Thursday, February 5, 2026
These sessions provide practical strategies, emerging tools, and applied approaches in teaching, learning, and technology. Participants can choose from a range of workshop options, each designed to support professional growth and spark new ideas for transforming learning experiences.
Workshops will be held at The Omni Tempe Hotel at ASU.
Arrive early and join us for continental breakfast while you visit with conference exhibitors and get settled in for a full day of engaging sessions.
Attendees should make their way to the second floor lobby at the Omni Tempe Hotel at ASU for check-in where our FOLC Fest volunteers will provide your badge and answer any questions you may have throughout the conference.
In this hands-on workshop, educators from ASU and Arizona partner institutions will discuss practical strategies for leveraging Instructure’s platform to create flexible, relevant, and accessible learning programs that advance local economic mobility and community health.
Presenter:
Jody Sailor
Sr. Director - Academic Strategy & Innovation
Room: Salt River Ballroom 1
What if you could design an AI collaborator that amplifies your teaching, extends your reach, and reimagines how students learn and engage with content? In this hands-on, future-focused session, you’ll discover how to create custom AI bots tailored to your learners, your curriculum, and your mission.
We’ll start by identifying real challenges you want to solve—whether it’s helping students find resources, answering advising questions, or simplifying complex workflows. From there, you’ll learn how to design a bot that addresses that challenge with purpose, clarity, and personality. Together, we’ll explore what knowledge your bot needs, how it should “think,” and the kind of voice and tone that will make it most effective and trustworthy.
No programming experience required—just imagination and a desire to innovate. Along the way, we’ll discuss ethical design, creative applications, and strategies for responsible AI integration in higher education. You’ll leave with a prototype bot ready to test, a roadmap for refinement, and the inspiration to lead meaningful change through human-centered AI.
Presenter:
Room: Amber
This session will explore how principled innovation and global classroom perspectives inform AI-infused curriculum design, emphasizing ethical, inclusive, and student-centered approaches. In this workshop, you will explore the various ways AI can support the design of global education curricula, with a focus on principled innovation.
Presenters:
Marcella Gemelli
Elizabeth Kizer
Room: Bronze
"Generative AI has been called a muse, a mirror, and even a monster. But what do these metaphors reveal about creativity in an age of intelligent machines? Can Generative AI tools truly spark new forms of creativity in education, or do they risk narrowing imagination and originality?
In this hands-on workshop, you’ll move through three creative experiments: seeing how AI reflects and refracts human ideas (Mirror), collaborating with it as a playful partner (Muse), and confronting its unsettling edges (Monster). Each activity invites exploration, debate, and discovery, culminating in a shared reflection on the future of creative learning.
You will leave with concrete strategies, fresh language, and a principled framework for navigating AI’s evolving role in education, rooted in ASU’s vision of ethics, inclusivity, and bold experimentation for a changing future."
Room: Crimson
Presenters:
What if the final exam wasn’t final? In this creative workshop, participants will discover ways to enhance summative assessments through storytelling, conversation, and reflective design. Learn how interactive evaluations can measure learning in more authentic, human-centered ways.
Presenters:
Room: Terracotta
"Roll up your sleeves and explore AI tools reshaping education. This hands-on workshop invites you to experiment with generative AI while learning how faculty are using it to spark creativity, deepen inquiry, and create more inclusive learning environments. See real classroom examples, navigate ethical considerations, and leave with practical strategies you can implement immediately.
Room: Amber
Presenters:
Transforming learning experiences is a team sport! This session explores how program chairs, faculty, and embedded teaching and learning units at ASU collaborate to systematically innovate and intentionally transform the experiences of our students - guided by the ASU Charter, Principled Innovation, and each unit’s values. Hear from leaders in WPC and FSE about concrete collaboration strategies that can also be implemented in other contexts.
Presenters:
Dr. Marcie LePine
Christina Carrasquilla
Dr. Peter van Leusen
Michael Weiland
Room: Bronze
Higher-education professionals will explore how Airtable empowers instructional-design workflows, enables course-development tracking and strengthens collaboration among faculty, instructional designers and support staff. Participants will leave with practical strategies and examples to build flexible systems that support both academic and administrative goals
Presenters:
Room: Crimson
This workshop will explore two human-centered AI systems designed to enhance student confidence, autonomy, and engagement. Dr. Collen Cordes will present "Sam," an AI-powered chatbot created to support students in health sciences contexts and promote interactive practice and self-reflection. Dr. Steve Salik will present "KondoBot," a conversational agent designed to support students who face executive function challenges such as task planning, organization, and time management. The session will examine how both tools provide equitable and adaptive learning support through natural language interaction and transparent guidance, rather than relying on algorithmic decision-making. Participants will consider how these AI systems help learners develop strategies for managing workload, sustaining motivation, and strengthening academic self-efficacy. The workshop will highlight how ethical reflection, responsible design, and the Principled Innovation framework guide each stage of AI development and implementation. Attendees will participate in a brief, hands-on design activity to identify a learning challenge in their own context and outline an AI-enhanced support solution that potentially addresses it. The session invites educators to reflect on how intentional, human-centered AI design can promote equity, empathy, and engagement across diverse learning environments.
Presenters:
Steve Salik, PhD
Colleen Cordes
Room: Terracotta
Workshop attendees and presenters are welcome to join us for lunch.
Stories move people—and learning. This session explores the power of storytelling as a pedagogical tool for building empathy, driving social change, and connecting learners across digital and cultural divides.
Presenters:
Lance Gharavi
Ricardo Leon
Jeffrey Aguila
Room: Amber
As artificial intelligence transforms teaching, research, and creative work, educators face new questions about ownership, attribution, and ethical responsibility. In this engaging workshop, library and legal experts will guide participants through the complex intersections of AI, copyright, and academic integrity. Drawing on library practice, AI pedagogy, and legal expertise, the presenters will unpack key considerations in copyright law, fair use, and attribution, while exploring practical frameworks for the ethical use of AI in higher education. Participants will leave with actionable guidance and best practices for developing responsible AI use policies within their courses and departments.
Presenters:
Catherine O'Donnell
Mary Ann Naumann
Eric Prosser
Jonathan McMichael
Room: Bronze
As ASU continues to lead in shaping the future of learning, this workshop invites participants to explore how the Learning Design Suite (LDS) and CreateAI Builder ecosystem empower faculty, staff, and instructional designers to responsibly integrate AI into course design. These tools embody ASU’s approach to artificial intelligence by combining learning science, principled innovation, and ethical AI practices to enhance teaching, engagement, and accessibility.
Participants will see how LDS streamlines course development, assessment design, and application of Universal Design for Learning. They will also engage with CreateAI Builder’s seamless learning tools interoperability Canvas integration, Marketplace for shared AI innovations, and the new Analytics Dashboard that surfaces real-time projects insights about usage and sentiment. The session will introduce methods to ensure that AI experiences and projects behave in alignment with expectations.
By the end of this two-hour session, attendees will walk away with practical tools, ready-to-use strategies, and hands-on experience for integrating AI into their teaching and course design. Participants will leave prepared to immediately implement AI-supported learning solutions that enhance engagement and accessibility, harness AI’s potential, and prioritize ethical and inclusive practices in teaching.
Room: Crimson
Presenters:
What does “intentional design” look like on a global stage? This session brings together educators who have aligned with the ASU Course Design Standards to guide participants through the creation of adaptable, inclusive learning experiences that span cultures and modalities.
Presenters:
Room: Terracotta
As AI becomes woven into the everyday fabric of human life, higher education must move beyond tool adoption toward designing learning for a world shaped by intelligent systems. This session reframes transparency, disclosure, and ethical use not as compliance tasks but as practices that deepen student trust and strengthen human agency. Drawing on Futures Thinking and AI and the recent book AI and the Art of Being Human: A practical guide to thriving with AI while rediscovering yourself in the process, we examine how educators can cultivate curiosity, judgment, and reflective practice alongside AI-supported work. Participants will surface their own assumptions, explore multiple AI futures, and gain strategies for crafting learning experiences that help students—and educators—thrive.
Presenters:
Room: Amber
As GenAI rapidly transforms the higher education landscape, the rush to adopt new technologies often outpaces our ability to evaluate their deeper impact. This is all the more pressing given the capacity to create AI experiences (AI-X) . This interactive session addresses the critical guiding question: How can we align AI-X evaluation with Principled Innovation to advance and demonstrate principled and ethical practices? We will introduce a suite of tools developed to guide faculty, staff, and students on what it means to create, develop, and deploy AI in principled ways. This AI-X Toolkit provides a framework to ensure that creating AI-X aligns with institutional values and pedagogical goals.
This session features a hands-on component where participants will engage directly with the AI-X Toolkit and apply it to their own real-world use cases. Whether you are vetting a new AI-X or designing an AI-X for teaching and learning, you will learn how to evaluate your specific scenario for ethical alignment. Join us to discover how to transform AI-X creation and evaluation into a strategic asset to ensure that your approach to AI is grounded in Principled Innovation.
Presenters:
Janice/Mak
Mei Mei Li
Katerina Christlif Sabino
Room: Bronze