Digital Learning Expo 2025
 | The Center for Teaching Excellence is excited to invite you to the 2025 Digital Learning (DL) Expo. This hybrid event will feature a series of engaging workshops designed to address the latest trends and innovations in the digital learning environment. The event will include sessions related to Digital Accessibility, Generative AI, Third Party tools, New analytics, and frequently requested Canvas topics. Registrants will walk away with practical strategies that can be incorporated in all courses and will receive various resources. |
Registration:
The 2025 Digital Learning Expo will take place in a hybrid format. Please use the links below to register for your preferred modality.
The DL Expo will feature targeted and interactive sessions designed to:
Identify strategies that can be incorporated in their educational context.
Discuss the impact of the current trends in the digital learning environment.
Collaborate with peers in potential ways to integrate the presented strategies.
Schedule
| Times | Session | Session Description |
8:45 AM – 9:10 AM | Opening Remarks Dr. Debra Fowler, Executive Director | |
9:10 AM – 10:05 AM | What If Synthesizing Insights from Canvas Analytic Enhanced the Way We Teach? Presenter(s): Dr. Armanto Sutedjo, Educational Consultant Jobin Varughese, Educational Consultant | This hands-on session explores how Canvas New Analytics can be leveraged to enhance teaching effectiveness and student success. Participants will learn to evaluate patterns in student engagement and performance, synthesize multiple data points—such as page views, participation, and grades—and design data-informed interventions to improve course quality and elevate learning experiences. |
10:05 AM - 10:15 AM | Break | No Presentation |
10:15 AM - 11:05 AM | Increasing Classroom Engagement with Generative AI Tools Presenter(s): Reem Hussein, Educational Consultant | Discover how to use Generative AI tools to boost classroom engagement. This hands-on workshop will equip you with practical skills to create dynamic and interactive learning experiences. Participants will explore some AI tools including Notebook LM and HeyGen, each designed to enhance classroom engagement and capture student attention effectively. |
11:05 AM - 11:15 AM | Break | No Presentation |
11:15 AM – 12:00 PM | Adaptive Learning, personalize and refine student progress. Presenter(s): Dr. Sueli Rocha-Rojas, Educational Consultant | Discover how strategic Canvas organization supports adaptive learning through personalized pathways. Explore how modules, the Learning Mastery Gradebook, and data-driven checkpoints help refine content in response to student progress. |
12:00 PM – 12:55 PM | Lunch | No Presentation |
1:00 PM – 2:30 PM | Faculty Showcase | |
2:35 PM - 2:45 PM | Break | No presentation |
2:45 PM – 3:30 PM | Digital Accessibility Presenter(s): Carlos Perez, Educational Consultant Dr. Jamie Thompson, Assistant Director |
Presenter Information
Presenter: Darren Henrichs, Instructional Assistant Professor, College of Arts and Sciences
Title: Waves of choice: Allowing students to control their learning
Description: When teaching an introductory course for non-majors, it can be challenging to keep students engaged in the material. By creatively utilizing built-in Canvas tools, it is possible to use them in new ways. Here, the Mastery Paths tool was used to provide a way for students to choose the order in which they learn the material.
Presenter: Rafael Landaverde, Assistant Professor, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences
Title: Integrating AI into Social and Behavioral Agrifood Systems Research.
Description: This presentation explores the journey of novice social and behavioral researchers in agrifood systems as they work utilizing AI to define meaningful research questions and articulate the gaps in existing literature their studies aim to address.
Title: Real Time Coaching During Instructional Observation
Description: Bug In the Ear Technology (BIET) allows observers to provide feedback via an earpiece while instructors are actively engaged. Studies have demonstrated that BIET coaching can be an effective method for supporting instructors resulting in: significant increases in use of the targeted teaching strategies and student engagement (Scheeler, McKinnon, & Stout, 2012) and increased use of use of evidence-based communication strategies (Coogle, Ottley, Rahn, & Storie, 2016).This presentation describes the use of BIET technology as an observation and coaching tool used for the support of Graduate Teaching Assistants.
Description:
Bug In the Ear Technology (BIET) allows observers to provide feedback via an earpiece while instructors are actively engaged. Studies have demonstrated that BIET coaching can be an effective method for supporting instructors resulting in: significant increases in use of the targeted teaching strategies and student engagement (Scheeler, McKinnon, & Stout, 2012) and increased use of use of evidence-based communication strategies (Coogle, Ottley, Rahn, & Storie, 2016).This presentation describes the use of BIET technology as an observation and coaching tool used for the support of Graduate Teaching Assistants.
Presenter: Cindy Raisor, Lecturer and Director, The Bush School of Government and Public Service
Title: Waves of choice: Allowing students to control their learning
Description: When teaching an introductory course for non-majors, it can be challenging to keep students engaged in the material. By creatively utilizing built-in Canvas tools, it is possible to use them in new ways. Here, the Mastery Paths tool was used to provide a way for students to choose the order in which they learn the material.
Presenter: Amanda Trimble, Clinical Assistant Professor, College of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences
Title: Utilizing Canvas to Implement Effective Team Based Learning Sessions
Description: This project is part of the Innovative Teaching Fellows’ Canvas Track and focuses on enhancing the implementation of Team-Based Learning (TBL) in a multi-instructor taught veterinary course by creating a unified Canvas template. This innovative template and redesign aim to reduce technological complexity, ensure consistency across sessions, and improve engagement for both students and faculty.
Presenter: Robert “Jay” Woodward, Clinical Professor, College of Education and Human Development
Title: Elevating Project Based Learning Through Digital Applications
Description: This session will highlight innovative methods that incorporated technology to enhance classroom communication. The project goal was to expand interactions beyond traditional classroom lectures and into a virtual design spaces. The alignment of digital tools to facilitate Collaborative Online International Learning (C.O.I.L.) efforts in an undergraduate core-curriculum social and behavioral science class will be emphasized. Effectiveness of these tools (Miro and Genially) will be communicated using survey data and artifacts generated from students. Information on how to gain access and implement these tools in their own classes or learning spaces will be shared with attendees