9:30 AM – 10:10 AM
An Evaluation of AI Utilization in Econometrics (E345): Insights and Recommendations
David Welsch
This session examines using AI in econometrics education, sharing lessons from an undergraduate assignment. It offers strategies to improve student engagement, foster creativity, and validate AI outputs, helping educators prepare students for effective and rigorous AI-assisted work.
UC261
Using Generative AI and LLMs in the classroom
Yamin Ahmad
This session will focus on the use of generative AI and tools utilizing large language models in the classroom. We will explore how the advent of these tools may potentially impact pedagogy, and discuss subsequent strategies and changes in the classroom that will enable students to familiarize themselves with these kinds of tools and be ready for the future workforce.
UC261
Integrating AI into Physical Education Assessment: Enhancing AI Literacy for Future Teachers
Rebekah Johnson
This session explores the “Teacher Use of AI” project, which integrated AI into the PEPROF 260: Assessment in Physical Education course. Future PE teachers developed AI literacy by crafting effective prompts and critically analyzing AI outputs. The initiative enhanced students’ ability to use AI responsibly, fostering critical thinking and adaptability in educational settings.
UC262
How Can AI Support Students in Telling Their Stories?
Nicole Weber
How can artificial intelligence (AI) help students articulate their skills and experiences to employers? This session details a multi-phased project investigating AI’s role in guiding instructional design and learning technology (IDLT) students to create cohesive and compelling professional narratives across resumes, portfolios, and cover letters.
UC262
How Well Does Generative AI Copyedit Texts for Publication: Reviewing Most Recent Programs
Daniel Baumgardt
In PWP 330: Copyediting, students will compare how well a more recent and powerful generative AI program copyedits texts to Chicago Manual of Style (CMoS), 18th Ed. guidelines. Students will assess whether this programs edits specific problem sentences as CMoS prescribes. They will also compare their edits of a passage to the edits a copyediting professional makes and to those of the AI program.
UC262
Promote Civil Discourse by Encouraging Scholars to Take the Lead
Amy Menzel
We know it’s crucial that scholars have a sense of belonging. We also understand the urgency of promoting civil discourse. Objectives like these can seem beyond the scope of our already laden curriculum. But there are pedagogical strategies that buttress both goals, such as student-led lab sessions, that also increase student engagement, reinforce skill development, and build classroom community.
UC264
Extreme Makeover Canvas Edition: Remodeling Classes to Fully Embrace Technology
Brian Schanen
Brian Schanen
10:20 AM – 11:00 AM
Digital Literacy in the Age of AI: Training Our Students to Navigate Misleading Content
Jon Spike
With emerging technology surrounding AI-generated content, social media bots, and deepfake videos, navigating trustworthy content is even more challenging for our students. Learn strategies for teaching digital literacy in the age of AI with your students, family, friends, and colleagues.
UC261
Team projects with AI Usage
Andy Yu
We aim to use AI for research, data collection, organization, and idea generation for group projects. Students share AI adoption experiences to facilitate sharing and teaching. We consider questions like: what you know, challenges, unknowns, and essential knowledge about AI. Share failure experience to enhance understanding and foster collaborative learning from both successes and obstacles.
UC261
Assignment Mapping in Practice—TILT Frameworks for Student Success in the Sciences and Humanities
Erica Moulton, Nadine Kriska, Steven Girard
This panel draws on several workshops that the panelists attended at the 2024 Faculty College Retreat and will demonstrate the application of Assignment Mapping practices, which are rooted in the philosophies of Transparency in Learning and Teaching (TILT). Panelists will share concrete examples of how they have implemented Assignment Mapping in their courses to enhance student learning outcomes.
UC262
Using discourse analysis to navigate civic complexity
Janine Tobeck, Jessica Lauer
The goal of this grant project was to pilot a sustained hybrid of formal, conventional, theoretical, and community-based approaches to a complex civic issue (in this case, book bans). Our presentation will introduce the program goals driving this experiment, the project’s evolution, student outcomes culled from analytical and reflective writing, and the ongoing challenges of shaping the unit.
UC264
From Role Play to Real Play: AI-Powered Client Simulations for Therapists
Ted Izydor
UC266
11:10 AM – 11:50 AM
Using AI in Mental Health: TellMimi Chatbot
Gina Martin, Roger Yin
“TellMimi” is an AI-driven app providing accessible, trustworthy mental health care to teens globally. This service addresses the rising mental health challenges, particularly suicidality and mental health in rural areas where access to in-person care is limited. The presenters are in the early stages of development and are looking to share this with the broader UWW community.
UC261
Student Voice: What Students Need and Want in Online Course Design
Jodi Galvan
This session previews dissertation research on what students need and want in online course design. Using the Community of Inquiry framework and Vygotsky’s Sociocultural Theory, it explores how student input shapes engagement, connection, and learning. The session also examines how instructional designers can support faculty in creating more effective, student-centered online courses.
UC262
Learning that Sticks
Kim Ehrhardt
In this session participants will learn how to craft, sequence, and present their instruction in a way that best aligns with what’s happening inside their students’ minds as they’re absorbing and applying new content. Key insights from neuroscience on how students’ brains receive new information, store it as memories, and then recall and apply it in the future will be explored in this session.
UC264
Lesson Design Considerations for Negotiating and Shifting Epistemic Agency
Adam Schafer
Learners must take up some amount of epistemic agency when making sense of their wonderings- though how much agency and how to scaffold experiences are challenging puzzles teachers must address. In this workshop, folks will engage in a fun science activity simulating the student experience; then, reflect together on how to better design resources and facilitate interactions to distribute agency.
UC264
Training Therapists bit-by-byte: tech infused graduate education
Aaron Mertes
UC266
2:20 PM – 3:00 PM
Undergraduate marketing students’ perceptions of marketing ethics in an AI-driven world
Maxwell Hsu
My goal is to show how we can support students in developing critical thinking and ethical reasoning skills when addressing marketing challenges. Students will identify an ethical issue and share their perspectives in an online discussion forum. The effectiveness of this approach will be evaluated through a survey and sentiment analysis of the student discussions.
UC261
Keynote Follow-Up: Small Lift, Maximum Impact: 5 Quick Steps to Increase Digital Accessibility in Your Course
Erika Schock, Sara Vogt, Debbie Reuter
Learn five easy, high-impact accessibility standards based on the WCAG 2.1 AA standards that you can apply to your courses. The session will focus on layout, navigation, font style, color, alt text, descriptive text, and multimedia. The presenters will demonstrate how instructors can make courses more accessible for all students.
UC262
Integrating AI to Enhance Student Learning and Media Analytics in Mass Communication
Soheil Kafiliveyjuyeh
This project uses AI tools like SPRINKLR to enhance Mass Communication courses, teaching media analytics, sentiment analysis, and audience engagement. Students gain hands-on experience, preparing them for data-driven roles in the evolving media industry.
UC266
3:10 PM – 3:50 PM
AI Community of Practice
Dana Wagner, Adam Schafer
Join a collaborative community of practice (CoP) centered on AI in education! The CoP provides a space for instructors to share experiences, explore innovative uses of AI, ask questions of fellow educators, problem-solve challenges, and develop strategies for thoughtfully integrating AI into teaching and learning. Whether you’re new to AI or have been experimenting with it in your courses, this community is designed to inspire, support, and empower your practice. Come with questions, leave with a community! This session will include Zoom attendees from other Universities of Wisconsin schools.
UC261
Teaching by Doing: Signature Pedagogy of Technology Education and Beyond
Roger Yin
UC262
One World-Many Stories: A Culturally Responsive Approach
Mastewal Seyeneh
One World-Many Stories Civil Discourse session will brought faculty, students, and staff with diverse backgrounds to celebrate rich diversities that define UW-W community. The workshop fosters open dialogue and storytelling with the implication of promoting empathy, enhancing inclusive approaches, and appreciating diverse values in the teaching-learning process.
UC264
Preparing Students for the Future of Advertising: AI and Database Integration
Un Chae Chung
UC266