Dissemination: Sharing Your Work and Finding Your Audience

Having developed an intervention or innovation in your class, programme, or institution and then evaluated its effectiveness, the obvious next step is to share this practice through some form of dissemination. In this chapter we aim to support those looking to disseminate their papers in the field. We explore the various outlets that are available, in both general and specific terms. We explore online forums (blogs etc.) or more traditional outlets such as conferences or journal publications. As engineering education research (EER) is an emerging field, this journey can be particularly complex and challenging, and so we give an overview of the process involved in getting an article ready to be published in education conference proceedings or in an academic journal. We aim to support authors in understanding both the publishing landscape but also particular norms in publication style that may not be identical to the technical field in which they first trained. We also look at the wide range of conferences available to those looking to present and publish their work and explore how each has their own distinct scope and specific audience.