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Thursday, May 22
 

8:30am CDT

Echo360: Transforming Student Engagement
Thursday May 22, 2025 8:30am - 9:15am CDT
Rock Room
In today’s rapidly changing educational landscape, fostering active participation and enhancing student engagement remains a focal point in higher education. This session will explore EchoPoll’ impact on student engagement, providing case studies of demonstrated success, and how the solution’s interoperability with Echo360’s Learning Transformation Platform™ (LTP™) - the Echosystem™ - is transforming the future of education.

Through the power of the EchoSystem, the world’s and only first Learning Transformation Platform, Echo360 has delivered a wholistic approach to student engagement with EchoEngage. By leveraging real-time, interactive polling technology, EchoPoll, one of the two EchoEngage solutions, instructors around the world are transforming traditional classroom dynamics into a more accessible and personalized exchange of ideas.

EchoPoll empowers instructors to integrate data-driven engagement strategies into lectures in a new way, seamlessly adding polls, quizzes, and surveys into their live and recorded lessons. This real-time interaction, which can always be captured and distributed for asynchronous engagement and review, not only provides immediate feedback on student understanding but also promotes critical thinking and semester-long discussions. This technology ensures that every voice is heard, regardless of class size, and allows students to respond anonymously, which can improve participation rates and reduce the barriers to speaking up.
Speakers
JO

James O'Donnell

Account Executive, Echo360
MW

Michael Wright

Customer Success Manager, Echo360
Thursday May 22, 2025 8:30am - 9:15am CDT
Rock Room
  Interactive Presentation

8:30am CDT

Unlocking Deeper Learning: How AI Can Make That Happen!
Thursday May 22, 2025 8:30am - 9:15am CDT
Lake Room
This presentation explores a novel approach to leveraging AI in education, not as a replacement for critical thinking, but as a catalyst for it. We'll delve into a case study where students used AI Large Language Models (LLMs) to analyze a business case, and then reflect on the AI's strengths and weaknesses. The surprising outcome? Students produced unusually insightful and lengthy reflections, demonstrating a level of engagement and ownership rarely seen in traditional assignments. This presentation will unpack the pedagogical principles behind this success, focusing on how AI-assisted assignments can naturally incorporate spiraling, spaced repetition, and agency -- three key elements for deep and lasting learning. Participants will leave with practical strategies for designing their own AI-enhanced assignments to promote deeper learning in their classrooms.


Speakers
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William Burnett

Associate Instructor, University of Wisconsin, Parkside and Milwaukee
Thursday May 22, 2025 8:30am - 9:15am CDT
Lake Room
  Interactive Presentation

9:00am CDT

Emerging Technologies Lab
Thursday May 22, 2025 9:00am - 10:00am CDT
Armadillo Room
Get ready to immerse yourself in a world of cutting-edge technology at the Reality Room! This drop-in event is your chance to experiment with the latest in augmented and virtual reality, photogrammetry, motion capture, and creative generative AI. You'll be able to try on augmented reality headsets, explore virtual reality simulators, create stunning 3D models with photogrammetry software, capture your every move with motion capture devices, and learn how to use AR/VR tools for prototyping. With inspiring guest speakers from various fields, you'll learn how these technologies can transform education, entertainment, and design. Come and experience a new reality that will leave you spellbound and ready to take your own projects to the next level.
Speakers
avatar for Kat Caribeaux

Kat Caribeaux

Doctoral Student, Northwestern University
avatar for Rodolfo Vieira

Rodolfo Vieira

Developer Lead, Northwestern University
avatar for Zoran Ilic

Zoran Ilic

Senior Academic Systems Engineer, Northwestern IT Media & Technology Innovation
avatar for Vince LaGrassa

Vince LaGrassa

Developer, Northwestern University
avatar for Orzu Tursnova

Orzu Tursnova

Full-Stack Software Developer, Northwestern University
CS

Craig Stevens

PhD Candidate, Archaeology, Northwestern University
Thursday May 22, 2025 9:00am - 10:00am CDT
Armadillo Room
  Hands-on Lab

9:30am CDT

Educating Humans to Thrive in an AI World
Thursday May 22, 2025 9:30am - 10:30am CDT
Louis Room
It is hard to ignore the AI threats to economic, academic, political, environmental and psychological well-being. Higher education, however, finds itself in a unique position to understand and combat these threats: asking better questions and judging answers has always been at the center of a critical thinking education. Education manages the tension between learning to be fully human and preparing for a successful career. Since expertise is also essential to using AI well, we will need to prepare students to be experts in a world where AI can produce better work than many interns. Understanding how we might (or might not) use AI to support human thriving will be essential as we begin the process of maintaining the best of our tradition while rethinking curriculum for a new world.
Speakers
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José Antonio Bowen

Educator, Musician, Scholar
José Antonio Bowen has been leading innovation and change for over 40 years at Stanford, Georgetown, and the University of Southampton (UK), as a dean at Miami and SMU, and as president of a top ten USN&WR most innovative college until 2019. He now runs Bowen Innovation Group L.L.C., and does innovation, leadership and inclusion consulting and training for Toyota, AT&T, Chevron, Pfizer, and other Fortune 500 companies.Bowen holds four degrees from Stanford University (in Chemistry, Music, and Humanities... Read More →
Thursday May 22, 2025 9:30am - 10:30am CDT
Louis Room
  Keynote

10:00am CDT

Emerging Technologies Lab
Thursday May 22, 2025 10:00am - 11:00am CDT
Armadillo Room
Get ready to immerse yourself in a world of cutting-edge technology at the Reality Room! This drop-in event is your chance to experiment with the latest in augmented and virtual reality, photogrammetry, motion capture, and creative generative AI. You'll be able to try on augmented reality headsets, explore virtual reality simulators, create stunning 3D models with photogrammetry software, capture your every move with motion capture devices, and learn how to use AR/VR tools for prototyping. With inspiring guest speakers from various fields, you'll learn how these technologies can transform education, entertainment, and design. Come and experience a new reality that will leave you spellbound and ready to take your own projects to the next level.
Speakers
avatar for Kat Caribeaux

Kat Caribeaux

Doctoral Student, Northwestern University
avatar for Zoran Ilic

Zoran Ilic

Senior Academic Systems Engineer, Northwestern IT Media & Technology Innovation
avatar for Vince LaGrassa

Vince LaGrassa

Developer, Northwestern University
CS

Craig Stevens

PhD Candidate, Archaeology, Northwestern University
avatar for Orzu Tursnova

Orzu Tursnova

Full-Stack Software Developer, Northwestern University
avatar for Rodolfo Vieira

Rodolfo Vieira

Developer Lead, Northwestern University
Thursday May 22, 2025 10:00am - 11:00am CDT
Armadillo Room
  Hands-on Lab

10:45am CDT

Software Instruction to Support Digital Fluency in General Chemistry
Thursday May 22, 2025 10:45am - 11:30am CDT
Arch Room
Fluency in software is often assumed before students enter a course, but when students are challenged to perform concrete tasks, they struggle to work independently. In general chemistry lab courses we prioritize learning Microsoft Excel for data analysis and visualization early in the first quarter. While many students report prior experience with Excel, they struggle to execute the tasks required in a science lab course. To better support all students, we have integrated an in-class "data analysis" lab that allows them to gain fluency in the software with the support of their peers and teaching assistants. This requires some class time is devoted to active learning of the software; it also requires adequate training of the TAs. In this presentation, we will detail how we prioritize what tasks are done in class and what is expected to be independent work. While our example is in the teaching of Microsoft Excel, we aim to discuss objectives more generally to help participants assess their own relationship to the software of their choice. Bring your laptop!


Speakers
avatar for Veronica Berns

Veronica Berns

Associate Professor of Instruction, Northwestern University
Veronica Berns (she/her) earned her BA in Chemistry at Northwestern University in 2009 before her PhD in Inorganic Chemistry at University of Wisconsin, Madison in 2014.  Her doctoral thesis focused on the way atoms pack together in solids, specifically in compounds with multiple... Read More →
avatar for Katherine Gesmundo

Katherine Gesmundo

Assistant Professor of Instruction, Northwestern University
Thursday May 22, 2025 10:45am - 11:30am CDT
Arch Room
  Interactive Presentation

11:00am CDT

Emerging Technologies Lab
Thursday May 22, 2025 11:00am - 12:00pm CDT
Armadillo Room
Get ready to immerse yourself in a world of cutting-edge technology at the Reality Room! This drop-in event is your chance to experiment with the latest in augmented and virtual reality, photogrammetry, motion capture, and creative generative AI. You'll be able to try on augmented reality headsets, explore virtual reality simulators, create stunning 3D models with photogrammetry software, capture your every move with motion capture devices, and learn how to use AR/VR tools for prototyping. With inspiring guest speakers from various fields, you'll learn how these technologies can transform education, entertainment, and design. Come and experience a new reality that will leave you spellbound and ready to take your own projects to the next level.
Speakers
avatar for Kat Caribeaux

Kat Caribeaux

Doctoral Student, Northwestern University
avatar for Zoran Ilic

Zoran Ilic

Senior Academic Systems Engineer, Northwestern IT Media & Technology Innovation
avatar for Vince LaGrassa

Vince LaGrassa

Developer, Northwestern University
avatar for Orzu Tursnova

Orzu Tursnova

Full-Stack Software Developer, Northwestern University
CS

Craig Stevens

PhD Candidate, Archaeology, Northwestern University
avatar for Rodolfo Vieira

Rodolfo Vieira

Developer Lead, Northwestern University
Thursday May 22, 2025 11:00am - 12:00pm CDT
Armadillo Room
  Hands-on Lab

11:45am CDT

Teaching the Essential Skills of Tomorrow: Building Cloud and GenAI Literacy through AWS Sandboxes
Thursday May 22, 2025 11:45am - 11:52pm CDT
Louis Room
This session introduces educators to AWS teaching resources, specifically AWS Academy and AWS Innovation Sandboxes, designed to enhance classroom instruction in cloud computing and generative AI. We'll demonstrate how these tools can be integrated into your curriculum to provide hands-on experience with industry-leading technologies. Learn practical strategies for teaching students to effectively and responsibly use generative AI tools while developing crucial technical skills demanded by employers. This workshop introduces instructors to resources needed to prepare students for the evolving technological workplace.
Speakers
CP

Carolyn Przybylinski

AWS Account Manager, AWS Worldwide Public Sector
Thursday May 22, 2025 11:45am - 11:52pm CDT
Louis Room
  Lightning Talk
 
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