Teaching and Learning with AI Conference

Teaching and Learning with AI Conference

Jordan Steel

United States Air Force Academy

Associate Professor/ STEM Outreach Coordinator

8:00am EDT

Recharge Lounge CitrusAdobe • Apporto • Boodlebox • Curricu • D2L • EBSCO • iDesign • SchoolAI • QuadC • Turnitin • Verballi • Feedback Fruits • McGraw Hill • Harmonize Learning • Kyron Learning Registration Coastal Landing

9:00am EDT

What’s happening now with AI, and what will come next? Free Pre-Conference Coastal 8Kevin Yee

10:30am EDT

Conference Welcome Coastal BallroomWendy Howard • Kevin Yee

11:00am EDT

Opening Keynote: Teaching AI and Teaching with AI: Charting the Evolution of Learning, Curriculum, and Professional Practice Coastal BallroomC. Edward Watson

12:00pm EDT

Buffet Lunch Exhibit Hall F

1:00pm EDT

Beyond Detection: How Oral Assessment Diagnoses Your Teaching, Not Just Their Cheating Desoto 5Brandon Nash • Megan Butterworth • Verballi Comparison of the Development of Student Research Questions in AI-Integrated vs. Traditional Assignments Escambia HallwayLauren Neal From text-based lecture notes to audio podcasts: A faculty-instructional technologist collaboration Escambia HallwayOmer Arslan Teaching Systematic Literature Reviews with AI: Using Elicit as an Instructional Tool for Faculty and Graduate Students Escambia HallwayMarta Samokishyn Don't Build Agents, Build Skills: Teaching Foundation-Level AI Competencies for All Instructors Coastal 7Tatiana Rudchenko • Lantz Ferrell • Meredith Lancaster AI Safety: What to Know Before You Hit Enter Desoto 3Mary Ann Hughes Butts • Ayla Koch Redesigning General Education with AI: From Enduring Questions to Transferable Skills Escambia HallwayMartina Saltamacchia • Amy Ellefson

1:30pm EDT

Hands-On Learning in an AI World Coastal BallroomTommi Barrett

1:40pm EDT

A "Human-in-the-Loop" Framework for AI-Generated Cases Coastal 10Glori Hinck • Lesley Scibora From Prompting to Learning: Making Student Reasoning Visible in an AI-Enabled Blended Humanities Course Desoto 5Lars Jones When AI Reads Student Work: Using Machine Interpretation as Pedagogical Feedback Desoto 3Russell Michalak • Eman Al-Drous, PhD Cheese, Chocolate and Artisanal AI: Strategies for Engaging AI-Resistant Faculty Through Culinary Workshops Desoto 2Rachael Zeleny

1:50pm EDT

Can AI Make My Class More Fun? Using Humor-Enhanced Teaching Content to Capture Student Attention Coastal BallroomShikhar Acharya

2:20pm EDT

AI Playground EscambiaCharley Butcher • Sandra Perez • Melisa Balos • Emanuel Cortes Lugo • Anastasia Bojanowski The Devil You Know: Empowering Faculty with Practical AI Pedagogy Know-How Suwannee 3Mariya Gluzman Creating Equitable Education Through AI Tutors and Faculty Tools That Support Learning and Reflection EscambiaMarivi Tejada-Simon Building Your AI Agent Assistant: A Hands-On Workshop Using BoodleBox and Jotform Coastal 8Abby Bell AI in Military Education: How students and faculty view and use AI Coastal 9Amanda Rosen From Lesson to Workplace: AI-Cheat-Proof, Career-Ready Assessment Design Coastal 6Lisa Troy • Shweta Homji The Be S.M.A.R.T. with AI Framework: Helping Students Make Better Choices Desoto 5Nikki Buyna

3:00pm EDT

Be a TRAIIL-Blazer! Learn About Our AI Repository Coastal 10Nicole Stahl • Sarah Norris Intersections of AI and Culture in the Classroom Lafayette 2Elizabeth Giltner • Lili Yan What Are Your Students Missing? Accessibility in the Age of AI Desoto 5David Greene • Harmonize Learning How did you do that?: Guiding faculty through OER creation with AI Desoto 3Ryan Rushing • Heather Young Advancing Institutional AI Readiness through Faculty Development and Student Partnerships Coastal 9Ursula N. Sorensen

3:30pm EDT

Canoeing the Mountains in the AI Era Coastal BallroomNathan C. Hamblin, Ph.D., Ed.D.

3:40pm EDT

AI and the Apocalypse: Saving the Human Voice from Annihilation Suwannee 4Tricia Foster • Alicia K. Garcia Bots, Not Slop: How a Custom Bot Helps Students Revise, Reflect, and Improve Suwannee 3Erica Noles Karaoke, Call-Ins, and Mic Drops: Amplifying Student Voice with AI Lafayette 5Alissa Harrington Why AI Training Isn't Enough: The Hidden Gap Between Faculty Awareness and Institutional Change. Desoto 5Jessica Stansbury Gamified AI Patient Simulations to Advance Clinical Reasoning in Undergraduate Genetics Coastal 8Lawrence Tartaglia Teaching Microbiology with Generative AI: Tips and Tools to Leverage Innovative AI Capabilities to Empower Microbiology Faculty to Integrate AI into Courses Escambia HallwayJordan Steel • Michael Barnhart The Robot Referee: GenAI and Wargaming at the United States Military Academy Escambia HallwayJames Martin

4:20pm EDT

Accessible by Design: Leveraging AI for Inclusive Education Suwannee 3Rebecca Weber • Lauren Kehoe The Multimodal Video Evaluator (MVE): Codifying Decades of Empirical Research into a Systematic Multimedia Design & Evaluation Framework Lafayette 1Koichi Sato "I Don't Know Yet": Building Communities Where Faculty Can Think Out Loud About AI Lafayette 5Jennifer Potter Teaching What AI Cannot Do: Reimagining Human Competencies in Higher Education Coastal 10Elle Corvette

5:00pm EDT

Happy Hour Coastal Ballroom

8:00am EDT

Breakfast Buffet Coastal Ballroom Recharge Lounge CitrusAdobe • Apporto • Boodlebox • Curricu • D2L • EBSCO • iDesign • SchoolAI • QuadC • Turnitin • Verballi • Feedback Fruits • McGraw Hill • Harmonize Learning • Kyron Learning Registration Coastal Landing

9:00am EDT

Generative AI, My Dear Watson: Sherlock Holmes Meets Information Literacy in the Library Coastal 7Denise Wetzel What Happens to Quiet Students When AI Speaks for Them? Voice, Identity, and Inclusion in AI-Mediated Learning EscambiaEunjeong Shin Your AI Compass: A Values-Driven Approach to Teaching & Learning With AI Desoto 4Chad Rohrbacher • Tracy Mendolia, PhD • Tess St. John From Manual to Magical: Using AI to Fast-Track Content Creation in High-Enrollment Courses EscambiaAndi Nelson

9:20am EDT

What Makes Learning Human? An Evaluation of AI-Generation in Academics Coastal BallroomMadison Hecker

9:40am EDT

Using Critical Reflection to Support Significant Learning with GenAI: A Learn-Change-Grow Strategy Lafayette 4Byron Havard • Lauren Adlof • Holley Handley “Is AI Allowed?”: Designing Transparent AI-Integrated Assignments Desoto 1Rebecca Leis The Purposeful Struggle: Designing Learning That Matters in the Age of AI Desoto 5Candyce Nelson The Dissertation Whisperer: Building a Symbiosis Between AI and Human Mentorship Desoto 3Vernon Czelusniak

10:20am EDT

From Ideas to Products: AI-Assisted Learning Without Outsourcing Thinking Lafayette 5Diego Cuadros • Maria Torres Strategic AI Leadership in Higher Education: Governance, Investment, and Curriculum in the Age of Transformation Coastal 7Munevver Mine Subasi Using AI to Mimic In-Class Interactions in an Asynchronous Session for Case-Based Learning Desoto 2Kersten T Schroeder Building AI Creative Labs: A Model for Hands-On AI Learning at Scale Desoto 3Zachary Lonsinger • Markus Furer Beyond the Prompt: Integrating AI for Experiential Learning and Professional Readiness Lafayette 1Allison Muise • Katherine Nessen Understanding Student Resistance to AI: Bridging the Gap Between Institutional Investment and Student Adoption Escambia HallwayAbby Bell AI-Polling Pedagogy: Using Peer Instruction to Build AI Fluency in STEM Escambia HallwayAlex Ambrose • Yanran Chen Fluency ≠ Literacy: Practical Strategies to Scaffold, Not Offload Escambia HallwayRachel Rupprecht, Ph.D. • Heidi Keller • Vanessa Hormann

11:00am EDT

Brain-First AI Use: Balancing AI Assistance and Student Thinking Lafayette 2Marta McCabe

11:30am EDT

Buffet Lunch Exhibit Hall F

1:00pm EDT

Building Bridges, Not Walls: Facilitating Safe Dialogue About AI Across Campus Desoto 1Susan Purrington Ditching Detectors: Promoting Trust with AI in the Classroom EscambiaStephanie Korslund Stop Policing AI. Start Designing It. EscambiaShalini Gopalkrishnan Grade the Human, Not the Homework: Assessing Understanding Instead of the Artifact Coastal 6Ashley Evans Creative Agency in the Age of Generative AI: Authorship, Disclosure, and Rights in Higher Education Lafayette 4Kimberly Goddard Loeffert Guardrails, not gotchas: Ethics and policy in AI Suwannee 2Christian Moriarty (CANCELLED) Building a Faculty AI Readiness Framework: Evidence from Netnography and Interdisciplinary Dialogs EscambiaAhmet Hacikara

1:40pm EDT

The Alternative Examiner: AI-Assisted Socratic Assessment for Personalized Learning at Scale Coastal BallroomJoy Osipchuk • Matt Vergne • John D. Smith Weekly Prompts Instead of Weekly Readings Coastal 8Billy Kihei The Online Educator's AI Playbook Lafayette 3Wilson Rojas

2:20pm EDT

Break Your Own Assignments: Stress Testing Your Course Against AI Misuse Coastal 7Mary Ann Hughes Butts • Ayla Koch Designing Writing Assignments in the Age of AI: Practical Strategies for Faculty and Students Escambia HallwayLee Markowitz Learning 3.0: From "Guide on the Side" to "Shaper on the Path", Prototyping AI-Enabled Adaptive Learning at Scale Desoto 4Adam King • Julia Sabin AI Hallucinations, Academic Integrity, and Learning-Centered Design Suwannee 3Robert Mott • Mary Myers Feedback Fusion: AI Enabled Qualitative Feedback Analytics Escambia HallwayAyushi Chakrabarty Talk Back to the Machine: Reclaiming Discussion in the AI Era Coastal 9Jessica Slisher • Heather Olson Enhancing Student Engagement and Learning Outcomes in Genetics with Custom Chapter Chatbots and Character AI: A Controlled Comparison Escambia HallwayMehdi Eslamieh Requiring Students Prove Provenance to Avoid AI Academic Misconduct Accusation Coastal 6Sheri Stover Responsible Use of Generative AI in Peer Review: Where Do We Draw the Line? Suwannee 2Martha Snyder

3:00pm EDT

Dinner is Served: How Faculty Development Created a “Choose-Your-Own-Assessment” Menu for AI-Enhanced Teaching and Learning Desoto 2Shauna Maragh • Jennifer Fontaine • Kevin Colwell Roleplaying with AI Bots Lafayette 5Aaron Crowell (Rescheduled) Using LLMs as Adversarial Thought Partners in U.S. Higher Education Coastal BallroomRobert Macy

3:40pm EDT

The Adventure Option: Transforming STEM Activities with AI, Creativity, and a Dash of Chaos Suwannee 3Ramona Smith • Hannah Bevan Teaching in the Age of AI: Pedagogical Practices and Faculty Development at a Private Liberal Arts University Lafayette 1Raymond Baker • Jaime Franco The State of Copyright and AI: 2026 Updates Suwannee 2Sarah Norris

4:20pm EDT

Rewriting the Rules of Teaching: Designing with, Not Against, AI Desoto 5Doreen Mayrell Student Experiences with AI-Supported Tutoring in Undergraduate Math and Biology Desoto 1Virginia Thompson

8:00am EDT

Breakfast Buffet Coastal Ballroom Luggage Storage Coastal 10 Recharge Lounge CitrusAdobe • Apporto • Boodlebox • Curricu • D2L • EBSCO • iDesign • SchoolAI • QuadC • Turnitin • Verballi • Feedback Fruits • McGraw Hill • Harmonize Learning • Kyron Learning Registration Coastal Landing

9:00am EDT

Your Students Deserve More Than a Chatbot: How to Improve Learning Outcomes with AI-Powered Instruction Desoto 5Erin Ratliff • Kyron Learning Designing Low-Stakes AI Learning for Faculty: Lessons from an AI Test Fest Coastal 7Emmie Mercer • Richard Tillies Coaching, not Coasting: Building Effective Human-AI Ecosystems for Writers Across the Curriculum Desoto 2Jared Holton • Lindsey Harding How Faculty can avoid obsolescence in the age of AI. Lafayette 4David Holder No-Budget, High-Engagement: Free Classroom Games You Can Create with AI in 30 Minutes Lafayette 2Liz Winer • Lauren Oliveira Ctrl + Alt + Delete: Rebooting Pedagogy and Practice for Teaching with AI Lafayette 3Annette Jones • Christopher Riley • Robert Fuselier • Liying Miao

9:40am EDT

Hypothesis: AI Changes Everything—Findings from the ELITE Lab Lafayette 1Shara Gonzalez Leveraging AI to Enhance Evidence-Based Learning: Practical Strategies for Long-Term Retention Coastal 7Ursula N. Sorensen • Aicha Rochdi STEM Lab Classes Need AI Too! EscambiaStephen King • Linda King From AI Use to AI Dependability: Designing Courses That Still Work When AI Changes Coastal 8Dawn Oetjen • Reid Oetjen • Jean Gordon • Eric Richardson

10:20am EDT

AI Role Playing: Active Learning Comes to Life Desoto 1Lindsay Tate • Juli Ross The "Boss" of the Bot: Empowering Faculty Control through RAG and Socratic Prompting Lafayette 4Peter Bodary

11:00am EDT

Closing Keynote: Higher Education in the AI Revolution, From Polycrisis to Pedagogy Coastal BallroomBryan Alexander

12:00pm EDT

Closing Message Coastal BallroomWendy Howard • Kevin Yee