Event Date: April 27-29, 2027
TCC 2027 Worldwide Online Conference
Connecting through Intention: Learning with People and Places
CALL FOR PROPOSALS IS NOW OPEN
The 32nd annual Teaching, Colleges, and Community Worldwide Online Conference (TCC 2027) invites proposals for presentations, papers, and interactive sessions. This year’s theme, Connecting through Intention: Learning with People and Places, invites faculty, staff, students, researchers, and education professionals from around the world to share how meaningful connections, with one another, with our communities, and with the places where we learn and teach, shape education.
In higher education, rich discussions are had about positioning technology as a bridge to progress and improvement and how we need to remain human-centered in our intentions. As we reflect on the purpose of using technological tools and how they enable us to be more efficient and effective, this year’s conference also looks at how technologies can facilitate meaningful engagement with our community of people and places.
Join faculty, students, researchers, and education professionals from around the world as we reflect and seek to understand for whom and in what spaces different technologies can elevate human connection and deepen our relationship with physical environments. What are some ethical and cultural considerations that should ground how technology serves different communities? How can these intelligent tools help us to better understand and honor localized lenses, synthesize complex regional data and histories, and highlight ecological insights to enrich community-engaged and place-based learning?
Share your vision—submit a proposal today!
Conference dates: April 27–29, 2027 (online)
Submission deadline: Friday, December 4, 2026, 11:59 PM HST
Submission form: go.hawaii.edu/zTR
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Proposals
The Call for Proposals is now open.
You are invited to submit a proposal for TCC 2027, Connecting with Intention: Learning from People and Places. The deadline to submit a proposal is Friday, December 4, 2026, 11:59 PM HST.
Proposals related to current and innovative technology practices and tools may cover a wide range of subjects including, but not limited to:
- Innovative technologies for learning including AI and mixed realities.
- Emerging and successful practices, trends, or issues
- Building and sustaining communities of practice
- Administrative practices that support student success
- Augmented, virtual, and mixed realities (AR, VR, MR)
- Building a sense of belonging in online learning
- Climate change & sustainability
- Career revitalization & workforce development
- Digital literacy, security & safety
- Digital divide
- Ethics and social issues in online learning
- E-sports, gamification, and game-based learning
- Gender, equity, diversity, and open access
- Human-AI collaboration
- Indigenous and Native voices and perspectives in technology innovation
- Innovative learning spaces
- Intercultural communication and competencies
- Learner voices, diversity, and inclusion
- Learning analytics for faculty, staff, and students
- Learning resources in libraries and learning centers
- Mobile learning, tools, and classroom applications
- Online student services, advising, and learning support
- Online course design & development strategies
- Open practices & resources (OER)
- Places and spaces where we learn together
- Professional development programs & initiatives
- Second language learning & oral communication
- Social media tools and applications
- Universal design for learning
- Virtual learning platforms
- Wearables, robotics, drones, blockchain, VR, etc.
We accept proposals in three primary formats:
- Papers
- General (concurrent) sessions
- Interactive sessions such as panel discussions, interactive workshops, technology tool demos, and lightning talks.
Details for each can be found on the Presentation Types page.
Presenters are expected to:
- Participate in a pre-conference orientation session on Wednesday, March 24, 2027 at 14:00 HST.
- Use a headset or earbuds with a microphone during the presentation without distracting background voices, noises, and other controllable factors.
- Maintain timely communications with the conference staff.
- Present an informal, interactive online session related to your proposal.
- Upload a photo, a brief professional bio, and related presentation materials to include on the conference website.
- Respond to questions and comments from participants during the entire conference.
All presenters must register online and pay the online conference fee (TCC 2027 fees to be announced) or register as a group member.
Contact Truc Nguyen <nguyen@hawaii.edu> for group rates (one fee for all participants from a single unit, campus, or system). Presenters who are full-time students receive complimentary access.
Participation in this event is entirely ONLINE. We deliver all sessions online in real time. A broadband connection is necessary. Sessions will be live and interactive. They are recorded for later viewing.
For a preview, recordings from TCC 2026 are viewable (no sign-in needed):
TCC Community Voices
An extremely high-value conference that so many people can take away insights and information from.
I enjoyed the variety of topics that were featured in the papers and presentations.
TCC leadership's collegiality is palpable. Your "respectful and constructive style" puts everyone at ease and receptive to the learning experience at hand.
I thoroughly enjoyed the conference and I can't wait to view the recordings of the sessions that I missed.
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