Teaching and Learning with AI Conference: Full Schedule

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If You Can’t Beat ’Em, Join ’Em: Best Practices for Responsibly Integrating AI into the Classroom

Thursday June 11, 2026 1:00pm - 1:30pm EDT

This session explores how to responsibly incorporate AI into teaching by moving beyond viewing it solely as a threat to academic integrity. The session focuses on practical strategies for assignment design, classroom policies, and ethical use. These will support learning outcomes, student engagement, and critical thinking across disciplines. Faculty will examine how AI can support student research, drafting, and analytical exercises while maintaining academic integrity. Participants will engage with cross-disciplinary examples and leave with adaptable AI assignment ideas that complement—not replace—student learning and faculty expertise.

Speakers

Colleen Skinner

Law Library Director/ Asst. Professor, Jacksonville University College of Law

Thursday June 11, 2026 1:00pm - 1:30pm EDT
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Practical AI Tools/Agents and Implementation, 30-Minute Session | AI in Pedagogy and Curriculum Design, 30-Minute Session | Universal Design and Accessibility with AI, 30-Minute Session

1:40pm EDT

From Virtual Classrooms to Real Impact: Using VR and AI to Enhance Teacher Candidate Practice

Thursday June 11, 2026 1:40pm - 2:10pm EDT

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I will share how a VR and AI-integrated environment can transform teacher preparation by creating low-stakes, deliberate practice opportunities. I will present findings from a study in which teacher candidates used AI-driven VR scenarios to practice leading grade-specific discussions, supported by reflections and performance metrics from the sessions. Participants will then engage in a guided discussion on how these strategies can be adapted within their own instructional contexts. #VR-practice #teacher-preparation #AI-in-education #OvationVR

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Zachary Adams

Assistant Director Center for Teaching and Learning, Assistant Professor of Instruction, Hope College

Thursday June 11, 2026 1:40pm - 2:10pm EDT
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Ethics/ Policy/ and Governance, 30-Minute Session

Co-Author(s) Sue Brondyk (Hope College)

2:20pm EDT

AI Exploration Stations: a Model for Training Faculty and Staff on AI Tools

Thursday June 11, 2026 2:20pm - 2:50pm EDT

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Are faculty reluctant to try AI or unsure where to begin? Discover how Florida College’s Center for Teaching and Learning designed engaging AI Exploration Stations to help instructors interact with a variety of AI tools in a hands-on, low-pressure environment. Participants will learn how these stations encouraged curiosity, reduced hesitation, and sparked meaningful conversations about using AI to support teaching and student learning. Walk away with practical ideas you can adapt for your own campus. #AIinEducation #FacultyDevelopment #InnovativeTeaching

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Bonny Cable

Education Professor, Director of the Center for Teaching and Learning, Florida College

Jonathan Barlar

Education Department Chair, Education Professor, Florida College

Thursday June 11, 2026 2:20pm - 2:50pm EDT
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AI in K-12 Education, 30-Minute Session | AI Fluency and Faculty Development, 30-Minute Session | Practical AI Tools/Agents and Implementation, 30-Minute Session

3:00pm EDT

“Accountability and AI Use in Student Work: Practical Guidelines for Disclosure, Verification, and Citation”

Thursday June 11, 2026 3:00pm - 3:30pm EDT

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This session provides guidelines and structures that can help students ethically take advantage of AI by disclosing the kind and extent of use in their research and writing. We will look at practical disclosure examples, ways to double‑check AI‑generated citations or facts, and how to cite AI tools in Chicago, APA, and MLA styles. The goal is to give faculty and librarians straightforward, adaptable guidance they and their students can apply immediately. #citing-AI #disclosing-AI-use

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Tom Walker

Professor, School of Information Sciences, Wayne State University

Thursday June 11, 2026 3:00pm - 3:30pm EDT
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Practical AI Tools/Agents and Implementation, 30-Minute Session | AI in Pedagogy and Curriculum Design, 30-Minute Session

3:40pm EDT

Beyond the Prompt: Building a "Course Architect" Agent for Automated Alignment to Pedagogical Standards and Full-Spectrum Curricular Development

Thursday June 11, 2026 3:40pm - 4:10pm EDT

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Moving from "chatting" with AI to building a functional "agent" requires a shift in mindset from prompt engineering to systems design. This session shares a case study of developing a "course architect" agent capable of transforming course materials into a comprehensive 16-week instructional ecosystem. By grounding the agent’s outputs in specific instructor content rather than the generalized training of general-purpose LLMs, the architecture ensures pedagogical authority of the instructor. The session will demonstrate a workflow that generates a robust suite of LMS-ready outputs, all validated against national quality assurance benchmarks. The session addresses the "developer’s dilemma" by offering a comparative evaluation of leading GenAI platforms in developing purpose-built “course-architect” agents.

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Muhammad Adeel

UNT Dallas

Thursday June 11, 2026 3:40pm - 4:10pm EDT
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Practical AI Tools/Agents and Implementation, 30-Minute Session | AI in Pedagogy and Curriculum Design, 30-Minute Session | AI Fluency and Faculty Development, 30-Minute Session

9:00am EDT

Enacting Collaborative-based Frameworks for AI-Engagement: Strategic Alignments of Programs, Principles, and Pedagogies

Friday June 12, 2026 9:00am - 9:30am EDT

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Individuals in higher education may find it difficult to formulate coherent approaches to AI, but such alignment can be even more challenging across diverse departmental contexts. In this session, presenters describe the development of shared frameworks for AI engagement within a Department of Writing and Rhetoric. The department chair describes the complexities of this large, multifaceted department, and four program directors describe their strategies toward programmatic AI engagement including workshops, principles statements, and pedagogical revision. The presenters not only describe specific collaborative activities but also posit a model for creating collaboratively-based strategic alignment grounded in collective values.

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Martha Brenckle

University of Central Florida

Stephanie Wheeler

University of Central Florida

Melody Bowdon

University of Central Florida

Shane Wood

University of Central Florida

Friday June 12, 2026 9:00am - 9:30am EDT
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Practical AI Tools/Agents and Implementation, 30-Minute Session | AI Applications in the Workplace, 30-Minute Session | Ethics/ Policy/ and Governance, 30-Minute Session

Co-Author(s) Laurie Pinkert, University of Central Florida

9:40am EDT

“Is AI Allowed?”: Designing Transparent AI-Integrated Assignments

Friday June 12, 2026 9:40am - 10:10am EDT

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As generative AI becomes ubiquitous, ambiguity around acceptable student use undermines learning and assessment. This session presents a structured framework aligning Bloom’s Taxonomy (Revised) with a five-level AI Assessment Scale adapted from Perkins, Furze, et al. (2024). Instructors assign a clear AI Level to each assessment so students know exactly how and when AI may be used, with allowances intentionally increasing from foundational tasks (remember, understand) to higher-order work (analyze, evaluate, create). Participants will explore assignment examples that scaffold AI use, promote student accountability, and assess judgment and critique.

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Rebecca Leis

Friday June 12, 2026 9:40am - 10:10am EDT
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AI in Pedagogy and Curriculum Design, 30-Minute Session | AI Applications in the Workplace, 30-Minute Session

10:20am EDT

The Call Is Coming From Inside the Library: A Framework for Evaluating and Responding to Generative AI in Library Databases

Friday June 12, 2026 10:20am - 10:50am EDT

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Over time electronic resources offered by traditional library vendors have been stable products with understandable enhancements. The rapid emergence and widespread consumer access to Generative Artificial Intelligence (Gen AI) tools has compelled vendors, libraries, and librarians to urgently address this significant innovation. Vendors began developing and implementing new in-product Gen AI features as librarians faced a steep learning curve to evaluate, assess, make decisions about, and develop instruction around Gen AI add-ons. This session will offer a framework and actionable steps to help librarians with the challenge of new Gen AI tools showing up inside trusted platforms.

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Jennifer Freer

Business Librarian, Rochester Institute of Technology

Friday June 12, 2026 10:20am - 10:50am EDT
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AI Fluency and Faculty Development, 30-Minute Session

11:00am EDT

Teaching Nursing With GPTs: A Rapid-Fire Tour of Tools That Build Skills, Not Shortcuts

Friday June 12, 2026 11:00am - 11:30am EDT

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Want practical ways to use GPTs in your teaching without turning learning into a shortcut? This 30-minute rapid-fire session tours a set of GPT-based classroom tools I use with undergraduate nursing students to build real skills and, just as importantly, spark ideas you can adapt in your own courses. You’ll see structured practice for interprofessional communication, guided health assessment, and NCLEX-style item generation with rationales students can analyze (not just memorize). I’ll also demo choose-your-own-adventure clinical scenarios with realistic consequences and a mystery pathopharmacology “decoder” case. The goal is transferable strategies with endless classroom possibilities. #PracticalAITools #HealthProfessionsEducation #ClinicalReasoning

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Erin Kelley

Associate Professor, Northern Kentucky University

I spend most of my time helping future nurses think critically, solve problems, and survive NCLEX-style chaos. I’m especially passionate about practical, realistic uses of AI in education and healthcare- not just the flashy stuff, but the tools that actually make learning more engaging... Read More →

Friday June 12, 2026 11:00am - 11:30am EDT
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AI in Pedagogy and Curriculum Design, 30-Minute Session

1:00pm EDT

Building Bridges, Not Walls: Facilitating Safe Dialogue About AI Across Campus

Friday June 12, 2026 1:00pm - 1:30pm EDT

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Faculty, staff, and students hold vastly different perspectives on AI in education—from enthusiastic adoption to deep skepticism. This session explores practical strategies for creating psychologically safe environments where diverse stakeholders can discuss AI openly, address concerns authentically, and collaboratively develop policies and practices. Participants will learn facilitation techniques, conversation frameworks, and institutional approaches that move beyond polarization to productive dialogue. Whether you're leading a department meeting, faculty development session, or campus-wide initiative, you'll gain tools to navigate resistance, honor legitimate concerns, and build shared understanding around AI's role in teaching and learning.#productive-dialogue #faculty-development #change-management

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Susan Purrington

Harold F. Wiley Generative AI Teaching and Learning Fellow, Connecticut College

Friday June 12, 2026 1:00pm - 1:30pm EDT
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AI Fluency and Faculty Development, 30-Minute Session | AI in Pedagogy and Curriculum Design, 30-Minute Session

1:40pm EDT

Empowering Educators and Librarians: Pedagogical Strategies for Teaching Verifiable RAG-Evidence Synthesis

Friday June 12, 2026 1:40pm - 2:10pm EDT

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This presentation outlines instructional sessions tailored to train medical librarians, graduate medical students, and teachers in the combined use of Large Language Models (LLMs) and Retrieval‑Augmented Generation (RAG) workflows to support the synthesis of verifiable evidence. Presenters will share structured demonstrations and prompt engineering techniques designed to teach the effective use of two distinct platforms:• Copilot: Generate efficient search strategies, integrating MeSH terms, the PICO framework, and Boolean operators.• NotebookLM: Integrating JBI‑PRISMA scoping review steps to support transparent, framework‑aligned synthesis.Participants will leave with adaptable retrieval-aware prompt templates and AI‑enhanced synthesis strategies for their teaching and reference services.

Speakers

Howard Rodriguez-Mori

Associate Professor, Texas Tech University

Friday June 12, 2026 1:40pm - 2:10pm EDT
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Practical AI Tools/Agents and Implementation, 30-Minute Session | Ethics/ Policy/ and Governance, 30-Minute Session | AI in Pedagogy and Curriculum Design, 30-Minute Session

Co-Author(s) Federico Urzola, Marcelo Schmidt (Texas Tech University)

2:20pm EDT

KEEP SHINING: Staying Human While Teaching with AI

Friday June 12, 2026 2:20pm - 2:50pm EDT

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Many educators are experimenting with AI in their teaching while still trying to understand what is helping, what is not, and why. This session introduces KEEP SHINING, a human-centered framework for making sense of teaching with AI. Using concrete examples from digital media, video, and social media assignments, participants will examine what has supported learning and connection, and what has not. The session helps educators refine existing practices or begin with greater clarity and confidence. This interactive session invites participants to reflect on their experiences with AI and leave with a concrete takeaway to support more human-centered teaching.#HumanCenteredAI #DigitalMedia

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Dr. Nancy Richmond

Associate Teaching Professor, College of Business, FIU

I’m Dr. Nancy Richmond, professor, speaker, and author of KEEP SHINING: Rediscovering Purpose and Connection in a Digital World.🌐 I work with leaders and teams who want to use AI and digital media without losing their humanity in the process. My work sits at the intersection... Read More →

Friday June 12, 2026 2:20pm - 2:50pm EDT
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Practical AI Tools/Agents and Implementation, 30-Minute Session

3:00pm EDT

Wait...Microsoft Copilot Can Do That?!

Friday June 12, 2026 3:00pm - 3:30pm EDT

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Microsoft can be fun, too! This session explores creative and often overlooked ways Microsoft Copilot can support teaching and learning without requiring a separate paid Copilot subscription. Participants will see how course content can be transformed into narrated videos, editable infographics, and engaging assets that help bring concepts to life for students. The session highlights approaches for building visual learning materials using institutionally provided Microsoft tools, keeping instructional work within secure, familiar, and supported platforms. Participants will leave with new ideas for enhancing teaching, learning, and student engagement while discovering additional capabilities that can support a variety of instructional goals.

Speakers

Alissa Harrington

Instructional Designer and Technologist, Towson University

Friday June 12, 2026 3:00pm - 3:30pm EDT
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AI in K-12 Education, 30-Minute Session | AI in Pedagogy and Curriculum Design, 30-Minute Session | Practical AI Tools/Agents and Implementation, 30-Minute Session

3:40pm EDT

AI, But Make It Pedagogical: Lessons from a Learner-Centered AI Implementation

Friday June 12, 2026 3:40pm - 4:10pm EDT

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AI is everywhere in higher education, but learning doesn’t automatically follow. Too often, AI shows up as a shortcut to answers rather than a support for thinking. This session explores what happens when AI is designed to be pedagogical. In Spring 2025, Miami Dade College partnered with Kyron Learning to embed learner centered AI into a high enrollment online English Composition course. Integrated directly into Canvas and aligned to instructor defined objectives, the AI guided students through dialogue, practice, and feedback while faculty retained full control. Results show higher engagement, confidence, preparedness, and deeper conceptual understanding.

Speakers

Bob Zimmerli

Kyron Learning

Victor Calderin

Associate Professor of English, Miami Dade College

Friday June 12, 2026 3:40pm - 4:10pm EDT
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AI in Pedagogy and Curriculum Design, 30-Minute Session | Assessment and Academic Integrity, 30-Minute Session | AI Fluency and Faculty Development, 30-Minute Session

4:20pm EDT

Student Experiences with AI-Supported Tutoring in Undergraduate Math and Biology

Friday June 12, 2026 4:20pm - 4:50pm EDT

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This practice‑based study examines the implementation of an AI‑supported tutoring system (CircleIn) in undergraduate Mathematics and Biology courses to explore its influence on student engagement. Embedded within active‑learning assignments, the AI tutor was intentionally designed as a learning scaffold rather than a shortcut, supporting problem generation, immediate feedback, concept clarification, and peer collaboration. Using a mixed‑methods approach, the study analyzes AI usage metrics, course performance data, and anonymous student surveys. Preliminary findings suggest the AI tutor supports behavioral, cognitive, and emotional engagement, particularly for quiet students, and enhances understanding of complex STEM concepts.Keywords: Engagement; AI-supported Tutor

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Virginia Thompson

Associate Professor, CUNY York College

Friday June 12, 2026 4:20pm - 4:50pm EDT
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Practical AI Tools/Agents and Implementation, 30-Minute Session | AI in Pedagogy and Curriculum Design, 30-Minute Session

Co-Author(s) Wafica Itani, Miami Dade College

5:45pm EDT

Machine in the Shell: A Live “Turing” Test Social

Friday June 12, 2026 5:45pm - 6:45pm EDT

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Can you tell the difference between a human and artificial intelligence? Join us for a group-based social activity where we put our determination skills to the test and find out if we can know the difference between the work of AI and the work of a human being.

In this session, attendees will participate in a series of activities where we work in groups, to conclude if presented text, images, videos, or sounds are the work of AI or a human. Attendees will be placed within groups of 5-10 and shown works of either AI or humans on a PowerPoint presentation. Attendees will then deliberate and provide their answer for each slide to the event organizers. After gathering all answers, the event organizers will state how many groups were able to correctly determine if the shown work was AI or human. At the end of the session, participants will be given time to discuss the event and their level of confidence with determining a work of AI and the work of a human.

Speakers

Patrick Green

UCF Libraries

Friday June 12, 2026 5:45pm - 6:45pm EDT
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Engagement, General Session

9:00am EDT

Your Faculty AI OS: Building a Personal AI for Next-Level Performance

Saturday June 13, 2026 9:00am - 10:00am EDT

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Faculty are overwhelmed by grading, course preparations, advising, accreditation, and scholarship, while AI tools keep changing. This session introduces the concept of a Faculty AI Operating System: a structured, reusable approach to training and deploying a personal AI that understands a professor’s courses, rubrics, teaching style, and workflows. Instead of relying on fragile prompts, participants learn to build a durable AI partner to support syllabus design, grading, feedback, research, and administrative work. Attendees will leave with a blueprint they can implement immediately in any discipline. (Faculty Productivity, AI-Enabled Pedagogy, Future-Proof Course Design).

Speakers

Dawn Oetjen

University of Central Florida - School of Global Health Management and Information

Reid Oetjen

Professor & MHA Program Director, University of Central Florida - School of Global Health Management and Informati

Jean Gordon

MHA Online Division Director, MUSC

Eric Richardson

Medical University of South Carolina

Saturday June 13, 2026 9:00am - 10:00am EDT
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Practical AI Tools/Agents and Implementation, 60-Minute Session

10:20am EDT

AI Role Playing: Active Learning Comes to Life

Saturday June 13, 2026 10:20am - 10:50am EDT

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Role playing is a powerful active-learning strategy that helps students apply course concepts through authentic, scenario-based experiences. This session will explore the role playing feature in ChatGPT and Gemini AI platforms to demonstrate how faculty across all disciplines can design role-playing assignments that strengthen industry-specific communication, critical thinking, and problem-solving skills. Participants will observe a live demonstration, learn a practical framework for implementation, and create their own role-playing prompt that can be immediately implemented and adapted for both face-to-face and online learning environments. #airoleplay #activelearning #scenariobasedlearning

Speakers

Lindsay Tate

Sinclair College

Juli Ross

Learning Design Specialist, Sinclair Community College

Saturday June 13, 2026 10:20am - 10:50am EDT
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AI Fluency and Faculty Development, 30-Minute Session | AI Applications in the Workplace, 30-Minute Session | Practical AI Tools/Agents and Implementation, 30-Minute Session

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