2025 Keynote Speakers
A New Old Game: Breaking Rules for a Different Tomorrow?
Presented by:
Laura Pipe
University of North Carolina at Greensboro
Laura Pipe, Ph.D., directs the University Teaching and Learning Commons at UNC-Greensboro and is a sports sociologist actively teaching in sports studies and kinesiology. As an Indigenous scholar (Haudenosaunee/Tuscarora descent), she focuses on fostering reciprocal, curiosity-driven learning relationships. With over two decades of experience, Laura specializes in integrated learning and high-impact teaching practices. Her scholarly interests include Indigenous and decolonial pedagogies, action sports, and Native traditions in health. Her latest work, Ignite: A Decolonial Approach to Higher Education through Space, Place & Culture (Pipe & Stephens, 2023), combines theory, practice, and acts of tender resistance to challenge colonized learning concepts.
Presented by:
Lauren Cardon
University of Alabama
When Students Check Out:
5 Strategies for Student Engagement
Lauren S. Cardon is an Associate Professor of English at the University of Alabama, with a PhD from Tulane University. She has authored three academic monographs on American literature, as well as a co-authored monograph on DEI pedagogy titled Inclusive College Classrooms: Teaching Methods for Diverse Learners (2022), published by Routledge. In addition, she has published pedagogical articles in Change: The Magazine for Higher Learning, South Atlantic Review, and the collection Quick Hits: Teaching with Digital Humanities (University of Indiana Press), and she runs the website and blog Teaching Interventions with Cassander L. Smith. Currently, she serves as the Director of Graduate Studies in the Department of English at the University of Alabama.
Leveraging Classroom Formative Feedback: Tools and Techniques for Enhancing Learning
Presented by:
Todd Zakrajsek
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Todd D. Zakrajsek PhD, is an Associate Research Professor in the School of Medicine at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He develops resources for faculty on teaching/learning, leadership, and publishing. Prior to joining the SOM he was a tenured associate professor of psychology and built faculty development efforts at three universities.
Todd has served on many educationally related boards and work groups during his four decades of teaching and faculty development. He has also consulted with organizations such as The American Council on Education (ACE), Lenovo Computer, Microsoft, and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. For the past 20 years, Todd has directed Lilly Conferences on evidence-based teaching and learning and is the editor of The Scholarly Teacher, an online resource for faculty in higher education. Todd’s recent books include Classroom Assessment Techniques 3rd ed. (due out July, 2024, with Tom Angelo), Teaching at Its Best, 5th ed. (2023, with Linda Nilson); The New Science of Learning, 3rd ed, (2022); Teaching for Learning, 2nd ed. (2021, with Claire Major and Michael Harris); Advancing Online Teaching (2021, with Kevin Kelly); and Dynamic Lecturing (2017, with Christine Harrington). Todd has given more than 300 campus workshops, conference presentations, and keynote addresses in 49 states, 12 countries, and 4 continents.