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16th Annual South Alabama Conference on Teaching and Learning

Monday, May 11 | 6pm - 8pm (CST)

Dinner and performance by the South Alabama Indian Music Ensemble

Tuesday, May 12 - Wednesday, May 13

Two day conference on Teaching and Learning.

May 11 - 13, 2026

Humans, Humanity, and the Humanities: Shaping Our Teaching and Learning Environments

A quick search of articles related to Gen AI in The Chronicle for Higher Education reveals a variety of reactions, solutions, and big questions about the future of higher education and our current students. Top hits from the article list include: "AI is Making the College Experience Lonelier" (September 22, 2025), "Can Generative AI Promote Student Success?" (September 26, 2025), and the tough question: "Can the Humanities Survive AI?" (January 23, 2025). The expansive use of AI is changing both how and what we teach. Is AI really the new calculator? Will it really boost our intelligence (Mollick, 2024)? As we wait for history to answer these questions, we, as humans, continue to be key in shaping our teaching and learning environments.

This year’s theme, Humans, Humanity, and the Humanities: Shaping Our Teaching and Learning Environments, invites participants to focus on the unique role of human thought, creativity, and moral reasoning, as AI changes the higher education landscape. We envision presentations that explore how we are maintaining the integral social learning environment in the age of AI and centralizing the importance of critical thinking, self-reflection, and the ethical application (and implications) of AI usage.

Through a variety of presentation formats, CoTL is a space to share your scholarly work in an inviting, supportive, yet peer-reviewed conference tailored to the needs of instructors along the gulf coast. Through a partnership between several area colleges and universities, this conference reaches a diverse audience, all of whom are engaged in a variety of ways of supporting students. 

Presentation Types

Interactive Workshops | Panels | Research Talks | Roundtables

Points of Contact

Dr. S. Raj Chaudhury, Innovation in Learning Center, schaudhury@southalabama.edu
Dr. Lisa LaCross, Innovation in Learning Center, lacross@southalabama.edu

Conference Partners

logos for CoTL partner schools (USA, Bishop State, Spring Hill College, University of Mobile, Mississippi Gulf Coast, US Sports Academy, Coastal Alabama, and Columbia Southern)