Celebration of Teaching and Learning Conference

Thank you for joining our 2026 Celebration of Teaching and Learning Conference. Your presence and participation helped make our 20th year conference a success! We hope the weeklong conference experience and session material were meaningful and thought-provoking.

On-Demand Sessions

The conference's Monday on-demand sessions are now available. All sessions are videos except "AI Ate My Homework" podcast, which features multiple audio-only podcast episodes to choose from.
AI Ate My Homework Podcast Series
What happens when AI completes actual university assignments? Host Jason Zahrndt and faculty guests examine AI's capabilities and limitations, uncovering practical insights about teaching, assessment evolution and authentic learning in the AI age.
AI + Bloom’s Taxonomy: Expanding Remember and Understand
Explore practical uses of AI tools like ChatGPT to enhance teaching and learning at the foundational levels of Bloom's Taxonomy. Learn to create varied assessments, multi-level explanations, and targeted lesson plans while keeping academic integrity.
Selecting Technology Tools That Support Learning
Discover a decision-making process to help you when integrating a new tool into your class. Learn how to choose which tool is the best one to meet your instructional needs and the campus offices and groups that are available to help you.
Providing Effective Feedback in Large Courses
Providing meaningful feedback drives student learning but can feel overwhelming in large courses when time and capacity are limited. Discover strategies for offering feedback that are timely, focused and sustainable at scale.
Time Management When Facilitating an Online Class
Your time is valuable! Manage your time as an online course teacher without reducing the overall quality for you or your students. Learn to set availability boundaries, ways to streamline feedback and use course structure to your advantage.
Making Sense of the New ADA Title II Regulations
Review guidance for educators on how to ensure your digital learning spaces meet the new federal ADA Title II regulations relating to accessibility, which will go into effect April 2026.
Motivation and Engagement in the Online Classroom
Motivation and engagement in online classes don't happen by accident. Explore practical strategies to support student motivation and engagement through course design, instructor presence and learning environments.
Using Gamification to Support Motivation and Learning
Gamification can be a useful way to support learning when it's applied with intention and care. Learn ways you can use gamification strategies in any course without turning learning into a competition or adding unnecessary complexity.

More materials coming soon!

Please check back soon for additional conference resources, including select presentation materials and the Reception and Award Ceremony photo gallery. 

We hope to release select recordings from the conference throughout 2026 for all to access on this page. Stay tuned to this page and UofL Today for details as those become available. 

If you attended a session and would like to review the recording, you should have access to that recording within your Microsoft Teams account. Information shared by the presenters including slide decks and handouts will remain available in Sched to conference participants.

We look forward to sharing more information this fall about the 2027 Celebration of Teaching and Learning Conference. In the meantime, we invite you continue the conversation through our workshops, learning communities and other programming.

Thank you to our sponsor!