Conference on Learning and Student Success
Conference Tracks and Session Formats
Tracks
This track features sessions that highlight evidence-based approaches to leveraging digital innovations—such as artificial intelligence, open learning practices, ePortfolios, and other emerging technologies—to enhance student learning and success across the curriculum and co-curriculum.
This track presents innovative assessment strategies, meaningful evaluation frameworks, and evidence-based approaches that capture authentic student learning and institutional effectiveness.
This track recognizes that learners arrive with distinct histories, responsibilities, and aspirations and examines current support systems while advancing new, asset-based approaches for populations underserved by higher education.
This track showcases cutting-edge faculty development strategies, innovative teaching methods, and pedagogical research that enhance educator effectiveness and student learning outcomes.
This track explores emerging trends in general education (re)design, interdisciplinary ways of knowing, and curricular reform that prepare students for work, life, and citizenship.
This track examines how institutions design and implement evidence-based high-impact practices (HIPs) and other experiential learning opportunities, and ensure that these programs are accessible to and deliver high value for every learner.
This track investigates how an evolving policy landscape and public debate about the purpose and value of higher education itself shapes the student experience—and what institutions can do to ensure progress and persistence amidst significant change.
Session Types
Session length varies; please see individual session type descriptions for more information.
Provide colleagues time to explore current work, recent findings, and/or new perspectives. Facilitators start conversations with brief presentations, then lead 20-25 minutes of discussion. Proposals should set context, identify target audience, and focus on exploring new perspectives and strategies. (60 minutes)
Moderated sessions featuring exploratory, cutting-edge advances in work promoting learning and student success. Presentations with promising, yet minimal outcome data encouraged. Must include time for audience questions/discussion/interaction. Two sessions per 60-minute slot. (20 minutes presentation with 10 minutes discussion)
Follow a traditional format that allows for conversation with up to five panelists on a topic relevant to a conference track; panelists should offer different perspectives on the topic—e.g., institutional, professional role, programmatic, curricular, cocurricular, and disciplinary. (60 minutes)
Pecha Kucha ("chit chat" in Japanese) sessions combine visual and oral presentations to convey creative endeavors, research findings, or activities related to conference tracks. Format: 20 slides, 20 seconds each (6:40 total), designed to articulate key elements. Three sessions per 60-minutes slot. The following link provides an overview and guidelines for designing a Pecha Kucha presentation: http://avoision.com/pechakucha.
Share visual models of research findings, course/program designs, concept maps, assessment rubrics, faculty development programs, design thinking frameworks, and/or high-impact practices. Poster sessions provide opportunities for presenters to discuss practical applications with attendees (60 minutes)
Facilitate an informal discussion around effective practices or programs and provide opportunities for attendees to share their successful strategies, questions, and concerns. Attendees are welcome to rotate among several discussion topics or to focus on one only. There will be no A/V provided for in-person roundtables. (60 minutes)
An interactive opportunity to bridge theory and practice focusing on programs and/or approaches to student learning and success. Facilitators must provide supporting theories, scholarship, and evidence for their work and engage participants in critical reflection, discussion, and/or design work. (60 minutes)
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