Keynote for the Celebration of Teaching and Learning Conference
Dr. Michelle Miller will be the featured keynote speaker for the 2025 Celebration of Teaching and Learning Conference at the University of Louisville. Learn more about the keynote below.
Keynote Presentation
Learning at the Intersection of Cognition, Motivation, and Technology: Fulfilling the Promise of Teaching with Technology
One of the great promises of educational technology is that it helps us take advantage of research findings from cognitive, brain, and learning sciences in our quest to create effective learning activities. But there is a catch: these kinds of activities often require more effort from students, not less, and students lacking self-regulation skills will miss out on many of their benefits. This talk presents a framework for bringing cognitive and motivational research together in our teaching, with examples of technologically-enhanced learning activities, geared for both online and in-person modalities, that make the most of what we know about how the mind works.
About the Keynote
Dr. Michelle Miller is a Professor of Psychological Sciences and President’s Distinguished Teaching Fellow at Northern Arizona University in Flagstaff, Arizona. She completed her PhD in cognitive psychology and behavioral neuroscience at the University of California, Los Angeles, and currently writes, teaches and speaks about maximizing learning in today’s technology-saturated and rapidly changing world.
Dr. Miller is the author of Minds Online: Teaching Effectively with Technology (Harvard University Press, 2014). Her latest book, Remembering and Forgetting in the Age of Technology: Teaching, Learning, and the Science of Memory in a Wired World, came out in 2022 with West Virginia University Press.