GSOLE's Annual Online ConferenceDoing exciting things in your online classes? Experimenting with new online tutoring techniques? Are you curious about how others are teaching or tutoring online? Have interesting program ideas? GSOLE sponsors an annual conference for literacy educators to connect and converse about their online pedagogies and program development. To allow both broad accessibility and lively interactive engagement, our annual conference takes place online using a combination of web-conferencing, pre-recorded presentations, chat, and discussion. For information about the upcoming conference or to access materials from previous conferences, please follow the links below. |
2026 Conference InformationTheme: Persistence in the Age of Disruption: Celebrating a Decade of Collaborative Work in Online Literacy Education Dates: Wednesday through Friday, February 4–6, 2026. Co-Chairs: Kevin DePew and Tess Evans Format: The conference will take place asynchronously via the GSOLE website and synchronously via Zoom. |
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Conference Registration
We thank GSOLE volunteers, especially members of the Conference Committee, for all that they do to keep the conference affordable and accessible. To register for the conference, you will need to be an active GSOLE member, and your membership will need to be active February 4-6. To learn more about membership fees, please visit our Become a Member page. This year, there are three options for registration:
If you are interested in a bulk registration option to conserve administrative labor when registering a group to attend, we are happy to accommodate this request! Please email president@gsole.org. Register Today! |
Heidi McCauley
"Oh the Places You Have Gone!: The First and Next Decade of GSOLE”
For a decade, GSOLE has connected online literacy educators. From its humble beginnings as the brainchild of Beth Hewett, Scott Warnock, and Heidi Skurat Harris, GSOLE has grown into an organization that supports new research, gives space to alternative voices, and supports online literacy faculty. This retrospective answers the question “Where have we been?” and speculates on the question “Where will we go?”
Maha Bali
"Creating Compassionate Learning Communities Online"
In this interactive session, participants will discuss the Equity/Care Matrix, Compassionate Learning Design model, and the praxis of Intentionally Equitable Hospitality, and discuss how to apply them when teaching and building community online. Participants will also have opportunities to discuss some of their current challenges and brainstorm ways of addressing them in compassionate and equitable ways.