8th Annual Teaching & Learning Conference

Connect and Engage: Strategies for Student Success!

March 28, 2025, 1:00pm-4:00pm EST

You can access the 2025 TLC playlist on Microsoft Stream; presentations are included with session descriptions below. (LIM Login in required)

PROGRAM

Dr. Boyd's Enhancing student learning and retention

Enhancing Student Learning and Retention Through Themed Engagement, Storytelling, and Digital Literacy Integration: Dr. Dionne Boyd, Marcuse School of Graduate Studies

Dr. Boyd's presentation

This session will highlight actionable strategies such as themed engagement, storytelling, and practical approaches to digital literacy integration that bridge the gap between academic learning and real-world application.

By the end of this session, faculty will be able to:

  • Design and implement themed weekly activities to consistently spark student interaction and maintain an ongoing, vibrant dialogue.
  • Effectively integrate a variety of digital tools into their teaching practices, and narrative-driven learning, to deepen student understanding and improve knowledge retention.

Diamante Logan's future ready learning title slideFuture Ready Learning: Building Confidence and Skills Through Lessons That Last: Diamante Logan, Fashion Merchandising and Marketing

Professor Logan's presentation

Within the fashion and lifestyle industries, passive learning falls short. To succeed, students must apply concepts in real world scenarios. By integrating interactive dialogue, insightful case studies and hand-on group simulations after lectures, educators have started to bridge the gap between theory and practice. This session will highlight important strategies to enhance student learning, fostering confidence, collaboration and industry readiness. These approaches will equip students with the practical skills and critical thinking necessary to excel within future internships and careers.

The session will highlight interactive dialogue and authentic engagement, case study analysis, and interactive group simulations and projects.

By the end of this session, faculty will be able to:

  • Develop a classroom activity plan where the individual student can connect the theory learned in class with a real-world industry scenario in order to improve student career readiness
  • Design and apply a collaborative group learning exercise to enhance student engagement and comprehension

Grad Studies THREAD presentationEnergizing Classrooms with THREAD: Real-World Collaboration and Active Learning: Dean Sanchez-Persampieri, Savannah Foley, Patty, Mitropoulos, and Jeanine Polizzi

The Graduate Studies Team Presentation

The THREAD (Transformative Hands-on Real-world Experiential Academic Development) program bridges academic theory and industry practice through real-world brand collaborations in graduate courses. This session presents THREAD as a case study, showcasing innovative teaching strategies that energize classrooms, promote active learning, and integrate technology. Attendees will engage in Think-Pair-Share and Mentimeter activities, modeling THREAD’s approach to fostering student engagement, critical thinking, and teamwork. The session provides scalable strategies to enhance active learning in higher education.

By the end of this session, faculty will be able to:

  • Assess how THREAD integrates real-world collaboration to enhance active learning and student outcomes.
  • Implement interactive strategies that foster engagement, critical thinking, and teamwork in graduate classrooms.

The AGM Library Team: Choose your own adventureChoose Your Own Adventure via Interactive Library Tutorials: Nicole LaMoreaux, Grace Kirchhofer, and Hailey Byrd (AGM Library)

The AGM Library Team Presentation

This session will walk faculty through the virtual interactive tutorials created by Library Staff members to provide a virtual session for any modality of student here at LIM College. You will learn about how we create the tutorials, view the final product that the student would take, as well as see the final back-end results that we can provide to you once the tutorial has been completed by your students. The Library uses a product called LibWizard to incorporate videos, live walk throughs of websites, quizzes, and general questions to ensure that the student will have a well-rounded library experience. We will also discuss future possibilities outside of the library with this tool.

By the end of this session, faculty will be able to:

  • Describe what LibWizard is and can do for you and your students.
  • Describe the back end and front end of the software.
  • Explain how the data gathered can assist you and your students in the classroom and with student research projects.

Dr. Carnz's Using AI to Teach Critical Thinking SkillsUsing AI to Teach Critical Thinking: Dr. Scott Carnz, Provost

Dr. Carnz's Presentation

AI has rapidly become an important tool in the workplace. Rather than ban its use in the classroom, AI provides rich opportunities to enhance students' work-ready skills and, in particular, hone their critical thinking skills. This session will explore top strategies for incorporating AI in the classroom and strengthening student skills sets.

By the end of this session, faculty will be able to:

  • Assess and revise their course assignments to make them AI appropriate
  • Develop new strategies and assignments for incorporating AI in classes
  • Articulate to students how assignments relate to work-ready competencies

Dean Miller's Power Up with PodcastPower Up with Podcasts: Dean Nancy Miller

Dean Miller's Presentation

The session will focus on how and why instructors should consider integrating podcasts into courses to enhance the student learning experience. Podcasts are not only entertaining but are also a way people learn and gain information on an array of topics, and from the perspectives of business leaders, industry experts and of course celebrities. Podcasts are all about people talking, having conversations, sharing a point of view; elements that can promote and stimulate active learning in the classroom.

By the end of this session, faculty will be able to:

  • Discover ways podcasts can “power up” the learning environment
  • Leverage podcasts as a vehicle to have students talk more