Perusall Exchange® 2025

Why Reading Matters to the Future of Learning
May 19th - 23rd, 2025

Submission Guidelines

Abstract submission deadline:  March 3rd, 2025 by 11:59pm EST.

We’d love to hear about your work for this year’s conference! Please submit a summary of your presentation (up to 300 words) for your video presentation or short paper. Along with the summary, please include a 100-word abstract that’s aimed at the audience, helping them get a sense of your work. To submit, you’ll use Oxford Abstracts, which will prompt you to create an account and confirm it via email. Be sure to keep your Submission ID number handy for future reference. If you have any questions or need assistance, don’t hesitate to reach out to support@perusall.com.

We are accepting short paper and video submissions for the 2025 Exchange conference. Please select only one format (i.e. video or short paper) for your submission.

Short Paper Presentation

Papers should be written in English, edited for grammatical and technical accuracy, and no more than 1500 words excluding tables, figures, and references.  

Here are some basic guidelines for page set-up, style, and formatting.  Please review before submitting your short paper.

Page Setup:

  • APA 7 Format for headings, in-text citations, references, tables, and figures: https://apastyle.apa.org
  • Margins: Top, Bottom, Left and Right margins are all 1”
  • Paper Size: Letter, 8.5” wide x 11” tall, portrait orientation
  • Headers and Footers: Same for each page except for the title page
    • Header and Footer are both 0.5” from the edge
    • Footer should include "Perusall Exchange® 2025" aligned right
      We understand that this does not align with APA 7 guidelines
  • Vertical Alignment: Top
  • Font: Times New Roman (TNR) 12 pt
  • Pagination: Every page number in the header, right-justified, beginning with the title page
  • Running head: Short paper title right-justified, beginning with the title page
  • Title Page: The first page of the paper should contain the title of the paper and bylines with the author’s or authors’ name(s) and the institutional affiliation. All should be centered. Include information for the corresponding author.

Video Presentation

Submitted presentations should be an investigation of a topic related to this year’s theme, Why Reading Matters to the Future of Learning.  Proposals that are accepted as video presentations should be 15 minutes long (maximum) and will be professionally recorded with the help of an Exchange videographer.  Final production pieces will have the presentation on the left of the screen and speaker on the right like so:

Video presentation template example for Perusall Exchange® video presentations
Video presentation template for Exchange 2025