Free Online Conference: Reaching Today’s Learner: Impactful Teaching Practices in Higher Education (Vendor Conference)

This annual 2025 virtual Empowered Educator conference will bring higher ed instructors together to share and discuss evidence-based, game-changing teaching and learning approaches that impact student success. This year’s event is all about exploring and implementing teaching practices that resonate with today’s students. We’ll cover everything from assessment to collaboration.

The sessions will motivate and equip you with transformative teaching approaches, new instructional models and innovative learning technologies, like GenAI, to achieve better student learning outcomes.

Evolving college teaching approaches can be central to achieving better results for today’s learners. Join to discover fresh ways to ignite learning for your students ― as well as connect with and learn from your peers.

Sessions include:

Feb. 12, 2025 – 11:00am to 3:00pm

• College Teaching Excellence: Aspiring to New Heights.
• Transforming Higher Ed with Virtual-Hybrid Learning.
• Building Bridges: Faculty, AI & the Future of Higher Ed.
• Revolutionizing Learning: Do you Have What it Takes?
• Cracking the 2 Sigma Code: One-to-One Tutoring with GPT.
• Using Short Form Videos in Your Curriculum.
• Leveraging AI: Empowering Students to Enhance Discussion.
• Testing with AI: Teaching Critical Thinking & Awareness.
• Simulations & AI: Critical Thinking Improvement.

Feb. 13, 2025 – 11:00am to 3:00pm

• Introduction to GenAI Tools in Teaching and Learning.
• Implementing Student AI Usage with a 3-Tier Approach.
• Ungrading & Self-Assessment: Practical Ways to Empower Students.
• Empowering Faculty with GenAI: Assessment Strategies.
• Reach Your Learners using Online Newspapers.
• GenAI: Revolutionizing Project-Based Learning.
• Scaffolding, GenAI and a Touch of Human Kindness.
• SMARTER Prompt Engineering: A Practical Framework for Using GenAI in Higher Education.
• Collaborative Reflective Practice: Google Docs/ChatGPT.

Register for this Event

Note: This conference is sponsored by Cengage, but you do not have to be using Cengage to attend. After the main registration, you’ll select which of the above sessions you’d like to attend.