AGENDA: 2026 Colorado Learning and Teaching with Technology

Wednesday, August 5, 2026
8:30 AM - 9:15 AM	Registration and Coffee/Snacks
9:00 AM - 10:30 AM	Building AI-Native Assignments: Teaching Students to Work and Think With AI Richard Ashmore Room 301					AI for Research, Save the Human: Building Student Skills Marina Parenti Room 304
10:45 AM - 12:15 PM	Creating Custom AI Bots for Your Course with BoodleBox Room 301			Designing for AI Literacy: Embedding Responsible Use in Higher Ed Courses Deborah Lowe Room 304				Designing for Judgment: Building Assignments That Measure Thinking & Process Oliver Short Hunter Diveley Ryan Merry Room 305
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM	Lunch - Student Commons
1:45 PM - 3:15 PM	Your Course Has an Accessibility Problem. Let's Fix It Right Now Page Durham Room 301			Referenced, Not Generated: A Hands-On Google NotebookLM Workshop Michael Stroup Room 304				AI as a Design Partner: Iterative Assignment Redesign for Learning Magan Calhoun Room 305
Thursday, August 6, 2026
8:00 AM - 9:00 AM	Registration and Coffee/Snacks
9:00 AM - 9:45 AM	Who Does the Thinking? Course Design Principles for the AI Classroom Diane Sieber, University of Colorado Boulder Room 304			Using LMS data to improve online teaching and learning practices Room 305				Cheating Required - Faculty as Students in the Age of Generative AI Jeff Loats, Metropolitan State University of Denver Room 306
9:00 AM - 10:30 AM	Designing AI-Integrated Courses in a Hands-On Workshop Trish Elley Room 207					Designing Interpretation with Generative AI: Structure and Variability Shannon Leone Room 301
10:00 AM - 10:30 AM	Empowered Proctoring: Building Trust in Online Assessments Anna Nguyen Room 300
10:00 AM - 10:45 AM	Mind Meets Heart: Emotional Intelligence and the Path to Language Mastery Ismenia Desouza Room 304			Exploring the AI Grief Cycle: Finding a Path Forward for Faculty Christopher Ostro, University of Colorado Boulder Room 305				Building a Library of Online Course Shells for Community College Faculty Kathy Sindt Room 306
11:00 AM - 12:15 PM	Keynote in the Main Courtroom Maikel Right
12:25 PM - 1:30 PM	Lunch - Student Commons
1:40 PM - 2:30 PM	Relationship Engineering: Designing Better Human-AI Collaboration Richard Ashmore Room 207		Scale Up with Less: Tiered ID Support in Resource Constrained Environments KC Coburn Room 301		The AI Equity Gap: Student Access, Confidence, and Institutional Action Rori Romero Room 304		Lessons Learned from Faculty Opting Out of AI Use in the Classroom Patrick McGuire Room 305		A Fireside Chat: CU Boulder's AI Literacy Ambassadors' Program Faculty Support Susan Adams, Bio, Women in AI Colorado Room 306
2:45 PM - 3:35 PM	Accessibility Outliers: Exceptions in Course Design Zach Clark Room 207	Humanities in an AI World: Accommodating AI to a Human World Mike Coste Room 300		Designing for AI: Turning Knowledge and Values into AI-Responsive Outcomes Heather Lang Room 301		Game On: Turning Courses into Quests Catlyn Keenan Room 304		AI as a Learning Design Partner: Working Faster with Claude Magan Calhoun Room 305		Steering Into the Slide: Mindful Design in Complex Learning Environments Michelle Colarelli, University of Colorado Anschutz Room 306
3:40 PM - 4:10 PM	How we used AI for COLTT Room 207	Evaluating Experience: Generative AI for Authentic Online Learning Michael Rupert Room 300		Translating AI and Human Competencies into Future-Ready Skills Artemis Preeshl Room 301		Five Accessibility Mistakes Faculty Make (And How AI Fixes Them) Page Durham Room 304		The implications of gamification as a tool in the classroom Anastasia Biggs Room 305		Building Science Culture, Community Engagement, and Library as Laboratory Mozhdeh Saffari-Parizi Room 306
4:20 PM - 4:45 PM	CLOSING - Student Commons
5:00 PM - 6:30 PM	Happy Hour - Upslope Brewing Company (Flatiron Park)