Welcome to MOBTS North America Conference!

We look forward to hosting you at University of Nevada Las Vegas, Nevada, USA, from June 8-11, 2027. At this time, we invite your proposals.

Conference Theme: Big Gambles vs. Safe Bets!

When it comes to the classroom, are you going to let it ride on a roll of the dice? Or go with the strategic safe play? The conference this year aims to encourage attendees to bring us one of the following types - a session where you outline a big gamble, taken or planned for the future, where you are really trying to aim big in new ways...or a tried and true idea that always helps you cash out on a nice successful project/class endeavor, which always works out nicely that you would want to share with your colleagues.

In this time of uncertainty, anxiety, and fear surrounding higher education and its direction, it is easy to feel like just going to work is a risky gamble. We want to give our members and attendees a chance to take back the feeling of aiming high, throwing down a risky but potentially amazing result with a new project or exercise, and escape that feeling of being too afraid to roll the dice anymore. With support from your peers at the conference, you may find the missing piece to make that big gamble actually works out just fine after all! We also want to encourage anyone who has that "safe bet", their trusted go-to workhorse project that always helps them break even, to share it with the attendees in a session type that allows them to outline its successes.

We will also be providing a themed track of "Viva Academicas!" to our evening/roundtable formats. This track theme is meant to allow us to celebrate ourselves, in the grand Las Vegas tradition, after spending so much time being in the firing line these past few years. We hope this track allows people to discuss the legacy of academic work in their fields, and where they wish for the future to go. This would be especially helpful for EEI and DI attendees to partake in.

Session Inspiration

1. Big Gambles vs Safe Bets - Let's see you bring to Las Vegas your biggest, most ambitious roll of the dice for a classroom experiment! Show us how you plan to risk it all with your newest, bravest gambles in the classroom at MOBTS Las Vegas this year! Feeling less like a big spender? Then bring us your safest bets, the classic tried and true exercises and lessons learned from your time in the classroom that have always helped you through, so others may learn from your trials!
   1. Associated session theme track - Roll the Dice (akin to Wine and Whine) where the purpose is to allow attendees to discuss more informally what feels like a gamble in the classroom now, due to legal challenges to academia.
2. Viva Las Academias! - Celebrate our industry and what its true purpose is, learning and teaching, in the city of Las Vegas with MOBTS! Long live our efforts at taking gambles, trying our luck on exercises, and believing in what you are doing to benefit your students. We have taken a bit of a beating lately, but like all good gamblers, we keep the hope alive for the next roll of the dice is going to be a good one.
3. What Happens in Vegas... - should be taught in the classroom! We lean into the spirit of shared collaboration this year, to help all attendees feel like they are a part of the academic community. Focused on the scholarship of teaching and learning, MOBTS 2027 LV will help you walk away with lessons, connections, and ideas you will want to share with your students.