Teaching and Learning with AI Conference

Teaching and Learning with AI Conference

Susan Coombes

Virginia Commonwealth University

Associate Professor, Assistant Vice Provost and Director CTLE

Richmond, VA United States

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

From Idea to Interactive: Supercharging Lessons with Gemini Canvas & Claude Artifacts Coastal 6Shannon Eastep

1:10pm EDT

The Worst Writer in the Newsroom Is a Robot (And That's the Point) Coastal BallroomMelissa Chessher • Adam Peruta

1:40pm EDT

From Prompting to Learning: Making Student Reasoning Visible in an AI-Enabled Blended Humanities Course Desoto 5Lars Jones

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

The AI-Infused Assessment Playbook: A 360° Workshop on Designing Compliant, Student-Approved Assignments Coastal 7Sarah Lewis • Nelson Santos The Devil You Know: Empowering Faculty with Practical AI Pedagogy Know-How Suwannee 3Mariya Gluzman Building Your AI Agent Assistant: A Hands-On Workshop Using BoodleBox and Jotform Coastal 8Abby Bell 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

AI Assisted Course Design: A Practical Faculty Workflow Guided By Backwards Design Suwannee 2John Schumacher Useful, Not Magical: Teaching Students to Find Sources and Verify Claims with AI Desoto 4Dr. Laura Adele Soracco “Accountability and AI Use in Student Work: Practical Guidelines for Disclosure, Verification, and Citation” Desoto 1Tom Walker What Are Your Students Missing? Accessibility in the Age of AI Desoto 5David Greene • Harmonize Learning Advancing Institutional AI Readiness through Faculty Development and Student Partnerships Coastal 9Ursula N. Sorensen

3:40pm EDT

Beyond “Allowed” or “Banned”: Teaching Responsible AI Use Through Transparency, Verification, and Student Ownership Lafayette 1Toby Brooks • Ashley Barrett Bots, Not Slop: How a Custom Bot Helps Students Revise, Reflect, and Improve Suwannee 3Erica Noles What Students Learn With—and Without—AI: A Practical Teaching Framework Lafayette 3Milagros Sanoja What AI-Ready Actually Looks Like: Designing Assignments Where the Process Is the Proof Lafayette 4Andy Toshniwal • Bas Hintemann • Feedback Fruits Why AI Training Isn't Enough: The Hidden Gap Between Faculty Awareness and Institutional Change. Desoto 5Jessica Stansbury Beyond Prompts: Building Custom AI Tools for Your Campus Coastal 7Denice Robertson Beyond the Syllabus: Leveraging Generative AI for Competency-Based Business Curricula Suwannee 1Dwight Heaster

3:50pm EDT

Leveraging Generative AI for Immersive Learning Coastal BallroomSara Evans • Kristina DuRocher

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 Using AI Tools in Canvas: Practical Teaching Strategies Lafayette 3Nicolas Hanhan Developing an AI Toolbox for Your Classroom Lafayette 2Melissa Brooks

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

AI Playground: Setting Up a Low-Lift, High-Value PD Session for Faculty Coastal BallroomJesika Brooks 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 The AI Thinking Partner: Practical Approaches to Assessment Design Desoto 2Michael Rodriguez Delgado • Janine Diaz-Cotto “But AI Said It Was True”: Teaching Students to Question the Machine Lafayette 5Michelle DeWalt Exploring the Role of Personalized Generative AI in Entrepreneurship Education Suwannee 1Yoo Ri Kim Empowering Student Autonomy with Custom AI Agents and Ethical AI Practices Coastal 10Reima Abobaker

9:40am EDT

Beyond “Is It Right?”: Teaching Students to Evaluate AI Output with Purpose Suwannee 3Victoria Antwi “Is AI Allowed?”: Designing Transparent AI-Integrated Assignments Desoto 1Rebecca Leis The Great AI Cleanup: Ditch the Tool Fatigue and Streamline Your Workflow with Google Suwannee 1Charley Butcher • Sandra Perez AI Fluency at Scale: A Faculty & Staff Development Model Coastal 9Rachel Hoke The Purposeful Struggle: Designing Learning That Matters in the Age of AI Desoto 5Candyce Nelson From Classroom to Campus: Institutional AI Value Statements Lafayette 2Alexis Ramsey

10:00am EDT

From Prompts to Production: Vibe Coding an AI-Powered Learning Platform Coastal BallroomAlan Gandy

10:20am EDT

Using AI to Mimic In-Class Interactions in an Asynchronous Session for Case-Based Learning Desoto 2Kersten T Schroeder

11:00am EDT

Conversational voice-based AI agent for skills assessment Lafayette 4Sandro Sanchez AI for Access and Inclusive Learning: Supporting First-Generation, Multilingual, and Neurodivergent Students Suwannee 3Rosita Scerbo Syllabus Scholar: developing an AI-powered syllabus design tool Suwannee 2Xiangyu Hu Good Grief, I Built an AI Workshop! Practical Lessons for Teaching Library Research with Generative AI Suwannee 1Brock Edmunds

11:30am EDT

Buffet Lunch Exhibit Hall F

1:00pm EDT

Ditching Detectors: Promoting Trust with AI in the Classroom EscambiaStephanie Korslund Stop Policing AI. Start Designing It. EscambiaShalini Gopalkrishnan

1:20pm EDT

Beyond the Panic: Helping Students Use AI Thoughtfully in Research and Writing Coastal BallroomChristy Snider

1:40pm EDT

From Detecting to Mentoring: Teaching for Trust and Learning in the Age of AI Desoto 4Zhuo Chen Weekly Prompts Instead of Weekly Readings Coastal 8Billy Kihei The Disclosure Dilemma: Navigating AI Transparency in Course Materials Lafayette 4Dr. Greig Powers

2:00pm EDT

Smart Support: Harnessing Artificial Intelligence to Personalize Remediation and Advance Student Success Coastal BallroomJanet Huxley

2:20pm EDT

Inside AI-Enhanced Courses: Intentional Criteria for Practical Gen-AI Integration Lafayette 2Desiree Henderson • Alexandra Ward 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 The AI That Refuses to Do Your Homework: Designing Chatbots That Actually Teach Instead of Cheat Lafayette 4Jeffrey Lyons

2:40pm EDT

Designing with AI, Not Around It: A One-Day Generative AI-Assisted Course Design Studio Coastal BallroomAdeline "Addy" Tolliver • Constantin Icleanu

3:00pm EDT

Wait...Microsoft Copilot Can Do That?! Desoto 1Alissa Harrington AI Bytes: Small Sessions, Big Impact Suwannee 2JD Weagley • Jenny Monarch McGuire From Pedagogical Intent to Structured Data: An AI-Assisted Workflow for Course Revision and Redesign Lafayette 3Rebecca McNulty

3:40pm EDT

Designing AI-Resilient Assessments That Support Learning and Integrity Lafayette 4Janice Woodruff I Built an AI Feedback Agent So I Could Stop Repeating Myself - Designing a Course-Specific AI Feedback Agent in 10 Minutes Coastal BallroomShalini Gopalkrishnan Building AI Fluency for Faculty: Practical Classroom Applications Beyond the Hype EscambiaBilly Stone Teaching in the Age of AI: Pedagogical Practices and Faculty Development at a Private Liberal Arts University Lafayette 1Raymond Baker • Jaime Franco Learning Reimagined: Engaging Students Through AI Bots Coastal 6Katie Wheeler • Cynthia Krutsinger The State of Copyright and AI: 2026 Updates Suwannee 2Sarah Norris

4:20pm EDT

If AI Can Do It, It’s Not What You Should Be Grading: Using Process-Based Rubrics to Restore Trust, Rigor, and Human Writing in the Age of AI Lafayette 2Kristi Yorks Let’s Talk: Rethinking Online Discussion Boards in the Era of Generative AI Suwannee 1Karen Wolak 5 Evidence-Based Principles for Incorporating AI-Powered Assessment in your Classroom Coastal 10John Swope • Curricu

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

9:40am EDT

Student Perceptions of Generative Artificial Intelligence EscambiaJennifer Skelton Plagiarism and Academic Integrity 101 in the Age of AI Suwannee 3Melisa Balos

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