The discipline-based education research (DBER) community at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln (UNL) will host its second X-DBER conference to discuss how theories, methods, and application of education research cross disciplinary boundaries. The conference will be held as a fully virtual meeting on April 3-5, 2023.
Abstracts for the X-DBER 2023 virtual conference will be due Thursday, Feb. 16, and can be submitted through this form. Abstracts (250 word max) should be written for a cross-disciplinary audience and should emphasize how the work can have impact across STEM disciplines. Please note the options for a talk (15 min) or poster presentation, plus a new option to host a longer-format (60 min) workshop or round-table discussion.
The goal of this conference is to bring together DBER researchers from across disciplines (e.g., biology, chemistry, engineering, geoscience, math, physics) to learn about ongoing research and develop future directions. Conference session themes in 2023 are: educational tools and interventions; learning and cognition; diversity, equity, inclusion, justice and belonging; interdisciplinary research frontiers; and discipline-based education research methods.
The conference allows researchers and practitioners from around the globe to identify synergies in theoretical and research approaches across disciplines to help the diverse communities solve novel problems and translate research into classroom practices. This virtual setting allows researchers across all ranks (e.g., graduate students, postdocs, faculty, other researchers) to present their work to a global audience and helped connect these researchers to broader communities and research projects.