15th Annual Faculty Center Conference--In Person

Next-Gen Learning: AI in Higher Education Teaching and Learning
Friday, February 27, 2026, 9:30am-3:00pm

This event will be held in person in the Campus Center. More information will be available soon. 

If you are interested in presenting at the conference please submit a brief description of what you would like to discuss at the link below.

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Keynote Speaker:

Dr. Lance Eaton

Keynote: All of This Has Happened Before: Leveraging Our Learning & Pedagogy to Navigate AI in This Moment

GenAI does feel quite disruptive and challenges many of the ways that we think about teaching and learning.  And that's ok. We can feel overwhelmed and frustrated about this new challenge to our learning spaces.  Yet, we can also build upon a range of effective and meaningful pedagogical practices and insights from our community to push learning into more authentic and meaningful experiences for faculty and students.  This keynote will explore some of the ways that educators are creating dynamic and new learning for themselves and their students that either embrace or meaningfully challenge what GenAI can and can't do.

Dr. Lance Eaton is the Senior Associate Director of AI in Teaching and Learning at Northeastern University. His work engages with the possibility of digital tools for expanding teaching and learning communities while considering the profound issues and questions that educational technologies open up for students, faculty, and higher ed as a whole. He has engaged with scores of higher education institutions about navigating the complexities and possibilities that generative AI represents for us at this moment. His musings, reflections, and ramblings on AI and Education can be found on his blog: https://aiedusimplified.substack.com/


 

 

Lance Eaton

Workshop: 

Dr. Lance Eaton

Workshop: From Policy to Practice: Meaningfully Structured Where GenAI Does and Doesn't Fit In the Classroom

In this session, you will engage in a process to best articulate where and how GenAI will fit in your course, starting with course outcomes and syllabi policy and drilling down to assessment and activities.  You will leave with clear opportunities to appropriately introduce GenAI to your course and a strong articulation about where it might not be positioned.  

Please bring a laptop or device for this session.

 

Afternoon: Lightning Sessions

FSC Faculty
Farmingdale State College

These lightning sessions are 15 minute presentations, with 10 minutes of Q and A from faculty at FSC presenting on how they are using the Science of Teaching and Learning in their classes. 

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For more information please contact:

Jennifer Jaiswal
Director of the Faculty Center
(934)420-5775
Jennifer Jaiswal

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