2025 Posters, Videos,  and Podcasts

Have you noticed an uptick in artificial intelligence use in your classroom? When AI engines, such as ChatGPT, generate content in seconds, how can we motivate our students to do their own work? In the session From Artificial Intelligence to Human Effort: Cultivating Integrity and Purpose through Mindset Strategies, Paige Erickson and Jani Pearson will share evidence-based strategies and practical suggestions for motivating students to discover the beauty in their struggle. This session will help them establish a productive mindset, embrace the inevitability and value of hard work, and appreciate the intrinsic rewards of accomplishing their academic goals with integrity. 

Graduate education isn’t just about absorbing information—it’s about transforming how we think, lead, and grow. From Reflection to Transformation explores how structured journaling can deepen learning by turning passive experiences into active insights. By leveraging journals as tools for critical reflection, students build self-awareness, integrate theory with practice, and cultivate the kind of adaptive thinking that drives professional excellence. It’s not just writing—it’s a pathway to transformation.

Did you know that more than 85% of college students suffer from Perfectionism Syndrome (Alva et al., 2022)? Join PG English and Rhetoric professors Lisa Teitler and Josef Vice for an engaging and interactive discussion of the harmful effects this all-too-common quest for perfection can have on students and their learning processes. Come ready to brainstorm how the practical classroom strategies we share in this session can motivate your students to embrace the uncertainty and ambiguity that are hallmarks of the transformative learning process, strategies that can also help students reduce their anxiety and embrace their more authentic, imperfect selves as learners and writers!

Time may be infinite, but we have time limits in our grading. TextExpanders saves time and enables more substantive evaluations of student papers by automating frequently used comments.  This is a win for the professor and a win for our students. 

Between teaching, new technologies, and fast-paced AI adoption, it feels like we’re always-on. We talk about "limitless learning," but it’s on us to protect our personal limits.  I’ll share practical, faculty-tested ways to manage our daily digital lives. You'll leave with tips to create a personal plan for a sustainable work-life balance that supports long-term success. Let’s redefine innovation to include the perspective of mastering the intentional boundaries we need to help us and our students truly flourish. We can make our digital commitment effective, not exhausting.

Get ready to press play on the future of higher ed! “Audio Uprising: Podcasts in Higher Ed” shows how podcasts are transforming classrooms, inspiring faculty, and uniting virtual learning communities. Think flexible, on-the-go learning for students, creative content delivery for instructors, and plugged-in, culture-savvy faculty and staff. It’s all about amplifying voices, sparking ideas, and making education as dynamic as your favorite playlist.

Step into the future of education with Digital Educational Escape Rooms (DEERs)—a game-changing approach that transforms passive learners into active problem-solvers. In this presentation, you will discover how DEERs use gamification and creative challenges to deepen students’ connection to course content and boost motivation in virtual classrooms.. Whether you're an educator, instructional designer, or ed-tech enthusiast, you will learn about practical strategies for integrating DEERs into your own teaching practice and witness a demonstration that brings this immersive experience to life. If you are ready to reimagine online learning as inclusive, interactive, and irresistibly engaging, this session is your key to unlocking it.

In competency-based, self-paced learning environments, especially within Excel Track Modules, student engagement can be challenging without regular interaction. Come explore this poster presentation to learn more about how asynchronous videos can enhance flexibility, student success and create an impactful learning experience (Mitra et al., 2010). The poster session will also align with digital-age teaching practices (Aragon and Wickramasinghe, 2016).

In this poster session, you will learn how NotebookLM can assist students to begin to take ownership of their learning and to move beyond mere memorization. You will learn strategies for boosting student accountability, self-regulation, and critical thinking, all while giving students the tools to organize knowledge, reflect, and connect course objectives to real-world learning. 

The lack of standardized medication data in low and middle-income countries (LMICs) presents a significant challenge for healthcare informatics, research, and policymaking. Unstructured and localized medication lists hinder data sharing, drug safety tracking, and cross-country comparisons of drug prices. Adopting a standardized system, such as RxNorm, is a crucial first step. This project aims to develop and evaluate an AI approach for converting medication lists from LMICs into RxNorm, enabling more accurate comparative analysis. 

Do you have purpose in life? Whether you do or not, this presentation will illuminate the influence of purpose in life on our perceptions of our selves and others. Join this session to learn how purpose and morality are intertwined... or are they?

Do you know what students expect in your online classroom? This presentation, Building Authentic Connections: Fostering Human Engagement with New Students in the Age of AI will focus on the importance of understanding first-term learners’ need for human communication in the virtual environment and suggest some tips for early engagement by faculty while incorporating AI skill building into their curriculum. 

Are you looking for ways to support students beyond the classroom? This session, "Unlimited Access: Expanding Student Success through an Open-Access Academic Support Blog," showcases Purdue University Global Academic Success Center’s blog and resource site. This public-facing site delivers equitable, on-demand support crucial for nontraditional working students who must master self-regulated learning skills to succeed. The platform was designed using web accessibility guidelines and plain language principles, ensuring that essential academic strategies and writing guidance are accessible to everyone, anywhere, and anytime—not just those enrolled—thereby empowering students to achieve academic independence without limits. Join us to explore how this credential-free model integrates multimedia and asynchronous resources, and leave with practical strategies for supporting students beyond the classroom.