CoTL 2025

Generative AI tools have had an astonishingly quick impact on the ways we learn, work, think, and create. It is now clear that AI competencies and literacies must be embraced as essential learning for most colleges and universities. Drawing from my new book, Teaching with AI: A Practical Guide to a New Era of Human Learning (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2024), I will detail the challenges and opportunities that have emerged for higher education, especially in terms of pedagogical practice and student learning.

The shift toward hybrid and online education has made compliance with Regular and Substantive Interaction (RSI) and Assurance of Learning (AOL) standards critical for accredited institutions. This poster explores the intersection of RSI and AOL in AACSB-accredited business schools and beyond, demonstrating how institutions can align federal compliance mandates with targeted learning assurance practices to assure student success. The session will include a comparative analysis of RSI and AOL requirements, a Venn diagram showcasing overlapping strategies, and empirical research opportunities in hybrid and online learning. Attendees will gain actionable insights into implementing RSI-compliant student engagement while maintaining robust AOL assessment frameworks.

The purpose of our study is to develop an effective, efficient, and feasible pressure injury prevention clinical decision support (PIP CDS) tool. To achieve this, we assembled a diverse group of key stakeholders from across the United States, including expert clinicians, informatic expert, educators, patients, and caregivers, to discuss the creation of a tool. Innovative, virtual, and interactive tools are necessary to both communicate and capture the dialogue between researcher and stakeholder in meaningful ways. In this session, we will describe how we are utilizing technology to elicit synchronous key stakeholders’ engagement in the development of the PIP CDS tool to help nurses, who are overwhelmed with care priorities and patient complexities, to implement evidence-based pressure injury prevention strategies.

Have you ever walked into your classroom as it is about to start and not a word is spoken? Is it because students are reviewing notes from a previous lesson, watching the latest Tik Tok or ball game, or texting their bestie, who might be their Moma? Three professors have tested instructional practices to lead students to focus on course content. Join this poster conversation to share how you help your students focus and see what worked for professors from Anthropology, English, and Business. Spoiler alert, prohibiting electronic devices, when students need to focus, was independently adopted in all three cases with varying results.

Human trafficking (HT) is the fastest-growing crime worldwide and a critical health concern for healthcare professionals. To address this, nursing faculty in a first-semester BSN Health Assessment course integrated HT content into the curriculum to enhance students’ awareness, knowledge, and confidence in caring for victims. A PowerPoint lecture with HT survivor video footage provided firsthand insight into victim experiences. A pre/post-test assessed students’ perceptions and knowledge, emphasizing the importance of training nurses to recognize and support trafficking victims. This educational intervention validated students’ desire for HT content in undergraduate nursing curricula. The material was later added as a recorded lecture in an online nursing course with additional plans to integrate it into a nursing simulation scenario. Given HT’s prevalence, this content can help healthcare professionals across disciplines identify and care for victims, ensuring better patient outcomes.

This poster session will engage participants in a conversation on the power of weaving children's literature into social studies education for preservice teachers. Thanks to a Literacy Improvement Grant sponsored by the Alabama Reading Initiative, 86 preservice teachers received one children's book for each of the four strands of social studies education (civics and government, economics, geography, and history). Students were provided instruction on strategies to teach young learners using children's literature. They were assigned to teach one lesson in their field placement using one of the books they received, which was followed with a written reflection. The poster will display the book choices, provide instructional strategies, and highlight themes and experiences from the lessons taught in the field.

We are on the cusp of a technological revolution that will fundamentally reshape how we learn, work, and interact with the world. Increasingly intelligent digital tools are no longer just assisting us—they are augmenting our cognitive and creative abilities in profound ways. In this talk, I will explore the transformative impact of these technologies on education and the evolving workforce. Through personal insights, historical parallels, and examples from the cutting edge of research, this session will challenge educators and researchers to reflect upon their roles and embrace new opportunities to shape the future.

Engage with our panelists who are leading various campus based initiatives that leverage the best of collaborative group work - Problem Based Learning, Project Based Learning and Team Based Learning. Educational leaders from CoTL partners institutions will share their visions and plans for unifying themes for their general education offerings.