The Office for the Advancement of Teaching & Learning, a unit within the Office of the Provost, in the Division of Academic Affairs is looking forward to hosting its third annual Innovative Education Conference (IEC). The virtual conference will be held on April 1, 2026.
Our theme for 2026 is “Flourishing Together:
Teaching & Learning in Higher Education Today”.
We will accept proposals through Thursday, December 18, 2025 via the form below.
Submit proposal
This year, ATL is supporting five conference tracks:
| Title | Track Description |
|---|---|
| Academic Leadership Practices that Foster a Flourishing Environment for Faculty | Leading from our various roles or positions can be challenging in today’s higher education environment. This track provides an opportunity to present and discuss leadership practices that have successfully supported a thriving faculty and meaningful learning experiences for students on your campus. |
| Lessons Learned Using AI and Other Technologies To Enhance Teaching & Learning | Educational technologies in general, and Artificial Intelligence in particular, offer a duality of promise and challenge for changing how we work, teach, and address complex problems. This track provides an opportunity to present and share how your campus has navigated this tension while keeping front and center the goal of helping faculty and students flourish in today’s environment. |
| Supporting Inclusive & Accessible Teaching and Learning | Research has shown that an inclusive learning environment is a strong learning environment. This track provides an opportunity to present viable approaches to building, maintaining, and growing an inclusive teaching and learning environment on your campus and in your class(es). |
| Amplifying Evidence-based Teaching Through Assessment and/or the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning in Course or Program | For innovative teaching approaches to gain wider traction, it helps to gather evidence of their effectiveness. This track provides an opportunity to present on how you have intentionally engaged the assessment of student learning on your campus or in your classroom, and/or how you have used that evidence of learning to support the teaching of your academic discipline. |
| Supporting Faculty Vitality and Well-being | Often, the people who are the most committed to their teaching and student learning are the most in danger of burning out. Today’s higher education environment brings this issue even more to the forefront. This track provides an opportunity to present approaches, programs, and other opportunities that have supported instructors on your campus, and helped them to flourish. |
Submissions will be accepted in four formats:
Presentation (50 minutes)
The presenter(s) will have 40-45 minutes to share their information with the audience. In the time remaining, the audience may ask questions and a facilitated discussion may occur.
Roundtable/Panel (50 minutes)
Roundtables/Panel are oral presentations and/or discussions with the audience/attendees about a chosen topic. Roundtable/panel presenters should be prepared with targeted questions to post to those in attendance in order to develop a rich discussion and create a co-learning experience. Roundtables/panels are an ideal format for networking around a topic and developing in-depth discussion on a subject.
Poster Session
Posters provide an opportunity for select presenter(s) to demonstrate their work. Presenters will share their poster information in a designated virtual room. Please be aware that attendees could enter the designated virtual space at any time.
See the Scoring Rubric
See the proposal scoring rubric for information about what to include in a great submission.