EVENT: 4th Annual Teaching and Learning with AI Conference

The University of Central Florida’s (UCF) Teaching and Learning Center, Libraries, and Digital Learning Center are hosting the 4th Annual Teaching and Learning with AI Conference. The conference “aims to discuss how AI tools continue to evolve and change the way educators instruct students, as well as how students can effectively use these tools in their learning journey” and encourages “the use of AI for instruction to prepare students for their future workplace.”

The conference runs from June 11-13 in-person at the Gaylord Palms Resort & Convention Center in Florida. Early registration is open until March 13 for $625, and regular registration runs until May 28 for $650.

The agenda includes two keynote speakers:

C. Edward Watson, Ph.D., is the Vice President for Digital Innovation at the American Association of Colleges and Universities (AAC&U). He is also the founding director of AAC&U’s Institute on AI, Pedagogy, and the Curriculum. Prior to joining AAC&U, Dr. Watson was the Director of the Center for Teaching and Learning at the University of Georgia (UGA) where he led university efforts associated with faculty development, TA development, learning technologies, and the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning. He continues to serve as a Fellow in the Louise McBee Institute of Higher Education at UGA and recently stepped down after more than a decade as the Executive Editor of the International Journal of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education. His most recent publications are Teaching with AI: A Practical Guide to a New Era of Human Learning (second edition) (Johns Hopkins University Press, December 2025), Leading Through Disruption: Higher Education Executives Assess AI’s Impacts on Teaching and Learning (AAC&U, 2025), and the Student Guide to AI (Elon University & AAC&U, 2025). Dr. Watson been quoted in the New York Times, Chronicle of Higher Education, Inside Higher Ed, Campus Technology, EdSurge, Newsweek, Forbes, U.S. News, EdTech, Consumer Reports, UK Financial Times, and University Business Magazine and by the AP, CNN and NPR regarding current teaching and learning issues and trends in higher education.

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Bryan Alexander is an award-winning futurist, researcher, writer, speaker, consultant, and educator focused on the future of higher education. After earning a PhD in English from the University of Michigan, he taught literature, writing, multimedia, and information technology at Centenary College of Louisiana, where he also led interdisciplinary and information-literacy initiatives. He later spent twelve years with the National Institute for Technology in Liberal Education, guiding digital-technology integration across small colleges through leadership, research, and network building. In 2013 he founded Bryan Alexander Consulting, advising institutions worldwide while contributing widely to major media outlets. The author of several influential books—including Academia Next, Universities on Fire, and the forthcoming Peak Higher Ed—he is currently a senior scholar at Georgetown University, teaching in its Learning, Design, and Technology graduate program.