2025 Recordings

The 2025 recordings will be available in Zoom Events approximately 30 minutes after the close of the live session. Please reach out to pgvillage@purdueglobal.edu with any questions.

Monday, November 3, 2025

11:00 AM Conference Kick-off & Meditation, Liz Fitzgerald and Laurie Hansen

12:00 PM Opening Keynote with Chancellor Jon Harbor

1:00 PM Developing Neuroplastic Learning Pathways in Doctoral Health Education: Strategies to Deepen Engagement in Digital Classrooms, Walaa Awad

1:00 PM Re-thinking Discussion Board Paradigms: Maximizing Effectiveness, John Berube and Sait Tarhan

1:00 PM Building Bridges: A Collaborative Curriculum Design Approach to Enhance Student Success, Jillian Ciriello, Leigh Dunning, and Julie Torres-Roman

2:00 PM Leading with Community: How ERGs Foster Growth and Innovation in Digital Learning, Melissa Bahle, Brook Bernhardt, Leigh Dunning, Elaine Dispo-Rendon, Shama Grimmage, Beth Lee, Larasz Moody-Villarose, Nancy Reck, and Ritu Sharma

3:00 PM What Do You Mean? Incorporating Soft Skills into the Teaching Environment, Jennifer Caseldine-Bracht, Tyra Hall-Pogar, and Ashley Leininger

4:00 PM Releasing your Inner Scientist - There's an app for that!, Deanna Davis, Christine O’Neal, and Kathryn Vanderburg

4:00 PM Enhancing Learning and Increasing Student Engagement in Graduate Courses by Using Additional "Bonus" Seminars in Off Weeks, Sharon Brown, Jaclyn Felder-Strauss, and Stanley Self

5:00 PM Beyond the Degree: Integrating Career Development Theory into Every Course, Condoa Parrent

5:00 PM Harnessing Artificial Intelligence Tools and Brightspace Intelligent Agents to Increase Student Engagement using Values-Based Nudges, Nelly Dixon, Lisa Phillips, and Susan Wilson

Tuesday, November 4, 2025

9:30 AM Meditation, Carolyn Stevenson

10:00 AM Bridging the Digital Divide: How Gen Z is Reshaping the Workforce, Jennifer Harrison and Kate Scarpena

10:00 AM Navigating AI in Higher Education – Preliminary Study, Naseeba Abdeljaber, Liz Fitzgerald, Shama Grimmage, Josh Lackey, Jenna Odeh, and Wendi Wolfram 

11:00 AM Featured Session: Student Success - EdSights, Kristin Early, Karen McGregor, and Sara Sander

12:00 PM Personalizing with Padlet: AI Strategies for Online Student Engagement, Tiffany Eaton and Leslie Johnson

12:00 PM Strategic Foresight for Curriculum Innovation: Preparing Higher Education for 2035 Workforce Demands, Stuart Collins, Sean Doyle, Jennifer Harrison, and Maricel Lawrence

1:00 PM Connecting Students to Success: Embedding Support Services in the Online Classroom, Beth Lee, James McAdams, and Irina Negrea

1:00 PM The “We Get Stuff Done” Team: Tales of Persistence, Rejection, and Success, Melissa Bahle, Kelvin Beckett, Dora Finamore, Christine O’Neal, Stephen Velky, and Josef Vice

2:00 PM SS255: Digital Citizenship – Pioneering Dual-Pathway AI Integration in Higher Education, Stuart Collins, Jennifer Harrison, Kevin Muir, and Kate Scarpena

2:00 PM Finding Your Professorial Identity in the Digital Age, Bob Musante and Jan Watson

3:00 PM Inclusion and Belonging: The Secret Sauce for Increasing Student Engagement, Student Satisfaction, and Student Persistence, Bea Borne and Carol Edwards

3:00 PM Integrating GenAI into Online Instruction: A Design Case for Enhanced Course Communication and Engagement, Timothy Lombardo

3:00 PM AI-Powered Learning Tools: Leveraging AI to Enhance the Student Experience, Kim Burtch, Leigh Dunning, Abbey Elliot, and Jessica Manning

4:00 PM "Previously, on Talk Seminar": Building Presence in Unscripted Spaces, William Johnson

4:00 PM AI-Powered Practice: Bridging Skill Gaps in Human Services Education, Rebekah Haight, Maggie Morgan, and DeAnn Simon

5:00 PM Enhancing Engagement Through Student and Faculty Clubs, Amy Smith and Kathryn Vanderburg

5:00 PM Show, Don't Ban: Demonstrating the Power of Personal Voice, Stephanie Thompson

6:00 PM Let's Talk: Student Advisory Board Town Hall, Courtney McWaine, Carolyn Nordstrom, Sara Sander, Jessi Eaton, and Lori Morrissette

Wednesday, November 5, 2025

9:30 AM Meditation, Liz Fitzgerald

10:00 AM Curiosity Chronicles: Enhancing Student Understanding of Science with Pop Culture Podcasts, Taryn Bromser-Kloeden and Melissa Derby

10:00 AM Student Voices: Using the New End-of-Term Survey to Drive Improvement, Tammy Chiong and Maggie Morgan

11:00 AM Designing Engaging Online Courses: Active Learning Activities and Virtual Course Assistants, Jean Kotsiovos

11:00 AM Strategic Recruitment Reimagined: AI-Driven Approaches in Recruiting University-Community Partners, Julee Poole

11:00 AM The ACT of Support: Empowering Students Through Psychological Flexibility in a Digital World, Maxmillian Matthews, Rachel Porter, and Barbara Stratman-Matteoni

12:00 PM Featured Session: Winning Partnership: One Paralympian's Focus on Education, Amy Hawkinson

1:00 PM AUTHENTICITY: How to Thrive in the Age of Artificial Intelligence, Sean Doyle, Jean Kotsiovos, and Shaila Rana

1:00 PM ABA Strategies for Cultivating Leadership Behaviors in Adult Higher Education Students, Jenna Odeh

2:00 PM From Burnout to Balance: Time Management in the Age of Digital Distraction, Shama Grimmage

2:00 PM The Course Roster: More than a List!, Melody Lehosit

3:00 PM Beyond the Screen: Overcoming Technology Barriers in Online Higher Education, Dena AuCoin, Shauna McClure, Tyler Sorg, and Dorothy Williams

3:00 PM “The First 72 Hours Matter – You Have Three Days to Make Them Care”, Julie Dort, Laurie Millam, and Michelle Reinhardt

4:00 PM Three Cheers for “Hands-on” Learning: More Engaged, More Focused, More Connected, Deanna Davis, Christine O’Neal, Wendi Wolfram, and Kathryn Vanderburg

4:00 PM Student Housing Instability: Leveraging AI and Other Strategies, Melissa Bahle and Brook Bernhardt

5:00 PM Pen to Profession: Why Writing Matters for Every Student, Jennifer Haber

5:00 PM From Books to Bots: AI Shaping Student Success, Ritu Sharma

6:00 PM Using Google Spaces and Peer Mentors - A Model to Facilitate Faculty Success and Build Community, Wes Benton, Kim Dunn, Todd Kane, and Nancy Szwydek

Thursday, November 6, 2025

9:30 AM Meditation, Beth Smith

10:00 AM Global Voices, Local Impact: New Approaches to Writing Across the Curriculum, Michelle Bianco, Jacob Kaltenbach, Irina Negrea, and Sara Wink

10:00 AM You (Don’t) Snooze, You Lose: The Health Impacts of Not Getting Enough Sleep, Deanna Davis, Christine O’Neal, and Kathryn Vanderburg

11:00 AM Intentional AI Integration in Higher Education: Preparing Students for the AI-Driven Workforce, David Brand and Kristina Noriega

12:00 PM Redefining Collaboration: Innovative Group Work for the Digital Generation, Courtney Liferidge and Tuwana Wingfield

1:00 PM Copyright Issues with Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Impact on Education, Brian Craig

1:00 PM EcoGPT in the Classroom: A Student-Centered Approach to NextGen Learning, Ronda Mariani

2:00 PM Beyond the Buzz: Let’s Integrate AI Into our Curriculum (Best Practices), Monica Hubler, Carolyn Stevenson, and Kathryn Vanderburg

2:00 PM Exploring the Legal and Ethical Implications of Chatbots in Higher Education: Do Chatbots Have a First Amendment Right to Free Speech?, Jane McElligott

3:00 PM Closing Endnote, Provost Carolyn Nordstrom