UCCS Teaching & Learning Conference
2025 UCCS Teaching & Learning Conference
2025 UCCS Teaching & Learning Conference
January 14–15, 2025 - University Hall
"Future, Feats, and F(r)iends"
This free two-day UCCS Teaching and Learning Conference includes opportunities for faculty, staff, and students to engage in conversations about teaching and learning. We invite faculty, staff, and students to submit proposals and to register.
Program Abstracts Presentations
- Campus Mental Health and Resilience
- Classroom Methods and Management
- AI in Academics
- Equity and Access for All Learners
- Instructional Technology
- Teaching and Learning Outside the Classroom
- Day 1: Professional Development Workshops
- 45-minute presentations or workshops, allowing for information sharing, training, and engagement with content. (May be Parts I & II.)
- Day 2: Elevated Engagement Sessions
- 90-minute hands-on sessions that engage participants in adapting to new realities, transforming their course or learning materials, or applying new strategies, pedagogy, or technology in their teaching and learning.
Keynote Speaker
C. Edward Watson, PhD, is the Vice President for Digital Innovation at the American Association of Colleges and Universities (AAC&U).
He is also the founding director of AAC&U’s Institute on AI, Pedagogy, and the Curriculum.
Embracing AI as Essential Learning: Preparing Students for Life Beyond College
Generative AI tools have had an astonishingly quick impact on the ways we learn, work, think, and create. While higher education’s initial response was to develop strategies to diminish AI’s influence in the classroom, it is now clear that AI competencies and literacies must be embraced as essential learning for most colleges and universities. These responses and realities create a challenging tension that higher education must work to resolve. Drawing from his new book, Teaching with AI: A Practical Guide to a New Era of Human Learning (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2024), Dr. Watson will detail the challenges and opportunities that have emerged for higher education, especially in terms of pedagogical practice and student learning. The core focus of this keynote will be on concrete approaches and strategies higher education can adopt, both within the classroom and across larger curricular structures, to best prepare students for the life that awaits them after graduation. It will also detail the pedagogical possibilities regarding how AI can have a positive impact on student learning.
Questions? Please contact Dave Anderson.