 2016 Extended to April 6, 2016
Colleagues engaged and interested in research and teaching related to Ethics are invited by the Professionalism and Ethics Committee and Public Interest Section of the American Accounting Association to submit papers, cases, and panel session proposals for presentation at the 21st Annual Ethics Research Symposium to be held on Sunday, August 7, 2016. Contributions from members of all AAA Sections are invited.

Global Emerging Scholars Research Workshop —CLOSED Submission Deadline: May 16, 2016
The American Accounting Association Global Emerging Scholars Research Workshop will be held on Sunday, August 7 in conjunction with the 2016 AAA Annual Meeting in New York, NY, USA. Up to 16 proposals will be selected for presentation at the Workshop. Written feedback will be provided to the presenters prior to the Workshop to assist them in identifying ways to improve their research proposal. At the Workshop, each scholar will present the proposal, followed by discussion by a senior researcher as mentor who will also provide constructive feedback.  There will also be further discussion of the proposal by the presenter, other senior scholars as mentors, and the other early career researchers.

1. Research: Students and faculty working together on a research paper.
2. Teaching: Joint development of teaching materials by students and faculty.
3. Practice: Students and faculty working together to solve a real-world problem.