Join me in discussing how we communicate as designers, how communication breaks down, and strategies for restoring communication in your day-to-day work. You'll learn to identify unknowns and work to clarify your needs. Learning Objectives: Identify communication styles and breakdowns, Discuss strategies for restoring communication
- Teacher: Heidi Guercio
The rapid rise of AI-generated text in student submissions has resulted in a technological arms race: students using AI in submissions, institutions adopting policing tools and AI detection, and students responding by using so-called ‘humanizer’ tools to circumvent detection. The result is a systemic erosion of trust for written assignments and submissions. What’s clear is that to verify and validate student writing skills, new approaches are necessary. This session details a successful, large-scale pilot at an Australian university to reimagine writing assessment. In the course, Writing for Science - BMS100, faculty assess scientific writing as an outcome. To protect integrity and verify student writing, the faculty shifted their focus from the final product to the writing journey itself using Moodle as the assessment platform. The team implemented a layered validation framework that included: in-class assessment periods, engaging students about the goals, modeling expectations for student conduct during the class time, making Moodle the assessment platform where writing occurred and leveraging the Cursive plugin for TinyMCE to capture revisions and identify/manage pasted
- Teacher: Joseph Thibault
This presentation introduces practical strategies for new Moodle administrators beginning to manage a site. Participants will explore essential administrative tasks, including site configuration, user and course management, roles and permissions, plugin oversight, updates, and basic troubleshooting. The session will also highlight common mistakes and simple practices for keeping a Moodle site organized, reliable, and aligned with institutional needs. Attendees will leave with a clearer understanding of their responsibilities and a practical foundation for managing Moodle with greater confidence.
- Teacher: Eric Efrain
As artificial intelligence becomes more present in everyday media, one student’s curiosity offers a closer look at its impact. This breakout session follows a first-year nursing student who developed an interest in AI, tracing her progression into research on its evolving use in publishing. The presentation concludes with a reflection based on personal experience of a student’s perspective in a classroom with the frontier of AI.Fresh off of her presentation at the Carroll Student Research Festival come here Carroll student Evelyn talk about her research and what she has found out about AI use (and non-use) from the perspective of a student.
- Teacher: Evelyn Dachs
The rapid proliferation of large language models has fundamentally disrupted the traditional technological moats that once safeguarded individual and corporate competitiveness. As AI commoditizes basic execution, technologists, industry leaders, and educators must radically redefine how value is created and how the next generation is prepared. Drawing on cross-industry insights, this session investigates the new mechanics of professional differentiation in a post-LLM landscape. We will explore actionable strategies for architecting resilient new moats through mindsets, paradigms, technologies, and deliverables—empowering both technologists and educators to cultivate adaptable, future-proof innovators in a world of ubiquitous AI.
- Teacher: Ian Caltabiano