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Description: Faculty consider new strategies, best practices, pedagogy-first approaches, benefits and challenges, and next steps regarding social media integration within postsecondary educational settings. Goal is to share ideas for enlarging the conversation of course topics, beyond the confines of the classrooms—ways to easily bringing in experts or following experts to add to the class discussions and understanding. Examples focus on how social media can improve student engagement and content retention, and strategies focus on manageable ways for faculty of all technology comfort levels to integrate social media. The workshop focuses on the mainstream tools (including Twitter and LinkedIn) but also briefly discusses brand-new tools.

Formats offered: Keynote, short presentation, training session, workshop

(Can be adapted to suit faculty groups or student groups)

Focus areas: How do adults learn? What are the key differences between learning and studying strategies for high school students and undergraduates? How should learning strategies change when they’re applied to adults (rather than to kids)? A review of the key strategies in adult learning research, plus an overview for how faculty can apply the principles of adult learning theory in their classes — or an overview of how students can apply best practices in learning to their studies.

Formats offered: Keynote, short presentation, training session, workshop

Description: In this interactive workshop, participants experiment with new tools while considering the theory and best practices supporting successful technology integration in in-person, hybrid, and online courses. Participants will learn more about how IT integration theory informs pedagogy while they practice using new educational technology tools to improve student learning and engagement.

Formats offered: Keynote, short presentation, training session, workshop

Topics covered: Cutting-edge preview of the tech trends shaping the future, based on the latest insider conversations and tech trends reports; Thought leadership about how these tech trends will impact the audience sooner than they think; Relevant research into digital transformation, innovation, and disruption

Formats offered: Keynote; Short presentation; Facilitated panel discussion

Focus areas: How learning transfer could be key to capturing your clients’ attention, and why strategies that work for the best college professors might work in your board room

Formats offered: Keynote, short presentation, training session, workshop

Focus areas: Equipping the next generation of entrepreneurs with the fundamentals they need to harness disruptions and tech trends in their startup ventures

Formats offered: Keynote, short presentation, training session, workshop

Focus areas: Resilience isn’t something you have—it’s something you grow. This empowering session combines storytelling, neuroscience, and proven leadership strategies to help students grow their own resilience plan, which includes methods for intention and practice going forward. In this exploratory session, students will have a chance to consider what resilience means in their lives—and what skills they already have that can help them to be resilient during difficult times.

Formats offered: Keynote, Workshop

Focus areas: The “hustle and grind” culture prioritizes work over all things and sees work as facetime and hours spent. But does it work? Are those who are burning the candle at both ends really more successful? This talk is a review of where we are now and a dream for where we could be instead — a look at the current effects of hustle culture and a vision for what could be better, with real strategies that help us prioritize wellness (and research to help show why this works).

Formats offered: Keynote, Short Presentation

Remember: The time to build your network is not when you need your network!

Description: Not only can a professional online persona help connect you with your professional goals (from internship hunting to job placement), but it can also help you collaborate with those in and outside of your field, stay in touch with students and professors, learn about conference and presentation opportunities, and more.

Whether you’re pursuing academia, industry, or public service, social media can be a valuable tool. You can harness social media’s networking power—without spending too much time and energy—to launch with your career and research goals.

Formats offered: Training session, workshop

Focus areas: How to write professional reports | Research to show that anyone can be a strong writer | Secrets to the writing process | Fundamentals of the writing process | Report structure or Proposal Structure | Tips for writing high-quality reports or proposals | How to write and edit reports, proposals, and technical documents

Formats offered: Training session, workshop