CLT Annual Symposium 2025
The CLT Symposium brings AUC faculty together to share their innovative pedagogical experiences and ideas, and to learn from international speakers on themes related to imagination in education, academic integrity in the age of AI and reimagining emerging technologies. Sub-themes this year will include human-centered teaching in the age of AI, academic integrity in the post-plagiarism era and experiential learning.
This year the hybrid symposium will offer a variety of workshops, roundtables and virtual/hybrid keynotes on February 16 - 19 and February 25.
Explore the sessions below and register to save your seat.
Sunday, February 16, 2025
9:30 - 10:00 am - Welcome and Coffee
Exploring Teaching Challenges Roundtables
10:00 - 11:30 am, Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Bin Abdulaziz Alsaud Hall - P071
In this event, participants will collaborate in small groups to explore common teaching challenges at AUC that arose from recent CLT research. The session will foster idea exchange and co-creation of practical strategies.
AI in Practice Roundtables
12:00 - 2:00 pm, Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Bin Abdulaziz Alsaud Hall - P071
The AI in Practice roundtables will be facilitated discussions, where a group of 2 - 3 other faculty members from similar disciplines are invited to share their general approach to AI in their courses, what they have learned and what their challenges are. Participants can move between tables, discuss, share and ask questions.
The Next Horizon: Innovating Teaching for the Next Generation
2:00 - 3:30 pm, Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Bin Abdulaziz Alsaud Hall - P071
Step into the future and imagine teaching your course five years from now. Picture the world as it might be—how society, technology and education will have evolved? What challenges and opportunities will shape our lives, and what will have faded away?
In this interactive workshop, we will explore how curriculum, courses and classrooms might change in the near future. We will then dig deeper into the existing and emerging principles of course delivery and share tangible frameworks and guidance for how to get started on your journey to rethink your teaching for the future.
Monday, February 17, 2025
Keynote Session
The Future of Learning Must Invite Us to Imagine: Freedom Dreaming for Liberatory Education
1:00 - 2:00 pm - Hybrid (Library Room 1021 and Zoom)
What is the significance of imagination in our work as educators? In a world shaped more and more by algorithmic logic, what does it mean to dream? What role might the imagination play in how we collectively address our shared future? This interactive workshop will open up a dynamic conversation about liberatory education design. How can we cultivate the growth of the imagination for ourselves and for our students? We will explore everyday practices and design strategies that can lead us to become self-actualized shapers of a more just and sustainable world.
About the Speaker
Mia Zamora, PhD, is a professor of English and director of the Masters of Arts in Writing Studies Program at Kean University in NJ, USA. Zamora is a faculty leader, a digital humanist and a scholar of electronic literature. Her current research focuses on care and equity, social justice and intercultural learning. As a leading voice for the practice of open and networked education, Zamora is a two-time Fulbright award winner and she is co-founder of the global Equity Unbound community.
Tuesday, February 18, 2025
Making it Real: Course Strategies for Applied and Experiential Learning (Roundtables)
11:00 am -12:45 pm, The School of Science and Engineering CP16, CP17, CP18
This roundtable discussion will be led by CLT facilitators and AUC faculty who will share different strategies to engage students in real life applications within and beyond the classroom. Participants will share use cases from different courses implementing a variety approaches of experiential learning.
Wednesday, February 19, 2025
Keynote Session
Go Somewhere: Reimagining Emerging Technologies in Higher Education
3:30 - 5:00 pm - Online
Examine the role of technology in higher education with a critical perspective, challenging the digital natives paradigm and exploring more constructive ways to conceptualize digital fluencies. This session will explore ethical implications related to technology use in education, including topics, such as artificial intelligence, surveillance and algorithmic bias. Engage with strategies for integrating technology into teaching and learning, informed by a critical lens and inspired by innovative practices from educators around the world.
About the Speaker
Bonni Stachowiak is the host of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast, which has been downloaded nearly 5 million times. She is dean of teaching and learning and professor of business and management at Vanguard University of Southern California. Stachowiak holds a doctorate from Pepperdine University and speaks on effective teaching and educational technology. Her husband, Dave Stachowiak, hosts the Coaching for Leaders podcast. They are parents to two curious children.
Wednesday, February 25, 2025
Keynote Session
From Plagiarism to Postplagiarism: Shifting from Punitive to Pro-Active Approaches to Academic Integrity in the Age of AI
5:00 - 6:00 pm - Online
This session is about shifting away from a punitive mindset, when it comes to academic integrity to set up students for success in and beyond the classroom. There is no question that teaching, learning and assessment have changed since generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) tools such as ChatGPT and similar apps have become ubiquitous over the past few years. We can be ethical or unethical about how these tools are used in our classrooms and beyond. In this session, we will talk about students, faculty and leaders’ responsibilities for upholding and modeling academic integrity in ways that set up students for success today, tomorrow and beyond.
This session is not about how to use specific tools. Instead, we will delve into the broad ethical and practical implications of AI for education and business. A key takeaway from this talk is how academic integrity provides a foundation for ethical decision-making beyond the classroom, in the workplace and everyday life.
About the Speaker
Sarah Elaine Eaton, PhD, is a professor at the Werklund School of Education, University of Calgary, Canada is an award-winning educator, researcher and leader. She leads transdisciplinary research teams focused on the ethical implications of advanced technology use in educational contexts. Eaton also holds a concurrent appointment as an honorary associate professor at Deakin University, Australia.
