21th Annual Teaching & Learning Conference on Wednesday, August 13th, 2025. This free, fully virtual conference is sponsored jointly by Elon’s Center for the Advancement of Teaching and Learning (CATL) and Teaching and Learning Technologies (TLT).
This year’s theme is Reimagining assessments: Sparking innovation, equity and impact to promote student learning . Please join us for a half-day conference that explores the importance of centering students at the heart of our practices. We invite educators from across higher education to dive into how we shape our assessments for, and of, learning to be transformative approaches that prioritize diverse student needs, experiences, and outcomes. The Annual Elon Teaching and Learning Conference invites 50-minute workshops and 20-minute research talks within one of our focused themes within the topic of assessment.
FOCUSED THEMES:
- Students-as-partners: How do we invite students to be collaborators throughout the assessment process, through development, feedback, reflection, and redesign? And what does that partnership look like?
- Leveraging technology to enhance learning: How can we thoughtfully use technology to create personalized, scalable, and adaptive assessments? How are we using AI as a tool to support learning?
- Developing authentic and equitable assessments: How do we emphasize the skills of problem-solving, critical thinking, innovation, and collaborations into our classroom assessments in order to prepare students to tackle professional and societal challenges?
- Measuring impact: How do we know when our assessments are successful or how do we know our feedback is supporting student growth? What metrics of impact should we be considering when we are designing and evaluating our own teaching?
We invite proposals for two session types:
- Interactive Workshop: 50-minute evidence-based workshop
- Research Presentation: 20-minute presentations highlighting a teaching strategy and its impact
Proposal submissions are now open. The submission deadline for this year’s conference is Friday, April 4th at 11:59pm EST, and presenter slots are limited. For questions, please contact [email protected].