Join Learning Management System Administrator Dr. James Cook from Vance-Granville Community College and Instructional Designer Dr. Jaime McLeod from Central Carolina Community College as they discuss the importance of design, presence, and pedagogy in the classroom. Upon completion, attendees will be able to critique their own courses for adherence to sound educational principles of teaching and design.

This session demystifies the essential components of successful submissions, highlighting strategies for crafting clear, compelling narratives that resonate with reviewers. Stacy Waters-Bailey.

In this interactive session, you'll walk through simple, immediately-applicable AI tools that can slash your workload significantly—from automating email responses and generating meeting summaries to creating lesson plans and grading rubrics in minutes instead of hours. Jason Carter.

Tips for engaging students in online, asynchronous courses. For this session, Sharleen Traynor, Director/Instructor Clinical Research and Medical Product Safety Program, the 2026 Durham Technical Community College award winner, discusses how instructors can create an online classroom where students feel supported and connected through engagement. Upon completion of this session, attendees will identify actionable strategies that promote engagement in their online courses.

Upon completion of this session, attendees will identify actionable strategies to support student's autonomy, effective classroom communication, and enhance evidence‑based critical thinking in college classrooms. Lorrie Coltraine, Deniz Tuck.

This hands-on workshop for faculty, instructional designers, and coordinators introduces the RAMP Method, a four-part framework that transforms vague directions into clear, transparent, and purposeful guidelines. Whether you're new to transparent assignment design or looking for a new way to strengthen your current practices, this workshop offers actionable strategies to create instructions that work for all students, reducing confusion, improving work quality, and supporting learners. Christy Cook, Kristin Redfield.

The workshop focuses on taking a 16-week course and redesigning it. The workshop will focus on course design, accessibility, and engagement using Quality Matters (QM) principles and technology tools. Good Practice Principles: Connect Professional Development with Strategic Priorities, Capitalize on Strategic Messaging. Nikki Gardner, Kristi Reed.

The workshop focuses on taking a 16-week course and redesigning it for 8-weeks. The workshop will focus on course design, accessibility, and engagement using Quality Matters (QM) principles and technology tools. Good Practice Principles: Connect Professional Development with Strategic Priorities. Nikki Gardner, Kristi Reed.

This session demonstrates how building relational capacity can transform your classroom into a more connected, supportive, and engaging learning environment. In this session, attendees explore practical strategies to create a sense of belonging and trust among students (both in person and online)—key drivers of motivation, participation, and persistence. Tammy Griffin-Garcia, Natasha Harris, Elizabeth Braun.

Learn the core principles of creating accessible digital content across documents, media, and web pages. This session provides practical steps and examples to help you meet legal requirements and make your materials more usable for everyone. John Ghazzagh

Support faculty in delivering engaging, organized, and student-friendly online learning experiences, whether teaching fully online or in hybrid/asynchronous formats. Trent Mohrbutter

Through targeted assignment redesign questions and other curated resources, you'll identify actionable guidelines, real-world examples, and additional strategies to effectively integrate AI without constant monitoring. Lisa Blue.

Whether you're just dipping your toes into online teaching or you've been swimming these waters for a decade or more, this session provides refreshing strategies for keeping your head above water in the asynchronous teaching environment. Learn clever techniques for riding the waves of student engagement, staying on top of your workload, and finding smooth sailing in your daily routine.

Whether you're just dipping your toes into online teaching or you've been swimming these waters for a decade or more, this session provides refreshing strategies for keeping your head above water in the asynchronous teaching environment. Learn clever techniques for riding the waves of student engagement, staying on top of your workload, and finding smooth sailing in your daily routine.

Whether you're just dipping your toes into online teaching or you've been swimming these waters for a decade or more, this session provides refreshing strategies for keeping your head above water in the asynchronous teaching environment. Learn clever techniques for riding the waves of student engagement, staying on top of your workload, and finding smooth sailing in your daily routine.

Whether you're just dipping your toes into online teaching or you've been swimming these waters for a decade or more, this session provides refreshing strategies for keeping your head above water in the asynchronous teaching environment. Learn clever techniques for riding the waves of student engagement, staying on top of your workload, and finding smooth sailing in your daily routine.

Discover how simple actions like personalized emails, thoughtful grading comments, regular announcements and other tools can make a world of difference in how your students perceive you. Learn practical strategies to show your students that you’re not just a name on a screen, but a real person who cares about their success. By the end of this session, you'll have the tools to create a more engaging, supportive, and responsive learning environment.

In this session we explore effective strategies to develop meaningful peer-to-peer connections in online courses. Using the Community of Inquiry as a framework, we will explore a variety of engagement techniques designed to promote active participation and building a sense of community among students. Participants will learn how to utilize discussion boards, group projects, virtual meetups, and other interactive tools to create a positive, dynamic and supportive online learning environment that promotes social and cognitive presence. By the end of this session, instructors will be equipped with practical approaches to enhance student engagement and build lasting connections within their virtual classrooms.

In this session we explore effective strategies to develop meaningful peer-to-peer connections in online courses. Using the Community of Inquiry as a framework, we will explore a variety of engagement techniques designed to promote active participation and building a sense of community among students. Participants will learn how to utilize discussion boards, group projects, virtual meetups, and other interactive tools to create a positive, dynamic and supportive online learning environment that promotes social and cognitive presence. By the end of this session, instructors will be equipped with practical approaches to enhance student engagement and build lasting connections within their virtual classrooms.

In this session we explore effective strategies to develop meaningful peer-to-peer connections in online courses. Using the Community of Inquiry as a framework, we will explore a variety of engagement techniques designed to promote active participation and building a sense of community among students. Participants will learn how to utilize discussion boards, group projects, virtual meetups, and other interactive tools to create a positive, dynamic and supportive online learning environment that promotes social and cognitive presence. By the end of this session, instructors will be equipped with practical approaches to enhance student engagement and build lasting connections within their virtual classrooms.

In this session we explore effective strategies to develop meaningful peer-to-peer connections in online courses. Using the Community of Inquiry as a framework, we will explore a variety of engagement techniques designed to promote active participation and building a sense of community among students. Participants will learn how to utilize discussion boards, group projects, virtual meetups, and other interactive tools to create a positive, dynamic and supportive online learning environment that promotes social and cognitive presence. By the end of this session, instructors will be equipped with practical approaches to enhance student engagement and build lasting connections within their virtual classrooms.

This program explores the intersection of artificial intelligence (AI) and Universal Design for Learning (UDL) principles to create more inclusive, accessible, and personalized educational experiences. Participants will gain insights into how AI technologies can enhance the flexibility of learning environments by addressing the diverse needs of all learners.

Participants will learn best practices for creating effective welcome videos, weekly check-ins, feedback responses, and other personalized video messages. The session will include practical tips on video length, tone, accessibility, and tools to use—whether you're a seasoned video creator or just getting started. By the end of this 60-minute session, instructors will have a clear strategy for incorporating instructor videos into their online courses to enhance student engagement and success.

Participants will learn best practices for creating effective welcome videos, weekly check-ins, feedback responses, and other personalized video messages. The session will include practical tips on video length, tone, accessibility, and tools to use—whether you're a seasoned video creator or just getting started. By the end of this 60-minute session, instructors will have a clear strategy for incorporating instructor videos into their online courses to enhance student engagement and success.

Participants will learn best practices for creating effective welcome videos, weekly check-ins, feedback responses, and other personalized video messages. The session will include practical tips on video length, tone, accessibility, and tools to use—whether you're a seasoned video creator or just getting started. By the end of this 60-minute session, instructors will have a clear strategy for incorporating instructor videos into their online courses to enhance student engagement and success.

Participants will learn best practices for creating effective welcome videos, weekly check-ins, feedback responses, and other personalized video messages. The session will include practical tips on video length, tone, accessibility, and tools to use—whether you're a seasoned video creator or just getting started. By the end of this 60-minute session, instructors will have a clear strategy for incorporating instructor videos into their online courses to enhance student engagement and success.

This session will introduce and demonstrate instructional technology tools that pair well with research-based strategies to increase engagement, foster collaboration, and build relational capacity between students, the instructor, and the content through any mode of instruction.

Universal Design for Learning is a set of guidelines that help instructors develop courses to include all learners, ensuring no one is left behind. UDL empowers both instructors and students to achieve more than they thought possible. Come to this interactive session on UDL to learn simple but impactful ways to make learning accessible to all students regardless of background and experiences.

This session is for online instructors seeking strategies to create an online classroom that centers on what you bring to the table, regardless of the disciplines or courses you teach. This is a session where technology will be discussed only in the ways it can enhance or facilitate human-to-human interaction in a course.

Who is Gen Z? What defines them? What can we do to effectively reach, teach, and communicate with these students online? Join us as we take a look at the student population that represents the majority of curriculum FTE for some community colleges. We will review relevant data, discuss Gen Z realities, and explore

Join two community college faculty as they illustrate how they incorporate AI and Chat GPT in their current course(s) prepartion and facilitation.

Join two community college faculty as they illustrate how they incorporate AI and Chat GPT in their current course(s) prepartion and facilitation.

Join two community college faculty as they illustrate how they incorporate AI and Chat GPT in their current course(s) prepartion and facilitation.

Join two community college faculty as they illustrate how they incorporate AI and Chat GPT in their current course(s) prepartion and facilitation.

Led by Susan Adams from Achieving the Dream this PM session was designed to empower participants with practical skills for integrating active learning techniques into their teaching, adaptable to various classroom modalities, including seated, hybrid, online, hy-flex, and flipped formats.

Led by Susan Adams from Achieving the Dream this AM session was designed to empower participants with practical skills for integrating active learning techniques into their teaching, adaptable to various classroom modalities, including seated, hybrid, online, hy-flex, and flipped formats.

Led by Dr. Kristin Redfield this session covered ways to make sure that course assignments are in alignment with course outcomes. The focus was on making sure that students are given as few assignments as are necessary to assess what needs to be assessed while not being burdened with what they see as “busy work.”

The Café model features colleagues from different community colleges. This session featured Wilkes faculty and staff as they explored student success best practices in synchronous, asynchronous and high flex classroom models.

Facilitated by a panel of presenters this session unpacks the evolution of AI in the classroom, setting expectations for students and identified support for instructional practices.

The Café model features colleagues from different community colleges. This session featured Wilkes faculty and staff as they explored student success best practices in synchronous, asynchronous and high flex classroom models.

Facilitated by Dr. Malinda Daniel, this session is part 2 of the discussion on HyFlex course design. HyFlex is defined as providing students the opportunity to attend a single course in three modalities.

In this 4-part series the Artificial Intelligence Community of Practice has been designed to provide an opportunity for faculty and staff to come together to discuss current trends in artificial intelligence and how this emerging technology impacts their roles at the college as well as student learning. This is the first session of the series.

Join Tim Scapin Instructional Designer & Media Specialist from Haywood Community College in his presentation on AI, content creation, detection tools and teaching strategies.

Facilitated by Stephanie Gilbert and Jamey Harlow, this session is part 1 of 2 of the discussion on HyFlex course design. HyFlex is defined as providing students the opportunity to attend a single course in three modalities.

Learn from presenter Claudia Gresham about communicating successfully with online learners in this session.

Facilitated by a faculty member and student this session explores course design with emphasis on group work and active learning principles.

Facilitated by Dr. Tanya Scott of Achieving the Dream this workshop provided an overview of Universal Design for Learning (UDL, how it can be utilized to create engaging and responsive learning environments for all students, as well as principles and guidelines to help design new courses or revise existing ones.

This workshop explored best practices in crafting and implementing engaging discussions, as well as how to lead and moderate controversial and hot discussion topics through a belonging-minded and trauma-informed lens.