| 9 - 9:45 |
Practical Media Skills for Your Course |
Ian Griffin |
Join us for this session focused on integrating effective instructional media into your courses. We’ll discuss accessible tools and techniques for creating short instructional videos, interactive presentations, audio recordings, and visual aids that enhance student engagement and learning. You’ll gain insight into selecting appropriate media formats for different learning objectives and explore time-efficient approaches to media creation that fit within busy academic schedules. The session emphasizes practical, immediately applicable strategies without requiring technical expertise. By the end, you’ll leave with a toolkit of media ideas and the confidence to begin incorporating them into your teaching practice. No prior media production experience is required. |
| 10 - 10:45 |
Learning Tools Speed Round |
Danielle Thacker |
Come get introduced to 3 current tools that are available to everyone for free. We will introduce the tool and share how current faculty are using them. We plan on going over Hypothesis, Gradescope and Panopto. |
| 11 - 12 |
Teaching with AI: How Faculty are Using AI in Their Classrooms |
Kim Loeffert, Jen Mooney, Scott Mutchler, David Hicks, Sehrish Basir Nizamani |
This faculty panel highlights real-world examples of how instructors across disciplines are integrating artificial intelligence into teaching and learning. Panelists will share strategies, challenges, and lessons learned from using AI to support student engagement, streamline course design, and enhance learning outcomes. Participants will leave with practical ideas they can adapt for their own courses. |
| 12-1 |
LUNCH |
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| 1 - 2 |
Teaching in Online and Flexible Environments |
Jodie Brinkman, Ashley Beleny, Barbara Lockee, Rodney Gaines |
This faculty panel explores effective strategies for teaching in online, hybrid, and other flexible learning formats. Panelists will share approaches that support student engagement, build community, and foster meaningful learning across modalities. Participants will leave with concrete practices and adaptable techniques to strengthen their own online and flexible courses. |
| 2:15 - 3 |
Leveraging the Digital Accessibility Playbook (DAP) and Universal Design for Learning (UDL) Strategies for Inclusive Teaching & Learning |
De Harman, Pearl Xie, and Mark Nichols |
This two-part session will first focus on helping faculty quickly assess their course materials and identify high-impact improvements by exploring strategies, tools and practical next steps that support digital accessibility. The second segment introduces an “Access by Design” approach that blends UDL principles, digital accessibility, and AI supported tools to help streamline teaching while supporting diverse learners. |
| 3:15 - 4 |
Productivity Through Prompting: Basic GenAI Use to Help You Thrive |
Daron Williams |
This session introduces faculty to the essentials of generative AI, including key points about VT's supported tools and guidelines. Participants will learn practical strategies for crafting effective prompts and integrating AI into everyday tasks - academic and otherwise. The session concludes with guided, hands-on practice to build confidence and spark ideas for using AI to streamline teaching and professional work. |
