Workshops

2025 Convention Workshops

This year workshops will be held on Monday afternoon, October 20 and Friday morning, October 24. You must pre-register for the workshop. Price is $15 before October 1, and $20 up until the day of the workshop.

Register Now

Monday, October 20 Sessions

Inclusive Online Design with Participatory Cultures

Karin Spader

 4 hours 1pm - 5pm Empower your learners and foster meaningful engagement in your online courses using the Participatory Cultures (PC) design framework. This dynamic workshop is built for practitioners who have taught online before. Experience and discover the PC framework’s core principles and its impact on student engagement. Evaluate your own online course using the PC Rubric and transform course elements based on PC design principles (computer required). Share and collaborate with colleagues to fine-tune your designs.

Optimizing Personalized Learning Offerings in Workforce Training Programs Using the Personalized Learning Interaction Framework

Helen Fake and Nada Dabbagh

 3 hours 1:30pm - 4:30pm Excitement over AI has unlocked new enthusiasm personalizing learning at scale. There is little formal guidance, however, as to how to implement new technologies for personalized learning in Workforce Training and Development Programs in a way that is both sustainable and learner driven. Based on peer-reviewed studies and a recently published book, The Personalized Learning Interaction Framework (PLIF) has been co-created with over 224 experts to support Learning Leaders. 

Generative AI in the service of Learning, Design, and Technology Research

George Veletsianos

 3 hours 1:30pm - 4:30pm In this interactive workshop we will explore how researchers can use Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) tools in their research. The session combines practical exercises, hands-on demonstrations, and discussion. No technical expertise is required. Attendees should bring their own devices, with access to a GenAI application (e.g., ChatGPT, Gemini). Participants will learn new skills and strategies, as well as critical considerations for making decisions on whether they should integrate GenAI into their research workflow.

Designing Faculty Community of Practice: Modeling Outputs and Outcomes along with Co-building Academic Culture 

Juhong  Liu, Kelly Giles, Jessica Lantz, Abiodun Stephen Ijeluola, Nathaniel Taeho Yu, Zhenhuan Henry Yang  

 2 hours 2:30pm - 4:30pm Using an iterative Logic Model approach, the facilitators have successfully designed and implemented structured faculty Communities of Practice (CoPs) for innovative teaching since 2021. This 2-hour workshop will provide design tools based on a customized Logic Model and the acknowledgement of organizational culture. These tools will support planning, implementing, and evaluating a structured faculty CoP. The deliverables can be used for designing faculty development programs on emerging technology and pedagogy to continually enhance teaching. 

Introduction to Prompt Engineering and Comparison of CoPilot, ChatGPT, Gemini and DeepSeek

Altaf Siddiqui

 2 hours 2:30pm - 4:30pm This hands-on session will include an overview of Artificial Intelligence (AI), Machine Learning (ML), Deep Learning (Neural Networks), and AI agents. It will provide hands-on experience in correct prompt writing using Large Language Models (LLMs) such as Copilot, ChatGPT, Gemini, and DeepSeek. The attendees will learn the differences between these LLM tools and how to choose the best one based on their needs.

Friday, October 24 Sessions

Prompt Engineering for Educators: Enhancing Instructional Quality Through AI Integration

Briju Thankachan

 3 hours 8am - 11am This hands-on workshop empowers educators to harness generative AI tools like ChatGPT and Gemini to enhance teaching and learning. Participants will explore two proven frameworks—RTF (Role, Task, Format) and CREATE (Character, Request, Examples, Adjustments & Constraints, Types of Output, Evaluation & Steps) to craft effective prompts. Through interactive exercises, they’ll develop instructional materials and assessments. The workshop also emphasizes ethical AI use and ensuring responsible integration in educational settings. No prior experience is required.

Using AI Lab Tools for Rapid Design of First Principles Instruction

Max Cropper, Timothy Stafford, M. David Merrill, Joanne Bentley, Reo McBride, Rebecca Meeder

 4 hours 8am - 12pm Participants will learn to use First Principles AI Lab Tools to (re)design a course based on M. David Merrill’s First Principles of Instruction (FPI). We teach participants the AI Lab Tools First Principles rapid design process, then they transform their courses using AI and Merrill’s First Principles. Keen participants will leave with completed design documents.  Participants are encouraged to bring their laptops and/or printed syllabi of the course they want to design/redesign.