Upper Peninsula Teaching & Learning Conference - 2026

Upper Peninsula Teaching & Learning Conference - 2026

1:00pm EDT

Conference Check-In Ballroom Foyer

2:30pm EDT

Pre-Conference Workshop: Exploring AI for Teaching and Learning: A Hands-On Workshop Ballroom IV

7:15am EDT

Conference Check-In Ballroom Foyer

8:15am EDT

Breakfast and Keynote: AI’s Impact on Teaching and the Future of Higher Education Ballrooms I & II

9:30am EDT

Lessons from the Northern Woodshed Project: Teaching and Learning about Renewable Energy Production in the Northern Forest Peninsula IV Closing the Loop: Integrating Practice-Based Courses with Core Theory in Engineering Curricula Founders Room The Write Pathway: Embedding Career Exploration in First-Year Writing Courses Ballroom IV Teaching for Access: Practical Strategies for Inclusive Course Design Peninsula V Mulligan Exams: Redemption without abolishing deadlines Peninsula I

10:00am EDT

Forensic Chemistry High-Impact Experience Project: Lessons Learned Peninsula IV Teaching historical context in economics classes Founders Room Whose Draft Is It? Co-Creating Revision Practices with Underprepared Writers in First-Year Composition Peninsula V Creating Perfect Groups Instantly in Class with the Click of a Button Peninsula I

10:30am EDT

Cut Through Information Chaos Ballroom IV Higher Education Assessment and Its Discontents Founders Room A walk in our shoes: building classroom community through arts integration Peninsula IV Extending Access: Bringing Tutoring and Academic Support to Incarcerated Students Peninsula V Using the AI Sandwich Framework to Create OER with Generative AI Peninsula I

11:30am EDT

Lunch Ballrooms I & II

12:30pm EDT

Reinvigorating Academic Service Learning at NMU: A Roadmap for Faculty Re-Engagement, Mini-Grants, and Community Partnership Peninsula IV Active Learning Made Manageable: Getting Started with POGIL Founders Room Open Education Initiatives in the Upper Peninsula: Innovation & Collaboration to Make Education More Accessible Peninsula II Welcoming Challenge: Talking About Failure Peninsula V Beyond Quizzes: Practice-Based Learning Activities with Generative AI Peninsula I Beyond the Prompt: Building Custom Gemini "Gems" for Faculty Productivity and OER Design Ballroom IV

1:30pm EDT

Artificial Intelligence for Teaching and Learning Complexity and Complex Systems Founders Room Can Your Students Describe What They Learned? A Practical Introduction to Competency-Based Thinking Ballroom IV Mindful Self-Compassion for Students and Faculty Peninsula IV Universal Design for Learning in University Language Classrooms Peninsula V Digital Communication and Creation Across Disciplines Peninsula II Efficacy of Faculty Training to Improve Confidence Implementing Ethical Use of Generative AI in the Classroom Peninsula I

2:30pm EDT

Courageous Care: Sharing CLASS Highlights Peninsula IV Evaluating Hands-On Learning: The Impact of Physical Manipulatives on GD&T Instruction Ballroom IV Turning Grade Grubbing into learning: End of term strategies Founders Room Using Student-Generated Data to Understand Motivation, Identity, and Cross-Cultural Differences in Statistics Courses Peninsula V Generative AI in the Math Classroom Peninsula I

3:00pm EDT

Bridging Theory and Practice: A Faculty-Driven Skills Camp to Strengthen NP Students’ Clinical Readiness Ballroom IV Closing the Learning Gap: Using Structured Self-Analysis to Help Students Develop Effective Study Approaches Founders Room The Accessible Tech Challenge: Gaining Buy-In Through Gamification Peninsula V Breaking the AICE: Simple AI Tools That Help Faculty See AI as C-3PO (Not Terminator) Peninsula I

3:30pm EDT

Heart-based Learning with Arts-Based Methods Peninsula IV Integrating AI Literacy into the Composition Classroom: Successes, Challenges, and Insights Founders Room Bridging Cultures and Concepts: Indigenous Approaches to Inclusive STEM Teaching Peninsula II Learning to see with both eyes: Teaching for both Indigenous and academic Science Peninsula V AI for Doubters: Why None of Us Should Ignore Artificial Intelligence (even though we may really, really want to) Ballroom IV Is Excel dead? How do we teach data literacy in the AI era? Peninsula I