Forum
2025 Forum on Digital Innovation
Leveraging Innovative Digital Practices to Ensure All Students Learn and Succeed
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San Juan, Puerto Rico and Virtual
Leveraging Innovative Digital Practices to Ensure All Students Learn and Succeed
Friday, April 4, & Saturday, April 5, 2025 | HYBRID
AAC&U’s Forum on Digital Innovation is a two-day, hybrid event from April 4-5, 2025, in San Juan, Puerto Rico, and online. Historically, we have adapted the forum to embrace current events, technological needs, digital innovations, and progress resulting in substantive changes in higher education. In keeping with this practice, we have further evolved this event to embrace the emergence of digital innovations around particular themes, thus adding the “Artificial Intelligence (AI)” track alongside the broader “Digital Innovation” track, and the more specific “ePortfolio Practice and Research” and “Open Learning” tracks. Moreover, previously, the Forum was an in-person component of AAC&U’s Annual Meeting, and then briefly a standalone event held fully online to accommodate travel restrictions, limitations, and restructuring. Now, as a key component of AAC&U’s new 2025 Conference on Learning and Student Success (CLASS), the Forum on Digital Innovation is back in person, as it was historically, as well as virtual to bring together a community of innovators around the landscape of digital innovations.
The theme for the 2025 Forum on Digital Innovation focuses on empowering and preparing practitioners, administrators, and institutions to embrace and effectively utilize digital innovations. Inherent in this theme is attention to building a productive community and conversation around embracing digital innovations to benefit student success across the curriculum and co-curriculum, in turn preparing learners for the workforce and beyond.
Empowering and preparing practitioners, administrators, and institutions to embrace and effectively utilize digital innovations.
This event will offer interactive, concurrent sessions and workshop opportunities for participants to share their research and practice. It will also highlight a range of faculty development approaches, leadership strategies, and student voices that are being leveraged successfully to prepare and facilitate campus use of established and emerging technologies, including those that serve as disruptors of current practice.
Tracks
The Forum on Digital Innovation will showcase four tracks:
Showcasing powerful, often disruptive innovations—both established and emerging—that have become part of our ever-evolving lexicon, this track will highlight the latest advancements in learning and technology in higher education, implemented to further learning, equity, affordability, and access.
To read the full description, visit the Submissions Details page.
Featuring sessions addressing how higher education can rethink traditional curricular, pedagogical, and assessment approaches as well as inherent ethical and equity implications to embrace AI into existing courses and programs, all while promoting student achievement and tackling the skills gap created when faculty and students alike are expected to build AI competencies and literacy in a rapidly emerging field.
To read the full description, visit the Submissions Details page.
Highlighting established approaches and emerging models associated with excellence in open learning, open educational practices (OEP), and open educational resources (OER). Of particular interest are strategies intentionally designed to address not only affordability but also to emphasize OER’s impact on student success, enhanced accessibility, and beyond.
To read the full description, visit the Submissions Details page.
Showcasing innovative ePortfolio practices and research focused on practical applications of ePortfolios based on first-hand experience developing ePortfolio programs and incorporating ePortfolios into pedagogical and assessment practices. This track is also a place to share the results of research on ePortfolios, serving to inform our ePortfolio practices and strategies for enhanced student learning, student success, assessment, and career development.
To read the full description, visit the Submissions Details page.
The Forum on Digital Innovation is cohosted by the Association for Authentic, Experiential and Evidence-Based Learning (AAEEBL, the association of ePortfolio professionals); AAC&U’s Valid Assessment of Learning in Undergraduate Education (VALUE) initiative; and AAC&U’s International Journal of ePortfolio (IJeP).
Cohosts
Attending In-Person? Maximize Your Time Away.
The Forum on Digital Innovation will be held in-person and virtually as part of the AAC&U Conference on Learning and Student Success (CLASS). Extend your time in San Juan, Puerto Rico, by registering to attend CLASS as well. A coming together of AAC&U's Conference on General Education, Pedagogy, and Assessment (GEPA) and Conference on Diversity, Equity, and Student Success (DESS), the inaugural CLASS event will focus on innovative teaching and learning practices, equity, student success, and more!
Dates to Remember
Call for Proposals Closes
Early Bird Registration Closes
Forum on Digital Innovation Begins
Forum on Digital Innovation Closes
Hotel Information
The Forum on Digital Innovation is hosted in concert with AAC&U's 2025 Conference on Learning and Student Success (CLASS) in San Juan, Puerto Rico. In-person attendees can book hotels, review options, and learn more about the venue and location via the CLASS event website.
Submit a Proposal
The deadline for submitting a proposal for the Forum on Digital Innovation is October 25, 2024.
Questions?
If you have any questions or would like additional information about the Forum on Digital Innovation, please email C. Edward Watson at [email protected].
Program Office
Office of Curricular, Pedagogical, and Digital Innovation
Through state-of-the-art programming and a pioneering approach to teaching, the Office of Curricular, Pedagogical, and Digital Innovation (OCPDI) is transforming teaching, learning, and assessment in liberal education.