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Upper Peninsula Teaching & Learning Conference - 2026
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Thursday
, May 28
Ballroom Foyer
1:00pm •
Conference Check-In
Ballroom IV
2:30pm •
Pre-Conference Workshop: Exploring AI for Teaching and Learning: A Hands-On Workshop
Friday
, May 29
Ballroom Foyer
7:15am •
Conference Check-In
Ballroom IV
9:30am •
The Write Pathway: Embedding Career Exploration in First-Year Writing Courses
10:30am •
Cut Through Information Chaos
12:30pm •
Beyond the Prompt: Building Custom Gemini "Gems" for Faculty Productivity and OER Design
1:30pm •
Can Your Students Describe What They Learned? A Practical Introduction to Competency-Based Thinking
2:30pm •
Evaluating Hands-On Learning: The Impact of Physical Manipulatives on GD&T Instruction
3:00pm •
Bridging Theory and Practice: A Faculty-Driven Skills Camp to Strengthen NP Students’ Clinical Readiness
3:30pm •
AI for Doubters: Why None of Us Should Ignore Artificial Intelligence (even though we may really, really want to)
Ballrooms I & II
8:15am •
Breakfast and Keynote: AI’s Impact on Teaching and the Future of Higher Education
11:30am •
Lunch
Founders Room
9:30am •
Closing the Loop: Integrating Practice-Based Courses with Core Theory in Engineering Curricula
10:00am •
Teaching historical context in economics classes
10:30am •
Higher Education Assessment and Its Discontents
12:30pm •
Active Learning Made Manageable: Getting Started with POGIL
1:30pm •
Artificial Intelligence for Teaching and Learning Complexity and Complex Systems
2:30pm •
Turning Grade Grubbing into learning: End of term strategies
3:00pm •
Closing the Learning Gap: Using Structured Self-Analysis to Help Students Develop Effective Study Approaches
3:30pm •
Integrating AI Literacy into the Composition Classroom: Successes, Challenges, and Insights
Peninsula I
9:30am •
Mulligan Exams: Redemption without abolishing deadlines
10:00am •
Creating Perfect Groups Instantly in Class with the Click of a Button
10:30am •
Using the AI Sandwich Framework to Create OER with Generative AI
12:30pm •
Beyond Quizzes: Practice-Based Learning Activities with Generative AI
1:30pm •
Efficacy of Faculty Training to Improve Confidence Implementing Ethical Use of Generative AI in the Classroom
2:30pm •
Generative AI in the Math Classroom
3:00pm •
Breaking the AICE: Simple AI Tools That Help Faculty See AI as C-3PO (Not Terminator)
3:30pm •
Is Excel dead? How do we teach data literacy in the AI era?
Peninsula II
12:30pm •
Open Education Initiatives in the Upper Peninsula: Innovation & Collaboration to Make Education More Accessible
1:30pm •
Digital Communication and Creation Across Disciplines
3:30pm •
Bridging Cultures and Concepts: Indigenous Approaches to Inclusive STEM Teaching
Peninsula IV
9:30am •
Lessons from the Northern Woodshed Project: Teaching and Learning about Renewable Energy Production in the Northern Forest
10:00am •
Forensic Chemistry High-Impact Experience Project: Lessons Learned
10:30am •
A walk in our shoes: building classroom community through arts integration
12:30pm •
Reinvigorating Academic Service Learning at NMU: A Roadmap for Faculty Re-Engagement, Mini-Grants, and Community Partnership
1:30pm •
Mindful Self-Compassion for Students and Faculty
2:30pm •
Courageous Care: Sharing CLASS Highlights
3:30pm •
Heart-based Learning with Arts-Based Methods
Peninsula V
9:30am •
Teaching for Access: Practical Strategies for Inclusive Course Design
10:00am •
Whose Draft Is It? Co-Creating Revision Practices with Underprepared Writers in First-Year Composition
10:30am •
Extending Access: Bringing Tutoring and Academic Support to Incarcerated Students
12:30pm •
Welcoming Challenge: Talking About Failure
1:30pm •
Universal Design for Learning in University Language Classrooms
2:30pm •
Using Student-Generated Data to Understand Motivation, Identity, and Cross-Cultural Differences in Statistics Courses
3:00pm •
The Accessible Tech Challenge: Gaining Buy-In Through Gamification
3:30pm •
Learning to see with both eyes: Teaching for both Indigenous and academic Science
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