Teaching and Learning with AI Conference

Teaching and Learning with AI Conference

Julia Sabin

University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Manager of Academic Innovation

Staunton, VA

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Julia Sabin is Senior Associate Manager of Academic Innovation at the Gies College of Business, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. She leads pilots of emerging educational technologies, including AI-assisted grading and feedback systems, learning analytics, and scalable instructional solutions. With extensive experience in technology and innovation, her work focuses on balancing human-centered pedagogy with responsible, scalable use of AI. Julia holds an M.Ed. in Curriculum & Instruction with a concentration in Instructional Technology from the University of Virginia.

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

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 Stick It, Share It: AI Teaching & Learning Exchange Coastal LandingLauren Kehoe

1:00pm EDT

Beyond Detection: How Oral Assessment Diagnoses Your Teaching, Not Just Their Cheating Desoto 5Brandon Nash • Megan Butterworth • Verballi Don't Build Agents, Build Skills: Teaching Foundation-Level AI Competencies for All Instructors Coastal 7Tatiana Rudchenko • Lantz Ferrell • Meredith Lancaster Using the EQUITY-AI Decision-Making Framework in Teaching and Learning Coastal 8LoriAnn Stretch If You Can’t Beat ’Em, Join ’Em: Best Practices for Responsibly Integrating AI into the Classroom Desoto 1Colleen Skinner

1:40pm EDT

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 Multicultural Prompting: Designing AI Communication Strategies for International Students Coastal 9Margaret (Peg) Aubin

2:20pm EDT

AI Playground EscambiaCharley Butcher • Sandra Perez • Melisa Balos • Emanuel Cortes Lugo • Anastasia Bojanowski 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 Shared AI Fluency: How Multi-Departmental, Multi-Language Faculty Collaboration Shapes Curriculum and Practice Coastal 10Emily Sposeto • Lina Reznicek-Parrado • Ebrahim Bamanger Creating Equitable Education Through AI Tutors and Faculty Tools That Support Learning and Reflection EscambiaMarivi Tejada-Simon Path 2: An AI-Centric Course Development Framework Using Custom Bots and Workflow Automation Desoto 2Jessica Clark • Jonathon Isham Building Your AI Agent Assistant: A Hands-On Workshop Using BoodleBox and Jotform Coastal 8Abby Bell The ‘Master Student Advisor’: Mass Personalization in Higher Education through Generative AI Suwannee 2Sandro Sanchez From Lesson to Workplace: AI-Cheat-Proof, Career-Ready Assessment Design Coastal 6Lisa Troy • Shweta Homji

2:50pm EDT

A Practical Framework for Embedding AI into Reflection-Heavy Courses and Assignments Coastal BallroomAnzar Khaliq

3:00pm EDT

Designing the Handoff: Why the Future of Student Persistence Requires AI that Knows When to Stop Suwannee 3Nathan McRae • QuadC AI Assisted Course Design: A Practical Faculty Workflow Guided By Backwards Design Suwannee 2John Schumacher Beyond AI Users: Teaching human-in-the-loop as a workforce competency Suwannee 4Erin Taylor AI in Business Education: Bridging the AI gap for the future workforce Lafayette 3Rachel Townsend Useful, Not Magical: Teaching Students to Find Sources and Verify Claims with AI Desoto 4Dr. Laura Adele Soracco Intersections of AI and Culture in the Classroom Lafayette 2Elizabeth Giltner • Lili Yan What Are Students Really Learning About AI Before College? Five Lessons from K–12 and Their Impact on Higher Education Suwannee 1Carrie Meyers • James Reynolds

3:40pm EDT

AI Playground EscambiaJennifer Skelton • Daniel Ruelle • Emanuel Cortes Lugo • Rebecca McNulty Beyond “Allowed” or “Banned”: Teaching Responsible AI Use Through Transparency, Verification, and Student Ownership Lafayette 1Toby Brooks • Ashley Barrett Designing with Nuance: Preparing Students for an AI-Mediated Information Landscape Coastal 10Amandajean F. Nolte What Students Learn With—and Without—AI: A Practical Teaching Framework Lafayette 3Milagros Sanoja Blending Tradition with Technology: AI-Enhanced Teaching Practices Escambia HallwayMelinda McIsaac What AI-Ready Actually Looks Like: Designing Assignments Where the Process Is the Proof Lafayette 4Andy Toshniwal • Bas Hintemann • Feedback Fruits Designing Custom AI Research Assistants: Linguistics Cases with Cross-Disciplinary Applications Escambia HallwayRafael Orozco • Latasha Valenzuela Developing an Ethical AI Ecosystem Suwannee 2Tina Lancaster • George Swindell Beyond the Prompt: Building a "Course Architect" Agent for Automated Alignment to Pedagogical Standards and Full-Spectrum Curricular Development Desoto 1Muhammad Adeel Beyond Prompts: Building Custom AI Tools for Your Campus Coastal 7Denice Robertson From Case Stories to Patterns: Using AI to Analyse Classroom Interventions Escambia HallwayDavid Kosatka • Markéta Košatková

4:20pm EDT

AI, Choice, and Voice: What Happens when AI Enters the Rhetorical Situation? Desoto 3Wendy Swyt Accessible by Design: Leveraging AI for Inclusive Education Suwannee 3Rebecca Weber • Lauren Kehoe We Say “AI Literacy”… But What Are We Teaching and Grading? Suwannee 1Angela Walters Moving from Loss to Possibility: A Human-Centered Framework for AI Adoption in Higher Education Suwannee 2Robyn Hammontree • Nico Rose • D2L 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 Teaching What AI Cannot Do: Reimagining Human Competencies in Higher Education Coastal 10Elle Corvette 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

11:30am EDT

Buffet Lunch Exhibit Hall F

3:00pm EDT

(Rescheduled) Using LLMs as Adversarial Thought Partners in U.S. Higher Education Coastal BallroomRobert Macy

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

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