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Conference on Teaching and Learning

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17th Annual South Alabama Conference on Teaching and Learning

Monday, May 10 | 6pm - 8pm (CST)

Dinner and performance by the South Alabama Indian Music Ensemble

Tuesday, May 11 - Wednesday, May 12

Two day conference on Teaching and Learning.

May 10 - 12, 2027

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. 

Mark your calendar for May 2027 to joining us for an amazing event!

Curriculum, Connections, and Careers

In 2020, Felten and Lambert elevated the urgency and value of human connections in Relationship-Rich Education: How Human Connections Drive Success in College. Seven years later, “learning through a relationship with others” is still a critical component to advancing student belonging and academic success, in addition to faculty and staff success, relational trust, and well-being (Felten & Lambert, 2020, p.xi; Pleschova et al., 2021; Wilson et al., 2025). So much has changed in those seven years: new generations of students, new initiatives to better articulate employer valued-skills, and, of course, generative AI. How have the ways in which we form connections in our classrooms, in our curriculum, and in higher education, more broadly, shifted or stayed the same? 

This year’s theme, Curriculum, Connections, and Careers, encourages us to explore how our course design, curriculum, and campus initiatives value relationships and cultivate connections among students, faculty, staff, and future employers. We envision presentations that highlight relationship-rich AI usage, career-readiness course design, accessible learning spaces across modalities, and practices that foster intentional student belonging.

Presentation Types

Interactive Workshops | Panels | Research Talks | Roundtables | Pecha Kucha

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)